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  • Boston: Blowing up America

    By Selwyn Duke

    Sometimes a reaction can be worse than an action, even when that
    action is very, very diabolical. Some would argue that this was the case
    with 9/11, with the resultant long-term loss of freedom, misguided
    military ventures, and no serious effort whatsoever to seal a porous
    back door to America.

    The
    Boston Marathon bombing also may prove to be a case in which reaction
    surpasses action in damage. After all, what good is a doctor’s treatment
    if his diagnosis and prescription
    are wrong, if he claims that what’s healthy is Hell-sent and portrays
    poison as palliative? And what good are our diagnoses and prescriptions
    relating to terrorism if we demonize the realists and sanitize the
    terrorists? When our physicians will not, or cannot, heal themselves, is
    the greater danger posed by those who proudly spread the disease in the
    name of one evil cause or those who offer a faux cure in the name of
    another?

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  • Airline Passenger Detained for Being a Jerk

    By Selwyn Duke

    The
    bigger the government, the greater the opportunity to seek revenge by
    state action. This has been demonstrated throughout history, and now
    current events are teaching the same lesson.

    The
    latest example involves 52-year-old California businessman Salvatore
    Bevivino, who was detained after a Virgin America flight in April, 2013
    for, he reports, refusing to flush a toilet and arguing with a stewardess over a soda. Writes The Smoking Gun:

    A
    flight attendant told cops that Bevivino argued with her over the
    ordering of a soda via a computer touchscreen. "My time is precious, you
    are here to serve me," Bevivno [sic] said, according to the flight
    attendant.

    Following
    the soda confrontation, the flight attendant told police, Bevivino
    "went to the restroom, came back out with a smile on his face and began
    using profanities." When the flight attendant passed by the lavatory, she "saw that Bevivino left the door open and did not flush the toilet."

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  • American Arrested for Anti-homosexual Statements

    2052845_lowBy Selwyn Duke

    What does the Islamic world and Europe have in common? There
    are actually many similarities, but one is this: in neither place are Christians
    allowed to fully express their beliefs without fear of persecution.

    As for Eurasia, its Ministry of Truth’s latest handiwork is
    the arrest and punishment of an American street preacher who dared speak of sin
    in that land once known as Scotland. The victim is 47-year-old New Yorker Shawn
    Holes, who was on a UK tour when he was arrested in Glasgow after running afoul
    of UK hate-speech laws. Writes Pink
    News    :

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  • Bill O’Reilly vs. the Bible Thumpers

    HandsClaspedinPrayerBy Selwyn Duke

    If an argument falls in a forest of confusion and nobody
    hears it, does it make an impact?

    In a segment with Megyn Kelly on the Wednesday edition of
    the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly lamented
    how traditionalists don’t have a “compelling argument” on the faux-marriage
    issue and that all we can do is “thump the Bible.” But if theistic thumping is
    all O’Reilly hears, he needs an ear for something other than the mainstream
    media.

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  • The Supreme Court and Faux-marriage Fallacies

    Back to School DuncecapBy Selwyn
    Duke

    With cultural
    defenders such as some of our conservatives, who needs liberals? One could draw
    this conclusion when observing the Proposition 8 case currently before the
    Supreme Court.

    So far we
    have we heard arguments about the “sociological” impact of faux marriage and,
    from pro-marriage (conservative) lawyer Charles Cooper, about awaiting
    “additional information from the jurisdictions where this experiment is still
    maturing,” as if the case is just a matter of whether the Court should be an
    agent of social engineering at this time and in this instance. Justice Anthony
    Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in the case, weighed
    in on both sides of the debate, saying, “There’s substance to the point
    that sociological information is new. We have 5 years of information to weigh against
    2,000 years of history or more.” But he also claimed that California’s “40,000
    children with same-sex parents…want their parents to have full recognition and
    full status” and asked Cooper, “The voice of those children is important in
    this case, don’t you think?” My answer?

    No, it
    isn’t.

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  • If I Were a Governor….

    Heavenly Hand Pulling Man Out of FireBy Selwyn Duke

    If I were a governor, the first thing I’d do is scrutinize
    the school curriculum in my state. For the teachings in the schools today will
    be the ideology of tomorrow, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln.

    I’d review as much of the material as I could myself, and if
    the volume was too great, I’d appoint like-minded traditionalists to help with
    the task. But gone would be the revisionist history, radical environmentalism,
    feminism, multiculturalism, politically correct teaching models, and most other
    pseudo-intellectual “innovations” of the last century. Tradition would be
    resurrected and exalted, the classics would be taught, and the moral supremacy of
    the old Western civilization emphasized. I would be mindful of G.K.
    Chesterton’s words: “It ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the
    youngest children, the assured and experienced truths that are put first to the
    baby. But in a school today the baby has to submit to a system that is younger
    than himself.”

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  • In Defense of Racial Humor

    Mixed-race StudentsBy Selwyn Duke

    If laughter really is the best medicine, it’s no wonder race
    relations are in a state of ill health.

    Many years ago I spent quite a bit of time with a Zambian
    friend. He remarked one day that he found America’s hang-up with racial humor a
    bit strange, as racial jokes were not at all off limits in his country. And
    call it my one concession to multiculturalism, but neither were they off limits
    in our relationship. We would occasionally engage in innocent racial humor just
    as we would any other kind of jesting — and no hate-speech charges were contemplated.

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  • Treasonous Obama Strikes Again

    Chinese stormtroopersBy Selwyn Duke

    The world is laughing at us. It has come to light that the
    Obama administration has allowed hundreds of Chinese nationals — who are
    closely associated with the Chinese Liberation Army — to work in a sensitive
    area of NASA's Langley Research Center. What could possibly go wrong?

    Here’s what: one of these nationals, Bo Jiang, was arrested
    on Monday at Dulles International Airport for apparently attempting to take
    sensitive information out of the US. Don’t give our security apparatus too much
    of a slap on the back for apprehending him, though, as Jiang had previously
    succeeded in leaving the country with a laptop containing sensitive
    information.

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  • White and Wrong in Philly

    Prejudice SignBy Selwyn Duke

    When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your
    case to a "human-relations commission," you know you've hit a nerve.
    And when that article is the recent "Being White in Philly" piece by liberal
    Robert Huber, you know it doesn't take much truth to hit that nerve.

    That's the scary part. Huber's article contains mostly tepid
    examples of whites' negative experiences with blacks and primarily black
    neighborhoods, such as a Philadelphia resident whose grill was stolen from her
    backyard but "blames herself" for not fencing it in. Its tone is
    basically apologetic, absolving a drug dealer of responsibility because he was
    just "trying to get by" and describing the US' racial history as
    "horrible and daunting." Yet this wasn't good enough for Philadelphia
    mayor Michael Nutter and his comrades. They still want Huber silenced.

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  • Why the NRA is Right about Hollywood

    1080037_lowBy Selwyn Duke

    Upstate New York’s Catskill Mountain Range is a bucolic place
    near and dear to my heart. It’s where storybook character Rip Van Winkle enjoyed
    his legendary slumber, and its scenery hasn’t changed much since he was born of
    Washington Irving’s fertile imagination. Yet, like Van Winkle, if I’d fallen
    asleep for 20 years when first arriving in that verdant heaven, I, too, would
    have noticed some profound changes upon awakening.

    About two decades ago, many rural Catskill teens — sons of
    farmers and hunters and fishermen — suddenly started donning baggy pants and
    reflecting “gangsta’” counter-culture despite living nowhere near any large
    urban center. The following generation of teens experienced today’s recent cultural
    evolution and often sport multiple tattoos and body piercings despite living
    nowhere near NYC’s grungy East Village. Yet I’m wrong in a sense: those places
    were actually very close — a television set away.

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