Dakota Beacon
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
By
Selwyn Duke
on January 1, 2013 at 12:24 am
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…...
Monday, December 31, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 31, 2012 at 06:56 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…...
Sunday, December 23, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 23, 2012 at 01:06 pm
This is the piece that will never be published. Haven’t you heard? The world’s going to end on December 21. End-of-the-world hysteria is rather interesting. The Argentine government has restricted…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 23, 2012 at 12:50 pm
It has been said that to identify a liar, look for contradiction, because it’s hard keeping lies straight. It’s no revelation that leftists would like to effect gun confiscation (except…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 23, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Jail-bro, Jail-ail-ail-broDarkness come and me hate ma’ homeJail, me say jail, me say jail, me say jailMe say jail, me say jail-ail-ail-broDarkness come and me hate ma’ homePlay all night…...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 19, 2012 at 01:06 pm
It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick. It’s as with…...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 18, 2012 at 01:51 am
If there’s anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it’s that school zones billed as “gun-free” cannot be guaranteed to thus be. They’re only virtually certain to be good-guy-gun-free. And it’s…...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 12, 2012 at 01:44 pm
Providing another example of why judicial review needs to be reviewed is U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, who just ruled that North Carolina may not offer its “Choose…...
Monday, December 10, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 10, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Students at Capital High School (CHS) in Charleston, West Virginia have been regularly forced to stand during the playing of a song known as “The Black National Anthem.” The song,…...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 4, 2012 at 02:30 pm
Being just weeks away from reaching our debt ceiling and with frightening talk about a fiscal cliff, there’s much sympathy in Washington for tax increases. Even conservatives are wavering. A…...
Monday, December 03, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 3, 2012 at 03:06 pm
The Salvation Army has long been a holy-day season fixture in front of my local supermarket, providing some Christmas sounds and cheer as it raises money to serve the poor.…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on December 3, 2012 at 11:59 am
While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, it’s no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices — and unfashionable people. Among the latter today are…...
Saturday, November 24, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 24, 2012 at 01:19 am
Among the beautiful messages in the 1937 film Captains Courageous is one relating to thankfulness. When spoiled rich kid Harvey says to Portuguese fisherman Manuel about Manuel’s father, [H]e didn’t…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 24, 2012 at 01:01 am
When I was a younger and more naïve man, I sometimes thought to myself, “Boy, if I could just get a forum in which to express my ideas, I could…...
Friday, November 23, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 23, 2012 at 11:23 pm
There are endless “anecdotes” from the last election “that prove nothing about vote fraud,” as the critics put it. And one that would be comical, were this not a tragic…...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 20, 2012 at 11:26 am
Among the responses to my recent article on Democrat vote fraud were those of liberals who were happy to hear no evil, see no evil — and be the evil.…...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 15, 2012 at 12:40 pm
As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the passion lay on the right while the…...
Thursday, November 08, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 8, 2012 at 05:45 pm
I have never been so unhappy to be right. I’ve long said that Barack Obama would win re-election, and two weeks ago I stated as much in print. In making…...
Thursday, November 01, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 1, 2012 at 12:55 pm
If you want to know what Barack Obama and his fellow travelers have planned for us, you need look only at what their cutting-edge cousins have already implemented overseas. For…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on November 1, 2012 at 12:50 pm
While many points have been made about this campaign’s contraception controversy, there’s one that I haven’t yet heard anyone mention. Why do we accept contraception as a women’s issue? After…...
Thursday, October 25, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 25, 2012 at 02:48 pm
Calling someone a liar is a serious accusation. This is why, aside from the unwritten contract allowing for mutual prevarication, politicians are so reluctant to do it. And not just…...
Thursday, October 18, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 18, 2012 at 12:59 pm
You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p’s and q’s in last night’s presidential debate. But…...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 16, 2012 at 01:35 pm
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 diocese-wide…...
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 16, 2012 at 01:24 pm
When Joe Biden was asked about abortion in the vice-presidential debate last Thursday, he replied with what, in part, has become boilerplate. “I accept my church’s position on abortion…” he…...
Monday, October 15, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 15, 2012 at 03:54 pm
Is there a human being on this Earth more obnoxious than Joe Biden? It appears that the following was his strategy in the vice-presidential debate: Okay, I’ll smile wide like…...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 10, 2012 at 11:08 am
“Everything I heard today is true. But, because of racism I suffered in my youth, I can not turn against Obama.” According to conservative writer Lloyd Marcus, the preceding sentiment…...
Saturday, October 06, 2012
By
Selwyn Duke
on October 6, 2012 at 02:46 pm
Watching the debate on Wednesday, I truly can’t imagine Barack Obama having come off as the more likeable candidate. Continuously glancing downwards, perhaps looking for inspiration (I glance upwards, myself),…...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
By
Beacon Author
on September 19, 2012 at 11:03 am
"The Debate is not about the stimulus, the tax code, or the immigration laws. The debate before us is as it has always been - what is the role of…...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
By
Beacon Author
on September 15, 2012 at 11:07 am
After considering several topical issues for “Logic in the News,” I slapped my own forehead and went, “Duh!” At which point I started to gather my thoughts on this so-called…...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
By
Beacon Author
on August 28, 2012 at 02:08 pm
Dinesh D'Souza's documentary 2016: Obama's America opened Friday afternoon in East Grand Forks. It's an impressive presentation and the film has opened very well at theaters across the country. (A national media…...
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