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January 3, 2008

Duke’s Latest WND Article: How Diversity Cops Actually Reduce Diversity

By Selwyn Duke

Very far from the Bible Belt but very close to the culture war is the Christian community of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The beachfront town is an anomaly: A bit of red in a state that tends blue. It was founded in 1869 by the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which owns all the town’s land. It’s a place where the beach is closed on Sundays between 8:30am and 12:30pm, a place where alcohol still isn’t sold.

It’s also the target of the first homosexual-union civil rights complaint since NJ recognized the unions last year.

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January 2, 2008

New Year’s Resolutions

By Selwyn Duke

I was never one for New Year’s Resolutions. Quite frankly, they always struck me as silly. If a change is warranted, why wait for a certain date to make it?

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December 31, 2007

Bad Santa’s Statist Elf

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps you saw some of the Christmastime campaign commercials released by the presidential candidates. The one receiving the most attention was Mike Huckabee’s "floating cross" spot, which was criticized for its Christian symbolism. Although I have no use for Huck, his commercial was fine and the criticism nothing but anti-Christian tripe. The truly objectionable commercial was Hillary Clinton’s, which I’ll dub "Statist Santa Claus."

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December 29, 2007

Experience Vs. Experiences

By Selwyn Duke

Of all the empty election-year talk, none rings more hollow than that about "experience." We’re told Barack Obama lacks experience, but Hillary Clinton possesses it in abundance. Does anyone ever wonder what such individuals have experience in?

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December 28, 2007

Bush Lied? Don’t Bet on it

By Selwyn Duke

One of the more frustrating frailties of man’s nature is that he is prone to emotionalism and finds it very difficult to be objective. People tend to view others through tinted glasses — either rose-colored or dark — and then see everything their object of adulation or animosity does in that light. A good example of this is the popular fiction that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction.

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December 26, 2007

The Church of Huck: Growing Government in the Name of Religion

By Selwyn Duke

There is a candidate in the presidential race who has a serious religion problem. No, it’s not Mormon Mitt or recently-religious Rudy. It is Mike Huckabee.

Just for the record, I share Huck’s faith in Jesus Christ. Not only have I no problem with religion in public life, I also understand that one can’t really separate a person’s world view from his politics. The political is merely a reflection of the spiritual; our politics doesn’t emerge in a vacuum.

So what is my problem with Huck? Do I accuse him of false religiosity?

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December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas!

SelwynDuke.com wishes you a very blessed and merry Christmas.
December 24, 2007

Selwyn Duke Reponds to Questions about Election

By Selwyn Duke

The only difference between Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee is their choice of instruments.

After my expose of presidential aspirant Mick Huckabee (properly known as Huck "the Huckster"), I received numerous reader emails wherein people asked me, essentially, who was a better viable alternative. A few of these emails follow along with my response.

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December 23, 2007

Faith on Your Lips

By Selwyn Duke

People of true faith increasingly become aware of the effort to strike Christmas and Christianity from our cultural landscape. And some of us fight quite feverishly to preserve our traditions, we really do. We may find out that certain stores prohibit their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" and then boycott those establishments. We may discover that a locality is calling its Christmas Tree a "Holiday Tree," roll our eyes and protest the lunacy. Or it could be a school eliminating its Christmas program that raises our ire. Yet, we fail to do what is most important.

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December 22, 2007

Resurrecting John McCain

By Selwyn Duke

How quickly they forget. Not that long ago, Manchurian candidate John McCain was reviled among traditionalists for siding with the open-borders crowd during the scamnesty debate. Now, after languishing in campaign purgatory for months, he’s baaaack. He has vaulted into second place in the New Hampshire Republican Primary.

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