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  • Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that
    truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from
    which to pick.

    It’s as with a man I once knew who insisted it couldn’t be
    proven that smoking was bad for you. He knew better in his heart, but his
    available choices — giving up cigarettes or accepting the danger of their use —were
    both emotionally unpalatable to him. Enter the rationalization.

    We’re seeing the same thing with Republicans in the wake of
    Barack Obama’s re-election. Radio host Sean Hannity, citing changing American
    demographics, stated a while back that his position on immigration has
    “evolved”: we now must offer illegals some kind of pathway to citizenship
    (a.k.a. amnesty). Other conservatives are warning that we must dispense with
    social issues or the Republican Party will be dispensed with.

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  • Ten Liberal Lies People Believe about Guns

    By Selwyn Duke

    In the wake of the tragic Newtown massacre, we’re hearing all the
    usual lies and misconceptions about firearms. And since it’s wise to be
    educated on a topic before advocating policy on it, this is a good time
    to explode the gun myths being bandied about.

    1. The issue is automatic weapons.

    Boston mayor Thomas Menino and CNN’s Don Lemon both recently repeated
    the common mantra that we have to get “automatic weapons” off the
    streets. Automatic weapons, however, are machine guns, which, except for
    individuals who receive special permission from the federal government,
    have been illegal to own since
    the passage of The National Firearms Act in 1934. In addition, the
    Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986 made it generally illegal for
    any civilian to own an automatic weapon manufactured after that year.

    2. Assault Weapons

    “Assault weapon” is certainly a menacing, rhetorically effective
    term, which is why the media use it so much. In reality, though, the
    guns in question (such as the AR-15-type rifles and AK-47s available to
    the public) are not machine guns but simply semi-automatic firearms; this means that one bullet is released with each trigger pull. And virtually every gun sold in America is semi-automatic.

    Read the rest here.

  • Time for Schools to be Gun-free Free

    By Selwyn Duke

    If there’s anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it’s
    that school zones billed as “gun-free” cannot be guaranteed to thus be.

    They’re only virtually certain to be good-guy-gun-free.

    And it’s time for this symbolism-over-substance policy to
    end.

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  • Judge: “Choose Life” Out in North Carolina

    By Selwyn Duke

    Providing another example of why judicial review needs to be
    reviewed is U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, who just ruled that North
    Carolina may not offer its “Choose Life” license plates. And wait till you hear
    his reasoning (if you can call it that). Writes MyFox8.com:

    A federal judge has ruled it is unconstitutional
    for North Carolina to issue pro-life license plates unless the state offers
    similar plates supporting abortion rights.

    […]Judge Fox concluded, “The
    State’s offering of a Choose Life license plate in the absence of a pro-choice
    plate constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First
    Amendment.”

    Allow me to translate: “I, Caesarean Judge, don’t like pro-life
    messages. So I’m going to rule against the choose-life plate — because I can.”

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  • Students Forced to Stand for “Black National Anthem”

    By Selwyn Duke

    Students at Capital High School (CHS) in Charleston, West
    Virginia have been regularly forced to stand during the playing of a song known
    as “The Black National Anthem.”

    The song,
    “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was played in the morning right after the American
    national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance, and students were forced to stand
    for all three. While the law currently states that no child can be compelled to
    stand for any kind of pledge, controversy only arose at CHS after two students
    and a parent complained about having to stand for the “Black National Anthem”
    (BNA).

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  • I’ll See Your Economic Collapse and Raise You National Demise

    Financial CrisisBy Selwyn Duke

    Being just weeks away from reaching our debt ceiling and
    with frightening talk about a fiscal cliff, there’s much sympathy in Washington
    for tax increases. Even conservatives are wavering. A few Republicans have
    dumped their anti-tax pledges, and former Nixon official-turned-actor Ben Stein
    favors taxing the wealthy. He says that we can’t cut our way to a balanced
    budget and insists that the revenue end must be addressed. But I have news for
    him: he’ll have a better chance finding Ferris Bueller on
    his day off than fiscal sanity through tax increases.

    Let’s get real. Federal revenue this year will be approximately
    $2.5 trillion.

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  • Another Victory for the Anti-Christian Grinches

    War on ChristmasBy Selwyn Duke

    The Salvation Army has long been a holy-day season fixture
    in front of my local supermarket, providing some Christmas sounds and cheer as
    it raises money to serve the poor. But when I went grocery shopping a couple of
    days ago, a difference was apparent: there was an SA volunteer and collection
    pot on the premises, but no trademark bell-ringing. So I asked the man why —
    even though I already knew the answer.

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  • Target: Old White Men

    Prejudice SignBy Selwyn Duke

    While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, it’s
    no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices — and
    unfashionable people. Among the latter today are white men, and the closer they
    are to “dead white male” status, to use a favored leftist descriptive, the greater
    the disdain in which they’re held.

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  • Black Friday’s Black Hearts

    By Selwyn Duke

    “As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.” So said the Frank Costanza character on Seinfeld,
    as he described a toy-store struggle with another man over a doll
    during the holiday season. It was comedic fiction, but, lamentably, it
    is also art that has been imitated by life.

    Most of us have heard the Black Friday stories. Two men viciously beat another man over shoes in a Sacramento mall; two people were shot over a parking spot at a Florida Wal-Mart; there was a brawl over women’s underwear at a California Victoria’s Secret; and a man punched
    another while trying to cut in line at a Texas Sears, prompting the
    victim to pull a gun. I guess you don’t mess with Texas shoppers. These
    incidents are nothing unusual, either, as Black Friday — the mad
    shopping day after Thanksgiving — is now associated as much with bad
    behavior as good deals.

    It’s ironic, too. A day originated for the purpose of giving thanks
    for what we have is now followed by one devoted to aggressively seeking
    what we do not. And while it’s fashionable to bemoan the
    commercialization of holidays, we ought to wonder how we got to this
    point. Because it didn’t happen overnight.

    Ever since “holy days” was contracted into “holidays,” there has been ever less holiness in them. This is no coincidence.

    Read the rest here.

  • What do We Have to be Thankful for?

    Turkey

    By Selwyn Duke

    Among the beautiful messages in the 1937 film Captains Courageous is one relating to
    thankfulness. When spoiled rich kid Harvey says to Portuguese fisherman Manuel
    about Manuel’s father, "[H]e didn’t do much for you; I mean, he didn’t leave you
    anything,” it evoked quite a reaction. Manuel passionately replied in his
    broken English:

    He leave me this hurdy-gurdy [a
    musical instrument] that his grandfather leave him. He teach me how to fish, how
    to sail a boat. He gave me arms and hands and feet, feeling good outside… and
    he teach me how to feel good inside. My father do all this; he have 17 other
    kids, beside. What else a father do, huh?

    This dialogue presents two very different perspectives. One
    always wants more; the other knows we have already gotten more. And don’t we see
    both — one perhaps all too frequently — represented in our society today?

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