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Monday, May 13, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 13, 2013 at 12:21 pm
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 supporters with Bill Clinton’s.…...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 8, 2013 at 09:22 am
Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, “selective deafness” is when one hears only what is convenient. The same failing manifests itself in government when politicians and judges hear the…...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 1, 2013 at 08:57 am
The bigger the government, the greater the opportunity to seek revenge by state action. This has been demonstrated throughout history, and now current events are teaching the same lesson. The…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on May 1, 2013 at 08:57 am
The bigger the government, the greater the opportunity to seek revenge by state action. This has been demonstrated throughout history, and now current events are teaching the same lesson. The…...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on April 30, 2013 at 09:37 am
Whatever happened to that 14-year-old Asian golf phenom who aspired to play the PGA Tour? She made tens of millions of dollars based on hype, and he became the…...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on April 2, 2013 at 09:36 am
With cultural defenders such as some of our conservatives, who needs liberals? One could draw this conclusion when observing the Proposition 8 case currently before the Supreme Court. So far…...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 27, 2013 at 08:50 am
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 with the Chinese Liberation…...
Friday, March 22, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 22, 2013 at 08:48 am
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 recent "Being White…...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 20, 2013 at 12:15 pm
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 slumber, and its scenery…...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 19, 2013 at 11:53 am
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 conservative" based on…...
Friday, March 15, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 15, 2013 at 02:43 am
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 headline, “Pope…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 15, 2013 at 02:37 am
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 us…...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 13, 2013 at 09:13 am
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 derriere is…...
Friday, March 08, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 8, 2013 at 12:00 pm
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 realm…...
Friday, March 01, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 1, 2013 at 09:46 am
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…...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 19, 2013 at 11:31 am
“Modern liberalism is moral dysfunction.” When I recently made that statement after citing leftist social-media support for murderer Christopher Dorner, some readers thought I’d gone overboard. Surely, the twisted rooting…...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 12, 2013 at 10:11 am
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, but an…...
Monday, February 11, 2013
By
Beacon Author
on February 11, 2013 at 11:50 am
512 1st Ave N Fargo, ND 58102(701) 298-9999 The caterwauling from the supporters of pre-birth infanticide/eugenics is amazingly comical. Characteristically they will never, never, never ever go near the reality…...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 6, 2013 at 11:03 am
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. The issue arose when…...
Monday, February 04, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 4, 2013 at 12:22 pm
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…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 4, 2013 at 12:08 pm
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 combat positions. Their presence will reduce unit…...
Thursday, January 24, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 24, 2013 at 03:46 am
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 today more leftists…...
Friday, January 11, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 11, 2013 at 11:42 am
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,…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 11, 2013 at 11:21 am
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 things partially because of emphasis…...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 9, 2013 at 12:49 pm
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 Spirit Arms Joe…...
By
Beacon Author
on January 9, 2013 at 12:36 pm
FACTS ABOUT PLANNED PARENHOOD. Planned Parenthood released its annual report covering FY 2011-2012, which contains figures for services provided for calendar year 2011.Some highlights:* During fiscal year 2011-2012, Planned Parenthood…...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 8, 2013 at 01:13 pm
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 Barack…...
Saturday, January 05, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 5, 2013 at 02:04 pm
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 elementary…...
Monday, December 31, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 31, 2012 at 10:24 pm
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 liberals’ seeming inability to…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 31, 2012 at 04:56 pm
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 him…...
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