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  • What Justin Bieber and General McChrystal Have in Common

    By Selwyn Duke

    Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity.  And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine.

    Excerpts released from an upcoming interview with the teen star included political statements that, as some reading this will know, have earned him criticism in conservative circles.  What fewer in the right-blogosphere may realize, however, is that they also brought him lashing from the left.  Attacked from the right, attacked from the left…yikes.  Just call him Bill O’Reilly, Jr.

    Conservatives noted Bieber’s negative comments about the US healthcare system, but is such an opinion really notable?  Remember, we’re talking about a 16-year-old Canadian pop star here.  Far more notable is what raised the ire of the womyn on The (wrong) View and the capons at The New York Times: the singer’s thoughts on the left’s sacred cow, abortion.  As to this, Rolling Stone writes:

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  • On Nullification, Just Follow Liberals’ Lead

    By Selwyn Duke

    It isn’t often that conservatives can learn something from liberals, but I think the current debate over nullification is an exception.

    As you may know, nullification is the practice whereby a state or locality identifies a federal law as being unconstitutional and simply refuses to enforce it. It is also a practice that liberals have recently condemned without reservation. And it is something liberals don’t have to practice.  

    They’re expert at it.

    The unprecedented federal intrusion of recent years has inspired states to consider nullifying a whole host of Uncle Sam’s dictates, ranging from gun and health control laws to cap-and-tax schemes. And the Effluent Stream media casts such defiance as unprecedented in modern times, a throwback to antebellum rebellion. And, of course, conservatives do talk about nullification, while liberals don’t.

    Liberals just do it.

    Read the rest here.

  • Dallas Politician: “All of you are white. Go to hell!”

    By Selwyn Duke

    Most of you won’t know the name John Wiley Price, but he’s obviously a man well qualified to hold a position at the Eric Holder Justice Department.  What has Price, a Dallas County Commissioner, done to distinguish himself? 

    He told a group of five citizens during a local-government meeting, “All of you are white.  Go to hell!”

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  • Democrazy: Egypt and the Eternal Constitution

    By Selwyn Duke

    A little less than a century ago, the West entertained the notion that WWI would be “the war to end all wars.”  Insofar as this was seriousness and not just selling point, it was naiveté.  Obviously, a military solution cannot solve a moral problem – nor can it change man’s nature.  And while we should realize this today, we now fall victim to another flight of fancy.  This is the idea that a political solution can solve a moral problem.

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  • Why GOProud Didn’t Belong at CPAC

    By Selwyn Duke

    Many say that objection to homosexual group GOProud’s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention is much ado about nothing.  And while these critics aren’t necessarily proud of GOProud, they often say that the conservative ranks shouldn’t be creating unnecessary division.  I would agree — but necessary division is a different matter.

    The question we’re confronted with here is this: If you have a cause, is it moral and wise to take support from wherever you can get it?  The answer is: not enough data. And the first thing we have to consider is what form that support will take. For example, if I’m running for office and members of CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) want to vote for me (hard to imagine, I know), I won’t take the podium and indignantly say that I only want votes from devout Catholic males of half German, one-quarter Russian and one-quarter Polish ancestry who grew up in NYC.  I won’t even demand that those casting ballots agree with me on one solitary issue. After all, accepting anonymous support doesn’t compromise principle. But if I hold a convention and allow CAIR to sponsor it, it’s a different matter. Its members aren’t then just “supporters of Selwyn Duke”; they are parading under the banner of something that contradicts a significant part of my agenda. There is a profound difference between appearing as a generic supporter of a cause and claiming to support it in the name of another cause.

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  • The Independent’s Over-the-top Anti-Catholic Bias

    By Selwyn Duke

    Except for those still caught in the web of the media matrix, it’s no secret that the Fossil Press seeks to destroy conservatism, tradition and Christianity.  It’s also plain that central to this are unrelenting attacks on the Catholic Church.  But a February 5 piece in The Independent written by one Michael Day reaches a low worthy of Cold War commissars.


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  • Texas Schools Instituting Mandatory Arabic Language and Culture Classes

    By Selwyn Duke

    It seems that it was a well-kept secret. Residents in the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas found out just this Monday evening that the district had decided to force some of their children to take Arabic language and culture classes.

    As for the impetus behind the move, as they say, just follow the money: The program is a condition for receipt of a federal grant. CBSDFW.com provides some detail, writing:

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  • The Brit PM’s Limp-wristed Attack on Multiculturalism

    By Selwyn Duke

    A sad testimonial as to the effete state of Western culture is that even ineffectual, feminized defenses of it are applauded as brave.  Case in point: British Prime Minister David Cameron has made news by giving a speech in which he said that “state multiculturalism” has failed.  And while he earned three spots on Drudge and a “hear, hear!” from mainstream conservatives, the truth is that whether or not his words are too late, they are certainly too little.

    They’re also just words.


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  • Chinese Segregation: No Caucasian Mummies Need Apply

    By Selwyn Duke

    The Chinese exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” ran without incident in California and Texas. But now Chinese authorities have decided that parts of it really must be kept secret and have ordered that some artifacts and, most notably, a certain mummy not be displayed. The news came as a blow to the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, which was poised to show the exhibition in toto starting February 5 and was informed of the change just the evening prior.

    At issue is a 4000-year-old mummy called the “Beauty of Xiaohe.” Remarkably well preserved, she has long eyelashes, half-open eyes and flowing hair. But then there is the distinction that may make her a political liability.

    She’s Caucasian.

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  • The Tyranny of Human Rights Commissions

    By Selwyn Duke

    If you want to know what lies just a little ways further down the rabbit hole of political correctness, go north, Western man. If you do, you’ll wind up in Canada, where the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (OHRT) has given us what columnist Margaret Wente calls “The case of the smelly lunch.” But it smells more like tyranny.

    The saga started when Maxcine Telfer, owner of a Mississauga-based operation that helps immigrant women find jobs, Audmax Inc., hired a gal named Seema Saadi as an “intake worker.” But finding a job and keeping one are two different things, and Miss Saadi went on the outtake line after only six weeks. This is, of course, when the trouble started.

    Saadi went to the OHRT and, writes Wente, “complained of discrimination and harassment because of her race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, ethnic origin, disability (she is legally blind), creed and sex,” an eight-category discrimination cocktail that would make Telfer champion bartender of the bias-raised bar. What was Saadi’s specific complaint? Wente tells us:

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