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October 27, 2009

Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution

By Selwyn Duke

Those who would accuse Barack Obama of pandering to — if not
sympathy for — Islamists have been handed some powerful new ammunition.
In a disturbing move, the Obama administration is joining Muslim
nations in supporting a UN resolution restricting criticism of
religion, a measure reflective of those nations’ blasphemy laws.

Treating the matter in USA Today, Professor Jonathan Turley writes:

While attracting surprisingly little
attention, the Obama administration supported the effort of largely
Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions
to free speech for any "negative racial and religious stereotyping."
The exception was made as part of a resolution supporting free speech
that passed this month, but it is the exception, not the rule that
worries civil libertarians…. It is viewed as a transparent bid to
appeal to the "Muslim street" and our Arab allies, with the
administration seeking greater coexistence through the curtailment of
objectionable speech. Though it has no direct enforcement (and is
weaker than earlier versions), it is still viewed as a victory for
those who sought to juxtapose and balance the rights of speech and
religion.

Read the rest here.
October 24, 2009

O’Reilly and Coulter Take a Stupid Pill

By Selwyn Duke

So I was watching the O'Reilly Factor last night, and the pugnacious pundit had as a guest the always entertaining Ann Coulter. Now, Coulter is usually a bit more on the mark than O'Reilly, who often doesn't perceive the Truth until a building falls on him (several years ago, when he was already in his 50s, he finally acknowledge that, golly gee, there is a liberal bias in the lamestream media). Yet last night it seemed they both had their heads firmly planted in the sand.

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October 23, 2009

Big Government or Small Government?

Our love affair with big government becomes more intense as our nation
ages. But are we looking for love in all the wrong places?

By Selwyn Duke

After giving a speech in Toronto, Canada, several years ago, I spoke to
some of the high school students in attendance. While talking about the
role of the state with one of them, he said: “Government is there to
make people happy.” He was a nice, intelligent young man, and he made
the statement in a non-confrontational, matter-of-fact manner.

While such an attitude reminds one of what a certain road is paved
with, unfortunately, his perspective is shared by millions of
Americans. Of course, some of these people are well-meaning, but they
nevertheless are lacking in a very traditional American quality:
distrust of government. How American is it? Columnist Dr. Walter
Williams treats this in his piece, “American Idea,” writing:

Read the rest here.
October 22, 2009

Oh, Woe is Me, I’m in the Crosshairs of the SPLC

By Selwyn Duke

If you're an avid reader of news and commentary, you've no doubt heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It masquerades as a "civil rights" organization — along with so many other pretenders — and it is perhaps the richest civil-rights con-job organization in the country. I know, you probably thought the ACLU was the crème de la phlegm, but the SPLC is its eviler twin. It was founded by Morris Dees, the mercenary lawyer who never saw a poor, downtrodden person he didn't want to help (except for the vast majority, off whose cases he can't make money) and whose claim to fame is that he broke some Klan groups about 15 or 20 years ago by suing them into oblivion.

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October 21, 2009

Boy Set on Fire in Brutal Revenge Attack

By Selwyn Duke

In one of the most heinous
crimes imaginable, a 15-year-old Florida boy was set ablaze by five other teens
in a revenge attack stemming from a dispute over a video game.

The victim, Michael
Brewer of Deerfield Beach, suffered mainly second-degree burns on 65 percent of
his body and is currently hospitalized at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s burn
center in critical condition.

The
youths charged in the attack are Jesus Mendez, 15; Steven Shelton, who will be
16 on Thursday; Matthew Bent, 15; and two brothers, Denver and Jeremy Jarvis,
15 and 13 respectively. The boys are accused of dousing Brewer with rubbing
alcohol and then igniting it with a lighter. All five are charged with
aggravated assault, and Mendez, who is said to have set the victim ablaze, is
also charged with attempted second-degree murder. Writing about the events
leading up to the vicious act, CBSNews.com tells
us:

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October 20, 2009

Radical Obama EEOC Chair Nominee Chai Feldblum in Her Own Words
http://youtube.com/v/zYt1wYvuxDo

So here we have another radical Obama underling, lawyer and college professor (surprise, surprise) Chai Feldblum. An avowed lesbian, she says in this speech that homosexual sex is "morally good" and that she wants to "revolutionize social norms." She also believes in polygamy, although she doesn't mention that "social good" in this video clip. Nah, nothing to worry about here. Just another beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Did I mention that she was nominated to be a commissioner in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission? You know, that's the little federal bureaucracy that mandates invidious discrimination by pressuring privately owned businesses into instituting de facto racial quotas. I should also mention that among her accomplishments is having once worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign Fund.

There is no word, however, on whether or not she admires Chairman Mao.
October 19, 2009

Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn: Mao Tse-tung “Favorite Philosopher”

So here is White House Communications Director Anita Dunn saying that Mao Tse-tung is one of her two "favorite philosophers." She then quotes him and holds him up as a role model for the students to whom she is speaking.

Well, what can I say? Is anybody listening? Anyone? Anywhere? Is this the kind of thing those of you on the left defend? Does it at all matter to you that Barack Obama has friends, allies and appointees who are avowed communists? Do you care that this appointee, Dunn, admires someone who murdered more people than Hitler?

Dunn also has a very strange and annoying habit of licking her lips noticeably and gratuitously every five seconds or so. This is definitely not a psychologically healthy woman.

Getting back to the rest of you on the left, you'd better think very carefully about whom you're supporting and why. Not only are you sowing the seeds of your own destruction, but when history is finally written, you won't be remembered kindly.

Choose wisely.
October 18, 2009

Guest Piece: The Long, Grey Line

By Marilyn Barnewall

We’ve all heard of the “Thin Blue Line.” It suggests a thin line of
policemen in blue uniforms is all that stands between civilized society
and the chaos of predators descending upon us. It is also a term used
to express a sense of “brotherhood” that exists between police
officers.

There are other lines… thin lines that stand between society and
other forms of chaos. I remember a movie about West Point cadets that
referred to the military as The Long Grey Line.

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October 17, 2009

If Rush Can’t, Who Can?

Disallowing Rush Limbaugh from buying into the St. Louis Rams is just
the latest example of how the conservative is quickly becoming today’s
pariah.

By Selwyn Duke

In 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy began the anti-communist crusade that
would eventually make him a notorious public figure. Along with the
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) (with which he
actually had no direct involvement), he took on the task of
investigating communists who, in typical Gramscian style, occupied
positions of influence in American society.

To call McCarthy “controversial” would be an understatement. He has, in
fact, become one of the most maligned men in American history, so much
so that the term “McCarthyism” has come to refer to the practice of
using scurrilous and unsubstantiated accusations for the purposes of
stifling opposition. My view of the Wisconsin senator, however, is a
bit more nuanced. While I believe he certainly was guilty of self-promotion, there’s also little doubt in my mind that he was correct
about communist infiltration into the U.S. — even if he couldn’t always
identify the infiltrators.

Read the rest here.
October 16, 2009

Is Obama Turning Us into the Next Evil Empire?

By Selwyn Duke

When Ronald Reagan
called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in 1983, he was articulating
in the boldest terms what had always been an American understanding.
The Kremlin had long been fomenting communist revolution the world
over, and we had long pursued our policy of "containment."

Thus
did we fight wars in Korea and Vietnam, facilitate coups d'état against
people such as Salvador Allende and support anti-communist rebels such
as the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Of course, plans didn't always come
together. There was the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the covert Iran-Contra
operation getting front-page exposure. The "police action" in Korea
ended in a stalemate and Vietnam just became stale, losing the public
and political support necessary for victory.

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