By Selwyn Duke
Since an understanding of the Constitution is so rare nowadays, I've decided to respond to a poster who advocates the reckless and unlawful "living document" philosophy. I address his points at length, and I think you may find elements of the response useful in framing your arguments when defending the Constitution.
Robert Berger wrote:
By Selwyn Duke
It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and
babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and
bustle and crime are very far away. Yet, like a pig in a beauty
contest, within this pastoral setting lies something incongruent: a
Jihadist training center. In this compound, women are taught to slit
throats and mount assault-weapon attacks and, presumably, some brand of
Islamic piety is the order of the day. But this place isn’t found in
the Mideast’s Fertile Crescent or in sub-Saharan Africa. It's name is
Islamberg. It's in the town of Hancock.
And it's in upstate New York.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s ironic that the more we
describe our constitution as a “living document,” the more we turn it into a
dead letter. As to this terminal state,
consider the current debate over health-care reform. How many politicians give the
constitutionality of the mammoth bills spawned by the Houses even the slightest
consideration? Why, Nancy Pelosi must not have, as she was so “shocked” when
asked about it that the only reply she could muster was “Are you serious? Are you serious?!” But I suppose it’s a good tactic to register
shock when you can’t awe.
When
leftists do deign to consider the matter seriously, they may take a leaf out of
esteemed intellectual Ruth
Bader Ginsburg’s book and aver that the Constitution should not be “stuck
in time.” Often missed in this debate,
however, is that conservatives don’t say it should be stuck in time — just
stuck in law — which isn’t changed by time but by people. That is, certain people.
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By Selwyn Duke
"I was born with a chronic
anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877. Today, anxiety about the weather is more
common than ever, although it’s not inborn but cultivated in schoolrooms,
through television sets and by lying, rapacious ex-vice presidents. And I have anxiety about the weather, too —
especially when it’s being used to promote a destructive agenda.
By Selwyn Duke
While Copenhagen seems poised to enjoy a white Christmas, an equally
noticeable color in the city was red, with flag-waving communists and
socialists protesting
and hoisting banners with messages such as “CAPITALISM MEANS WAR” and
“CAPITALISM ISN’T WORKING, Crush the system not the climate.” They were
well represented within the conference as well, with Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian
President Evo Morales all registering such sentiments.
The limelight-lusting Chavez, who undermines his nation’s rule of law
and suppresses its press with equal vigor, spoke for four times longer
than his allotted five minutes, leaving plenty of time to bang his
communist drum. Reporting on the Venezuelan’s comments, ABC.net.au, wrote:
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By Selwyn Duke
People such as George
Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother
Teresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-market
system; wealth just wasn’t for her. Soros and Moore are quite the
opposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselves
to helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow of
poverty and become poor.
This
has caused many to wonder: How can someone preach socialism while being
the most rapacious “capitalist” imaginable? Well, I have a theory about
this.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
Could you imagine being jailed simply because you decided to opt
your children out of sex education? Well, this is exactly what is
happening to a number of fathers in Germany. And, if certain forces in
the United States have their way, such a policy could one day find its
way to our shores as well.
This story is unfolding in the German state of Salzkotten, where the
government has decided that all children must be indoctrinated with a
state-designed curriculum — including explicit sex education that most
parents would agree is inappropriate for children. Bob Unruh reports on
the story at WorldNetDaily.com, writing,
“The students who are being held out of sex education classes also are
not being allowed by their parents to participate in a play-acting
program called ‘My Body Belongs to Me,’ which essentially teaches
children how to engage in sex….”
Read the rest here.
Gingrich on Terrorism, Civil Liberties and the Future of America: “I’m deeply worried”
http://youtube.com/v/sZiw3qVdFzw
Like many in my set (maybe 4 or 5 of the 7 of us), I haven’t been a huge fan of Newt Gingrich. He is just a bit too much inside the box and inside the beltway for me. But I have never seen him more spot-on than in this video. I can fully endorse most everything he says in it. Believe me, it’s worth five minutes of your time.
By Selwyn Duke
When I was a wee lad in
elementary school — this was back when global cooling was dogma — we kids had all heard about killer bees. You may
remember the story: Scientists in Brazil had bred the African honey bee with a European
honey bee and succeeded in creating, well, a really mean bee. These hybrids then
escaped from their captors and started spreading throughout the Americas,
bullying the nice bees and occasionally killing people. This prompted some
sensationalistic stories in the media about the perils of these impudent
insects, and we kids were scared. Would K-i-l-l-e-r B-e-e-s (gasp!) be the end
of us? I suppose it could have made a good movie. The “Bees from Brazil,”
anyone?
We’ve all heard about false accusations of sexual criminality,
incidents such as the 2006 Duke University rape frame-up case. They are
a form of psychological molestation and can destroy a person’s life
just as being physically molested can. Well, now such an accusation
might have ended a man’s life.
The hapless victim, 63-year-old British citizen Bryan Davies, died of a
massive heart attack last Friday after months of community harassment
resulting from a false accusation of pedophilia. And what was the
reason for the accusation?
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