Dakota Beacon
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 26, 2014 at 11:09 pm
“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…...
Thursday, March 13, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 13, 2014 at 01:38 pm
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…...
Saturday, March 01, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on March 1, 2014 at 11:36 am
Perhaps Arizona governor Jan Brewer was sincere when saying that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 1062) she vetoed yesterday could “create more problems than it purports to solve.” After…...
Friday, February 21, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 21, 2014 at 10:41 pm
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’t illegal…...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 16, 2014 at 05:52 pm
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 drink called Brawndo. And even though…...
Monday, February 03, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on February 3, 2014 at 02:49 pm
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 and…...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 29, 2014 at 04:09 pm
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 leave is feet first.…...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 15, 2014 at 01:48 am
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 mention one sexual behavior…...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 17, 2013 at 02:53 pm
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’s how the youngest member…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 17, 2013 at 02:39 pm
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 apartheid.…...
Monday, November 25, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 25, 2013 at 04:53 pm
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 victims monetary assistance. Or having a bigoted…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 25, 2013 at 04:34 pm
“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 Lincoln, because…...
Thursday, November 07, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 7, 2013 at 09:04 pm
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 themselves with banal white…...
Saturday, November 02, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 2, 2013 at 01:01 pm
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 liked it…...
Thursday, October 17, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 17, 2013 at 12:40 pm
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 strange happenings…...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 16, 2013 at 02:24 am
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 we, increasingly,…...
Saturday, October 05, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 5, 2013 at 02:37 pm
Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you: Prudence Justice Temperance Courage Faith Hope Charity Viewing these, the Seven Cardinal Virtues, anything make an…...
Friday, September 27, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on September 27, 2013 at 04:46 am
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 obligation…...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on September 17, 2013 at 02:56 pm
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 constituency, or, as is the…...
Monday, August 12, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on August 12, 2013 at 02:45 pm
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 most, half jokingly…...
Monday, August 05, 2013
By
Beacon Author
on August 5, 2013 at 01:15 pm
Within the last three years, every state but Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia has adopted Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children…...
Thursday, July 25, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 25, 2013 at 12:25 pm
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, he writes: The recall…...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 16, 2013 at 01:10 am
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 course, it’s always asked…...
Friday, July 12, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 12, 2013 at 01:45 pm
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 Seleucid Empire between 175…...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 3, 2013 at 12:17 pm
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.…...
Monday, July 01, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on July 1, 2013 at 02:44 pm
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 understood that this influx would…...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 26, 2013 at 01:55 pm
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. Thankfully, a vast majority of…...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 25, 2013 at 07:30 pm
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 Serena Williams made about…...
Monday, June 24, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 24, 2013 at 10:08 am
It’s really hard to know today where the stupidity ends and the propaganda begins. MSNBC recently made news by labeling infamous segregationist George Wallace a Republican during a recent television…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on June 24, 2013 at 10:01 am
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 “economic benefits” of…...
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