By Selwyn Duke
What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils
of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own
office? While a certain unflattering
noun would leap to the minds of most, we can now apply a proper one: Barack
Obama.
By Selwyn Duke
We don’t hear as much as we should about Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean thug of a leader who has just stolen another election in his nation. This is at least partially attributable to the fact that he’s not a politically-incorrect scoundrel, in that the group he most obviously persecutes is whites. As to this, he long ago started seizing their very productive farms, thereby removing the land from the hands that had long fed the country. The result is that while Zimbabwe was once a bread basket, it’s now a basket case and has trouble feeding its people. But this piece isn’t about Mugabe.
By Selwyn Duke
Over at JBS.org, Ann Shibler has an excellent piece about the European Union’s imminent arm-twisting of Ireland into acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty. As some of you may know, the Irish recently rejected the treaty via a referendum, one in which 53.4 percent of the voters said nay (the margin was almost 7 points). As to why, Shibler provides a little background:
By Selwyn Duke
It’s now well-known that the mainstream media studiously avoids identifying the race or ethnicity of criminals or terrorists. When Moslems riot, for instance, usually absent from articles on the subject is any reference to the religious classification of the rioters. Used instead is a characterization such as the generic "youths." "Two-hundred ‘youths’ rioted in protest of police measures," a paper may write. I have found an interesting exception to this practice, however, in a Daily Mail article in which they seem to take pains to identify a terrorist suspect as a white, "fair-haired" lad.
By Selwyn Duke
One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is
that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the
characteristics of feminists. Men get
blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit
for being its innovators and healers. We
will hear about how women “create life” while men only destroy it, but
forgotten are the fruits of men’s labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female
death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn’t be around to crow about their
fecundity.
By Selwyn Duke
I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true
nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian
restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about
his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want
to do good things."
There are a lot of people who send me emails, and some of them contain humor. I don’t usually print such things, but what follows is actually clean and funny.
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