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  • 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.

  • 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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