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April 10, 2010

Is Turkey the Next Big Islamic Threat?

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.
April 9, 2010

Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers

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 .
April 8, 2010

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

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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April 6, 2010

The Insincere Media Hit Job on the Catholic Church

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.
April 2, 2010

The Scandal Driving the Church Sex Scandal

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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March 31, 2010

Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy

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.
March 26, 2010

Ann Coulter, Hate Speech and Human Rights Commissions

The conservative firebrand tries to hoist the speech-stifling left on
its own human-rights petards.

By Selwyn Duke

Most of us probably remember that standard elementary-school threat,
“I’m gonna tell!” which meant that an appeal to authority for redress
was in the offing. The one issuing it was sometimes a tattletale, but,
regardless, since children aren’t fully-formed beings, their lives often
have to be micromanaged. They don’t enjoy the freedom of adulthood.

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March 25, 2010

Our Problem is a Lack of Health Care — the Moral Variety

By Selwyn Duke

There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s
health-care vote. It was fairly obvious
that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead
principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby. It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such
as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization
they needed to cast aside a position that was never really a principle. That it came in the form of an executive
order with the credibility of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is of little consequence. It was also predictable that the Monday after
would bring talk about the extinguishment of liberty and the republic, and
heads hanging so low that good Americans could look up and see their
shoelaces.

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March 23, 2010

Bart Stupak Was for the Health Bill All Along
http://youtube.com/v/URr68joWr1E

In this video from last fall, it is apparent that Bart Stupak planned to vote for Obamacare all along, regardless of its provisions relating to abortion. Watch it and you'll see how he had already conjured up a convenient rationalization to justify his support. He is nothing but a complete and utter phony.

People of Michigan take note — and, in November, take action.

Hat tip: James Simpson at American Thinker
March 21, 2010

And That’s All He Has to Say about That: Tom Hanks and Twisted History

By Selwyn Duke

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does. And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who
has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking — from
moron to imbecile.

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