About: Selwyn Duke
Posts by Selwyn Duke
Resurrecting the Right-wing Militia Bogeyman
The Southern Poverty Law Center is up to its old tricks, demonizing conservatives and playing the race card for profit. ...
Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb
It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb. ...
India Throws Monkey Wrench into West’s Global Warming Agenda
In bold defiance of the global-warming agenda, India is making it known that it rejects the science underpinning anthropogenic (human caused) climate-change theory. ...
Another Minimum Wage Hike: But Will It Help?
In another example of turning lemonade into lemons in economically troubled times, the federal minimum wage increased yesterday from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It's certainly a...
Mom Arrested for Having Fat Son
While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia's religious police, called "The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," we do have our own strange...
Obama Regulatory Pick’s Pro-animal Rights and Anti-First Amendment Activism
It's not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn't share late writer William F. Buckley's sentiment that "I would rather be governed by 400 people out of the phone...
Rigged Honduran Election Results Found in Computers
While much of the world has lined up with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, time and truth do not seem to be his cause's friend. The latest...
Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts
The Senate has just passed the greatest expansion of federal hate-crime "protections" since the legislation's inception in 1968. While the original law was limited to crimes motivated by race,...
Should Taxes Pay for Abortion, Secularism?
Washington, D.C., would be able to use tax money to fund abortions under a $768 million spending bill passed by the House on July 16. An AP story carried...
The Prejudice of Atheists
Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments. The latest attack is a lawsuit...
A Chicken in Every Pot and Healthcare for All
You're going to be healthy — whether you like it or not. The Obama administration is pushing for a national healthcare bill this summer and Democrats in the Senate...
Bailing Out Minority Broadcasters
If you understand the relative superiority of the free market, none of our government's recent business bailouts will find favor with you. Yet, while Uncle Sam's involvement in the...
Bruno: Some Dare Call It Art
If art imitates life, then life is starting to seem an awful lot like death. This occurs to me when I think about Bruno, the latest film disgorged by...
Death in Russia: “Killing Girls”
Sad though it is, man has seldom had much trouble killing his youngest fellows. If the ancient Spartans perceived any imperfection in a child, for instance, they would “expose”...
School Bans Girl from Wearing Pro-life T-shirt
Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates that it certainly can — and...