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  • Barack Obama’s Paycheck Unfairness Act

    By Selwyn Duke

    If you’re a stay-at-home mom, I don’t think you’ll like a policy that makes it harder for your husband to support your family. Yet Barack Obama is advocating just such a policy — it’s called the “Paycheck Fairness Act” (PFA).

    While pushing the legislation in a radio address this past Saturday, Obama said, “Today, women still earn on average only about 75 cents for every dollar a man earns. That’s a huge discrepancy.” It certainly is, and the implication is that it’s a function of discrimination. But is this true?

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  • Obama’s America: Bureaucracy Fines Theater $80,000 for Racism

    By Selwyn Duke

    When you hear that a movie theater was fined $80,000 dollars for discrimination, you might wonder if it refused to hire blacks or promote women. But this wasn’t the case with the Carmike 14 cinema, in Dover, Delaware. What was its Bull Connor moment?

    Its manager asked patrons to refrain from cellphone use during a Tyler Perry movie.

    Seriously.

    The ruling against the theater was made by the Delaware “Human Relations Commission” (HRC) in 2007 and was just overturned by the state’s Supreme Court, but it should serve as a shot across the bow to all of us: Human-rights-commission tyranny has come to America.

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  • Review of “Trickle Up Poverty”

    By Selwyn Duke

    As I was listening to Michael Savage’s radio show no more than a year ago, I heard something that might have caused his faithful listeners to scurry for the anti-depressants. (That is, if the host weren’t so steadfast in counseling against their use.) Dejected over his unfair inclusion on a list of individuals banned from travel to Britain, Savage expressed an intention to leave the airwaves in the not-too-distant future. Since then, however, certain events have changed his mind. Not the least of these, I believe, is his desire to fight the good fight against the statist advance under the Obama administration. And the result of this patriotic motivation is his latest book Trickle Up Poverty (TUP).

    While TUP is Dr. Savage’s latest book, it is no more the first than radio is his first career. The many-hatted host — who holds a doctorate in epidemiology and nutritional science — actually spent a good part of his life as a botanical Indiana Jones, traveling the South Pacific in search of plants with medicinal qualities. Considered a pioneer in the field, he wrote 17 books on health and herbal medicine and, upon transitioning to nutrition for the mind, wrote numerous best-sellers on politics and social issues.

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  • Wrestling with Morality: Boys vs. Girls on the Mat

    By Selwyn Duke

    Imagine that you’re a young adolescent boy.  Like many your age, you’re shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your heart race.  You also like sports, so you go out for your school’s wrestling team.  Then, lo and behold, you’re at a meet, and something hits you like a load of bricks.

    Your opponent is going to be a girl. 

    You’re going to have to grapple with her.  In front of spectators.  Touching—and being touched in—intimate places.

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  • Now Marriage Is Above Obama’s Pay Grade, Too

    By Selwyn Duke

    Ever since a campaigning Barack Obama dodged an abortion question by saying it was above his pay grade, Americans have learned that economics, foreign policy, constitutionalism, and voting-rights equity, among other things, are as well. And now marriage has joined that list.

    After the February 23 announcement that Obama had ordered the Justice Department not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, there was no word on whether he was motivated by a belief that matrimony is a state matter. It was mentioned, however, that the President is still “grappling” with his “personal views” on marriage. And Obama has said himself that they continue to “evolve.” No doubt. You Intelligent Design folks may not want to hear it, but politics is one arena in which God may be absent but evolution is absolutely a fact; politicians adapt to their environment like water takes the shape of its container.

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  • Journalist in France Convicted for Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

    By Selwyn Duke

    We’ve heard a lot about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian whose warnings about Muslim influence in his nation place him in the crosshairs of the powers-that-be.  But while the tow-headed modern-day Templar has thus far dodged the hangman on Truth-speech charges, another intrepid defender of Western civilization has not been so lucky.  And we haven’t heard much about him.

    He is French journalist Eric Zemmour, and he was just convicted this week of “inciting racism.”  Writes The New American’s R. Cort Kirkwood:

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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.

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  • 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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