By Selwyn Duke
There has been much analysis of the Virginia governor’s race
in which Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe edged out Republican Ken Cuccinelli by
two points. Liberals have portrayed the outcome as heralding the death of the
Tea Party, while conservatives have, among other things, blamed the GOP
establishment for failing to provide the financial backing that could have put
Cuccinelli over the top. But the truth?
The Virginia race bodes well for the Tea Party in 2014.
By Selwyn Duke
A long-growing garbage field much larger than Texas is creeping toward the United States’ west coast, and parts of it will increasingly make landfall for quite a long time.
And one can’t help but think that it has come to the right place.
A new book by writer Charlotte Hays entitled When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?
will be released this week, and, paraphrasing historian Arnold Toynbee,
it issues a serious warning: “Society crumbles when it takes cues from
the underclass.”
The author goes on to write in a New York Post article on the subject:
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By Selwyn Duke
It must be really exciting being a kid today. Denied the
strength that “lies in our diversity,” youngsters languishing in the
unenlightened 1960s had to content themselves with banal white male superheroes
such as Superman, Spiderman and Ironman. But not only has affirmative action
created a Hispanic Spiderman (perhaps a white Hispanic?); a homosexual Pink…I
mean, Green Lantern; and a Batwoman reintroduced in 2006 as a lesbian (the
irony is that she was originally introduced in 1956 as a romantic interest designed
to dispel rumors about Batman’s homosexuality); now Marvel Comics is giving us
a female Muslim superheroine. Writes The
Telegraph:
Marvel Comics is bringing Ms.
Marvel back as a 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey
City named Kamala Khan.
By Selwyn Duke
While dining one evening in NYC with a brilliant man I once knew, we
couldn’t help overhearing some moderns espousing progressive ideas at a
nearby table. Seeming like typical Manhattanites, they were well spoken,
likely had some higher degrees among them, and would have appeared to
many to possess good command of the issues. My friend, though,
unimpressed, simply said: “It’s amazing how you can know all of the
facts but none of the Truth.”
Recently I had a conversation with another smart fellow who made the
case that the way to minimize evil in the world was through education.
This is a common idea. As we struggle to explain man’s condition, we
sometimes fall back on the belief, “Knowledge is power.” Yet even if
true, note that power can be misused. Moreover, even if true, it
certainly isn’t absolute power.
How often do we see people who know they’re smoking, drinking, or eating themselves to death but yet can’t stop?
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By Selwyn Duke
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer certainly is a creative man.
Asked about Barack Obama’s promise that everyone would be able to keep his
health coverage if he liked it and the recent revelation that the Democrats
knew all along that millions of Americans would lose their health plans under
ObamaCare, he had an answer.
“I think the message [the promise] was accurate. It was not
precise enough…[it] should have been caveated with – ‘assuming you have a
policy that in fact does do what the bill is designed to do,’” reports
National Review.
My, that’s rich.
Almost Frank Rich.
Since Hoyer’s lie about a lie speaks for itself, let’s just
have a little fun here. Try this on for size:
By Selwyn Duke
Old utopians may die, but utopianism never does fade away. While
speaking at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Warsaw on Monday,
Nobel Laureate and former Polish president Lech Walesa added Modern-day
Moses of Magog to his résumé, advocating a “secular Ten Commandments” as
a basis for universal values. Said Walesa, “We need to agree on common
values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten
Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow,” reports France 24.
Ah, “build the world of tomorrow.” Somehow that reminds me of WWI
being “the war to end all wars” or, to cite intended fiction, the
paternalistic android in an old Star Trek episode that summed up his purpose in dominating man by saying, “And you will be happy … and controlled.” Captain Kirk was not amused.
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By Selwyn Duke
Perhaps man-on-the-street interviews ought to be renamed “Man, beware
the street!” interviews if what some Americans know — or don’t know —
is any indication. Mark Dice (shown), who has achieved minor fame for
illustrating how some Americans are unaware Barack Obama is a Democrat and asking questions such as
“Did you hear we nuked China last week?” (his respondents didn’t
dispute the claim, and one thought it was a good idea), now has posted a
YouTube video (see below) in which citizens were willing to sign a
petition in support of an “Orwellian,” “Nazi-style police state.”
Framing the matter as one of budget cuts that threaten the “police
state,” Dice said to one willing signer, “We’re petitioning to just keep
the police state and implement some more Orwellian measures to keep the
community safe — and signature, too [he requested of the individual],
for the Nazi-style police state.”
The man didn’t balk.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
What kind of leader wants a military more loyal to himself
than to the rule of law?
And why?
These are two questions to ponder when considering the
strange happenings in the armed forces since Barack Obama took office.
Let’s start with a hypothetical. Let’s say you were a
hard-left-wing commander in chief who wanted the military firmly in your
corner. You’d certainly note that our armed forces have been a bastion of
conservatism and Christian faith, and you’d know that its members generally
weren’t very fond of you. So how would you go about changing this?
By Selwyn Duke
Will the slights and salt-in-wound exacerbations ever end?
It’s not enough that white people are cast as the source of all the world’s
woes as people find that we, increasingly, leave a bad taste in their mouths.
Now we hear that even man’s best friend doesn’t find us very palatable. Writes The Independent in a piece titled
“'Racist' LA police dogs only bite Latinos and African-Americans”:
By Selwyn Duke
Well, bully for anti-bullying programs. After spending countless
millions instituting them nationwide, a university study has concluded
that it isn’t just that they don’t work.
They actually increase bullying.
The head researcher of the study, University of Texas at Arlington
criminologist Seokjin Jeong, did not start out as a critic of
anti-bullying programs, mind you; on the contrary, he expected to find
that they’d mitigated the nation’s bullying problem. Much to his dismay,
however, he learned that students in schools boasting anti-bullying
programs were more likely to be bullied than those attending schools
without such programs. CBSLocal.com reports on his explanations for the
findings, writing:
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