Selwyn Duke column
Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily and American Thinker. He has also contributed to college textbooks published by Gale – Cengage Learning, has appeared on television and is a frequent guest on radio. His website is www.SelwynDuke.com.
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October 30, 2024
“The perfect should not be the enemy of good,” the saying goes. This comes to mind when hearing about a lamentable reality: Some pro-life Americans, upset . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 25, 2024
“The pen is mightier than the sword,” Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote in 1839. And this power of words is well exemplified by the rallying cry known as the . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 9, 2024
One thing riots, such as the ones currently roiling Britain, are good for is serving as a distraction. For example, consider what we know — and are not being . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 28, 2024
It’s not hard to understand why Caitlin Clark, the record-setting white ex-NCAA women’s basketball standout, is enjoying attention and endorsements like no . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2024
Some say it was the worst call they’ve ever seen in high-school basketball.
The scene was the recent NJSIAA Group 2 state semifinal game between New Jersey . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2024
A “Persian flaw” was originally a flaw purposely included in a handmade carpet because, the thinking was, only God could aspire to perfection. ’Tis true, . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 1, 2024
Move over, Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney. There’s a new brand in town finding woke ways to reduce its market share.
I learned this shopping in a local . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2024
Too old? That’s ageism, you bigot! Canceled you must be.
The idea of a septuagenarian SWAT team comes to mind after watching a viral video of a Chilean all . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 18, 2024
What has so often struck me, and irked me, about the embrace of “diversity” dogma is how profoundly unintellectual it is. A wiseguy might say it’s really . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2023
In the very tiresome battles over whether one religious element can be in the public realm without being accompanied by other “religious” elements that . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2023
“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday.
It must be a rhetorical question. . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 4, 2023
After expelling a large number of illegal aliens approximately 20 to 25 years ago, the Japanese government made a firm statement I’ll never forget. “Japan . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2023
Caster Semenya, the “woman” runner who made waves years ago dusting female competition while appearing very male, is back in the news. The athlete has just . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 23, 2023
No matter which prominent side wins in our immigration debates, the U.S. loses for a simple reason: The contest pits people who hate the point against people . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 25, 2023
“Only one to two percent” of deaths officially labeled as caused by COVID actually were induced by the disease. The rest were labeled as COVID but actually . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 7, 2023
Is basketball great Charles Barkley a socialist? He certainly talked a bit like one recently, though it wouldn’t really be fair to thus label him.
It’s . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 5, 2023
Not long ago, footage surfaced of Minnesota lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan lecturing kindly instructing parents on how to raise their children. Seeming . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 29, 2023
The timing of the tragic Nashville shooting, in which a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) individual killed six at a Christian school, is a . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 22, 2023
Recently, actor-cum-commentator Ben Stein was condemned in media for touting the “progress” the U.S. has made and saying that black Americans “never had . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2023
“A pox on both their houses,” we may say, when wishing both sides in a contest could lose. I surely feel this way, too, with the “transgender” vs. . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 2, 2023
A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.”
Never . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2022
Question: Is the following a good summation of the argument used, starting decades ago, to normalize homosexuality?
“Many researchers [are] taking a . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2022
While I used to quip before the millennium’s turn that “I’m a real man of the ’90s — the 1890s,” the truth is that I’m more like Mayberry Meets . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 13, 2022
Since I’m going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 29, 2022
Alaska’s sole congressional seat, which had been in GOP hands for 49 years, was recently captured by Democrat Mary Peltola. The victory has been touted by . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 16, 2022
In “My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences,” I wrote last year about how within a short period of time I met three men at the same recreational area . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 11, 2022
Brown University professor Emily Oster has created quite a stir with her recent article asking for a “pandemic amnesty.” In it, she calls for “both sides . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 9, 2022
Yesterday America voted, and there were some rather odd election anomalies — much as there had been in 2020. As for the latter, a bit of history:
. . .
Selwyn Duke
October 6, 2022
With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2022
Upset and disappointed, many felt betrayed when Senator Joe Manchin cut a deal with ultra-left-wing colleague Chuck Schumer and created the laughably named . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 1, 2022
In the wake of Roe being aborted, some liberal politicians, such as senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.), are crying foul because they claim . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 29, 2022
For the record, I believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson is by far the best high-profile TV commentator of our time. I frequently cite him in my news-oriented . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 28, 2022
A common way to put Made-up Sexual Status (MUSS, aka “transgender”) activists on the spot is to ask them, “What is a woman?” They’ll hem and haw . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 20, 2022
Comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher has of late been making some new friends and enemies and raising many an eyebrow. At issue are his Real Time monologues in . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 15, 2022
Word is that the Senate has the necessary votes for federal gun control legislation designed to, among other things, pressure states into instituting “red . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2022
It has been odd and alarming watching the powers-that-be relentlessly escalate the proxy war our government is waging against Russia. It’s not just that we . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 15, 2022
It’s hard finding an American, anywhere, who believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing. I’m no exception. War is ugly, and innocent people . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2022
A good response to the self-righteous exclamation “You let your son play with toy guns!?” might once have been, “Well, yeah, he’s too young to have a . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 18, 2022
There are different ways to identify an enemy within, but one is quite simple. Anybody who’d cancel George Washington should be considered a fifth-column . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 13, 2022
For quite some years now, the term “narrative” has been common in political circles. It generally has a negative connotation as it’s used to reference a . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2022
“You’re a racist!” We’ve all heard that often enough. In fact, as was once said in saner times about opportunistic patriotism, it’s now racism charges . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 31, 2022
When Joe Biden’s earpiece expresses, through his mouth, its firm intention to nominate a black female Supreme Court candidate, critics will say that race and . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 24, 2022
As most know, there’s a contentious debate over whether it’s fair to let men who claim they’re female compete in women’s sports. It’s a debate driven . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 22, 2022
Late last year, I got into a discussion with a fellow who was quite sold on the idea that man’s activities were warming the Earth. While not a hardcore . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2022
For the record, I’ve nothing against our friendly-fronted friends. Why, my favorite philosopher, G.K. Chesterton, reportedly weighed in at close to 400 pounds . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2022
Aside from labeling herself “an affirmative action baby,” Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor once called herself a “wise Latina.” Given this, apropos . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2021
A “great man knows he is not God,” observed the great and greater G. K. Chesterton — “and the greater he is the better he knows it.” This came to mind . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 27, 2021
What does it say about a civilization when it feels compelled to place a satanic display next to baby Jesus at Christmastime? As a general question, you can . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2021
“Lia” Thomas, the “transgender” University of Pennsylvania swimmer who has become famous, and infamous, for making women in the pool seem like manatees . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2021
As we ponder how our day’s Dr. Strangeloves want Ukraine to join NATO so that we’ll be obligated to war against Russia if it attacks its western, . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 8, 2021
“Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action?” So said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) while outlining what measures the U.S. could take against . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 7, 2021
In case you haven’t guessed, my title is another way of characterizing the hoax perpetrated by actor and malefactor Jussie Smollett, currently on trial for . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 5, 2021
“Blood is not thicker than morality,” radio host and author Laura Schlessinger once noted. This comes to mind when pondering how Fox News’ normally astute . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 1, 2021
In a social media feed Monday, I came across a 1979 60 Minutes segment on the propaganda surrounding the 1976 swine flu panic. Many of us had already heard . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2021
Why would you chase and lunge at, or otherwise attack, a young man who’s carrying a semi-automatic rifle? This is what happened last August 25th in the Kyle . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2021
Many people, even some notable commentators, are hailing the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a triumph for American justice. In reality, though, the teen rightly . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2021
It won’t be news to many that New Jersey is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. This extends, of course, to its electoral system. Thus can it be said assuredly . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2021
Gosh, has anyone ever really believed in Equality™?
The Queensland Suns won the Nissan State under-18 netball tournament last month, and the wrath of many, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2021
Maybe they want to see who’ll blink first. But I’ve heard of Twitter suspending people’s accounts (e.g., Nicki Minaj) and banning users (e.g., President . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 20, 2021
“I had a heart attack….”
A bit more than a month ago, I wrote about “My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences.” Aside from citing a friend who . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 14, 2021
For the record, I’ve not only opposed our Mideast military adventures but also, in 2007, wrote an article warning about the folly of “nation-building.” . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 24, 2021
The level of incompetence apparent in the Afghanistan withdrawal has been breathtaking. Even a smart 12-year-old, after all, would know that you have to . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 12, 2021
Along with many other commentators, I’ve reported on side-effects associated with the coronavirus vaccines. Of particular concern are heart problems and, . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 8, 2021
To use a twist on an Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen line, millions of people hate what they think Christianity is. Far fewer people hate what Christianity actually . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 4, 2021
It’s amazing how many people are trying to tear down present glories in the name of a past none of them have any interest in going back to. Bringing this to . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 21, 2021
Years ago, because my best friend had some Polish connections, I’d sometimes attend a “Polish” Catholic church in Brooklyn, New York. Attendance was great . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 12, 2021
It was said during our Mideast military adventures, and has been considered a truism of war, that you can’t really win a conflict without “boots on the . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2021
Politicians such as Maxine Waters can praise and encourage BLM/Antifa violence via Twitter, and they still have access. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamanei can send . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2021
One reason conservatives never saw a culture war they couldn’t lose is that they insist on using Queensberry rules, even as the Left fights no-holds-barred. . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2021
With a stolen election, stolen culture, stolen courts and stolen dreams, many Americans are realizing that rule by the Left, absolutely corrupt even without . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 10, 2020
“People who cannot be reasoned with can only be fought.” It’s an age-old truth, one good people ignore at their own peril. It too often is ignored, though . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 29, 2020
There’s hypocrisy, damned hypocrisy, and the actions of statist politicians.
Most of us have seen the pictures or heard the stories. Governor Gavin Newsom, . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2020
Democrats have lamented how the Electoral College gives smaller states outsized influence over presidential elections. But consider what they’ve done via . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2020
As with 2016, the 2020 election year is giving us the unprecedented — in this case, our first non-player character candidate. If this reference escapes you, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 25, 2020
Something occurred to me recently while watching a post-debate Frank Luntz focus group. Comprising undecided voters who liked neither Trump nor Biden, the . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 22, 2020
Joe Biden’s tendency to now go into seclusion before presidential debates has raised many an eyebrow. His handlers say that, as far as tonight’s event goes, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2020
President Trump is masterful at his rallies. I’ve never seen anyone work a crowd better. Able to control the microphone, he’s loose, conversational, fluent, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 18, 2020
It didn’t surprise the informed, and understandably a bit cynical, to hear that the FBI sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop instead of seeking justice. The bureau . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 9, 2020
The leftist community is all abuzz about a fly landing on Vice President Mike Pence’s head, and remaining there for a few minutes, during Wednesday’s debate . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 8, 2020
One tragedy of this election season, as with all modern election seasons, is that the Democrats’ radicalism is being hidden from the American people by a . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 1, 2020
If KKK.com or AryanNation.com redirected to the Trump/Pence campaign website, it would be a major story that the media would use, mercilessly, to tar the . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 28, 2020
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is in the grip of “dogmas.” So goes a criticism made, ironically, by the most dogmatic of people. In fact, the gripe . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 16, 2020
When hearing talk of Democrats’ war on blacks, some may think of the 92 percent of black homicide victims murdered by other blacks mainly in Democrat-run . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 22, 2020
Donald Trump is “denigrating” our “democracy,” said Hillary Clinton in the October 19, 2016, presidential debate, responding to Trump’s statement that . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2020
“We’re just one election away from full-blown socialism,” a man recently said to me during a short conversation. This sentiment has become increasingly . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 24, 2020
The Supreme Court’s recent opinion that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against “sex” discrimination offers protections for the “LGBT” . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 17, 2020
As statues again come down as our culture is further torn up, something goes unsaid and often unnoticed:
Notable Western historical figures are being . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 12, 2020
The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back — the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd rioting — illustrate . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 7, 2020
Dismantling the police, a measure already proposed in Minneapolis, makes about as much sense as eliminating doctors or farmers and would likewise lead to pain . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 1, 2020
With the mayhem following the last Monday death of arrestee George Floyd, many have pointed out that protesting is fine, but rioting is not. While obviously . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 4, 2020
When I speak of a hoax and The Virus, I don’t mean there isn’t in our population a pathogen identified as SARS-CoV-2 or, as the “unwoke” might say, the . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 7, 2020
We've heard much during the Wuhan flu crisis about a "worst-case scenario" of two million dead Americans, a staggering number. But missing from the national . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 11, 2020
The Democratic Party is now confronted with a dilemma. Its two possible presidential nominees are perhaps equally unpalatable, though for different reasons. . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 9, 2020
If you could transport yourself back to the Middle Ages and tell people that living things too small to see can cause disease, they'd think you were crazy. . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2020
Here's a question to ponder: If people think the male-female athletics performance gap is very slight, will they be more or less likely to oppose having men . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2020
Ah, feel the Bern. Love him or hate him – and avowed socialist Bernie Sanders does evoke extremes in feeling – even conservatives will credit him . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 28, 2020
A common belief among conservatives is that Democrats have blundered in their impeachment trial argumentation, that they've shot themselves in the foot. Perhaps . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 12, 2020
For the West to live, equality must die. By the latter I mean equality dogma, and a recent video I stumbled across again brought this issue to mind. It was part . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2020
The conventional wisdom regarding Nancy Pelosi's holding of the impeachment articles is that, as someone put it, she'd pulled the pin on the grenade and then . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2019
With both the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes having fizzled and the "legal" means for President Trump's removal perhaps exhausted, at least for now, the Left appears . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2019
To the delight of conservatives and dismay of liberals, President Trump is doing more to reshape the American judiciary than any president in recent memory. It . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2019
"I'll respect you in the morning" is what I half expect to hear. Of course, the Democrats now invoking the Founding Fathers' memory in their effort to impeach . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren, one-time Indian and beer drinker, would make a very dangerous president. This isn't just because of her policies, which include ending . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2019
The Army's answer to Seinfeld's George Costanza, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, made quite the statement Tuesday when admitting under oath that he was . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 5, 2019
It's truly not shocking that a political leader would be a reprobate behind closed doors. From Caligula to the Marquis de Sade to Bill Clinton, the depraved . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 29, 2019
On the surface, Hillary Clinton's "Russian asset" attack last week on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard appeared the rambling of a bitter, perhaps unhinged woman. One observer . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 3, 2019
When peddling left-wing equality policy, there's no selling point quite like claiming there are too many whiteys about. So when there aren't, you simply . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 15, 2019
How did AR-15s become the plastic straws of the gun world? It's simple: Demagogues need scapegoats. Yet just as banning plastic straws won't make a dent in the . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 16, 2019
Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who'll insist their misspellings of words are . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 15, 2019
Ever since the El Paso shooting, talk of racism has been ratcheted up. Racism certainly is a problem, too, one accompanied by another problem: Those talking . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 7, 2019
With leftists seeking to blame the El Paso shooting on President Trump, guns, white people, and whatever other boogieman will help score political points, a . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 5, 2019
In the El Paso shooting's wake, evident is the same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues concerned only about . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2019
It's easy to laugh at people such as Democrat Georgia state representative Erica Thomas and her anguish at being told, as she relates it, that she should "go . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 19, 2019
We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the "Third Turning": an unraveling. The so-called Left . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 30, 2019
For those still feeling the Bern, I've some bad news: Bernie Sanders will never be president. This is first and foremost because he'll never, ever be the . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2019
"Equality" cries were cherished by feminists when they gave females entry into military academies, boardrooms and the ranks of police; prize-money parity in . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 6, 2019
Conditioned responses are funny things. One of them, the statement that they're "probably all nice people" – oft used when discussing illegal migrants . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2019
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 9, 2019
A man's home is supposed to be his castle. But this is no longer the case in New York City, according to a Brooklyn man who says that Big Apple officials are . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2019
It's certainly a sign of the times that Governor Ralph Northam's resignation has been demanded not because of an apparent endorsement of infanticide, but . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2019
This past weekend's big news was a big media frame-up of kids and the beating of a leftist drum by a little Indian. There's no need now to elaborate on how the . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2018
They can sense it. They can feel it. Something is seriously wrong in our civilization, and many people know it. This is why despite the relatively good economic . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2018
There's a rather odd story that, as with everything concerning the man at its center, hasn't gotten much media attention. Or, at least, it would be odd if we . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2018
Truly great disasters come like a thief in the night. How many foresaw Rome's sacking in 410 A.D., her collapse 66 years later, WWI or WWII? As for today, how . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 15, 2018
Ah, to have an all-female workplace, full of sugar and spice and everything nice and absent #MeToo turpitude and transgressions. Are you in, ladies? Well, . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 10, 2018
Well, ladies, you did it again. No, not all of you. But here's the reality: If only men had voted this election, the GOP would have held the House and picked up . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 23, 2018
With perhaps the most significant midterm election in decades nigh, big tech's censorship of conservatives has kicked into high gear. And while Facebook's . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2018
If you're a conned-servative who gets sand thrown in your eyes, your kneecaps kicked off and slashed with a broken bottle, and then still fights the next time . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 1, 2018
There was something curiously missing from Professor Christine Blasey Ford's Thursday Senate testimony, something quite relevant to her basic claims. Please . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 30, 2018
There's the Stupid Media and the Smart Media. Part of the job of the Smart Media (yours truly, among others), though it does get tiresome, is to debunk the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2018
There perhaps has never been a time when the Democrats did a better job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After being well ahead in the generic . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 23, 2018
One of the more despicable Congress-critters is Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a man with utter contempt for Truth. He was on Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 21, 2018
If liberals were animals, if would be a marked improvement. For one thing, animals don't lie.
Ever since President Trump characterized MS-13 gang members as . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 18, 2018
White people are finding it "difficult to adjust" to becoming a minority, goes the premise of a new AP history textbook – with the implication that this . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 1, 2018
According to many gun-control advocates, 18-year-olds are too immature to handle guns – but are mature enough to advise us on gun policy. Thus we're told . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2018
Unlike after other mass school shootings, the movement from Parkland to propaganda has had tremendous lasting power. The tragedy's wake has seen sustained news . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 16, 2018
We don't know the student's name, but we do know that he hit a nerve – in fact, he hit a whole bunch of them. Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2018
With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it's time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 18, 2018
In this anti-establishment age, people are increasingly moving toward anti-establishment news sources. Many good examples exist, but as far as news aggregators . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 17, 2018
Question: If someone sells you on something with false advertising and it does the exact opposite of what was promised, are you not entitled to return the . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2018
President Trump denies having used a vulgar term last Thursday to describe dysfunctional Third World countries. Yet there's no denying that the leftist media, . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2018
It's a shocking claim made by a political insider: The Deep State is so opposed to draining the swamp that it will, if necessary, kill President Trump to . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2018
Did you ever wish you could buy liberals for what you know they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth? A common theme among progressives is . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 9, 2018
In our through-the-looking-glass world, we so often view matters backwards without even realizing it. Take DACA (actually, leave it), where even many . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 8, 2018
Recently I reported on the firing of Mateo Rueda, now an ex-art teacher after he showed 10 and 11-year-olds nude "artwork" at Lincoln Elementary School in Hyrum . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2018
Like most media reporting on the story, People magazine presented disgraced teacher Mateo Rueda in a flattering light. He was recently fired from Lincoln . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2017
It's a sad fact of man's nature that we tend to operate based on emotion more than reason. This comes to mind when considering how illegal migration, a.k.a. . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 14, 2017
"Don't vote for men!" is the message of a recent campaign ad. Issued by Dana Nessel, Democratic attorney general contender in Michigan, what she literally says . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 3, 2017
Much has been said about the acquittal of felonious invader Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the killer of young Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms. Yet while . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2017
Few witnesses could be more damning against a purported sexual abuser of four decades ago than an ex-cop from that era. That is, unless the ex-cop has a hidden . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 14, 2017
Scandals take many forms. If you could be transported back to antebellum times, for example, would you not find the desire to perpetuate the legal institution . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2017
"If God does not exist, everything is permitted," wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. Mentioning this in association with Devin Patrick Kelley, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 14, 2017
The latest firearm-equipment boogeyman is the "bump stock," a device allowing one to fire a semi-automatic rifle more rapidly. Liberals learned of bump stocks . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 12, 2017
There's a disclaimer many of us have been conditioned to utter, quite reflexively, and it's something that has got to stop. When preparing a defense of the . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2017
Before the blood was even dry in Las Vegas, Democrats coast to coast were pushing gun control. Hillary Clinton led the charge, finding time between fainting . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 24, 2017
Would baby Charlie have gotten his death sentence were he not a white boy? It may seem an odd question, but there's a good reason to pose it.
The poor child . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2017
The obsession with Donald Trump Jr.'s "Russian" email chain is just the latest example of what the Media/Democrat Party/Establishment Axis does best: engage in . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2017
Could you imagine lightweight boxers complaining they don't get the money and exposure of the heavyweights, calling the different treatment "staturism"?
This . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 5, 2017
You can't make this stuff up. In a news article, migrant hair stylist Mohammad Hussain Rashwani was hailed as a shining example of integration in Germany. Ten . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2017
It's a sad time when simple truths cause serious trouble. But that time is now, and a good example is how former number-one tennis player John McEnroe is being . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 15, 2017
In the wake of every terrorist act there is the same argument. The voices-in-the-wilderness right will say, insofar as they're not muzzled with hate-speech laws . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 12, 2017
Whether you're a lawmaker considering a "bathroom bill" or some other "transgender"-oriented legislation, or a citizen pondering a vote influencing the matter, . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 30, 2017
It's amazing how stupid smart people can seem when intent on putting a square peg in a round hole. This is seen continually when certain apologists try to dig . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 23, 2017
People like thinking the best of themselves, which is partially why we have "trigger warnings," "microaggressions" and claims of "taking offense" – so . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 8, 2017
Does our current status quo make our Constitution a suicide pact? Thomas Jefferson certainly said as much, warning that accepting judicial supremacy would make . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2017
It's yet another example of Trump-era celebrity derangement. Comedienne and actress Alison Becker attacked me via Twitter recently, saying I "have absolutely no . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 4, 2017
It's no surprise the Democrats plan to fight against the nomination of President Trump's Supreme Court pick, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge Neil Gorsuch. . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2017
The irrational left, which means virtually all the left, is apoplectic over President Trump's executive order halting immigration from terrorist-spawning . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 24, 2017
In a recent viral Facebook post, a conservative woman found it necessary to point out that she wasn't a "disgrace to women" for not supporting the Women's March . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2017
The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So we could ask: as we fight the global-warming scam, why are we using the language of the . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 31, 2016
"The Russians hacked the election!" say Democrats trying to discredit Donald Trump's presidency. Of course, their statement is deceptive, referring only to the . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 26, 2016
"Islam is not the problem," proclaims the Left. And if you say otherwise, you're a "racist," even though "Muslim" is not a race. Yet a fact remains: virtually . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2016
Ah, liberals. They really are a breed apart (mostly from sanity). And a timely example of how we're a divided nation concerns the conservative/liberal dispute . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2016
There's a reason we don't let nine-year-olds vote.
But what about those overgrown children who are nine between the ears?
It wasn't long ago that Hillary . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2016
Immigration today, immigration tomorrow, immigration forever? In recent times there has been much controversy over President-elect Donald Trump's campaign-trail . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 4, 2016
There's a price to be paid for everything – even for being politically correct in a "politically correct time." A new poll shows that the main cause of . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2016
You do it. I do it. He does it. She does it. The guy down the block does it. Everyone engages in profiling – continually.
For example, if you see a . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 26, 2016
"Hey, lie just like Hillary Clinton and the rest of the establishment" is the message. After Donald Trump said he'd only accept the results of the November 8 . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 22, 2016
Crooks on the left, cowards on the right. Where do we go to find integrity?
One of the most talked about parts of last night's final presidential debate was . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 7, 2016
In today's politically correct schools, all types of divisive expression are equal, but some are more equal than others. A case in point is Wiregrass Ranch High . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 25, 2016
One of the characteristics of our declining civilization is that, more and more, reality seems like satire. A good example is a recent New York Times article . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 21, 2016
While speaking at the United Nations Tuesday and advocating more Muslim migration into the West, Barack Obama likened a refusal to accept the Muslims to the . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 5, 2016
It can be a good thing to be idealistic. But you'd better make sure you have the right ideals. As to this, the modern West is quickly becoming something non . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 22, 2016
My, my, there those feminists go, complaining again. This time the whining concerns supposedly "sexist" Olympics coverage. Their problem?
Many journalists . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 6, 2016
With reports of dead bodies and excrement floating in the water, the threat of Zika, and the Russian doping scandal, the Rio Olympics appears the Frankenstein . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 4, 2016
The media and effete powers-that-be have been twisting themselves into Halal pretzels Islamsplainin', rationalizing how a given Muslim terrorist attack isn't . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 8, 2016
It's funny that liberals try to advance the caricature of the stuffed-shirt conservative. It's projection, actually, because "killjoy" could be synonymous with . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2016
There's a price to be paid for everything in life – even political correctness. And sometimes that price is paid in blood.
. . .
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2016
Hi, my name is AR-15. Some of you know me, but many more of you know of me – through the media. But you may not know the real me.
I'm that cool, sleek . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 21, 2016
After the Orlando terrorist massacre, are we going to be politically correct? Or are we going to be wise . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 20, 2016
"You fundamentally can't change sex.... Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists," said former "transsexual" Alan Finch in 2004. This is a truth; however, . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2016
In an unprecedented move, an Oregon judge has allowed a so-called "transgender" man to legally change his sex from female (he had previously been allowed to . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 31, 2016
"You can't legislate morality!" is a common battle cry today. It's thought to be a quintessentially American idea, even though the Founding Fathers never . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 28, 2016
In the wake of reports that Facebook censors conservative voices, media figure Glenn Beck met with company chairman Mark Zuckerberg and emerged from the meeting . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 26, 2016
With Venezuela spinning out of control, it's said that U.S. officials fear a military coup. We ought to ask "Why?"
Democracy on the brain can be a dangerous . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 17, 2016
With Congress poised to possibly require women to register for the draft, reaction from the conservative pundit class has been swift and severe. WND's Jane . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 11, 2016
It's always hard coming out. But it's even harder not being true to yourself. So, inspired by Bruce Jenner and other intrepid souls, I've decided to finally . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 29, 2016
"Inequality is the root of all evil" said left-wing senator Barbara Boxer recently, while lecturing a Catholic priest about Catholicism. Boxer claimed to be . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2016
As our Great Sexual Heresy continues its march onwards and downwards, state governments have forced bakers, wedding planners, florists and other businessmen to . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2016
It's easy to get wrapped up in men and moments. In the current election season, for instance, we may see a candidate appearing to embody all our hopes and . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2016
When Governor John Kasich said recently that he probably should be running in the Democrat Party, he wasn't kidding. Although seeking office in Cuba might be . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 17, 2016
The death of the intrepid Justice Antonin Scalia has shaken the political world. If his successor's appointment cannot be delayed until the next presidency, it . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2016
Perhaps NAACP now stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Cursing and Profanity. Don Harris is the white head (yes, he really is white, and . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2016
As they circle the drain, Western societies increasingly start to seem like parodies of real civilizations. It's as if, to twist Shakespeare's famous line, all . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 1, 2016
Perhaps it was a first: a man winning a debate by not showing up. That's my take, anyway, that Donald Trump prevailed at Thursday night's GOP debate. Although, . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 27, 2016
Ever since Donald Trump's rise to 2016-contender prominence, the rap on him, and perhaps part of his broad appeal, has been that he's not a conservative. And he . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 26, 2016
Donald Trump's rise this election season has been historic, amounting to something heretofore unseen in the annals of American politics. Given this, it's . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 20, 2016
New York City values are going through the roof. And it's not just real estate. A prime story the last many days has been the GOP debate dust-up between Donald . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2016
Perhaps it's not surprising that Time magazine named Angela Merkel its "Person of the Year." With her flooding of Europe with Muslim migrants, the German . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2015
"You ain't no Muslim, bruv!" As you may know, this statement was uttered by a bystander after a non-Muslim Muslim™ slit the throat of a man in the Leytonstone . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2015
Donald Trump proved again why he's the man the Establishment loves to hate, suggesting early last week that we ban Muslim immigration "until our country's . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 12, 2015
"If You See Something, Say Something™" the DHS slogan goes (yes, it is trademarked). "It takes a community to protect a community," the feds continue. . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 10, 2015
Would you hire someone for an important job if he admitted right off the bat he couldn't perform one of the basic functions of the job?
Our federal . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 6, 2015
It could occur to one that the difference between "safe spaces" in today's U.S. and yesterday's U.S.S.R., other than the name, is the size. Here they're tiny . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 4, 2015
There was a tragic incident of climate change Wednesday, or so Barack Obama might say. As I was driving home that evening listening to the still sparse details . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 2, 2015
What's worse for a business's bottom line than wading into controversial, divisive issues?
Wading into controversial, divisive issues with the very . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2015
Roanoke, Virginia, mayor David Bowers has just created a stir by suggesting that Syrian migrants be placed in internment camps. I found his comments interesting . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 25, 2015
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. And inequality is equality – at least in the mind of Karen Keller, the Bainbridge Island Review . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2015
With the Paris terror attack and flooding of Western nations with Muslim migrants, Senator Ted Cruz and others have proposed limiting Muslim immigration into . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2015
What's the point in the West sending troops to the Middle East if we bring the Middle East to the West? The preceding is a money line, one that should be used . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 9, 2015
When leftists start talking about "civility," watch out for your freedom of speech. This again comes to mind with reports that some media outlets are . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 1, 2015
It's long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman.
And it helps when that boogeyman is real.
When CNBC's GOP . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 24, 2015
Take the money and run. With the huge windfall enjoyed by the Mohamed family – of clock-bomb-arrest fame – in "Islamophobic" America, one might . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2015
One thing worse than supporting bad policy is knowingly supporting bad policy.
Worse still is knowingly supporting bad policy and shielding yourself from its . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 15, 2015
Ever since Donald Trump rose to front-runner status in the 2016 GOP presidential field, we've heard dismissive talk about how he's not a "serious" candidate. . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 9, 2015
It's not a stretch to say that what ex-president Jimmy Carter did for Iran, Barack Obama is doing for the whole Middle East and beyond. Islamic State is on the . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 10, 2015
The big news out of San Francisco last week was that it would register another first: a city elementary school is going to switch to all "gender-neutral" . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 2, 2015
Barack Obama won't be saying, "If I had a psycho son, he'd look like Vester Lee." But he might as well. Because Vester Lee Flanagan II, the bigoted maniac who . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 28, 2015
Jeb Bush has called illegal migration "an act of love." And all over the West we see nations being loved to death, with endless human waves from Third World . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2015
There has been much written about the Boy Scouts of America's recent acceptance of openly homosexual scout masters. The organization has been raked over the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 6, 2015
With the San Francisco woman murdered by one of Barack Obama's "new Americans," we should ask: how much innocent blood will be spilled on the altar of the Left . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2015
We just heard about the Miami high-school principal fired for soberly disagreeing on social media with the McKinney narrative. Now comes an even more outrageous . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 17, 2015
Have you heard about the millions of Chinese flooding into Tibet? With their displacement of the native peoples and the supplanting of Tibetan with Chinese . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 2, 2015
Torture, pain, beheadings, the murder of children.... If God exists and is all good, how could He allow such suffering and evil? This is a common question, and . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 27, 2015
Leftists are upset about what they view as a double standard with respect to the Baltimore/Ferguson affair and the recent Waco gang shootout. They're right, too . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 6, 2015
It was supposed to be a phone call for Obama administration ears only. But hear it the radio host did, she says. And what she heard should make your blood run . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 5, 2015
It was a solution right up there with "Let them eat cake." Addressing the issue of Jews fleeing Europe due to increasing Islamic terrorism and Prime Minister . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2015
A homosexual couple goes into a known Christian bakery and asks for a wedding cake for a same-sex "marriage," is refused, and then files a government complaint . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2015
Our Constitution has become a suicide pact.
That's the view of Thomas Jefferson, expressed in an 1819 letter to jurist Spencer Roane, when he said "If this . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2015
If you look for the worst in a group, you're sure to find it. Using a twist on an Abraham Lincoln line, I made that statement on the Mildred Gaddis Show (Radio . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2015
With Sarah Palin once again hinting at a presidential run, pundits and politics wonks are all the more aflutter with 2016 talk. The predictable slings and . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 29, 2015
Call it the Blizzard of Oz. The "Snowstorm of the Century" Monday was supposed to be historic.
All we got was histrionics.
It turned out that the real . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2015
Aside from the three Muslim men who perpetrated the deadliest terror attack in France since 1961, there are some other individuals complicit in the Wednesday . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 15, 2015
It's so often the case that the best thing a person can do to improve his reputation is die. John F. Kennedy is now a legendary president, but would he be . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2015
"Another attack in the name of religion," I heard someone say after the vicious and vile Wednesday assault on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. And . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 5, 2015
"If not for my faith, I would be barely human." That was the answer English writer Evelyn Waugh gave when asked, as all Christians will be at some point, how he . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 11, 2014
There was a recent scandal that, as much as anything else, illustrates the intellectual emptiness and moral ennui of the modern liberal man. It occurred in . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2014
To many, the above title may seem much like speaking of the bright side to malignant cancer. And did it really come out of this writer's pen? Long a staunch . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 17, 2014
There's stupid. There's really stupid. There's really, really stupid.
Then there's Democrat stupid.
A prime example is a Friday Wall Street Journal . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 14, 2014
The best predictor of future voting patterns is past voting patterns, to use a twist on a famous maxim. This is probably even truer of groups than individuals, . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2014
Perhaps the first clue, or the ten thousandth, was when many Democrats opposed the reinsertion of God into their party's platform in 2012 and booed the judgment . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2014
Little Eli Waller will never grow up to be president. The four-year-old New Jersey boy will never grow up to be anything because enterovirus D68 took his life . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 27, 2014
There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness – and some would say gall – of homosexuality activists . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2014
"There was a time when you knew who the bad girls were," someone close to me once said. "Now you know who the good girls are."
And I hear that all three of . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 30, 2014
"Equal pay for equal work!" the mantra goes. "Women get only 73 cents on a man's dollar!" These are oft-heard slogans, and we may well hear them again during . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 22, 2014
It long ago became clear to me that, despite all the pretense, protesting and politicking, no one who has ever seriously thought about equality actually . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 13, 2014
If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals' watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 11, 2014
One reason predictions of a Mitt Romney victory in 2012 were inaccurate, say analysts, is that the turnout among certain Democrat constituencies – in . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 9, 2014
There is this notion, one we hear more and more, that the Republican Party has to shed the social issues to seize the future. "Social issues are not the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2014
It was headlining AOL on Friday, a story about a woman stabbing a schoolteacher to death in front of a class of five and six-year-olds. The gruesome and bloody . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2014
Western civilization lied and people died.
It lied, that is, to itself.
I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George W. Bush and the claim of . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2014
If millions of soldiers from south of the border were flooding our nation for the purposes of colonizing our land, we would easily recognize the threat. And if . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 16, 2014
This article will be a departure from my usual fare. I will not claim there is some Absolute Truth deeming soccer the bane of humanity's sports. I do not . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 11, 2014
Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that's now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 7, 2014
Commenting recently on the Elliot Rodger killings, arch-leftist Michael Moore wrote that while "other countries have more violent pasts...more guns per capita . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2014
It's increasingly the case in America that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A case in point is Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, Rhode . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 22, 2014
Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco – and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954.
Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 21, 2014
Not satisfied with having pressured the Boy Scouts of America into lifting their prohibition against openly homosexual scouts, activists now want homosexual . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 16, 2014
How do you know you're being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 8, 2014
For decades liberals have lobbied against punishment and for rehabilitation. The argument was that a mugger or murderer was just a victim of his environment, . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 2, 2014
Never let a racial crisis go to waste is, I suppose, the credo of the Machiavellian mainstream media. Since the release of the Don Sterling audio, liberals . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 1, 2014
For the record, I don't believe Cliven Bundy is a "racist."
For the record, I don't even care.
Such indifference to that damnable failing, that thing we . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 30, 2014
Leave it to The Gay Lady to be a day late and a few brain cells short. The New York Times recently published an article by some journalism-school retread about . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 25, 2014
We are witnessing, I believe, a turning point in geopolitical history, one future historians may analyze as we have the Roman Empire's fall. Vladimir Putin is . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 17, 2014
If you thought the "educator" who saw "racist" intent behind offering someone a peanut-butter sandwich was a loon, consider Western Washington University (WWU) . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2014
If a famine befell us and you couldn't save everyone, would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 29, 2014
While Barack Obama's recent telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Crimean standoff has been widely reported, the exact . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 27, 2014
"I [sic] give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun," said the cop. This statement, made by Branford, Ct., police officer Joseph Peterson in . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2014
How would you feel if a police officer you knew for 20 years told you that if an order was issued to confiscate your guns, he wouldn't hesitate to "kick your . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 28, 2014
Perhaps Arizona governor Jan Brewer was sincere when saying that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 1062) she vetoed yesterday could "create more . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2014
A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on "white privilege" with a certain man, whose name is unimportant, who had a Ph.D. in "ethnic studies." At one . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2014
Imagine you go overseas and give a speech advocating a cause, only to come home and find you're being sued for "crimes against humanity." No, what you did wasn . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 14, 2014
When pondering our obsession with immigration, I'm reminded of how people in the ridiculous dystopian film Idiocracy were watering their crops with an energy . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 7, 2014
Perhaps we should have chosen the turkey as our national bird, as Benjamin Franklin suggested. It would certainly be more appropriate for our times. But if any . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2014
Conservatives are generally very nice people – who never saw a culture war they couldn't lose. That is to say, we often hear cracks about how Barack Obama . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2014
It seems as if certain purported civil-rights activists think homosexuals are like some organized-crime groups: you can join the gang, but the only way you can . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2014
It's starting to appear as if marijuana users have become the homosexual lobby of the chemically dependent. What do I mean? Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson could . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2014
One unmentioned irony of the Chris Christie road-revenge scandal is that the powers-that-be finally found a traffic jam they didn't like. Now, don't get me . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2013
When I saw the headline yesterday about how "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson had commented on a certain sexuality-defined group, I wondered how long it . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2013
England's prestigious Oxford Union recently invited famed raconteur and talk-radio host Michael Savage to a debate on whether or not NSA leaker Edward Snowden . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 17, 2013
After his mother was raped, and then murdered along with his father last year, sobbing 12-year-old Amaro was gagged and drowned in scalding bathwater. And that . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2013
With all the recent talk about Nelson Mandela the myth and the modicum of talk about Mandela the man, it's a good opportunity to discuss another myth: that of . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2013
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly," said Abraham Lincoln. It's ironic that Barack Obama has claimed to pattern himself after . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2013
Chalk up another victory for the post-racial president's agenda. No, it's not Barack Obama falsely claiming that white society denied black Hurricane Katrina . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 12, 2013
Many years ago I knew a couple who adopted the habit of being gratuitously defensive about one another. If you made even the slightest comment questioning one . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2013
There has been much analysis of the Virginia governor's race in which Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe edged out Republican Ken Cuccinelli by two points. Liberals . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2013
It must be really exciting being a kid today. Denied the strength that "lies in our diversity," youngsters languishing in the unenlightened 1960s had to content . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 31, 2013
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer certainly is a creative man. Asked about Barack Obama's promise that everyone would be able to keep his health coverage if he . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 17, 2013
What kind of leader wants a military more loyal to himself than to the rule of law?
And why?
These are two questions to ponder when considering the . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 14, 2013
Will the slights and salt-in-wound exacerbations ever end? It's not enough that white people are cast as the source of all the world's woes as people find that . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 3, 2013
Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you:
Prudence
Justice
. . .
Selwyn Duke
October 2, 2013
That NBC had doctored a 911 call for the purposes of making George Zimmerman look like a bigot was a shocking revelation. Yet cut-and-paste propaganda is a . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 26, 2013
What has lifted more people out of poverty, charity or economic freedom? It's not even close.
Charity is wonderful, and I'll be the first to say we have an . . .
Selwyn Duke
September 15, 2013
Every so often the wonks of wishful thinking give us an article about how blacks are becoming Republicans, how Hispanics are supposedly a natural GOP . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 13, 2013
A certain very erudite and always entertaining social critic remarked recently that he always thought the worst of people. He went on to say – perhaps, at . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 26, 2013
What would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of emerging from his . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 24, 2013
When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon," it perhaps didn't say much for him as a parent. And when the president now says that . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2013
Should recall elections be reserved only for politicians who break the law? Columnist Rick Moran thinks so. Opining on an impending recall election in Colorado, . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 16, 2013
While George Zimmerman has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly behind him. It's not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a platter, but that . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 14, 2013
Every so often there's that obligatory article asking "Are Women Superior at_____?" or "Do Women Make Better ______?" with politicians often being the focus. Of . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 11, 2013
While Barack Obama has often been compared to leaders of the past, it's unlikely anyone has yet associated him with Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Ruler of the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2013
Perhaps I'm just a creepy-a** cracka' who doesn't get it. But it always seems that when it comes to standards, the left gives you two for the price of one. And . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 1, 2013
Let's do a little thought exercise here. Imagine that some force was flooding an indigenous people's lands with millions of unassimilable foreigners, and it was . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 26, 2013
Addressing a large panel of black conservatives on Hannity last night, host Sean Hannity asked whether "African-American" was the correct label for black people . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 24, 2013
If you want to know why lies seem increasingly common, it's because we persecute people for honesty.
A good example is the recent statements tennis star . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2013
"Liberal institutions straightaway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 19, 2013
Saying there's a bright side to amnesty may seem much like talk of the advantages of malignant cancer. But this won't be a pie-in-the-sky article about the . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 14, 2013
Young, handsome and Hispanic, Marco Rubio was once hailed as one of the new faces of the Republican Party. But now we learn that he actually brings two new . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 13, 2013
When women start doing what men have traditionally done, yours is a civilization of the setting sun. This is brought to mind when pondering a recent Pew . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 9, 2013
Call it living in Upside-down Land or the realization of the Bible's prediction of a time when bad will be called good and good, bad, but once again innocent . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 10, 2013
With the victory of disgraced former governor Mark Sanford in the recent South Carolina congressional race, there are bound to be those who would equate his . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 8, 2013
Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, "selective deafness" is when one hears only what is convenient. The same failing manifests itself in government when . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 1, 2013
The bigger the government, the greater the opportunity to seek revenge by state action. This has been demonstrated throughout history, and now current events . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2013
What does the Islamic world and Europe have in common? There are actually many similarities, but one is this: in neither place are Christians allowed to fully . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 31, 2013
If an argument falls in a forest of confusion and nobody hears it, does it make an impact?
In a segment with Megyn Kelly on the Wednesday edition of the O . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 30, 2013
With cultural defenders such as some of our conservatives, who needs liberals? One could draw this conclusion when observing the Proposition 8 case currently . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 28, 2013
If I were a governor, the first thing I'd do is scrutinize the school curriculum in my state. For the teachings in the schools today will be the ideology of . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 24, 2013
The world is laughing at us. It has come to light that the Obama administration has allowed hundreds of Chinese nationals – who are closely associated . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 22, 2013
When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your case to a "human-relations commission," you know you've hit a nerve. And when that article is the . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 21, 2013
Upstate New York's Catskill Mountain Range is a bucolic place near and dear to my heart. It's where storybook character Rip Van Winkle enjoyed his legendary . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 20, 2013
With the election of Pope Francis, there has been an almost "catholic" attempt to determine if he is liberal or conservative. CBS claims he is a "staunch . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2013
In another case in the annals of conservative "adaptation" to yesterday's liberal innovation, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman has just announced that he now . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 16, 2013
While I'm generally no fan of new laws, a law that prohibits stupid laws is a definite exception. And that's just what the great state of Mississippi is giving . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 15, 2013
With the election of Pope Francis, there are the usual complaints about how the Catholic Church has got to get with the times. The Huffington Post ran the . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 12, 2013
When I see the hand-wringing over the rise of Italian politician Beppe Grillo, I can't help but think of a man complaining about cigarette smoke while his own . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 8, 2013
The year is 632 A.D., and Muslim hordes have set their sights on the Mideast and North Africa – the old Christian world. And the Caliphate, as the Islamic . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 2, 2013
One day back in high school, a very interesting English teacher asked our class a moral question: if you could press a button and get a million dollars, but a . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2013
"Modern liberalism is moral dysfunction." When I recently made that statement after citing leftist social-media support for murderer Christopher Dorner, some . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2013
While I was a conservative by age 12, for some time thereafter I viewed liberalism as most do, as just another ideology. Sure, it was an irritating ideology, . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2013
Being a conservative just ain't what it used to be. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was recently accused of tweeting a "racist" joke – by another Republican.
. . .
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2013
On the heels of my recent article on women in combat, in which I defend traditionalism, it's perhaps a good time to also take up the cudgels for that bugaboo of . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 4, 2013
Senseless advice and nothing nice; that's what little-girls-in-combat policy is made of.
The obvious has already been said about placing women in front-line . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 28, 2013
Okay, half-slow laughin' Joe didn't actually say that, but he might as well have. While defending his position this past Thursday that banning the rifles . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2013
Liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "You're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts." But that was decades ago, and . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2013
We all know what can happen when kids and guns mix. And today I will tell you some stories about that very thing. The kids' names were Kendra and Alyssa, and . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2013
When I've written about our listing mis-education system, my focus has mainly been on rampant political correctness, on how students learn few of the right . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2013
You might think that a professional outfit such as Bank of America operated based on stated policy and not caprice. But not according to owner of American . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 8, 2013
My mother always used to say "Life is the best teacher." Sure is — and sometimes it smacks you right upside the head. It appears this has happened with . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 5, 2013
If you're a Democrat operative forced to resign for facilitating vote fraud, what do you do for a follow-up?
If you said brutally attack your girlfriend, . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 3, 2013
If you want to know why we're breeding some crazy youngsters nowadays, you only have to look at the adults surrounding them. A case in point is a Maryland . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 2, 2013
If a leftist expressed new-age spirituality and uttered the Zen idea that he was one with the Universe, I'd certainly believe him. What else could explain . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 1, 2013
You've got to hand it to bloviating Brit Piers Morgan. While he got most of the facts wrong in his recent targeting of the Second Amendment, it hasn't stopped . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2012
A co-religionist friend of mine asked some years ago, "What is the [Catholic] Church's teaching on firearms...?
Does it recommend an assault rifle or a . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 27, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2012
Since removing constitutional rights is all the rage now, I have to ask: when does dislocation from reality become severe enough to justify involuntary . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2012
This is the piece that will never be published. Haven't you heard?
The world's going to end on December 21.
End-of-the-world hysteria is rather . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2012
It has been said that to identify a liar, look for contradiction, because it's hard keeping lies straight.
It's no revelation that leftists would like to . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2012
It's often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick.
It's . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2012
If there's anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it's that school zones billed as "gun-free" cannot be guaranteed to thus be.
They're only virtually . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 12, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 8, 2012
Students at Capital High School (CHS) in Charleston, West Virginia have been regularly forced to stand during the playing of a song known as "The Black National . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 5, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
December 3, 2012
The Salvation Army has long been a holy-day season fixture in front of my local supermarket, providing some Christmas sounds and cheer as it raises money to . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 30, 2012
While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, it's no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices — and unfashionable . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 24, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 23, 2012
Among the beautiful messages in the 1937 film Captains Courageous is one relating to thankfulness. When spoiled rich kid Harvey says to Portuguese fisherman . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2012
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. . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 16, 2012
As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 10, 2012
Perhaps we've discovered the real cherished "99 percent." Writing that "[s]ome Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday's presidential election," . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2012
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 5, 2012
"I'm guessing that as soon as I walk into the voting booth, I'll probably make up my mind then." So said undecided voter Kerry Ladka, appearing on Greta Van . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2012
Imagine you go to the polls and choose Mitt Romney on an electronic machine, but your vote comes up Barack Obama. So you re-enter your choice, but the president . . .
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2012
If you want to know what Barack Obama and his fellow travelers have planned for us, you need look only at what their cutting-edge cousins have already . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 31, 2012
While many points have been made about this campaign's contraception controversy, there's one that I haven't yet heard anyone mention.
Why do we accept . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 26, 2012
Calling someone a liar is a serious accusation. This is why, aside from the unwritten contract allowing for mutual prevarication, politicians are so reluctant . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 18, 2012
You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p's and q's in last night's presidential . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 16, 2012
You've got to hand it to that Joe Biden. He certainly has chutzpah. After all, what do you call it when a man who was banned from receiving Communion diocese . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 15, 2012
When Joe Biden was asked about abortion in the vice-presidential debate last Thursday, he replied with what, in part, has become boilerplate. "I accept my . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 13, 2012
Actress Stacey Dash was attacked viciously on Twitter after she expressed support for Mitt Romney, with several people telling her "Kill yourself," another . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 12, 2012
Is there a human being on this Earth more obnoxious than Joe Biden? It appears that the following was his strategy in the vice-presidential debate:
"Okay, I . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2012
"Everything I heard today is true. But, because of racism I suffered in my youth, I can not turn against Obama." According to conservative writer Lloyd Marcus, . . .
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2012
Watching the debate on Wednesday, I truly can't imagine Barack Obama having come off as the more likeable candidate. Continuously glancing downwards, perhaps . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 26, 2012
Step right up, folks! We have here behind these mysterious walls curiosities to amaze and astound. See the lawyer with anger issues who'll scream at the court . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 14, 2012
He really didn't.
In penning his recent piece "The Case for Gun Control," Time editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria actually made the case that he needs to . . .
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2012
It's difficult to say if the greatest drama of the 2012 Olympics has occurred inside or outside the athletic arena, but it's hard for anything to compare to the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 30, 2012
When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago's political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 28, 2012
In the wake of the Aurora mass shooting, the usual pattern is playing out with respect to gun control. People such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Piers Morgan and . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 26, 2012
The New York Daily News. Hands down.
The winning entry is an anti-Second Amendment Rights piece written in the wake of the Colorado tragedy, one in which . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2012
It wasn't just that ABC's Brian Ross was wrong in suggesting that the "Jim Holmes" he found on a Tea Party website was the same man who committed the heinous . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2012
With the rumor that Condoleezza Rice is a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, she's the talk of the town. She's so intelligent, so . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 12, 2012
It's now well established that Chief Justice John Roberts had ulterior motives for upholding ObamaCare. The usual theories involve his being concerned about . . .
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2012
The House has voted overwhelmingly to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the Fast and Furious scandal, but where do we go . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 13, 2012
When North Dakotans went to the polls on Tuesday, they had a chance to strike a blow for freedom and make their state the first in the nation to ban all . . .
Selwyn Duke
June 10, 2012
"I think he did the right thing," said the man, emphatically, in reference to Bill Clinton's 1990s infidelity with Monica Lewinsky. The sentiment, expressed . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 30, 2012
We all know the difference between normal mistakes and those that hint at a deeper, more frightening problem, such as Alzheimer's or another brain condition. . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 23, 2012
Bill Clinton once said that he looked forward to the day when whites were a minority in America. While he won't live to see such a time, a demographic milestone . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 12, 2012
So another mask has dropped. Barack Obama made history Wednesday in becoming the first president to announce support for faux marriage.
And on January 20th, . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 11, 2012
They say "Jolly is the fat man," but perhaps not when he's being chased (and, I'm sure, caught) like a Frankenstein monster by the Body Cult crazies. And that . . .
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2012
Many critics have called Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren a "racist" for relating a family story about how her grandfather had "high cheekbones . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 16, 2012
This past Tuesday I reported on the stabbing of white truck driver Nick Stokes by members of a black motorcycle gang called the Outcasts of Alabama. It's not . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 13, 2012
When I was 12 years old, I played tennis at a certain public park in the Bronx. One day it got back to me that a black fellow at the courts, whose name I . . .
Selwyn Duke
April 12, 2012
Most of us have heard about how the media won't report on black-on-white crime. We also may know that authorities sometimes sweep it under the rug due to . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 21, 2012
There was a time when someone could perhaps justify sitting on the fence on the matter of Barack Obama's birth certificate. There were those on the left who . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 8, 2012
The boy raised his hand, eager to answer the question. "What would you know about it?" exclaimed the teacher dismissively. "You're not our race."
This was . . .
Selwyn Duke
March 6, 2012
A woman close to me once characterized the sea change in our society well. "Years ago you knew who the bad girls were," said she. "Now you know who the good . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 21, 2012
Is it a conservative position that only women are qualified to comment on abortion? A writer named Leann Horrocks certainly seems to think so.
In an . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 19, 2012
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Egypt recently that she "would not look to the U.S. Constitution if [she] were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," it . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 15, 2012
Hey, Jackson, is it Samuel L. or Jesse? Actually, it's more likely that the actor was channeling Jeremiah Wright.
In a racial-epithet-laced interview with . . .
How to win the marriage debate: the flaw in the Ninth Circuit's (and most everyone else's) reasoning
Selwyn Duke
February 10, 2012
The big news on the culture-war front is a federal court's striking down of Proposition 8, California's constitutional amendment protecting marriage. In a two . . .
Selwyn Duke
February 8, 2012
Ah, the left-wing capacity for rationalization knows no bounds. While we're told that even substantive criticism of Barack Obama is driven by the hatefulness . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2012
Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it?
It's always a disturbing experience when you're . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 19, 2012
One of the simplest rhetorical truths is that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. Yet, amazingly, we still see experienced . . .
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2012
Repeat a big Democrat talking point often enough, and it becomes the truth. There is a certain liberal narrative that has recently filtered down to many . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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, . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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; . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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, . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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. . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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. . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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), . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 — . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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 . . .
Selwyn Duke
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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