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Monday, June 17, 2013

SELWYN DUKE: MARCO RUBIO IS DEAD TO ME

Young, handsome and Hispanic, Marco Rubio was once hailed as one of the new faces of the Republican Party. But now we learn that he actually brings two new faces…...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

SELWYN DUKE: RISE IN FEMALE BREADWINNERS MEANS AMERICA IS A LOSER

When women start doing what men have traditionally done, yours is a civilization of the setting sun. This is brought to mind when pondering a recent Pew Research Center study…...

Monday, June 10, 2013

SELWYN DUKE: 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 schoolchildren…...

Monday, May 13, 2013

SELWYN DUKE: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MARK SANFORD AND BILL CLINTON?

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

SELWYN DUKE: OBAMA’S AND HOLDER’S SELECTIVE CONSTITUTIONAL DEAFNESS

  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

SELWYN DUKE:  AIRLINE PASSENGER DETAINED FOR BEING A JERK

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

SELWYN DUKE: CULTURAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND GOLF

  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

SELWYN DUKE: THE SUPREME COURT AND FAUX-MARRIAGE FALLACIES

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

SELWYN DUKE: TREASONOUS OBAMA STRIKES AGAIN

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

SELWYN DUKE: WHITE AND WRONG IN PHILLY

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

SELWYN DUKE: WHY THE NRA IS RIGHT ABOUT HOLLYWOOD

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

SELWYN DUKE: IS POPE FRANCIS LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE?

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

SELWYN DUKE: WHAT THE GREATEST CATHOLIC THINKER SAYS ABOUT THE LATEST CATHOLIC POPE

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…...

SELWYN DUKE: MISSISSIPPI BLOOMBERG BURNING

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

SELWYN DUKE: BEPPE GRILLO, JUST THE WACKO WE DON’T KNOW

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

SELWYN DUKE: WE MIGHT BE MUSLIM TODAY IF….

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

SELWYN DUKE: 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 a…...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

SELWYN DUKE: LIBERAL CNN PANELISTS DEFEND MURDERER DORNER

“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

SELWYN DUKE: KILLER DORNER’S SUPPORTERS ARE PAR FOR THE LEFT’S COURSE

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

PRE-BIRTH INFANTICIDE INDUSTRY AND THE BIG FRAUD RELATED TO CLOSING FARGO ABORATORIUM

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

SELWYN DUKE: JOHN MCCAIN’S “RACIST” JOKE THAT WASN’T

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

SELWYN DUKE: THE MOST INTERESTING CAREER - HOUSEWIFE

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…...

SELWYN DUKE: WOMEN IN COMBAT - BATTLING NATURE, BATTERING REALITY

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

SELWYN DUKE: THE IGNORANCE OF ANTI-HUMAN DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

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

SELWYN DUKE; WHEN KIDS AND GUNS

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,…...

SELWYN DUKE: WHEN TEACHERS AREN’T SMARTER THAN A FIFTH-GRADER

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

SELWYN DUKE: BANK OF AMERICA FREEZING GUN MANUFACTURER’S ACCOUNTS

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…...

TOM FRIER: FACTS ABOUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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

SELWYN DUKE: OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU….

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

SELWYN DUKE: SIX-YEAR-OLD SUSPENDED FOR FIRING ASSAULT FINGER

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…...

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