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October 22, 2012

Will Vote Fraud Win the Election for Obama?

By Selwyn Duke

Propelled by impressive debate performances, Mitt Romney has surged
in the polls. Gallup had the GOP nominee leading by as many as seven
points recently, and likely women voters, who once favored Barack Obama
by double digits, now lean toward the president by only one percent in
the swing states. Even more significantly, Romney has finally taken the
lead in the Real Clear Politics electoral-college estimate, 206 to 201. And it’s plain to me what all this means for November 6.

Barack Obama will likely win re-election.

As someone who thinks the president is the kind of man who lights up a
room when he leaves it, I assuredly take no pleasure in making this
prediction. My problem, however, is that I lost my rose-colored glasses a
long time ago. And viewed without them, it’s clear that the electoral
map won’t likely come up roses for Romney.

It’s not that I doubt the RCP estimate of 206 safe electoral votes
for the former governor. It’s that it’s hard to see where the 64
additional votes needed to reach 270 can come from. How can this be with
131 up for grabs?

Read the rest here.
October 21, 2012

Duke Responds to Reader: What is the Nature of Law?

A reader recently posted the following response to my article "The Truth on Biden's Abortion Malarkey."

JasonP wrote:

Very
nice discussion, Mr. Duke, but you present a false alternative. It’s
subtly implicit in your text here: “So a just law must reflect morality,
but what is morality? Who determines it? There are only two
possibilities: man or something outside of man does.”

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October 20, 2012

Enough Already with the Women-Get-Paid-Less Nonsense

By Selwyn Duke

The intersex wage-gap question asked at the last presidential debate
once again thrust the issue of equal pay for women into the headlines.
And since Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both vying for women — who
vote in greater numbers than men do — both campaigns have been saying
all the “right” things. Obama has touted his signing of the Lily
Ledbetter Act, while the Republicans have pointed out that not only does the liberal network MSNBC pay its female employees less, so does, ironically, the Obama administration (by the way, Obama did the same in his office when he was a senator). Yet the truth on women’s pay is something neither candidate dare say.

Women aren’t given less.

They earn less.

The reality is that far from being a result of discrimination, the
intersex wage gap — 72 cents on a man’s dollar, or 77 cents, or … well,
it depends on whom you listen to — is solely due to the sexes’ different
lifestyle and career choices. Columnist Carrie Lukas explained this in
2007, writing:

Read the rest here.
October 19, 2012

Debating the Debate and Immoderate Moderation

By Selwyn Duke

Despite all the scrutiny placed on debate moderation, Candy Crowley
nonetheless managed to stoop to the occasion Tuesday night at Hofstra
University. Yet, although she gave it her best effort, the 2012 debate record is
still Democrats and the media 0 for 3. Unfortunately, the truth has been
a casualty as well.

“‘Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool….” You know the
rest. When Crowley “corrected” Mitt Romney after he rightly said that
Barack Obama didn’t declare the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” in
the Rose Garden on Sept. 12, she sounded like a mother defending her
little son’s lie in deference to emotional attachment. And while she
would have to admit her error post debate, she had a rationalization at
the ready: Romney used the wrong word. Yes, that’s right up there with
her son Barry’s copout that gas prices were far lower four years ago
because the economy was collapsing. But the problem wasn’t the wrong
word — it was the wrong moderator.

Even with Crowley’s thoroughly modern mea culpa, however,
much of the damage was done. What about the viewers who didn’t watch the
post-debate coverage and are only as informed as Crowley herself?

The truth is that Crowley’s meddling was as inappropriate as was her
presence itself. It was much as if Angelo Dundee had been the referee
for the first Ali/Frazier fight and jumped on Smokin’ Joe’s back because
Ali couldn’t hack it that night.

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October 17, 2012

Candy Crowley Plays Biggest Loser with Obama

By Selwyn Duke

You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias
in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p’s and q’s in last
night’s presidential debate. But clearly, she doesn’t even know the ABC’s of
her job.

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October 17, 2012

Former Obama Aide: The President “Doesn’t Like People”

By Selwyn Duke

Do we have a misanthrope as president? According to a former aide to
Barack Obama, Neera Tanden, the answer may be yes. Her comments were
made when discussing the relationship between Obama and Bill Clinton and
were reported by New York magazine, which wrote:

“People say the reason Obama wouldn’t
call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes Tanden. “The
truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost
anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t
like people. My analogy is that it’s like becoming Bill Gates without
liking computers.”

I must correct Tanden: It would be stunning that Obama is in politics
if liking people — which is, it is rumored, associated with wanting to
help them — were the only reason, or even the main one, for entering
politics.

Obama Image vs. Obama Reality

Obama may not like others, but that dislike isn’t generally returned.
As polls have shown, the president’s “likeability” rating has been
relatively high. Yet I heard years ago already through the grapevine —
via journalist contacts who knew someone who had contact with Obama —
that, far from likeable, he was arrogant to the point of being
dismissive. So what is the reality?

Read the rest here.
October 17, 2012

No, We Can’t — Just Get Past Race

By Selwyn Duke

There is this idea among many that we can get past apparent
differences by concluding they don’t exist. This is reflected in the now
common belief that racial distinctions are mere “social constructs.” In
non-egghead terms, that means race is actually imaginary.

This idea isn’t just espoused by liberals, but has become so
mainstream that even many conservatives echo it. For example, just
yesterday American Thinker writer Gregory Oatis asked if we could dispense with this “‘race’ nonsense, once and for all” and then explained,
“Categorizing humanity by ‘race’ as has been happening for all these
centuries is simply not a scientifically valid proposition. There is
just one race of people on this planet, the human race.” Ah, yes, tell
that to Barack Obama’s old pastor.

Now, the goal here isn’t to impugn Mr. Oatis; he seems like a very
nice fellow with pure motives. And like so many others, he no doubt
recognizes that racial and ethnic hatred has cost many millions of lives
and seeks to eliminate it. But is the solution to try to eliminate our
conception of race itself, which Mr. Oatis calls “the single most
overrated scientific myth” but which to common people is just common
sense?

Read the rest here.
October 17, 2012

Politicians, Catholicism and the False Equivalence

By Selwyn Duke

You’ve got to hand it to that Joe Biden. He certainly has
chutzpah. After all, what do you call it when a man who was banned
from receiving Communion diocese-wide by a bishop chastises an apparently
more faithful Catholic for a lack of doctrinal purity? I’m of course referring
to the vice-presidential debate and Biden’s comment that Paul Ryan had an
“issue” with “Catholic social doctrine.”

Biden’s approach is nothing new; it’s a copout frequently used
by liberal—or, as they used to say, heretical—Catholics. It goes like this: self-conscious
that they’re being criticized for violating definitive Church teaching and
accused of being in a state of grave sin, they hang their hats on the idea that
they make up for it by going heavy on “social teaching.” Furthermore, they lean
on the notion that no one should point fingers at them because, by their
lights, conservatives fall terribly short of the glory of that social teaching.
It’s the theological version of “Oh, yeah?! But look at what Bush did!”

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October 16, 2012

The Truth on Biden’s Abortion Malarkey

By Selwyn Duke

When Joe Biden was asked about abortion in the
vice-presidential debate last Thursday, he replied with what, in part, has
become boilerplate. “I accept my church’s position on abortion…” he said. “Life
begins at conception; that’s the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal
life; I just refuse to impose that on others, unlike my friend here, the
congressman [Paul Ryan].”

The personally-opposed, no-values-imposed (PONVI) argument
is nothing new. For instance, consider the following version of a typical
pro-abortion appeal:

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October 15, 2012

Bus Driver to Conservative Child: “Your Mother Should Have Chosen Abortion for You”

By Selwyn Duke

Actress Stacey Dash was attacked viciously on Twitter after
she expressed support for Mitt Romney, with several people telling her “Kill
yourself,” another calling her a “hag,” and yet others hurling racial slurs.
But even this pales in comparison to the leftist class exhibited by an Obama
supporter who harassed a 12-year-old boy and told him that he should have been
aborted. The blog Freedom Eden reports:

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