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  • Noam Chomsky: Rise of Far-right Imperils U.S.

          Will intellectualism ever intersect with wisdom?

    Back to School Duncecap By Selwyn Duke

    A number of definitions of insanity have been put forth over the years,
    and a recent interview has inspired me to add the following: It is when
    one is wrong over and over again but still expects himself to be right.

    The interview was with a very worried man,
    linguist-turned-social critic Noam Chomsky. His concerns? Among other
    things, he said that he has “never seen anything like” what’s occurring
    in today’s America and that we are now “very similar to late Weimar
    Germany.” Yet the stuff of Chomsky’s nightmares is not ObamaCare and a
    metastasizing federal government but something else entirely: Tea
    Parties and middle-American angst.

    Read the rest here.

  • Shameful Media Malpractice and the Catholic Church


    1746135_low Who is really lying about sexual
    abuse, the Church or the media?

    By Selwyn Duke

    If the pen is mightier than the sword,
    misuse of it can be a murderous act. As my faithful readers know, I’ve
    devoted much ink lately to the media abuse scandal — that is, their
    abuse of the Truth in reporting on the Catholic Church. Now, it’s not my
    practice to fixate on one issue for so long, but determined
    propagandists call for determined defenses. And never have I seen the
    media so completely abandon proper journalistic standards as they have
    with respect to the Catholic Church.

    As an example, Christopher Hitchens,
    today’s poster boy for militant atheism, has insisted that Pope Benedict
    XVI should be arrested for what he claims is complicity in a cover-up
    of sexual abuse. And while Hitchens should know better, it’s not
    surprising that he would take this view if he truly believes the
    nonsense he has been spouting.

    Read the rest here.

  • Is Genocide Against Whites Coming to South Africa?

    Map of Africa By Selwyn Duke

    Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s
    radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement
    even inspired a song: “Sun City.” With the fall of the apartheid regime
    in 1994, however, people lost interest in the faraway land.

    But with the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the neo-Nazi
    Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), South Africa is, albeit briefly,
    back in the news. What the media isn’t reporting, though, is that the
    killing of Terreblanche has little to do with his unpalatable political
    views, but is part of a wider pattern of targeting whites — virtually
    none of whom are supremacists. In fact, thousands of white farmers have
    already been murdered.

    Read the rest here.

  • Are the Church Abuse Cases Problems of Homosexuality?

    Sex Symbols-Confusion By Selwyn Duke

    Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it
    is on full display in their treatment of the Catholic-priest sexual abuse story.  Normally, the media take pains to point out
    that transgressors should not be used to typify the group with which they’re
    associated.  For instance, when terrorism
    is covered, we’re told that the jihadists of the world constitute just a small
    group of “extremists” and do not represent Islam.  That is, when the media can’t manage to
    identify such people only as “youths” and must actually address the issue in
    the first place.  Yet, with the Church
    matter, they have no problem blaming the Church as a whole, tarnishing the reputations
    of the institution, Catholics in general and all priests through gratuitous,
    slanted coverage.

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  • Is Turkey the Next Big Islamic Threat?

    1063641_low While often hailed as a triumph in Muslim democracy, Turkey may
    ultimately pose a greater Islamic threat than Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria,
    and even Iran, says former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat.

    By Selwyn Duke


    When we think of terrorism, our minds may go to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
    nuclear ambitions, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. But we wouldn’t think
    of Turkey, the NATO member considered for full integration into the
    European Union. Yet this could be a serious mistake.


    This is the message of Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist and current
    Christian convert. In a recent


    with WorldNetDaily.com, Shoebat warned, “Turkey is the biggest threat.
    Turkey is the strongest military power in the region, and it’s the
    second largest army in NATO.” He also says that Ankara is making
    statements that allude to Turkey’s intentions and that should serve as a
    red flag.

    Read the rest here.

  • Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers

    Bratty Little Girl in Purple By Selwyn Duke

    Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in
    two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech
    laws and halal ritual. For example, in recent times the U.K. has treated
    us to stories about a school guide     stating that toddlers who say “yuck” in response to
    foreign food may have bigoted tendencies, about a 66-year-old pet shop
    owner and grandmother     forced to wear an electronic tracking bracelet
    because she sold a goldfish to a 14-year-old, and a police officer who
    was     harassed because he wouldn’t don a pink ribbon to
    mark a homosexual event.

    And, now, in a case of Lord of the Flies meets 1984,
    Britain’s Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) is mandating that
    head teachers consult students on changes to school policy. In fact,
    children now have so much power in some British schools that they are
    allowed to sit on teacher interview panels, ask applicants ridiculous
    questions and destroy their chances for career advancement. Reporting on
    the story for the Daily Mail,     Sarah Harris provides an example of just such a case, that of a
    teacher who was denied a position because the children felt he was “too
    strict.” Harris quotes the educator as saying, “I felt upset that two
    out of three of the adults liked me enough but that the pupils had that
    much sway.”

    Read the rest here.

  • The States Must Rise Again: The Only Way to Combat Obama’s Socialist Agenda

    552042_low By Selwyn Duke

    With the passage of ObamaCare coming on the heels of
    government takeover of industries and taxpayer-funded bailouts of the
    irresponsible, many are wondering how we can turn the socialist tide.  They see Uncle Sam expanding, their rights
    and economic prospects shrinking and their voices ignored.  For these people, November cannot come soon
    enough.

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  • The Insincere Media Hit Job on the Catholic Church

    1746135_low Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique
    scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those
    responsible don’t wear clerical collars.    By

    Selwyn Duke

    It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual
    abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down just a bit.
    It obviously was some time after their support of boy-lover Congressman     Gerry Studds, the pedophile ring disguised as a
    research team known as the Kinsey Institute, and Safe Schools Perv . . . I
    mean, Czar, Kevin Jennings. But I guess what matters is that all
    the ink they’re devoting to the Catholic Church scandal shows that they
    care now, at least as much as their continual harping on America’s
    antebellum sins means they care about slavery.

    If you’re wondering about my tone, I’m not minimizing the scandal in
    question. I don’t say there’s no “there” there. What I am saying is that
    the media is maximizing it and that there isn’t as much there as the
    molestation they pass off as reportage leads one to believe. I’m also
    saying that, sadly, the “there” today is everywhere.

    Read the rest here.

  • The Scandal Driving the Church Sex Scandal

    954801_blog By Selwyn Duke

    We’ve all heard the story.  Hundreds of young sexual-abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of embarrassment and scorn, abusers escaping prosecution and quietly moving to different jurisdictions, authorities covering up the crimes to avoid scandal and litigation.  It’s a saga of grave, grave sin.

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  • Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy

    954801_blog By Selwyn Duke

    After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a
    radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio,
    although he’s most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was
    talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller
    proposing a unique solution: allow priests to have concubines. This
    prompted the host to chime in and opine that perhaps the discipline of
    celibacy should be revisited. After all, said he, it’s only the Catholic
    Church that has “these problems.” It’s the kind of shallow analysis
    that passes for social commentary today.

    First, the notion that only the Catholic Church “has these problems”
    is a media-generated fiction. In fact, a recent AP investigation
    found that sexual misconduct — and cover-ups to avoid scandal — are
    rampant in the government school system. It discovered 1,801 educators
    who were found guilty of sexual misconduct with youths between 2001
    and 2005 alone    . Moreover, reports the AP, this is the tip of the
    iceberg, as most cases go unreported.

    Read the rest here.

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