About: Selwyn Duke
Posts by Selwyn Duke
The Acceptance Con
The word “tolerance” implies a go-along-and-get-along atmosphere. But actually tolerance means moral people have to be silent as they are belittled by immoral ones. ...
Bill Cosby on Culture: Very Right and Very, Very Wrong
Comedian Bill Cosby spent years rendering fatherly advice on the hit sitcom The Cosby Show, but in recent times has received more press for the fatherly advice he has...
The Schools’ Sinister War on Guns
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...
Media Put Socialist Spin on Words of Pope Francis
The media mischaracterized a recent speech by Pope Francis on finances. Whereas the pontiff's main focus was on God and ethics, the media spun it into government and edicts....
Obama’s Henchmen
The big questions now surrounding Barack Obama’s triumvirate of scandals is “How much did he know?” and “When did he know it?” Former presidential advisor David Axelrod made the...
Bill O’Reilly Doubles Down on Thumping Conservatives
Traditionalists aren't losing the marriage battle because they lack reasoned arguments. It's because today's America lacks a reasonable media and a populace that is willing to yield to reason....
American Arrested for Anti-homosexual Statements
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 express their...
The Supreme Court and Faux-marriage Fallacies
Shouldn’t homosexuals have the right to marry if other Americans enjoy that right? Yes, they should. They have a right to form that union with a member of the...
Bill O’Reilly vs. the Bible Thumpers
In a segment with Megyn Kelly on the Wednesday edition of the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly lamented how traditionalists don’t have a “compelling argument” on the faux-marriage issue...
Why the NRA Is Right About Hollywood
Entertainment is powerful. This is why Adolf Hitler had his propaganda filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, and why all modern regimes have at times created their own propaganda films. And it...
Senator Rob Portman’s Homosexual Descent
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 supports faux marriage. The change...
We Might be Muslim Today if …
It’s easy to imagine that, were it not for the Crusades and our hammering medieval heroes, we could well be what the Mideast is today. ...
Hugo Chávez: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Hugo Chávez stole not just money from his people, but also their democratic institutions and prosperity. He rewrote his nation’s constitution to suit himself, rigged elections, neutered opponents in...
Raping the Language
There are many examples of the dumbing-down of the English language, all of which are driven by ignorance, insidiousness, or both. Whatever the case, we ought to be mindful...
Unmasking the Grim Reaper’s Foot Soldiers
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...