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  • Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student

    By Selwyn Duke

    A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob
    Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a
    public sidewalk.

    The 71 seconds of footage opens with a student in a jacket and tie
    greeting Etheridge with “Hi, Congressman, how are you?” The
    Representative seems to respond cordially enough but then mutters, “Who
    are you?” The student then asked a question the Congressman apparently
    found intolerable: “Do you fully support the Obama agenda?” At this
    point Etheridge stops, moves closer to the student, and asks more
    aggressively “Who are you?” Etheridge repeats this query one more time
    and then, shockingly, tries to grab the camera, interrupting the
    recording.

    When the video resumes a few seconds later . . . .

    Read the rest here.

  • Liberals’ Lies about Religion in American History

    Become a big liar often enough and you start to believe yourself

    Pinnochio2 By Selwyn Duke

    When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education
    was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I
    assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while to understand
    that many people are so immersed in their age that, to them, history is
    a mystery. How does one understand a past he has never experienced?
    Here’s how I explain it: If a doctor knows the pathology of a certain
    disease, can’t he look at a patient with an advanced case of it and tell
    you what the symptoms would have been during the early stages?

    So it is with civilization. If you understand what social disease
    ails yours, you can “run the tape backwards” and have a good idea what
    the state of the patient was many years before. This brings us to the
    subject of creeping secularism and religion in America.

    Read the rest here.

  • Buddy Parenting

    Bratty Little Girl in Purple By Selwyn Duke

    It seems that the more parents treat their children like friends,
    the more unfriendly the world becomes.

    While at a recreational facility the other day, I overheard a mother
    call her six-year-old son “bud.” No, I don’t think that was his name and
    he wasn’t a beer. Rather, the woman was exhibiting what, at least in my
    area (NY), has become a meme: addressing your child as “buddy.”
    “Buddy” used to just be a relationship descriptive and a generic, if
    sometimes snarky, way of addressing strangers (again, at least in NY).
    Now it’s a stranger way of addressing loved ones. It has also become
    maddeningly common. Right now I’m thinking of two families to which I’m
    close, and, in each case, one or both of the parents thus address their
    child.

    Now, I realize that criticizing people’s parenting is a hazardous
    endeavor and that some reading this have gotten caught up in our “buddy
    system.” So I’ll be gentle and not start this with a New Yawk “Listen,
    buddy….” In turn, I ask that you hear me out.

    Read the rest here.

  • Scientists One Step Closer to Creating “Artificial Life”


    Angel vs. Demon Hailed as a breakthrough, a cell driven by synthetic DNA has been
    created. But what are the implications for science, man and faith?

    By Selwyn Duke

    In a development that has alarmed and excited many, scientists have
    brought the world one step closer to creating what’s known as
    “artificial life.” The breakthrough is the handiwork of Dr. Craig
    Venter, a 63-year-old biologist and billionaire entrepreneur who has
    long been pushing back frontiers in the field. BBC News reports on the
    story, writing:

    He and his colleagues had previously made a
    synthetic bacterial genome, and transplanted the genome of one
    bacterium into another.

    Now, the scientists have put both methods together, to create what they
    call a “synthetic cell”, although only its genome is truly synthetic.

    Read the rest here.

  • Why Arizona Should “Racially Profile”

    Cactus Against Arizona Sky By Selwyn Duke

    When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to
    be a “white male,” I shook my head.  I
    knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s asinine musings about how the perpetrator
    was probably “homegrown” and perhaps someone upset about the healthcare bill,
    this was nonsense.  “It’s about as likely
    as a story about Bill Clinton becoming a monk,” I thought. 

    Of course, this was no great insight.  Given that 99 percent of the terrorists
    bedeviling us today are non-white Muslims, it was just common sense — otherwise
    known as profiling.

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  • Separation-of-Church-and-State Tyranny

    With separation-of-church-and-state prohibitions continuing to
    metastasize, what lies in the future for Americans of faith?


    2052845_low By Selwyn Duke

    “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody
    is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is
    allowed to mention it.” So said G.K. Chesterton in his autobiography,
    published in 1937. A lot has changed since then, however — especially
    the number of places we’re not allowed to mention religion.

    Just this week we heard the story of the Ed Young Senior Citizens
    Center in Georgia, where elderly residents were told that they should
    not pray audibly before meals. Why? Joshua Rhett Miller at Fox News
    explains, writing:

    Officials from Senior Citizens Inc., which
    operates the senior center, have said the meals they provide to
    visitors are mostly covered with federal money — so saying a communal
    prayer before chowing down is a violation of federal regulations.

    "We can't scoff at their rules," Tim
    Rutherford, Senior Citizens Inc.'s vice president, told the Associated
    Press. "It's part of the operational guidelines."

    While I certainly can scoff, I can’t say I’m surprised. This is just
    another in a long line of Establishment Clause misapplications that have
    yielded truly bizarre prohibitions. And let’s explore how we got to our
    present point.

    Read the rest here.

  • Cinco to Midnight: The Great Mexican End Game

    Greater Mexico By Selwyn Duke

    Recently, columnist Charles
    Krauthammer expressed
    support     for amnesty for illegals, while Newt Gingrich advocated a path
    to what he called “legality.” The two men stipulated that border control must
    come first, but, still, what makes these two conservatives such weak sisters on
    this issue?  Perhaps part of the answer
    was provided by Dick Morris, who said that immigration is a losing issue for
    Republicans

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  • Charles Krauthammer Drops the Hammer on Conservatism and America: Supports Amnesty for Illegals

    Hammering America By Selwyn Duke

    Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda
    Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the
    conservative standard bearer he’s reputed to be. On the O’Reilly
    Factor     this on May 4, he supported
    a “path to citizenship” for illegals, otherwise known as amnesty.

    To be fair, Krauthammer did stipulate that immigration enforcement
    must come first, that amnesty could only be offered to illegal
    immigrants once the border is 95 percent secure. So I suppose that the
    good news here is that there is bad news: Since our border won’t be
    secure anytime soon, we won’t have to worry about Krauthammer lining up
    with La Raza in the near future.

    Read the rest here.

  • The Myth of Equality

    Seeking equality is a lot like seeking perfection — just without the
    perfection.

    412294_low By Selwyn Duke

    In a speech recently, Al Sharpton emphasized
    that the left’s white whale, equality, still eludes us. Martin Luther
    King’s dream “was not to put one black family in the White House,” said
    he; “The dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.” Ah,
    the profundity. Now, it could be pointed out that your house will likely
    never measure up to Tawana Al’s, even if you do
    manage to mainline government hand-outs. Not everyone is a reverend
    without a congregation who possesses a collection plate the size of
    Louis Farrakhan’s “Mother Ship” flying saucer.
    As to this, it could also be pointed out that if “Big collection, No
    Parishioners” didn’t find new mountains of white sheets to climb, he’d
    be out of a “job” — in a quote-unquote manner of speaking.

    Yet, for every Tawana Al, Jena Jesse
    and X-Files Farrakhan, there are millions of moderns who sincerely
    believe that equality is the greatest good, even if they can’t make
    millions peddling it. It’s one of those assumptions people just don’t
    question.

    Read the rest here.

  • New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors

    Anatomy By Selwyn Duke

    Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there
    may cost a kidney and a heart. Under a proposed law, all state residents
    would automatically be enrolled as organ donors — without their
    consent.

    Proposed by Democrat Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, the law would
    presume consent and allow for the harvesting of a deceased resident’s
    body parts unless the person had taken the step of opting out of the
    program. Reporting on the story, the Daily News presents an e-mail from Brodsky on the subject,
    which in part reads:

    Read the rest here.

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