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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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  • Is Pope Francis Liberal or Conservative?

    954801_blogBy Selwyn Duke

    With the election of Pope Francis, there has been an almost
    "catholic" attempt to determine if he is liberal or conservative. CBS
    claims
    he is a "staunch conservative" based on the fact that, as
    correspondent Allen Pizzey put it, he "opposes abortion, supports
    celibacy, and called gay adoption discrimination against children," not to
    mention his opposition to faux marriage. Tingle Central's Chris Matthews said
    that the new pontiff is economically "progressive," which, if we were
    to be informed by actual
    statistics    , should mean he wouldn't give one red cent to anybody. But none
    of these analysts will peg the pope because they're using the provisional to
    understand a man defined by an institution based in the perpetual. And the
    reality is this: the terms "liberal," "conservative," and
    "moderate" are, in the truest sense, meaningless in Catholic circles.
    And understanding why holds a lesson for all of us.

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  • Senator Rob Portman’s Homosexual Descent

    By Selwyn Duke

    In another case in the annals of conservative
    "adaptation" to yesterday's liberal innovation, Ohio Republican
    senator Rob Portman has just announced
    that he now supports faux marriage. The change was motivated, he said, by his
    son having come out to him and his wife as a homosexual.

    Well, it's a good thing his son didn't announce that he was
    involved in bestiality.

    Talk about a pandering parent.

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  • Mississippi Bloomberg Burning

    Chained RefrigeratorBy Selwyn Duke

    While
    I'm generally no fan of new laws, a law that prohibits stupid laws is a
    definite exception. And that's just what the great state of Mississippi
    is giving us by passing legislation that
    would prohibit localities from limiting food portion sizes, forcing
    restaurants to list calorie counts on menus, and banning the inclusion
    of toys with meals. The bill was inspired by Little Big Gulp (the man
    some still call Mayor Michael Bloomberg), whose current mission is to
    ensure that human life may not be endangered via imprudent use of fat,
    sugar, or bullets, but only through abortion.

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  • What the Greatest Catholic Thinker Says about the Latest Catholic Pope

    By Selwyn Duke

    With the election of Pope Francis, there are the usual
    complaints about how the Catholic Church has got to get with the times. The Huffington
    Post     ran the headline,
    “Pope Francis Against [sic] Gay Marriage, Gay Adoption,” which is much like
    thinking it newsworthy to write, “New Pope Believes in the Divinity of Jesus.” Mother Jones laments the “missed
    opportunity to bring the papacy closer to where the people are.” And Forbes’
    John Baldoni  dishes the baloney, writing
    of “a Catholic Church that is resistant
    to change     but one that must certainly adapt (and rather radically) if it is
    going to continue to attract well-intentioned men and women who adhere to its
    faith but also are willing to devote themselves to its perpetuation” (hat tip: Drew
    Belsky    ). Yet this misses the point that it is creatures who must adapt to
    their ecosystem, and the Church is
    the moral ecosystem. Our modernistic culture is simply a pretender to that
    throne.

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  • Beppe Grillo, Just the Wacko We Don’t Know

    By Selwyn Duke

    When I see the hand-wringing over the rise of Italian
    politician Beppe Grillo, I can’t help but think of a man complaining about cigarette
    smoke while his own derriere is on fire. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Grillo is a
    wacko, for sure. I can’t even take issue with the claim that he’s a wicked
    wacko. But I also know this: one thing he isn’t is a wacko without company.

    As to the hand-wringing, I’m specifically referring to the
    recent articles co-authored by writer James Lewis. Now, let me preface my
    remarks by saying that, based on what I know of Mr. Lewis, I’ve no reason to
    have anything but the utmost respect for him. Yet his last title, “Dangerous
    Times: Is Italy teetering?” evokes a certain immediate response from me:

    Why wouldn’t it be?

    All of the West is teetering.

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  • We Might be Muslim Today if….

    By Selwyn Duke

    The year is 632 A.D., and Muslim hordes have set their
    sights on the Mideast and North Africa — the old Christian world. And the Caliphate,
    as the Islamic realm is called, will not be denied. Syria and Iraq fall in 636.
    Palestine is next in 638. And Byzantine Egypt and North Africa, not even Arab
    lands, are conquered by 642 and 709, respectively. Then, just two years later,
    the Muslims cross the Strait of Gibraltar and enter Iberia (now Spain and
    Portugal). The invasion of Europe has begun.

    And the new continent seems no impediment to Islam. After
    vanquishing much of Visigothic Iberia by 718, the Muslims cross the Pyrenees
    Mountains into Gaul (now France) and move northward. Now it is 732, and they
    are approaching Tours, a mere 126 miles from Paris. The Western world — what’s
    left of Christendom — could very well be on its way to extinction.

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