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Selwyn Duke is a writer, columnist and public speaker whose work has been published widely online and in print, on both the local and national levels. He has been featured on the Rush Limbaugh Show and has been a regular guest on the award-winning Michael Savage Show. His work has appeared in Pat Buchanan's magazine The American Conservative and he writes regularly for The New American and Christian Music Perspective.
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January 7, 2012
In a recent election piece, pundit Ann Coulter identified illegal migration as one of the two most important issues of our time. She writes that if we fail at . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 31, 2011
This is just too good.
Many of you know that in a few days the federal ban on conventional incandescent light bulbs will go into effect. And while House . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2011
People use many words today without fully knowing what they mean — or should mean. "Tolerance," "gender" and "truth" come to mind. But then there is one . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2011
If slow and steady really does win the race, Newt Gingrich could well end up being the Republican nominee for president.
Thus far, this campaign season has . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2011
Bold tax reform is front and center this campaign season. First Herman Cain made waves and poll headway with his 9-9-9 tax plan, which involves national 9 . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 25, 2011
Upon watching footage of Hillary Clinton mocking Herman Cain in Afghan president Hamid Karzai's presence, one could wonder: would she really want to stack her . . .
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October 13, 2011
When we think of political persecution, places such as Tiananmen Square may come to mind. Increasingly, however, this tool of tyranny is coming to our shores . . .
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October 9, 2011
According to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams, AG Eric Holder has a certain something in his wallet. It is a quotation — and he has . . .
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October 6, 2011
While I certainly understand the frustration of those who complain of RINO primary rise, it's important to accept the reality of how it happens. It is not, as . . .
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October 1, 2011
Recently I wrote an article about women's tendency to support statist candidates. As my emails attest, it was met with quite a positive response. Yet, not . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 29, 2011
When someone insists on making negative judgments about a group, in the face of numerous facts saying otherwise, what do you call it?
As most already know, . . .
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September 21, 2011
We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal . . .
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September 16, 2011
While there was more than one reason why John McCain was a long shot to win the 2008 general election, a big one was something almost no one talked seriously . . .
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September 13, 2011
In a way, commercials can tell you more about how we've changed than history books. The other day I came across the following 1960s TV commercial on YouTube; . . .
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September 1, 2011
Unfortunately, many Americans have become inured to the trampling of freedom of association. You can work your fingers to the bone starting a business, and the . . .
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August 12, 2011
When Barack Obama promised change that would transform America, most never suspected that he would make history by presiding over the nation's first-ever credit . . .
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July 29, 2011
Something must be wrong. My finances are in shambles; mainstream newspapers won't publish my pieces; and, no matter how much I try to convince Fox News that . . .
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July 21, 2011
Like the three monkeys who see, hear and speak no evil, our authorities seem intent on ignoring the true nature of yet another black-on-white racial attack. In . . .
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July 14, 2011
It really is a shame when a media watchdog has a twisted nose that mistakes putrescence for floral aroma — and vice versa. In a piece published Monday, . . .
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July 6, 2011
Of all idiots, none is so useful as he who can masquerade as a genius.
MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky recently denounced Hugo Chavez, accusing the . . .
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June 14, 2011
In 2007, Kevin L. Monday Jr. was convicted for the murder of Francisco Green and received 64 years in prison. The incident ad been caught on a 3-minute video . . .
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June 11, 2011
There is no better way to proclaim your lack of spiritual and philosophical depth than by, two decades after the fall of communism, disclosing that you're . . .
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May 17, 2011
Increasingly, it seems that the American flag is joining toy guns and dodgeball on the banned-from-school list. And the latest story on this front involves The . . .
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April 28, 2011
At a gathering some years ago, I had a political conversation with a man who had recently arrived here from Denmark. He was advocating his home country's . . .
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April 21, 2011
The American Thinker's Rick Moran recently wrote a blog piece about how some Catholics in France destroyed two of Andres Serrano's creations, excreta that some . . .
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March 24, 2011
It was the body slam heard around the world. When some Australian schoolboys decided to videotape themselves bullying 15-year old Casey Heynes, one of them got . . .
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February 28, 2011
Imagine that you're a young adolescent boy. Like many your age, you're shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your . . .
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February 23, 2011
We've heard a lot about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian whose warnings about Muslim influence in his nation place him in the crosshairs of the powers . . .
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February 22, 2011
Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity. And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine.
Excerpts released from an . . .
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February 17, 2011
Most of you won't know the name John Wiley Price, but he's obviously a man well qualified to hold a position at the Eric Holder Justice Department. What has . . .
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February 11, 2011
A little less than a century ago, the West entertained the notion that WWI would be "the war to end all wars." Insofar as this was seriousness and not just . . .
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February 10, 2011
Except for those still caught in the web of the media matrix, it's no secret that the Fossil Press seeks to destroy conservatism, tradition and Christianity. . . .
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February 9, 2011
A sad testimonial as to the effete state of Western culture is that even ineffectual, feminized defenses of it are applauded as brave. Case in point: British . . .
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January 31, 2011
Increasingly, our government reminds me of a certain old Star Trek episode. It was titled "I, Mudd," and in it the Enterprise explorers found themselves in the . . .
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January 27, 2011
In keeping with the demagogue's credo "Never let a good tragedy go to waste," some among us are extracting as much mileage from the Jared Loughner massacre as . . .
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January 25, 2011
Just about two years ago, people were speaking of a new era: post-racial America. Well, it occurs to me that if we get any more post-racial, we'll have a race . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 12, 2011
The obvious villain in the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy is the man who caused it, the very disturbed Jared Lee Loughner. Sadly, though, there have been villains . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2011
It seems that our neutered, post-Christian culture just can't do enough to vindicate Muslims' accusation of Western decadence. And the latest affront to common . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 30, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
One of the problems with the idea of "American exceptionalism" is that it exacerbates a kind of complacency common . . .
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December 18, 2010
In the film "The Devil's Advocate," Satan poses as a powerful attorney bent on undermining man through the law. When he finally reveals himself to the main . . .
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December 13, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we're missing a great opportunity. Sure, the . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 30, 2010
Since I'm well aware of how leftists' claims of erudition are as empty as their ideology, not many of their failures surprise me. But an exception came last . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Now that "Don't touch my junk!" has become a rallying cry, I must ask a question: What's with this youth-culture . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can't be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation . . .
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November 2, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
In a case of JournoList redux, mainstream media reporters have again shown that their business is propaganda, not . . .
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November 1, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Many years ago, a very nice lady with whom I was having a political discussion announced to me, "I'm a Democrat." . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 29, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
The reports are rolling in from all over the country. A Craven County, NC resident attempts to vote a straight . . .
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October 24, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
It has become apparent that most Americans simply don't take voting very seriously. This is especially true of . . .
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October 20, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Really, I must be a glutton for punishment. During the past couple of weeks, I wrote two articles on . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 13, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
In a piece I recently wrote about the dangers inherent in libertarianism, I pointed out that libertarians, by . . .
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October 5, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
While there was a time when I might have described myself as a libertarian, those days are long gone. In fact, I . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 23, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Unlike for most Americans, the Delaware senatorial primary was not my first introduction to Christine O'Donnell. . . .
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September 21, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
When writing about Barack Obama's religious orientation recently, I pointed out that while I do believe he favors . . .
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September 17, 2010
You've probably heard that joke concerning what's actually happening when Bill Clinton's lips are moving, but sometimes the truth does manage to negotiate his . . .
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September 2, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
People are emotional beings, often governed more by feelings than reason. And this is never truer than with . . .
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August 31, 2010
Twenty-year-old Naser Abdo joined the U.S. Army more than a year ago. Now that it's time to be sent to Afghanistan, however, he's having second thoughts. He . . .
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August 25, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Now that Barack Obama has decided to be for the Ground Zero mosque before being implicitly against it (perhaps), . . .
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August 14, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Judge Vaughn Walker's legal ruling striking down California's Proposition 8 certainly was no triumph of . . .
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July 24, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here's an example: Leftists call conservatives "racists." . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans . . .
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July 6, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
While I'm no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis, I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama. After . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 30, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
After seeing Barack Obama's golf swing, I'm confronted with the staggering possibility that he might actually be . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they . . .
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June 17, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
If you thought that "one man, one vote" reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again. In . . .
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May 19, 2010
When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to be a "white male," I shook my head. I knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg's asinine musings about . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 17, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
Recently, columnist Charles Krauthammer expressed support for amnesty for illegals, while Newt Gingrich advocated . . .
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April 16, 2010
(Originally published by American Thinker)
Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it is on full display in their treatment of Catholic . . .
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April 7, 2010
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 . . .
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April 2, 2010
(Originally published at American Thinker)
We've all heard the story. Hundreds of young sexual abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 26, 2010
Originally published at American Thinker
There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday's health-care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2010
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. . . .
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March 1, 2010
Published by American Thinker
In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion . . .
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February 23, 2010
Published at American Thinker
At one time some would call them "deniers." The more generous called them "skeptics." But now, increasingly, it appears that . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 21, 2010
Published at American Thinker
Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious. Worse still, since even many good . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2010
Originally published by American Thinker
Many years ago, I was told a story by a woman I knew whose son had been diagnosed with "A.D.D." She said that she . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 20, 2010
One thing we get with our mother's milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call "invidious" discrimination. For the civil-rights lawyers who . . .
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January 19, 2010
Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the earthquake was divine retribution. In . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2009
"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877. Today, anxiety about the weather is more common than ever, although it's . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 6, 2009
Contrary to what my title indicates, I probably judge Barack Obama more harshly than most reading this page. I don't think he is just a misguided ideologue or . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 29, 2009
Perhaps you've heard the tragic story of David Reimer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1966, David was the victim of a botched circumcision that left his . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 24, 2009
News aggregator DrudgeReport.com is currently linking to a YouTube video of a government schoolteacher instructing young students to praise Obama in song. While . . .
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September 11, 2009
A little while back, talk show host Michael Savage had to endure an attack on his character when the British government associated him with terrorists and other . . .
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August 24, 2009
With relativistic people, there is no such thing as a true axiom, yet you'd never know it listening to our modern mantras. We hear things such as "Our strength . . .
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August 17, 2009
When Barack Obama said that the Henry Louis Gates affair was a teaching moment, he spoke truly. But the key is ensuring that the right things are taught and . . .
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August 13, 2009
While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good cinema, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction. With Greece's fertility rate of 1.36 children per woman — . . .
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July 28, 2009
We've all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an . . .
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July 27, 2009
When I first heard that radio host Michael Savage had been banned from traveling to England along with an assortment of Moslem terrorists and other miscreants, . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2009
There actually was a time when an "e" ended a political career. Or, at least, the misuse of an "e." I refer to that fateful day in 1992 when Vice President . . .
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July 14, 2009
If you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy, the title of this piece may seem familiar. The film is a dystopian comedy about a futuristic America in which complete . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 9, 2009
Many opponents of hate-crime laws have long pointed out that they will never be applied equitably. The laws exist solely to punish members of politically . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2009
There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative's fall from grace. Just witness the predictable feeding frenzy that . . .
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July 2, 2009
It has been interesting watching the response to the Honduran military's recent ousting of its nation's president, Manuel Zelaya. Barack Obama called the . . .
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June 22, 2009
Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder? Some certainly seem to think . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2009
When I awoke Tuesday morning, I ambled over to the computer, as is my wont, and made my usual cyber rounds. I logged on to the Drudge Report and, lo and behold . . .
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April 27, 2009
There is an old saying, "A man who is capable of deceiving only others is not nearly as dangerous as a man who is capable of deceiving himself." Truer words . . .
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April 16, 2009
Perhaps I was wrong about Barack Obama. Maybe his words can bring peace to the world. That is to say, if he keeps talking, he just may put all the world's . . .
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April 6, 2009
When John the Baptist said to King Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife," the price he paid was his head on a platter. He had spoken . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 26, 2009
With the recent passage of the "TARP bonus" bill, it's obvious that our politicians are finally serious about tackling the problem of greed. It's about time, . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 24, 2009
Since liberals place a premium on tolerance, the loving and charitable thing to do is help them develop it. Note here that, unbeknownst to many, tolerance . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2009
Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors. In fact, they're much like actors, only, . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2009
This will seem like a strange way to open a piece of commentary, but the gun owners who voted for Barack Obama believing he respected Second Amendment rights . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 11, 2009
Actually, Obama said, in so many words, "I am not a socialist!" in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter. That is to say, . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 24, 2009
While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it's not really true. Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2009
Being a cerebral sort, when I ponder President Obama's seduction of America, I think of the story of the snake and the duck. To be brief, the snake wants the . . .
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February 13, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has found himself in a maelstrom of controversy over his lifting of the excommunication of Richard Williamson, an illegally-consecrated . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2009
Ever since President Obama (PBUH) dropped Rush Limbaugh's name recently, the talk-show host has figured prominently in the news. And now he is being attacked . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2009
A common defense of error today is to say, with due indignation, "I have a right to my opinion!" Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2008
The story of the Prodigal Son teaches a beautiful lesson about repentance and forgiveness. As you may know, it involves a lazy, irresponsible young man who . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2008
There is often a profound difference between morality and legality, and, if this were a just world, a good percentage of the American left would be tried for . . .
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December 11, 2008
When I was still within a stones' throw of ladhood, I had an acquaintance who was essentially a socialist. I can't say for sure he proclaimed himself as such — . . .
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November 25, 2008
Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse "All in the Family" of not being funny. Its protagonist, blue-collar . . .
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November 17, 2008
In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn't enjoy . . .
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November 13, 2008
Even before the election, with the realization that a Barack Obama presidency lay on the horizon, many saw a silver lining in the cloud that drifted into . . .
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November 11, 2008
It's hard to shock a man living in a planetary insane asylum, so it doesn't raise my eyebrows when I watch a people commit suicide. Nevertheless, I had to . . .
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November 2, 2008
Election reportage is reaching a fever pitch, and one of the hottest stories concerns a recently revealed interview Barack Obama gave to Chicago Public Radio in . . .
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October 24, 2008
The date is November 9, 2010, and you turn on the radio to listen to the news over morning coffee. Economic times have been tough, and you're not expecting . . .
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October 17, 2008
Absent the ability to read minds and hearts, I can't really tell you if Barack Obama is uniquely dishonest. What is for certain, though, is that his campaign . . .
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October 2, 2008
It really does seem that the more evil a movement is, the more likely it is to enlist children in its cause. (Well, they really do make beautiful little human . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 26, 2008
At NationalPost.com, journalist David Frum has a piece in which he discusses what he perceives to be the transformation of the pro-life movement. His thesis is . . .
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September 19, 2008
To be honest, treating politics isn't my favorite pastime. Sure, like other commentators I do it, but it's not something I can truly sink my teeth into. I'll . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 27, 2008
It's interesting to hear the euphemisms bandied about in campaigns. After Barack Obama's and John McCain's appearance a week ago at Saddleback Church, for . . .
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August 14, 2008
It has become a stereotypical pattern with men. A lad with a salad-days libido has a girl in every port, plays fast and loose with feelings and breaks hearts. . . .
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August 4, 2008
If Barack Obama sought to win the votes of Germans, he need seek no more. Of course, his new image was all the rage in the Old World long before he gave his . . .
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July 21, 2008
It seems as if taking offense is the recreation of choice in modern America. The latest example (of which I'm aware; I'm sure our UPS {umbrage per second} . . .
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July 10, 2008
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 . . .
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June 25, 2008
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 . . .
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June 23, 2008
One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical. Remember that being an extremist doesn't mean you're wrong, but . . .
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May 27, 2008
Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with "racial harassment" for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not . . .
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May 15, 2008
The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He . . .
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April 30, 2008
In his book The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality,
"It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out . . .
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April 28, 2008
If you interview someone for a job, you'll expect him to tell you what you want to hear. There'll be a façade, and his darker side will remain well-hidden. Now, . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 15, 2008
The phrase "fair and balanced" certainly has a positive connotation. It is thought the greatest quality a news outlet can possess; it has even become a motto of . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 1, 2008
There recently was a story about a German Jewish leader, Charlotte Knobloch, who criticized Pope Benedict XVI for allowing a traditional Easter prayer that . . .
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March 27, 2008
In a way, I prefer the old, overt affirmative action. While it was government-sanctioned discrimination, at least it was, in some measure, more honest than our . . .
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March 17, 2008
You're driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95), heading toward the Big Apple. Cruising along, you pass exits 7, then 8, 9, 10 and 11, and everything is . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 19, 2008
It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism's epitaph. After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 7, 2008
Writing in the New York Post, columnist John Hurt warns of the obvious. John McCain may be campaigning as a conservative, says he, but once in office the . . .
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February 2, 2008
Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2008
To use a play on Winston Churchill's cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage. Another way to put it — . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 21, 2008
What goes around certainly does come around. The first black president's wife isn't black enough to be immune from charges of bigotry.
Isn't it delicious?
. . .
Selwyn Duke
January 19, 2008
With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney's failures prior to Michigan, a fiction is being bandied . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 15, 2008
Last year's scamnesty bill had widespread support among the powers-that-be, with the president, the Democrat majority and mainstream media all singing its . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2008
The pundits were writing Plastic Lady's epitaph,
Pointing to lines going down on a graph.
She had a bad finish out west a little ways;
To socialist Utopians, . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 26, 2007
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.
. . .
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2007
When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn't know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 17, 2007
Speaking today to COOL-IT (Communists for Only Onerous and Lofty Industrial Taxation) in Nome, Alaska, former vice-president Al Gore criticized the United . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 13, 2007
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 3, 2007
Sometimes I could believe I was living in the Matrix. Only, I can't imagine sentient programs creating a world as irrational as ours.
We've come to expect . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 28, 2007
You will have to forgive me, but I have a difficult time taking the war against Moslem extremists seriously. No, I haven't become the latest in a line of anti . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 24, 2007
It's very easy to fall behind the times. It is for this reason that you find parents who never seem to really know what the younger generation is involved in, . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 15, 2007
In a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maryland State Police (MSP), a plaintiff's attorney named Eliza Leighton said that some training documents contain . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 28, 2007
We hear lots of criticism of the Iraq venture from the left, right and center. There is everything from silly notions about presidential prevarication to how . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 21, 2007
James Watson, the geneticist who helped unravel the structure of DNA, came under fire for saying that Africans are not as intelligent as Westerners. Aside from . . .
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October 18, 2007
Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world. It's an age-old philosophical question that can cause those who want faith to doubt . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 4, 2007
It cannot be a coincidence that those who preach tolerance the most are often the most intolerable. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to . . .
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October 1, 2007
Huck Finn must be spinning in his literary grave. Just recently a Colorado Springs, Co., elementary school banned tag during recess, joining other schools that . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 24, 2007
Many leftist partisans are licking their chops over the revelation that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig solicited sex from a male undercover detective in a . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 23, 2007
There is a maelstrom brewing around High Point Church in Arlington, Texas. Church officials had offered to host a funeral for a homosexual man, Cecil Sinclair, . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 17, 2007
Patriotism might at one time have been the last refuge of a scoundrel, but methinks this is no longer true. With modern America being characterized more by . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 16, 2007
Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, "Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism," which is being disseminated widely on the Web. . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2007
Last week the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives. One of them is Morse et al. v. Frederick, a case . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 5, 2007
When Thomas Jefferson said that "people get the government they deserve," it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 30, 2007
One frailty of man is that he is very adept at finding excuses to justify laziness and irresponsibility. There's no point helping people because everyone is . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2007
In the piece I recently wrote about the threat posed by immigration, both illegal and legal, I mentioned that today's immigrants are not assimilating into our . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 3, 2007
If you're old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 20, 2007
So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 18, 2007
Major issues can rise from minor things, and so it is with the Masters golf tournament of a week and a half ago. The winner, unheralded Zach Johnson, stood . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 10, 2007
It seems that the more we come to believe that "Violence has to be taught," the more our children learn to be violent. It's a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 22, 2007
The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recently penned an article that has both fellow . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 8, 2007
Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2007
Okay, I've had enough. I know the empty-vessel Shill Media struggle for something, anything to talk about, this being the lot of those intellectually and . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2007
The Shill Media are offering up the usual pabulum about presidential contenders, disgorging reportage about the vapid and venal that's more soap opera than . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2007
Former NBA star Tim Hardaway made waves on the airwaves recently by remarking that he hated homosexuals. It became the story du jour the next day, prompting . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2007
The voicing of the unpopular, being the very soul of free speech, the right to give and take offense shall not be infringed.
Sometimes I think it is time to . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 29, 2007
If you're old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 25, 2007
Last week, many were commemorating Muhammad Ali's sixty-fifth birthday with a zeal reminiscent of Roman pagans cheering a triumphant Caesar. And as I ponder . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 21, 2007
If the 1976 western The Last Hard Men has it right, we Occidentals metamorphosed into jellyfish sometime around the early twentieth century. Although this . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 9, 2007
With the 2008 presidential campaign looming just on the horizon, speculation about political fortunes abounds. On the Democrat side, Lady Hillary is waiting in . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 31, 2006
For you religio-centric clods who haven't yet expanded your celebratory horizons — and you know who you are — I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2006
A long time ago, I read a short online piece about how women could get their men to put the toilet seat down. Inherent in it was the idea that this was an . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 11, 2006
The precedents you set really do matter. In my recent piece, How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech, I mentioned that the concept of "hate speech" is a . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 1, 2006
If people were asked about actor Michael Richards' epithet-laced outburst at a Los Angeles nightclub, there would be a lot of focus on the verbal assault but . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2006
It's funny how the conclusion of an election can completely alter media reportage. The day after the Democrat Public Relations Arm (DPRA) — euphemistically . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 9, 2006
There are certain people you never forget. One is a man I knew who was an anomaly in more ways than one. He was a politically conservative Jewish . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 5, 2006
To still the siren of the heart and defer to the head is to seldom be wrongly led.
So many wrong things feel so right. "You know, I really told my mother-in . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 18, 2006
It's no secret that hurling names about is as common in the political world as it is in a grammar school playground. One oft-used pejorative is "fascist," . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 20, 2006
It's no secret that liberals hold in contempt what they regard as the provincial nature of conservatives. And I certainly would love to buy liberals for what I . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 29, 2006
One reason we're supposed to rejoice at the pitter-patter of illegal feet is that foreigners are only coming here to "do jobs Americans won't do." It's one of . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 27, 2006
Are conservative leanings the fruits of intellectual inquiry or the fault of psychological frailty? If psychologist Jack Block is to be believed, it's the . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 25, 2006
While the invasion of our nation through the southern border continues unabated, our fearless leaders are once again busy cooking up cures that are worse than . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 21, 2006
While art imitates life, it's also true that life imitates art. It's with this in mind that my eyebrows were raised upon hearing about Big Love, a series with . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 17, 2006
We hear a lot about women's "reproductive rights." In fact, some leftist politicians — Barbara Boxer comes to mind — seem to be able to segue from any . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 6, 2006
If anything renders people sheep among wolves, it's when they convince themselves that every creature is a sheep. We live in an age in which one of the few . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2006
It really is true that lies have short legs. One way or another, liberals always end up contradicting themselves, tacitly acknowledging that their . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2006
There's a gathering political storm centered around ports, one that has united a motley crew from across the political spectrum, from Hillary Clinton and Chuck . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 9, 2006
When is a hate-crime not a hate-crime? Answer: when the powers-that-be say it isn't.
One problem with hate-crime laws is that they're more the result of bad . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 4, 2006
If a new application of the Global Positioning System (GPS) passes muster and finds favor with the Big Siblings of Western democracies, speeding may eventually . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 22, 2006
Sometimes the news' timing is bittersweet. On the heels of a piece I just wrote about modern man and the wrath of God, New Orleans Mayor "Sugar Ray" Nagin . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2006
Whether or not you believe in the wrath of God, there is no question that the wrath of the ungodly left is often on full display. As for the latter, evangelist . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 5, 2006
When one hears the word chivalry, thoughts of both the fanciful and practical are evoked. There are the quaint images of a valiant hero rescuing a damsel in . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 24, 2005
While many are still oblivious to it and the effluent-stream media deny it's happening, there is an attack on Christmas. Like others, I would say "war," but . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 12, 2005
Liberals we are and though we eschew its reason,
Capitalize we will on the "Winter Break Season."
It's good for making money and for spoiling offspring,
But . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 5, 2005
While flying on Qantas Airlines, New Zealander Mark Worsley was asked to change his seat. You see, the airline viewed him as a threat to the child seated next . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 29, 2005
It has long been said that money can come between friends. But as the recent hysteria over rising oil prices reminds me, it can also come between the human . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 15, 2005
Perhaps the only thing that bores me more than hearing incessant murder-mystery reportage is writing about it. And although I'm not sure which I find less . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2005
As riots spread throughout France like wildfires left unattended by those afraid to use water, a sane person has to be struck by the impotence of modern Western . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 27, 2005
It has long been an assertion of mine that there's only one difference between Adolph Hitler and some of the misbegotten souls who lurk among us: means. I don . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 26, 2005
The insidious thing about evolutionary tyranny is that it's only as visible as the people are perceptive. It doesn't beat you over the head like the iron fist . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 4, 2005
Well, we knew it was coming. After having the unmitigated gall to appoint to the High Court that odious creature known as a white man, President Bush has . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 30, 2005
Something truly outrageous has recently come to light, but it hasn't gotten much play in the effluent-stream media. This something is the stomach-turning . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 22, 2005
"Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us . . ." Few topics are as misunderstood as forgiveness. Bits and pieces about it are . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 12, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina there were certain inevitabilities. No, scores of thousands of hapless souls trapped in a city on a precipice was not one of . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 19, 2005
Recently I wrote a piece titled "Who's Really Stealing Elections?" in which I reported on a study documenting the rampancy of Democrat vote-fraud. In my . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 11, 2005
Cindy Sheehan's son fought under our Commander-in-Chief. Cindy Sheehan fights against him. Cindy Sheehan's son was killed on the front lines. Cindy Sheehan . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 9, 2005
As you may know, those big, bad, wascally Republicans have long been stealing elections with a sleight-of-hand that would do Boss Tweed proud. It has gotten so . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 28, 2005
There's sweet irony; there's delicious irony; and then there's irony that a spoonful of which would just make medicine go down.
As you may know, slavery . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 25, 2005
Wisdom from the mouths of politicians is a rare thing. Not so surprising, though, when the statesman in question is Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. I don . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 14, 2005
While most platitudes become tiresome, there's a current one that irks me more than any other. It's not the nauseatingly ubiquitous "Our strength lies in our . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 13, 2005
The long-awaited moment has come. After years of speculation about Supreme Court retirements, it was announced recently that Sandra Day O'Connor will be . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 1, 2005
In New York for what has been billed as his last crusade in America, evangelist Billy Graham shared a stage with Bill Clinton this past Sunday. It was a . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 28, 2005
Possession may be nine tenths of the law, but not when the law wants your possessions. This past Thursday was a dark day for freedom in America, as the Supreme . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 12, 2005
Sometimes news stories share a common thread that's invisible to most, one that's invisible because it's common to most. Last week there were a few such . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2005
Howard Weyers, President of Weyco Corporation, is worried about his employees health and his company's health insurance premiums. So worried, in fact, that he . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2005
There's a saying, "Don't spit down my back and tell me it's rainin'" [sanitized a bit]. This comes to mind when I ponder the maelstrom that surrounded the now . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 26, 2005
There's a ticking time-bomb in our halls of government, and it's called "Immigration Policy."
As you may know, the news story that set off national alarm bells . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2005
We've all probably had experiences that made us wonder if we were the butt of a joke on Candid Camera. The last such event in my life occurred while waiting on . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 9, 2005
The book of Genesis tells us that God made the heavens and the earth, and that on the sixth day He made man. Christians believe that God infuses man with a . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2005
One curious thing about scientific pronouncements is that they often seem to accord more with the spirit of the age than fact and reason. Thus, a Nazi . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 3, 2005
If I had faith just the size of a mustard seed,
Mountains would move at my command,
And my walk with God would be as on concrete,
And not the unsure footing of . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 28, 2004
When Logos came to our solar system from a galaxy far, far away to study the decline of American Civilization, he found our tendency to make life or death . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2004
In this maelstrom of crass commercialization and acrimony surrounding the day on which we celebrate your nativity, Jesus, I want to wish you a Happy Birthday.
. . .
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2004
When Kymer Rouge leader Pol Pot ascended to power in Cambodia in 1975, one of the first things he did was to follow in the bloody footsteps of his precursors . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 7, 2004
The big story in baseball right now is not home-runs but drug runs, with the revelations about steroid use by Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield. It . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 2, 2004
Hollywood has long been a purveyor of cultural poison, and a magnet for individuals to whom shame is a foreign concept. The trap of letting the facts get in . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 16, 2004
Our civilization is suffering what could be called a cultural death by a thousand cuts. The open sores are ubiquitous, but what happens to irk me at this moment . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 11, 2004
Now the dust has settled and all is quiet on the election front, save wailing and the gnashing of teeth in regions that are now blue in more ways than one. Yes . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 22, 2004
It's hard to imagine Al Gore faring very well on the game-show Jeopardy. For sure, I haven't detected too many areas of expertise in Plastic Man's repertoire. . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 20, 2004
What is so often lost in the maelstrom of a campaign, with its sound-bite commentary, soporific sniping, gratuitous salvos of barbs and facile analyses, is . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 14, 2004
Every age has its mantras, and ours is no exception. Every age has people who will let these mantras pass their lips even when they're fallacious and, once . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 13, 2004
Abraham Lincoln once said, "I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 11, 2004
The so-called assault weapons ban is scheduled to expire on Monday, and will end with a fizzle and not a bang. The Republicans will not let the proposal to . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 4, 2004
One day when I was just a wee lad, I and the rest of my grade school class received some very sage advice about how to balance our rights against those of our . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 31, 2004
If I asked some of my countrymen what the most pressing issues facing the America of the twenty-first century were, I would get a multitude of different answers . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 24, 2004
Ah, that bright perpetual smile and dashing good looks. That smooth delivery and good ol' boy, yuckin' it up style. That's John Edwards, the beauty to John . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 18, 2004
The big story currently in the media that aren't in the practice of turning big stories that aren't their stories into little stories and then dead stories, is . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 12, 2004
Winston Churchill said that "the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." This little quip came to mind as I was . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 12, 2004
Timmy T. was going about his business one day, when he noticed that four lumps had formed under his skin. If that wasn't enough to worry him, a part of his . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 30, 2004
Pain and suffering have been humanity's constant companions since time immemorial, and man has always yearned to be liberated from life's trials and . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 15, 2004
Christians are hypocrites . . . this is a charge that is often leveled by those who have an ax to grind with Christendom, and Christianity's critics are always . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 5, 2004
Joseph Stalin said, "When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use." Of course, his prediction never came to pass because there was nothing . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 3, 2004
It occurred to me a while back, as I thought about my chauvinistic teasing of a woman who is very close to my heart, that I had stumbled into genius. For if . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 26, 2004
One pearl of wisdom my parents imparted to me during the years that I was equal parts Dennis the Menace and budding literatus extraordinaire was that you . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 30, 2004
"What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?" This was asked by a curious woman of Benjamin Franklin in Sept. 1787, when he emerged from the last . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 18, 2004
It was an interesting scene when Judge Harry Rapkin was cornered by a reporter and camera crew outside his beautiful home in his upscale neighborhood. Rapkin . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 7, 2004
Former Chief Justice John Marshall once said, "The power to tax is the power to destroy." And boy, was he right. Confiscate enough of people's wealth and you . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2004
It has been said that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. This idea was expressed in George Orwell's book 1984 with "Newspeak," . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2004
He doesn't realize what is about to befall him, as his summer camp roommate leads him to a secluded place and delivers him into the hands of those who wish him . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 21, 2004
We here in America take great pride in saying that we are the "freest nation on earth."
We, especially when we perceive our country to be threatened by an . . .
