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October 3, 2012

10 Horrible Leftists People Respect

By Selwyn Duke

While image isn’t really everything, it certainly appears so when
it’s all people are allowed to see. What follows is a list of 10
individuals who have Dr. Jekyll images that obscure a Mr. Hyde reality.

1. Alice Walker

While The Color Purple author and feminist icon masquerades
as a champion of women, the woman she should have cared about most in
her life, her own daughter, Rebecca, she viewed as a “millstone” around
her neck.

As Rebecca reveals,
her mother called her birth a “calamity” and would leave her in the
care of others or to fend for herself while she was still a child. Her
mother drummed into her head that motherhood was slavery, but was happy
when she became sexually active at 13 — Alice fancied it “empowering.”
And while she was “supportive” when Rebecca had an abortion at age 14,
this changed when Rebecca decided to become a mother as an adult. In
fact, Rebecca’s rejection of the culture of death led to a spat that
ended when, writes Rebecca, “she wrote me a letter saying that our
relationship had been inconsequential for years and that she was no
longer interested in being my mother. She even signed the letter with
her first name, rather than 'Mom'.”

But, hey, I’m sure Alice Walker has read It Takes a Village.

2. Alfred Kinsey

It’s not just that this bug researcher turned self-proclaimed human-sexuality expert was a scientific fraud.

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October 3, 2012

How Government Will Take Meat off Your Table

By Selwyn Duke

The British pork industry is collapsing, and it’s a story that should
serve as a warning to all of us. Why? Because the agents of its demise
have the entire West in their crosshairs.

The numbers are staggering. With a pig herd halved during the last
decade, Britain has gone from producing 110 percent of its domestic
consumption of pork to only 40 percent. This is due to many of the
nation’s pig farmers having left the business, and they’re poised to be
joined by 100 more this year, which represents “10% of Britain's small
to medium-sized producers,” reports the Guardian. Consequently, it’s predicted that domestic production will decline another 20 percent by Christmas.

Britain’s pork farmers’ woes have been worsened by the droughts in
the United States, which have increased the cost of feed. But what’s the
source of their underlying problems? If you guessed government, go to
the head of the class. As the Financial Times writes, “UK farmers are part of a global trend as the cost of feed and compliance with welfare regulations hits suppliers worldwide.”

The “regulations” in question are animal-welfare regulations….

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September 27, 2012

The Election: What’s “Like” Got to Do With It?

By Selwyn Duke

“I like Obama,” said a man I know of when explaining his support for
the president. His sentiment isn’t unusual, as Barack Obama is, we’re
told, a likeable man. In contrast, we hear that people have trouble
“connecting” with Mitt Romney, that he’s an overly-starched blueblood
who can’t relate to the common man.

Of course, it’s hard for people to connect with you when the only
connection they have to what you say and do is through a media that
hates you. In contrast, when that same media smoothes out your rough
edges and whites out damning comments you make, it’s a lot easier to be
likeable. This certainly is the case with Obama, a man who has called traditionalist Americans “enemies,” said
that they “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't
like them…,” and considered his brief time in the corporate world as a
case of “working for the enemy” (he seems to have a very unlikeable
habit of viewing fellow Americans as “enemies”). And based on what I’ve
heard through the grapevine, the real Obama exudes an arrogance that’s
anything but appealing.

Let’s say, however, that I’m wrong and Obama is just the most affable
bloke around. Is this really meaningful? Could it even be a red flag?

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September 27, 2012

When Michelle Obama Starts Starving the Kids

By Selwyn Duke

Unprecedented school-lunch regulations have just gone into effect,
and they suggest a new answer to the question “Where’s the beef?”: not
on students’ plates— or on their bones. The regulations are a result of
Michelle Obama’s “Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act,” which was passed by
the lame-duck, Democrat-controlled Congress in December 2010. And the
result has been wasted food, endangered health, and hungrier kids.

The problem is that, in typical nanny-state style, the regulations
not only prescribe foods many children find unpalatable, they also apply
unrealistic calorie restrictions on students: “650 calories for
elementary-schoolers, 700 for middle-schoolers and 850 for
high-schoolers,” writes Suzanne Tobias of the Wichita Eagle.

Yet more perspective is gained when you consider that the
government’s dietary limitations wouldn’t be out of place in a wartime
prison camp. For example, writes
PJ Media, “Current regulations limit servings of protein, which could
be anything from a hamburger to a side of beans, to 1.5 ounces two days a
week and 2 ounces the other three days.”

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August 6, 2012

Al-Qaeda and Liberals Agree: Kill Kids for the Cause

By Selwyn Duke

It’s wisdom from the mouths of babes, and it has gone viral. It’s a cute YouTube video of a 6-year-old boy giving 10 reasons not to vote for Barack Obama. But the story here is something else: While it wasn’t their intention, many of the president’s supporters are giving at least 10 more. And number one is the character of the Left revealed by the vicious, vile comments under the video, in which some liberals say they want to murder the little boy. Literally.

The video was originally posted by Patriot Update, and it features tiny Isaac Anthony, toy gun on his hip and cutely rendered words on his lip. But this didn’t deter the disgusting respondents, a sample of whose comments follows (from a PatriotUpdate.com article on the subject).

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August 4, 2012

The Olympics and Feminist-style Reporting

By Selwyn Duke

It’s difficult to say if the greatest drama of the 2012 Olympics has occurred inside or outside the athletic arena, but it’s hard for anything to compare to the controversy that recently surrounded 16-year-old Chinese swim sensation Ye Shiwen. The story started on Saturday when Ye shattered the women’s world record in the 400-meter Individual Medley in a time of 4:28.43, beating the old mark by more than a second.

If a second constitutes a “shattered” record—and it does at that high level—you can only imagine what a 14 or 23-second difference is: it’s a vast ocean away. So it should surprise no one that those also happen to be the number of seconds Ye was slower than, respectively, the last finisher in the men’s 400m IM, and its winner, Ryan Lochte.

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August 4, 2012

Proposal: Force Citizens to Own Guns

By Selwyn Duke

When people such as Little Big Gulp Bloomberg propose some new nanny-state law, they often express the hope that “it will become a model for the nation.” But forget about aping sprawling metropolises such as the Big Apple or San Francisco if you want to increase public well-being. There is a better locality to copy: Kennesaw, Georgia.

I propose that we take one of its laws nationwide and require every law-abiding citizen to own a gun. After all, studies have shown that the deterrent criminals fear most is that of an armed prospective victim. And as the apocryphal saying goes, “The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference.”

Yet I’ll go even further and propose that we also eliminate many of the gun-control laws in existence. And since they number in the thousands, it shouldn’t be hard to pare them down by at least 50 percent. Isn’t this the least we could do in the name of increasing freedom and people’s capacity to defend themselves?

Of course, I wouldn’t expect the above to garner much support from the Left; in fact, I’m sure they’d howl. So I’ll tell you what, my liberal friends. If you come to the bargaining table and are willing to compromise, I may settle for the implementation of only a small part of my proposal. And if you really play your cards right, I may agree to keep the laws just the same as they are right now — for the moment, anyway.

Does anyone see what I just did there?

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July 30, 2012

Grand Mufti Emanuel’s Chicago Values

By Selwyn Duke

When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago’s political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the mayorship. I had no idea he was appointed the city’s first Grand Mufti.

But thus it must be, as Emanuel has spoken definitively as to what shall henceforth be considered Chicago values.

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July 30, 2012

Rahm and Co.’s Chicken-headed Intolerance

By Selwyn Duke

Increasingly in America, the Left is putting up a sign stating, “Christians need not apply.” The latest example is the targeting of fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A by politicians in Chicago and Boston.

In case you missed it, the beef with the chicken chain stems from comments its president, Dan Cathy, made about faux marriage on the Ken Coleman radio program. Said Cathy:

I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, "We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage." I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.

Not surprisingly, this led to the announcement of a boycott by people such as Deepak Chopra, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, and the Kardashians (I would say that I’m now boycotting them, but I imbibe their cultural effluent as much as they eat Chick-Fil-A). Of course, it’s citizens’ right to vote with their dollars anytime they wish, so there’s nothing particularly unusual about this. More troubling, however, was the position Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Boston mayor Thomas Menino took in saying they would prevent the restaurant chain from opening outlets in their cities. And then there was the man who started the chicken roast, Chicago alderman Proco “Joe” Moreno, when he plainly stated, “Because of this man's [Cathy’s] ignorance, I will now be denying Chick-Fil-A's permit to open a restaurant in the 1st Ward.”

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July 29, 2012

Aurora and Romanticizing Evil

By Selwyn Duke

We may never know what was going though Aurora shooter James Holmes’s mind when he committed his heinous mass murder. We don’t know what kind of psychosis, or precisely what evil influences, he might have been subject to. What we do know is that, in wanting to be the Joker and not Batman, the villainous and not the virtuous, he reflects something prevalent today: The romanticizing of evil. And to whatever extent he was imitating art, this trend certainly is not art imitating life.

I remember when Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was taken into custody by U.S. forces. Here was this fellow, who we’d seen giving fiery speeches from podiums and talking about killing political adversaries, now doing a perp walk in shackles. No longer the strongman, he looked neither strong nor like much of a man; it was as if he’d shrunk. He looked pathetic — like any dime-store thug in a mug shot. It was then that one understood what writer Hannah Arendt meant when, after observing Nazi war criminals, she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

Evil people aren’t very interesting, but you wouldn’t know it from our popular culture. It serves up fantastical fiction such as the all-seeing serial killer Hannibal Lector, the superhuman Cape Fear criminal Max Cady, and the philosophizing hit men in Pulp Fiction. It certainly titillates and triumphs at the box office, but what, ultimately, is triumphing in the hearts and minds of generations weaned on such fare? What is their conception of good and evil? Which is more attractive to them?

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