Former Obama Aide: The President “Doesn’t Like People”
We have someone who “doesn’t call anyone,” is “not close to almost anyone,” and “really doesn’t like people” — which is Obama — according to former aide Neera Tanden....
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Posts by Selwyn Duke
Politicians, Catholicism, and the False Equivalence
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...
Socially Slow Laughin’ Joe
Consider Joe Biden's behavior at the vice-presidential debate. If his grasp of human nature is so poor that he didn't know obnoxiousness was obnoxiousness and how it would play...
No, We Can’t — Just Get Past Race
There is this idea among many that we can get past apparent differences by concluding they don’t exist. This is reflected in the now common belief that racial distinctions...
Study: Young Americans Dumping Religion at Rapid Rate
According to a recent study, religion is dying in America. And it’s a trend that has grave implications for our politics, culture, and the fate of our civilization. ...
Judge: No Jail for Newborn’s Killer Because Abortion is Accepted
When the great philosopher G.K. Chesterton said, “Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like,” he wasn’t advocating infanticide but was just...
The Debate: Obama’s Affirmative-action Performance
Now, after the Denver dose of reality, can we finally put to bed the myth of Obama the intellectually gifted? Yeah, I know, after eight years of a media...
The Real Real Reason Romney is Losing
It’s comforting to talk about Romney’s or the GOP’s faults, which are easy enough to find, and believe our problems lie in our wanting political stars, not ourselves. “Why,...
10 Horrible Leftists People Respect
While image isn’t really everything, it certainly appears so when it’s all people are allowed to see. Here are 10 individuals who have Dr. Jekyll images that obscure a...
How Government Will Take Meat off Your Table
The British pork industry is collapsing, and it’s a story that should serve as a warning to all of us. Why? Because the agents of its demise have the...
The Election: What’s “Like” Got to Do With It?
A wise person knows that extreme likeability — especially in a person who wants something from you — can be a red flag. For an honest, sincere person will...
When Michelle Obama Starts Starving the Kids
Unprecedented school-lunch regulations have just gone into effect, and they suggest a new answer to the question “Where’s the beef?”: not on students’ plates — or on their bones....
Olympic Hypocrisy: Jokes and Jews Need Not Apply
Evident in Olympic rule application is something I wrote about mere days ago: the triumph of Muslim absolutism over Western relativism. Whether Muslims are right or wrong in a...
Al-Qaeda and Liberals Agree: Kill Kids for the Cause
Liberals are no strangers to using children to relate political messages, as the 2008 videos of kids singing for and paying homage to Obama prove. And conservatives certainly complained...
Proposal: Force Citizens to Own Guns
Conservatism is defensive in nature, being concerned with conserving the status quo, but never builds its ramparts high enough to be unscalable or wields its sword boldly enough to...