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July 24, 2013

George Zimmerman and the Wannabe Cop

By Selwyn Duke

In a Hollywood-worthy twist, it was just revealed that
George Zimmerman helped rescue a family from their overturned SUV a
mere four days after his trial’s conclusion. Yes, that would be the
much-maligned George Zimmerman. The accused “murderer” George Zimmerman.
The targeted-for-death George Zimmerman. And what were the chances such
an accident would occur in Zimmerman’s immediate vicinity while he’s
still page-one news? It almost seems like a message about his character
that could make an atheist believe in God.

And the whole Zimmerman fiasco says much about our nation’s changing
character. Part of this is the increasing racial and ideological
polarization and media corruption, which was alluded to oh-so cleverly
by an Internet commenter who wrote, “If Zimmerman said ‘I’m going to
pull you from underneath that vehicle,’ NBC will change it to, ‘I’m
going to pull you … underneath that vehicle!’” But the hopey-changey,
getting-strangey difference I want to discuss here was brought to light
by Zimmerman spokesman Shawn Vincent, who asked The Daily Caller after the rescue, “What if George hadn’t gotten out of his truck?”

Read the rest here.
July 24, 2013

Obama’s Dangerous Racial Hang-ups

By Selwyn Duke

When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, “he’d look like
Trayvon,” it perhaps didn’t say much for him as a parent. And when the president
now says that Martin could have been him “35 years ago,” it doesn’t say much
for him as a youth. Of course, we know that Choom Gang Obama smoked marijuana
like Martin. I wonder, though, did he miss 53 out of 90 days of school and get
suspended 3 times during that period? Was he caught with ladies jewelry, a “burglary
tool” and drug paraphernalia in school? Did he enjoy fighting and, when a
girlfriend implored him to beat his sword into ploughshares, say that he was
going to fight another boy again because “he didn’t bleed enough for me”? Most
significantly, would Obama have attacked George Zimmerman, broken his nose and
pounded his head against the pavement? It seems the president is implying he
was a thug.

(Aside: on the other hand, if you truly believe Martin was a
good kid, Mr. Obama, would you have been okay with his dating one of your
daughters?)

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July 23, 2013

Total Recall: Why Recall Elections are a Must

By Selwyn Duke

Should recall elections be reserved only for politicians who
break the law? Columnist Rick Moran thinks so. Opining on an impending recall
election in Colorado, he writes:

The recall device should be
reserved for politicians who either break the law or are corrupt in some other
way. It shouldn't be employed because 10,000 people disagree with a particular
vote taken on an issue.

Recall elections are expensive and
turnout is usually about 1 in 5 eligible voters. It just isn't worth it when
the only issue is that some constituents disagree with the way a legislator
voted.

Mr. Moran is being consistent. He made this argument after
the recall designed to oust Republican legislators in Wisconsin, and now he
applies it to two Democrat Colorado state senators — John Morse and Angela
Giron — who have been targeted by the NRA after voting for an anti-Second
Amendment bill. That’s fair enough; however, his thesis overlooks some
important points.

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July 18, 2013

Non-Muslim Student Denied Water During Ramadan

By Selwyn Duke

Is the “separation of church and state” being applied too literally?
Because some U.K. parents may point out that mosque and state seems to
be mixing all the time.

A case in point is 10-year-old schoolboy Luke Blagden, who was denied
water on one of the year’s hottest days in deference to Muslim pupils
fasting for Ramadan. Writes the Daily Mail:

Read the rest here.
July 17, 2013

10 Really Stupid Things Liberals Have Said
By Selwyn Duke

Liberals truly are fonts of sophistication and erudition. We know
this because liberals tell us, and liberals are smart. They would never
mangle words as does Dubya Bush or misspell “potato” like hapless Dan
Quayle. But there are some things they would do, and what follows is a
sampling.
1. The Four Chinese Pilots
San Francisco’s KTVU made news when
reporting on the Asiana plane crash recently — but not in the way they
intended. Mistaking an obvious Internet joke for legitimate information,
the station reported,
“KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were aboard the
flight. They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang
Ding OW. The NTSB has confirmed that these are the names of the pilots
onboard Flight 214 when it crashed. We are working to determine what
roles each of them played during the landing.”

There’s Sum Ting Wong in the mainstream media, alright.
2. Dog Food Afternoon
But perhaps KTVU had graduated from the
Patsy Schroeder School of Comedy. During a 1990s budget battle, the
Democrats said that if the GOP got its way, the elderly would have to
eat dog food to afford medicine. Radio host Rush Limbaugh then spoofed
this demagoguery in a GOPAC speech, joking that he’d bought his mother a new can opener “so that she can get the dog food easier when she has to eat it.”

Enter liberal
Congresswoman Schroeder. Taking Limbaugh’s comment seriously, she
appeared on the House floor the next day to complain, emotionally and
incredulously, that “this is what it’s come to! …Rush Limbaugh actually
said he's going to buy his mother a can opener so she can have dog food.
Wow!”

Yeah, wow. And they say conservatives have no sense of humor?
3. NBC: Nominal Brain Capacity

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July 16, 2013

Holder and Zimmerman: Will Blackness Trump Fairness?

By Selwyn Duke

While George Zimmerman has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly
behind him. It’s not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a
platter, but that the baddest of them all is the highest law-enforcement
official in the land.

The question of whether Eric Holder’s Department of Justice will
file a civil-rights-violation suit against Zimmerman is especially salient now.
This is because of his acquittal, of course, but also because it must be
considered against the backdrop of an open
investigation of him that the department’s Civil Rights Division is currently
conducting.

An investigation that was proceeding even before Zimmerman’s trial was concluded.

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July 14, 2013

Women vs. Men: Who Governs Better?

By Selwyn Duke

Every so often there’s that obligatory article asking “Are
Women Superior at_____?” or “Do Women Make Better ______?” with politicians often
being the focus. Of course, it’s always asked rhetorically. No matter the facts
of the case, you’ll never hear, “We examined the issue exhaustively from all perspectives,
consulted with premier authorities in the discipline, collated the data and
have determined that in this endeavor, women, to employ the official
nomenclature, really suck.” In fact, I haven’t heard any kind of dismissal of
feminine abilities in any area — of the kind routinely made with men — since a
1993 Golf Magazine piece
titled “Women can’t chip.”

So it’s no surprise that National
Journal is running a painfully long and vapid article
by one Jill Lawrence titled “Do Women Make Better Senators Than [sic] Men?” The
answer is a foregone conclusion, so you needn’t imbibe Lawrence’s 4000-plus-word
screed (I may pen a piece, “Do Women Make Wordier Journalists than Men?”), which
bears the self-revelatory subtitle “They [women] make up one-fifth of the body
[the Senate]. It doesn’t look anything like parity (or America), but they
believe they can do what the men can’t — namely, get things done.”

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July 13, 2013

Former Electric-car Engineer: Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas

By Selwyn Duke

Is the only “green” aspect of electric cars the money some companies
make off them? If former plug-in advocate and General Motors engineer
Ozzie Zehner (shown) is correct, this is exactly the case.

Author of the book Green Illusions, Zehner once built his own hybrid car that could run on electricity or natural gas. And, he writes
in a recent article entitled “Unclean at Any Speed,” he was convinced
cars such as his “would help reduce both pollution and fossil-fuel
dependence.”

But he now says, “I was wrong.”

Read the rest here.
July 13, 2013

Claim: Justice Department Stoked Fires of Anti-Zimmerman Protests

By Selwyn Duke

If there’s racial violence following the George Zimmerman verdict,
will it bear Department of Justice fingerprints? According to public
advocacy group Judicial Watch, the answer is yes.

At issue are the actions of the DOJ’s “Community Relations Service”
(CRS), a little-known branch of the department whose operatives were
initially sent to Sanford, Florida, in the wake of the George
Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting incident. The CRS’ ostensible mission
is to engage in “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution.”
Based on documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request,
however, Judicial Watch claims that the CRS agitated on behalf of
anti-Zimmerman forces. The documents reveal the following, reports Judicial Watch:

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July 12, 2013

Obama: Forcing Christians to Eat the Pork

By Selwyn Duke

While Barack Obama has often been compared to leaders of the
past, it’s unlikely anyone has yet associated him with Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Ruler of the Seleucid Empire between 175 and 164 B.C., King Antiochus is best
known for the persecution of Jews, and one story from the second book of
Maccabees is particularly relevant here. As the passage tells us, the king was
bent on forcing a Jewish woman and her seven sons to, of all things, eat pork.
The boys resisted and were tortured and killed one by one as their mother, who
ultimately was also murdered, looked on. What’s interesting, though, is that
while the victims were being faithful to what they believed was divine dietary injunction,
there was no Seleucid commandment stating “Thou shalt compel others to dine on
swine.” The act of eating such meat was but a trivial matter to Antiochus, yet
he nonetheless insisted on imposing his will.

Why would a person do this? It would be for one — or, more
likely, a combination — of the following reasons:

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