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Selwyn Duke

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What Would Jesus Shoot?

A co-religionist friend of mine asked some years ago, “What is the [Catholic] Church’s teaching on firearms…?
- Thursday, December 27, 2012

Revealing Gun-owners Names Reveals Truth

A birdcage liner in my county of Westchester, NY, The Journal News, has made national headlines by releasing the addresses of county residents licensed to own a handgun. The paper claims that in the wake of the Newtown shooting, citizens want to know more about the arsenals their neighbors may possess. Of course, the rag's real motivation is obvious: it wants to "out" firearms owners. The thinking is, "Hey, you want to own a gun? Then we're going to put you in the pusillanimous people's pillory, where all things manly and traditional belong." Hence the title of the Journal piece, "The gun owner next door," which could be followed with "The pedophile next door" or "The terrorist next door." Ooh, scary. I'm more worried about the journalist next door.
- Thursday, December 27, 2012

It’s Official: Mayor Bloomberg Needs Mental Help

Since removing constitutional rights is all the rage now, I have to ask: when does dislocation from reality become severe enough to justify involuntary commitment? A good study case is NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently uttered a real gem on his weekly radio show. Writes Politicker.com:
- Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Chinese Want Gun Control — in America

Who’d have guessed it? When the Chinese aren’t busy effecting forced abortions, persecuting political dissidents, sending contaminated products to our shores, or shipping us other junk that malfunctions a month after you buy it, they concern themselves with our well-being.
- Friday, December 21, 2012

The End of the World

This is the piece that will never be published. Haven't you heard? The world's going to end on December 21.
- Friday, December 21, 2012


For Harry Belafonte: The Banana Republic Song

Jail-bro, Jail-ail-ail-bro Darkness come and me hate ma' home Jail, me say jail, me say jail, me say jail Me say jail, me say jail-ail-ail-bro Darkness come and me hate ma' home
- Wednesday, December 19, 2012


Judge: “Choose Life” Out in North Carolina

Providing another example of why judicial review needs to be reviewed is U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, who just ruled that North Carolina may not offer its “Choose Life” license plates. And wait till you hear his reasoning (if you can call it that). Writes MyFox8.com:
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012


I’ll See Your Economic Collapse and Raise You National Demise

Being just weeks away from reaching our debt ceiling and with frightening talk about a fiscal cliff, there's much sympathy in Washington for tax increases. Even conservatives are wavering. A few Republicans have dumped their anti-tax pledges, and former Nixon official-turned-actor Ben Stein favors taxing the wealthy. He says that we can't cut our way to a balanced budget and insists that the revenue end must be addressed. But I have news for him: he'll have a better chance finding Ferris Bueller on his day off than fiscal sanity through tax increases.
- Monday, December 3, 2012

Targeting Old White Men

While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, it’s no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices — and unfashionable people. Among the latter today are white men, and the closer they are to “dead white male” status, to use a favored leftist descriptive, the greater the disdain in which they’re held.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012

Maine’s Mysterious Black Voters

There are endless “anecdotes” from the last election “that prove nothing about vote fraud,” as the critics put it. And one that would be comical, were this not a tragic topic, involve reports of dozens of black voters showing up to cast ballots in small Maine towns. The Portland Press Herald writes:
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Invasion of the Liberal Body Snatchers

When I was a younger and more naïve man, I sometimes thought to myself, “Boy, if I could just get a forum in which to express my ideas, I could really change people’s minds.” This was before I realized that, more often than not, it wasn’t a matter of changing minds. It was a matter of changing hearts.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Useful Liberal Idiots and Vote Fraud

Among the responses to my recent article on Democrat vote fraud were those of liberals who were happy to hear no evil, see no evil — and be the evil. Their rationalization-aided attitudes ranged from accusing traditionalists of being sore winners to equating 2012 with Bush-Gore in 2000 to simply denying hard evidence.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012

Death by woman

During the latter part of the 2012 campaign, we heard a lot of talk about how Mitt Romney was closing the sex gap and capturing women's support. "Mitt is on the move - a poll shows he's pulled even with women!" My attitude about this was that if Barack Obama didn't carry the female vote, I'd accept a demotion to PVT in political prognostication and change my name to Dick Morris. And, man, do I ever get tired of being right.
- Saturday, November 10, 2012

Ebony vs. Ivory: When Obama is 99.44% Pure

Perhaps we’ve discovered the real cherished “99 percent.” Writing that “[s]ome Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday’s presidential election,” Philly.com reports that 13 of the city’s wards recorded a victory margin for Barack Obama of 99 percent or more. In other words, in some precincts, Mitt Romney was perhaps worth only three fifths of a percent.
- Friday, November 9, 2012

Obama Calling: America’s Life after Death

I have never been so unhappy to be right. I've long said that Barack Obama would win re-election, and two weeks ago I stated as much in print. In making this prediction, I was almost alone among traditionalist pundits, with some, such as Dick Morris (Mr. Batting Zero), actually forecasting a Mitt Romney landslide.
- Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Third World Corruption and the 2012 Election

One characteristic of Third World nations is corruption woven into the system. When I was in India many years ago, for instance, I learned you had to offer bribes to get anything done, even just to obtain a driver’s license. It was pay to play.
- Tuesday, November 6, 2012

On Angels and Demons

When actor and director Mel Gibson was asked some years ago about certain difficulties he had when making his film The Passion of the Christ, he registered a countenance of unease and said (I’m paraphrasing), “Something doesn’t want this to happen.”
- Sunday, November 4, 2012

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