By Selwyn Duke
In the wake of Arizona’s new employer-sanctions law, illegal aliens are starting to leave the state. I want you to remember this when some apologist for Invasion USA says we "can’t deport 12 million people" (the number is probably more like 30 million).
The following are select quotations from the great Irish orator and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797).
On Freedom . . .
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion
as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as
their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and
presumption,—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite
be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there
must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things,
that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge
their fetters.
By Selwyn Duke
When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential
campaign, they didn’t know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist
Convention a generation later. Today the very same constituency has
glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can’t help but lament how history
truly does repeat itself.
The following is from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Read it and see if it seems familiar.
I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth
in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white
is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this
society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my
neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought
to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it
being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak
for himself.
By Selwyn Duke
I happened to tune in to a documentary last night titled "God’s Christian Warriors." It’s one segment of a three-part series on religion that is the handiwork of veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour. It caught my eye while watching the program guide, as I expected the usual anti-Christian double standards. I was not disappointed.
By Selwyn Duke
In a place that truly meets the definition of the term "nation" — that is, one in which the people have a sense of national identity and a shared concern for the perpetuation of their culture — certain things just won’t be debated.
Like, for instance, the idea that the language of the land should be spoken by all.
By Selwyn Duke
Speaking today to COOL-IT (Communists for Only Onerous and Lofty
Industrial Taxation) in Nome, Alaska, former vice-president Al Gore
criticized the United States’ failure to adequately address climate
change. Mr. Gore warned of future consequences of inaction while
emphasizing that we have already felt the effects of a lamentably low
suicide rate. Gore mentioned the extinction of species, the melting of
the polar ice caps, and his loss of Florida in the 2000 presidential
election. Said Gore:
By Selwyn Duke
Truth is stranger than fiction, and it’s growing stranger by the day. In Sweden, the Nordic Battlegroup’s coat of arms has always depicted a heraldic lion that wields a sword and, well, let’s just say, is anatomically correct. But now that nation’s armed forces have agreed to emasculate the cat after a group of ne’er-do-well female soldiers lodged a complaint to the "European Court of Justice." So now the lion has been neutered.
By Selwyn Duke
We Americans take great pride in our freedom. We call ourselves “the
land of the free, home of the brave,” have Lady Liberty in New York
Harbor and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. America is synonymous
with freedom in the minds of most. Much of the rest of the world,
however, is thought a land of darkness which doesn’t benefit from our
unencumbered bliss. Thus do we speak of the free and unfree worlds.
selwynduke.com 