Selwyn Duke column
Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily and American Thinker. He has also contributed to college textbooks published by Gale – Cengage Learning, has appeared on television and is a frequent guest on radio. His website is www.SelwynDuke.com.

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Did anti-white, DEI bias steal a state final spot from a white basketball team?
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2024

Some say it was the worst call they’ve ever seen in high-school basketball. The scene was the recent NJSIAA Group 2 state semifinal game between New Jersey . . .


Why Conservatives need to stop saying 'My country’s not perfect'
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2024

A “Persian flaw” was originally a flaw purposely included in a handmade carpet because, the thinking was, only God could aspire to perfection. ’Tis true, . . .


Smartfood gets dumb: Bud Lights itself with 'LGBTQ' Glaad Bag
Selwyn Duke
March 1, 2024

Move over, Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney. There’s a new brand in town finding woke ways to reduce its market share. I learned this shopping in a local . . .


Forget the laughingstock female SWAT team. How about one for 70-year-old men?
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2024

Too old? That’s ageism, you bigot! Canceled you must be. The idea of a septuagenarian SWAT team comes to mind after watching a viral video of a Chilean all . . .


'Diversity is a strength' is just something stupid people say
Selwyn Duke
January 18, 2024

What has so often struck me, and irked me, about the embrace of “diversity” dogma is how profoundly unintellectual it is. A wiseguy might say it’s really . . .


Constitution does NOT dictate that satanic displays must get equal time in public square
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2023

In the very tiresome battles over whether one religious element can be in the public realm without being accompanied by other “religious” elements that . . .


Claudine Gay isn’t the first, or worst, example of black plagiarism privilege
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2023

“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday. It must be a rhetorical question. . . .


For the West to live, immigration(ism) must die
Selwyn Duke
December 4, 2023

After expelling a large number of illegal aliens approximately 20 to 25 years ago, the Japanese government made a firm statement I’ll never forget. “Japan . . .


The curious case of Caster
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2023

Caster Semenya, the “woman” runner who made waves years ago dusting female competition while appearing very male, is back in the news. The athlete has just . . .


Hidden Marxism: Treating immigrants like robots
Selwyn Duke
October 23, 2023

No matter which prominent side wins in our immigration debates, the U.S. loses for a simple reason: The contest pits people who hate the point against people . . .


Medical examiner’s office source: “Only 1 to 2%” of “COVID deaths” were really COVID
Selwyn Duke
September 25, 2023

“Only one to two percent” of deaths officially labeled as caused by COVID actually were induced by the disease. The rest were labeled as COVID but actually . . .


Charles Barkley calls WNBA, which loses $10 million yearly, 'a great product'
Selwyn Duke
April 7, 2023

Is basketball great Charles Barkley a socialist? He certainly talked a bit like one recently, though it wouldn’t really be fair to thus label him. It’s . . .


My letter to the Minn. official who demanded parents respect their kids’ identities
Selwyn Duke
April 5, 2023

Not long ago, footage surfaced of Minnesota lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan lecturing kindly instructing parents on how to raise their children. Seeming . . .


If the mentally ill 'mustn’t own guns,' what about 'trans' people?
Selwyn Duke
March 29, 2023

The timing of the tragic Nashville shooting, in which a MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) individual killed six at a Christian school, is a . . .


Ben Stein is right (sort of): Black Americans have 'never had it so good'
Selwyn Duke
March 22, 2023

Recently, actor-cum-commentator Ben Stein was condemned in media for touting the “progress” the U.S. has made and saying that black Americans “never had . . .


The 'trans'-fem debate: The national version of 'my wife is always right'
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2023

“A pox on both their houses,” we may say, when wishing both sides in a contest could lose. I surely feel this way, too, with the “transgender” vs. . . .


Remembering when gun control was at least remotely rational
Selwyn Duke
January 2, 2023

A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.” Never . . .


Do we have to accept transgenderism if it’s ‘inborn’?
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2022

Question: Is the following a good summation of the argument used, starting decades ago, to normalize homosexuality? “Many researchers [are] taking a . . .


Isn’t drafting women an imperative of equality?
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2022

While I used to quip before the millennium’s turn that “I’m a real man of the ’90s — the 1890s,” the truth is that I’m more like Mayberry Meets . . .


Seared souls: How we abuse our children
Selwyn Duke
December 13, 2022

Since I’m going to be criticizing a now widely accepted phenomenon, this piece may evoke eyerolls from some supporters. So be it, because certain things . . .


The new voting system that gave Dems a GOP House seat is dangerous. Here’s why.
Selwyn Duke
November 29, 2022

Alaska’s sole congressional seat, which had been in GOP hands for 49 years, was recently captured by Democrat Mary Peltola. The victory has been touted by . . .


COVID-shot echoes: I had a most odd experience Saturday
Selwyn Duke
November 16, 2022

In “My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences,” I wrote last year about how within a short period of time I met three men at the same recreational area . . .


COVID amnesty? How about unconditional surrender?
Selwyn Duke
November 11, 2022

Brown University professor Emily Oster has created quite a stir with her recent article asking for a “pandemic amnesty.” In it, she calls for “both sides . . .


Circumstantial Evidence of Vote Fraud?
Selwyn Duke
November 9, 2022

Yesterday America voted, and there were some rather odd election anomalies — much as there had been in 2020. As for the latter, a bit of history:  . . .


As nuclear war looms: Does Russia have a right to its own Monroe Doctrine?
Selwyn Duke
October 6, 2022

With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus . . .


When Joe caved to Joe: The real Manchin con
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2022

Upset and disappointed, many felt betrayed when Senator Joe Manchin cut a deal with ultra-left-wing colleague Chuck Schumer and created the laughably named  . . .


Roe Woe: Manchin and Collins violate their oaths by stressing un-American stare decisis
Selwyn Duke
July 1, 2022

In the wake of Roe being aborted, some liberal politicians, such as senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.), are crying foul because they claim . . .


Tucker Carlson’s misguided attack on Republicans
Selwyn Duke
June 29, 2022

For the record, I believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson is by far the best high-profile TV commentator of our time. I frequently cite him in my news-oriented . . .


When a conservative is asked, ‘What is a woman?’
Selwyn Duke
June 28, 2022

A common way to put Made-up Sexual Status (MUSS, aka “transgender”) activists on the spot is to ask them, “What is a woman?” They’ll hem and haw . . .


Why Bill Maher can’t kick his Democrat Party addiction
Selwyn Duke
June 20, 2022

Comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher has of late been making some new friends and enemies and raising many an eyebrow. At issue are his Real Time monologues in . . .


You REALLY want federal gun control intervention? Well, here’s an idea for you
Selwyn Duke
June 15, 2022

Word is that the Senate has the necessary votes for federal gun control legislation designed to, among other things, pressure states into instituting “red . . .


Is the left agitating for war with Russia so it can cement domestic tyranny?
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2022

It has been odd and alarming watching the powers-that-be relentlessly escalate the proxy war our government is waging against Russia. It’s not just that we . . .


Alas, the best outcome in Ukraine now may be a relatively quick Russian victory
Selwyn Duke
March 15, 2022

It’s hard finding an American, anywhere, who believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a good thing. I’m no exception. War is ugly, and innocent people . . .


Gunmaker’s new “AR-15 for Kids” has left shooting intellectual blanks
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2022

A good response to the self-righteous exclamation “You let your son play with toy guns!?” might once have been, “Well, yeah, he’s too young to have a . . .


Anyone who’d cancel George Washington is an enemy within
Selwyn Duke
February 18, 2022

There are different ways to identify an enemy within, but one is quite simple. Anybody who’d cancel George Washington should be considered a fifth-column . . .


Killing civilization: They’re teaching schoolkids 'the narrative'
Selwyn Duke
February 13, 2022

For quite some years now, the term “narrative” has been common in political circles. It generally has a negative connotation as it’s used to reference a . . .


Hit back hard: Here’s how you defeat a racism charge
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2022

“You’re a racist!” We’ve all heard that often enough. In fact, as was once said in saner times about opportunistic patriotism, it’s now racism charges . . .


A black female SCOTUS judge won’t do a darn thing to help blacks
Selwyn Duke
January 31, 2022

When Joe Biden’s earpiece expresses, through his mouth, its firm intention to nominate a black female Supreme Court candidate, critics will say that race and . . .


Here’s PROOF that reducing “transwomen’s” testosterone levels does not eliminate their edge over real women in sports
Selwyn Duke
January 24, 2022

As most know, there’s a contentious debate over whether it’s fair to let men who claim they’re female compete in women’s sports. It’s a debate driven . . .


The global warming question that can change people’s minds
Selwyn Duke
January 22, 2022

Late last year, I got into a discussion with a fellow who was quite sold on the idea that man’s activities were warming the Earth. While not a hardcore . . .


If limiting the unvaxxed is wise, what about limiting fat people?
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2022

For the record, I’ve nothing against our friendly-fronted friends. Why, my favorite philosopher, G.K. Chesterton, reportedly weighed in at close to 400 pounds . . .


SCOTUS Justices’ COVID ignorance illustrates why they should stay in their lane
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2022

Aside from labeling herself “an affirmative action baby,” Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor once called herself a “wise Latina.” Given this, apropos . . .


God and Ego: Trump vs. Obama
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2021

A “great man knows he is not God,” observed the great and greater G. K. Chesterton — “and the greater he is the better he knows it.” This came to mind . . .


Missing the point: No, satanic Christmastime displays are not constitutionally required
Selwyn Duke
December 27, 2021

What does it say about a civilization when it feels compelled to place a satanic display next to baby Jesus at Christmastime? As a general question, you can . . .


Hey, UPenn “trans” swimmer “Lia” Thomas, I’m on YOUR side!
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2021

“Lia” Thomas, the “transgender” University of Pennsylvania swimmer who has become famous, and infamous, for making women in the pool seem like manatees . . .


NATO? If Russia conquered Europe, it would be an improvement
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2021

As we ponder how our day’s Dr. Strangeloves want Ukraine to join NATO so that we’ll be obligated to war against Russia if it attacks its western, . . .


Are you ready for nuclear war over Ukraine?
Selwyn Duke
December 8, 2021

“Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action?” So said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) while outlining what measures the U.S. could take against . . .


Three black men frame white men for a crime
Selwyn Duke
December 7, 2021

In case you haven’t guessed, my title is another way of characterizing the hoax perpetrated by actor and malefactor Jussie Smollett, currently on trial for . . .


Tucker Carlson is wrong on Chris Cuomo and brotherhood
Selwyn Duke
December 5, 2021

“Blood is not thicker than morality,” radio host and author Laura Schlessinger once noted. This comes to mind when pondering how Fox News’ normally astute . . .


Video: The COVID con is the ’76 swine flu fiasco on steroids
Selwyn Duke
December 1, 2021

In a social media feed Monday, I came across a 1979 60 Minutes segment on the propaganda surrounding the 1976 swine flu panic. Many of us had already heard . . .


Unsaid: Joseph Rosenbaum might have committed suicide-by-Rittenhouse
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2021

Why would you chase and lunge at, or otherwise attack, a young man who’s carrying a semi-automatic rifle? This is what happened last August 25th in the Kyle . . .


Kyle Rittenhouse Did NOT get a fair trial
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2021

Many people, even some notable commentators, are hailing the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a triumph for American justice. In reality, though, the teen rightly . . .


Hit the courts and fight hard! Without vote fraud, Ciatarelli wins New Jersey hands down
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2021

It won’t be news to many that New Jersey is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. This extends, of course, to its electoral system. Thus can it be said assuredly . . .


The “equality” blues: Feminists cry foul when boys’ netball team wins girls’ tournament
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2021

Gosh, has anyone ever really believed in Equality™? The Queensland Suns won the Nissan State under-18 netball tournament last month, and the wrath of many, . . .


A record? Twitter has had me 'under suspension' for SIX MONTHS
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2021

Maybe they want to see who’ll blink first. But I’ve heard of Twitter suspending people’s accounts (e.g., Nicki Minaj) and banning users (e.g., President . . .


FDA panel member on COVID 'vaccines': 'Heart attacks happen 71 times more often….'
Selwyn Duke
September 20, 2021

“I had a heart attack….” A bit more than a month ago, I wrote about “My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences.” Aside from citing a friend who . . .


When Afghan nation-building, did we remember the mandatory pig roasts?
Selwyn Duke
September 14, 2021

For the record, I’ve not only opposed our Mideast military adventures but also, in 2007, wrote an article warning about the folly of “nation-building.” . . .


Did Deep State purposely mess up the Afghanistan withdrawal to damage the Biden administration?
Selwyn Duke
August 24, 2021

The level of incompetence apparent in the Afghanistan withdrawal has been breathtaking. Even a smart 12-year-old, after all, would know that you have to . . .


My troubling COVID vaccine story experiences
Selwyn Duke
August 12, 2021

Along with many other commentators, I’ve reported on side-effects associated with the coronavirus vaccines. Of particular concern are heart problems and, . . .


Why every functional society needs fear of God
Selwyn Duke
August 8, 2021

To use a twist on an Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen line, millions of people hate what they think Christianity is. Far fewer people hate what Christianity actually . . .


Can we stop with the 'indigenous' bit already?
Selwyn Duke
August 4, 2021

It’s amazing how many people are trying to tear down present glories in the name of a past none of them have any interest in going back to. Bringing this to . . .


The truth: Biden is supposed to DENY HIMSELF Communion
Selwyn Duke
June 21, 2021

Years ago, because my best friend had some Polish connections, I’d sometimes attend a “Polish” Catholic church in Brooklyn, New York. Attendance was great . . .


How the left plans on putting boots on the ground to subdue Middle America
Selwyn Duke
May 12, 2021

It was said during our Mideast military adventures, and has been considered a truism of war, that you can’t really win a conflict without “boots on the . . .


Twitter suspends me for criticizing Cardi B
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2021

Politicians such as Maxine Waters can praise and encourage BLM/Antifa violence via Twitter, and they still have access. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamanei can send . . .


Conservatives need to start taking no prisoners and claiming scalps
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2021

One reason conservatives never saw a culture war they couldn’t lose is that they insist on using Queensberry rules, even as the Left fights no-holds-barred. . . .


The fight that lies between status quo and secession
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2021

With a stolen election, stolen culture, stolen courts and stolen dreams, many Americans are realizing that rule by the Left, absolutely corrupt even without . . .


The time for talking with the left is long, long past
Selwyn Duke
December 10, 2020

“People who cannot be reasoned with can only be fought.” It’s an age-old truth, one good people ignore at their own peril. It too often is ignored, though . . .


Me, Über Alles: The maddening reason politicians break their own lockdown rules
Selwyn Duke
November 29, 2020

There’s hypocrisy, damned hypocrisy, and the actions of statist politicians. Most of us have seen the pictures or heard the stories. Governor Gavin Newsom, . . .


With locally-run elections, a handful of big Dem cities now can control entire U.S.
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2020

Democrats have lamented how the Electoral College gives smaller states outsized influence over presidential elections. But consider what they’ve done via . . .


NPC: Joe Biden, the non-player character candidate
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2020

As with 2016, the 2020 election year is giving us the unprecedented — in this case, our first non-player character candidate. If this reference escapes you, . . .


Unseen and unsaid: The most telling character difference between Trump and Biden
Selwyn Duke
October 25, 2020

Something occurred to me recently while watching a post-debate Frank Luntz focus group. Comprising undecided voters who liked neither Trump nor Biden, the . . .


Is this the real reason they’ve been hidin’ Biden before the debate?
Selwyn Duke
October 22, 2020

Joe Biden’s tendency to now go into seclusion before presidential debates has raised many an eyebrow. His handlers say that, as far as tonight’s event goes, . . .


Trump MUST up his game for the next debate
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2020

President Trump is masterful at his rallies. I’ve never seen anyone work a crowd better. Able to control the microphone, he’s loose, conversational, fluent, . . .


Is this another reason the FBI hid the Hunter Biden laptop?
Selwyn Duke
October 18, 2020

It didn’t surprise the informed, and understandably a bit cynical, to hear that the FBI sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop instead of seeking justice. The bureau . . .


Mike Pence got the debate buzz, but Obama is the real lord of the flies
Selwyn Duke
October 9, 2020

The leftist community is all abuzz about a fly landing on Vice President Mike Pence’s head, and remaining there for a few minutes, during Wednesday’s debate . . .


Shameful moderator bias at the vice presidential debate
Selwyn Duke
October 8, 2020

One tragedy of this election season, as with all modern election seasons, is that the Democrats’ radicalism is being hidden from the American people by a . . .


White Radicals? ANTIFA.com STILL goes to Biden for President webpage
Selwyn Duke
October 1, 2020

If KKK.com or AryanNation.com redirected to the Trump/Pence campaign website, it would be a major story that the media would use, mercilessly, to tar the . . .


Amy Coney Barrett and the zealots
Selwyn Duke
September 28, 2020

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is in the grip of “dogmas.” So goes a criticism made, ironically, by the most dogmatic of people. In fact, the gripe . . .


The Democrats’ war on blacks
Selwyn Duke
September 16, 2020

When hearing talk of Democrats’ war on blacks, some may think of the 92 percent of black homicide victims murdered by other blacks mainly in Democrat-run . . .


Hillary Clinton, malevolent child
Selwyn Duke
August 22, 2020

Donald Trump is “denigrating” our “democracy,” said Hillary Clinton in the October 19, 2016, presidential debate, responding to Trump’s statement that . . .


The coming collapse of the Republic
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2020

“We’re just one election away from full-blown socialism,” a man recently said to me during a short conversation. This sentiment has become increasingly . . .


Gorsuch the pharisee and textualist fool
Selwyn Duke
June 24, 2020

The Supreme Court’s recent opinion that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against “sex” discrimination offers protections for the “LGBT” . . .


Culture rape: Our forefathers condemned as immoral — by the worst lowlifes among us
Selwyn Duke
June 17, 2020

As statues again come down as our culture is further torn up, something goes unsaid and often unnoticed: Notable Western historical figures are being . . .


Devolution to revolution: An already demoralized U.S. is now being destabilized
Selwyn Duke
June 12, 2020

The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back — the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd rioting — illustrate . . .


“Defund the police”? The method to the left’s madness
Selwyn Duke
June 7, 2020

Dismantling the police, a measure already proposed in Minneapolis, makes about as much sense as eliminating doctors or farmers and would likewise lead to pain . . .


On George Floyd: There is NOTHING to protest
Selwyn Duke
June 1, 2020

With the mayhem following the last Monday death of arrestee George Floyd, many have pointed out that protesting is fine, but rioting is not. While obviously . . .


A Wizard of Oz virus: The COVID-19 hoax
Selwyn Duke
May 4, 2020

When I speak of a hoax and The Virus, I don’t mean there isn’t in our population a pathogen identified as SARS-CoV-2 or, as the “unwoke” might say, the . . .


Why accepting even two million COVID-19 deaths may be better than a national lockdown
Selwyn Duke
April 7, 2020

We've heard much during the Wuhan flu crisis about a "worst-case scenario" of two million dead Americans, a staggering number. But missing from the national . . .


Would a victorious Joe Biden be removed for mental incapacity?
Selwyn Duke
March 11, 2020

The Democratic Party is now confronted with a dilemma. Its two possible presidential nominees are perhaps equally unpalatable, though for different reasons. . . .


Big tech's civilization-busting bias
Selwyn Duke
March 9, 2020

If you could transport yourself back to the Middle Ages and tell people that living things too small to see can cause disease, they'd think you were crazy. . . .


"Trans" men vs. women: Feminists created the monster now devouring women's sports
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2020

Here's a question to ponder: If people think the male-female athletics performance gap is very slight, will they be more or less likely to oppose having men . . .


The myth of Bernie Sanders's honesty
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2020

Ah, feel the Bern. Love him or hate him – and avowed socialist Bernie Sanders does evoke extremes in feeling – even conservatives will credit him . . .


Dems' impeachment strategy isn't to win over the Senate, but DEFEAT the Senate
Selwyn Duke
January 28, 2020

A common belief among conservatives is that Democrats have blundered in their impeachment trial argumentation, that they've shot themselves in the foot. Perhaps . . .


Killing civilization: The great equality farce
Selwyn Duke
January 12, 2020

For the West to live, equality must die. By the latter I mean equality dogma, and a recent video I stumbled across again brought this issue to mind. It was part . . .


Is Pelosi timing the impeachment articles' release so as to damage Bernie?
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2020

The conventional wisdom regarding Nancy Pelosi's holding of the impeachment articles is that, as someone put it, she'd pulled the pin on the grenade and then . . .


On how evangelicals can support Trump, both libs and conservatives get it wrong
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2019

With both the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes having fizzled and the "legal" means for President Trump's removal perhaps exhausted, at least for now, the Left appears . . .


How Democrats could undo Trump's "lasting legacy" in the courts
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2019

To the delight of conservatives and dismay of liberals, President Trump is doing more to reshape the American judiciary than any president in recent memory. It . . .


The Democrats' one-night stand with the Founders
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2019

"I'll respect you in the morning" is what I half expect to hear. Of course, the Democrats now invoking the Founding Fathers' memory in their effort to impeach . . .


Perils of the left: The unrecognized, profound danger of Elizabeth Warren
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren, one-time Indian and beer drinker, would make a very dangerous president. This isn't just because of her policies, which include ending . . .


Lieutenant Colonel Vindman as Ukrainian asset?
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2019

The Army's answer to Seinfeld's George Costanza, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, made quite the statement Tuesday when admitting under oath that he was . . .


Katie Hill affair and its aftermath are signs of America's decline
Selwyn Duke
November 5, 2019

It's truly not shocking that a political leader would be a reprobate behind closed doors. From Caligula to the Marquis de Sade to Bill Clinton, the depraved . . .


Was Hillary's attack on Tulsi Gabbard part of a plot to destroy Trump?
Selwyn Duke
October 29, 2019

On the surface, Hillary Clinton's "Russian asset" attack last week on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard appeared the rambling of a bitter, perhaps unhinged woman. One observer . . .


Bill de Blasio's great white lie
Selwyn Duke
October 3, 2019

When peddling left-wing equality policy, there's no selling point quite like claiming there are too many whiteys about. So when there aren't, you simply . . .


Why AR-15s are the plastic straws of the gun world
Selwyn Duke
September 15, 2019

How did AR-15s become the plastic straws of the gun world? It's simple: Demagogues need scapegoats. Yet just as banning plastic straws won't make a dent in the . . .


Millennial becomes unhinged after boss corrects her spelling of "hamster"
Selwyn Duke
August 16, 2019

Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who'll insist their misspellings of words are . . .


El Paso and Trump? And what rhetoric causes the shooting of whites?
Selwyn Duke
August 15, 2019

Ever since the El Paso shooting, talk of racism has been ratcheted up. Racism certainly is a problem, too, one accompanied by another problem: Those talking . . .


Murder, it's a Democrat thing
Selwyn Duke
August 7, 2019

With leftists seeking to blame the El Paso shooting on President Trump, guns, white people, and whatever other boogieman will help score political points, a . . .


El Paso: The real root causes of mass shootings
Selwyn Duke
August 5, 2019

In the El Paso shooting's wake, evident is the same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues concerned only about . . .


Someone told me, "Go back to where you came from!"
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2019

It's easy to laugh at people such as Democrat Georgia state representative Erica Thomas and her anguish at being told, as she relates it, that she should "go . . .


The left is following Communism's playbook for revolution
Selwyn Duke
July 19, 2019

We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the "Third Turning": an unraveling. The so-called Left . . .


Dead end at Bernie's: Sanders will never be president
Selwyn Duke
June 30, 2019

For those still feeling the Bern, I've some bad news: Bernie Sanders will never be president. This is first and foremost because he'll never, ever be the . . .


Hey, "Trans" men in women's sports: Good luck, fellas' -- go for the gold!
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2019

"Equality" cries were cherished by feminists when they gave females entry into military academies, boardrooms and the ranks of police; prize-money parity in . . .


You've already lost the immigration battle if you say this....
Selwyn Duke
June 6, 2019

Conditioned responses are funny things. One of them, the statement that they're "probably all nice people" – oft used when discussing illegal migrants  . . .


Taming the bench: MAGA means ending the precedent of judicial precedent
Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2019

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the . . .


Man claims NYC officials are abetting neighbor's theft of his property
Selwyn Duke
April 9, 2019

A man's home is supposed to be his castle. But this is no longer the case in New York City, according to a Brooklyn man who says that Big Apple officials are . . .


Gov. Northam and the guy who said: Kill people in mixed-race relationships
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2019

It's certainly a sign of the times that Governor Ralph Northam's resignation has been demanded not because of an apparent endorsement of infanticide, but . . .


The ultimate irony of the 'Native American Elder' and the MAGA hat kids
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2019

This past weekend's big news was a big media frame-up of kids and the beating of a leftist drum by a little Indian. There's no need now to elaborate on how the . . .


Restoring civilization: We can't MAGA unless we MAMA
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2018

They can sense it. They can feel it. Something is seriously wrong in our civilization, and many people know it. This is why despite the relatively good economic . . .


Is Michael Savage the latest victim of TDS and the left's "pacification effort"?
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2018

There's a rather odd story that, as with everything concerning the man at its center, hasn't gotten much media attention. Or, at least, it would be odd if we . . .


American't: From midterms to end times
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2018

Truly great disasters come like a thief in the night. How many foresaw Rome's sacking in 410 A.D., her collapse 66 years later, WWI or WWII? As for today, how . . .


A glimpse into a world without men
Selwyn Duke
November 15, 2018

Ah, to have an all-female workplace, full of sugar and spice and everything nice and absent #MeToo turpitude and transgressions. Are you in, ladies? Well, . . .


Suffrage to suffering: Women empowered Democrats in midterms
Selwyn Duke
November 10, 2018

Well, ladies, you did it again. No, not all of you. But here's the reality: If only men had voted this election, the GOP would have held the House and picked up . . .


Is "statistics shadowbanning" the latest big-tech salvo against Conservatives?
Selwyn Duke
October 23, 2018

With perhaps the most significant midterm election in decades nigh, big tech's censorship of conservatives has kicked into high gear. And while Facebook's . . .


To deal with leftists, imagine you're confronting Satan
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2018

If you're a conned-servative who gets sand thrown in your eyes, your kneecaps kicked off and slashed with a broken bottle, and then still fights the next time . . .


Blasey Ford's curious omission
Selwyn Duke
October 1, 2018

There was something curiously missing from Professor Christine Blasey Ford's Thursday Senate testimony, something quite relevant to her basic claims. Please . . .


Stupid media and the claim that woman are better drivers than men
Selwyn Duke
August 30, 2018

There's the Stupid Media and the Smart Media. Part of the job of the Smart Media (yours truly, among others), though it does get tiresome, is to debunk the . . .


Time to put the Democratic Party on suicide watch?
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2018

There perhaps has never been a time when the Democrats did a better job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. After being well ahead in the generic . . .


Dem gun confiscator tacitly admits gun control wouldn't work
Selwyn Duke
May 23, 2018

One of the more despicable Congress-critters is Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a man with utter contempt for Truth. He was on Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday . . .


If liberals were animals, it would be an improvement
Selwyn Duke
May 21, 2018

If liberals were animals, if would be a marked improvement. For one thing, animals don't lie. Ever since President Trump characterized MS-13 gang members as  . . .


Why should whites be happy about becoming a minority?
Selwyn Duke
April 18, 2018

White people are finding it "difficult to adjust" to becoming a minority, goes the premise of a new AP history textbook – with the implication that this . . .


Parkland kids: The return of the grieving activist
Selwyn Duke
March 1, 2018

According to many gun-control advocates, 18-year-olds are too immature to handle guns – but are mature enough to advise us on gun policy. Thus we're told . . .


Are Democrat midterm ambitions the real reason Parkland is still in news?
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2018

Unlike after other mass school shootings, the movement from Parkland to propaganda has had tremendous lasting power. The tragedy's wake has seen sustained news . . .


Race and IQ: A high school science fair project ignites a storm
Selwyn Duke
February 16, 2018

We don't know the student's name, but we do know that he hit a nerve – in fact, he hit a whole bunch of them. Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at . . .


Time to remove socialist "huddled masses" plaque from Statue of Liberty
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2018

With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it's time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born . . .


Whatfinger News: What the Drudge Report was meant to be
Selwyn Duke
January 18, 2018

In this anti-establishment age, people are increasingly moving toward anti-establishment news sources. Many good examples exist, but as far as news aggregators . . .


Time to repeal the disastrous 1965 Immigration Act
Selwyn Duke
January 17, 2018

Question: If someone sells you on something with false advertising and it does the exact opposite of what was promised, are you not entitled to return the . . .


Leftist toilet mouths condemn Trump as they corrupt nation
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2018

President Trump denies having used a vulgar term last Thursday to describe dysfunctional Third World countries. Yet there's no denying that the leftist media, . . .


Killing Trump is Deep State's 'Plan C,' warns advisor Roger Stone
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2018

It's a shocking claim made by a political insider: The Deep State is so opposed to draining the swamp that it will, if necessary, kill President Trump to . . .


Leftist arrogance: why liberals need to look down on conservatives
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2018

Did you ever wish you could buy liberals for what you know they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth? A common theme among progressives is . . .


Truth on DACA: We've already granted amnesty to these illegals
Selwyn Duke
January 9, 2018

In our through-the-looking-glass world, we so often view matters backwards without even realizing it. Take DACA (actually, leave it), where even many . . .


The lib/con Utah school porn war rages on
Selwyn Duke
January 8, 2018

Recently I reported on the firing of Mateo Rueda, now an ex-art teacher after he showed 10 and 11-year-olds nude "artwork" at Lincoln Elementary School in Hyrum . . .


People Mag scrubs pornographic image to hide hypocrisy
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2018

Like most media reporting on the story, People magazine presented disgraced teacher Mateo Rueda in a flattering light. He was recently fired from Lincoln . . .


The decline and fall of American nationhood
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2017

It's a sad fact of man's nature that we tend to operate based on emotion more than reason. This comes to mind when considering how illegal migration, a.k.a. . . .


Misandry rises: in defense of men
Selwyn Duke
December 14, 2017

"Don't vote for men!" is the message of a recent campaign ad. Issued by Dana Nessel, Democratic attorney general contender in Michigan, what she literally says . . .


We can thank a flawed jury system for the Steinle verdict
Selwyn Duke
December 3, 2017

Much has been said about the acquittal of felonious invader Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the killer of young Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms. Yet while . . .


Breaking: Ex-cop making Roy Moore harassment claim is leftist, anti-Moore opponent
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2017

Few witnesses could be more damning against a purported sexual abuser of four decades ago than an ex-cop from that era. That is, unless the ex-cop has a hidden . . .


The real scandal in the Alabama senate race
Selwyn Duke
November 14, 2017

Scandals take many forms. If you could be transported back to antebellum times, for example, would you not find the desire to perpetuate the legal institution . . .


Atheism and the Texas church shooter
Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2017

"If God does not exist, everything is permitted," wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. Mentioning this in association with Devin Patrick Kelley, . . .


Why I oppose banning bump stocks
Selwyn Duke
October 14, 2017

The latest firearm-equipment boogeyman is the "bump stock," a device allowing one to fire a semi-automatic rifle more rapidly. Liberals learned of bump stocks . . .


Now, we know my mother has flaws, but....
Selwyn Duke
October 12, 2017

There's a disclaimer many of us have been conditioned to utter, quite reflexively, and it's something that has got to stop. When preparing a defense of the . . .


Democrats politicize Las Vegas before the victims' blood is dry
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2017

Before the blood was even dry in Las Vegas, Democrats coast to coast were pushing gun control. Hillary Clinton led the charge, finding time between fainting . . .


Would baby Charlie have gotten death sentence if not a white male?
Selwyn Duke
July 24, 2017

Would baby Charlie have gotten his death sentence were he not a white boy? It may seem an odd question, but there's a good reason to pose it. The poor child . . .


Trump Jr.'s email: Want to talk about treason? Okay....
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2017

The obsession with Donald Trump Jr.'s "Russian" email chain is just the latest example of what the Media/Democrat Party/Establishment Axis does best: engage in . . .


Wimbledon tennis: feminists preach equality while enjoying inequality
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2017

Could you imagine lightweight boxers complaining they don't get the money and exposure of the heavyweights, calling the different treatment "staturism"? This . . .


Muslim "refugee" called integration success -- then slit his boss's throat
Selwyn Duke
July 5, 2017

You can't make this stuff up. In a news article, migrant hair stylist Mohammad Hussain Rashwani was hailed as a shining example of integration in Germany. Ten . . .


John McEnroe is right: Serena Williams couldn't beat eggs on Men's Tour
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2017

It's a sad time when simple truths cause serious trouble. But that time is now, and a good example is how former number-one tennis player John McEnroe is being . . .


Was Mohammed a "true Muslim"?
Selwyn Duke
June 15, 2017

In the wake of every terrorist act there is the same argument. The voices-in-the-wilderness right will say, insofar as they're not muzzled with hate-speech laws . . .


Ten transgender truths for legislators and concerned citizens
Selwyn Duke
June 12, 2017

Whether you're a lawmaker considering a "bathroom bill" or some other "transgender"-oriented legislation, or a citizen pondering a vote influencing the matter, . . .


The great 'Christian terrorist' unicorn hunt
Selwyn Duke
March 30, 2017

It's amazing how stupid smart people can seem when intent on putting a square peg in a round hole. This is seen continually when certain apologists try to dig . . .


Trigger-warning Tyrants
Selwyn Duke
March 23, 2017

People like thinking the best of themselves, which is partially why we have "trigger warnings," "microaggressions" and claims of "taking offense" – so . . .


Trump could simply ignore court's order halting travel ban
Selwyn Duke
February 8, 2017

Does our current status quo make our Constitution a suicide pact? Thomas Jefferson certainly said as much, warning that accepting judicial supremacy would make . . .


Actress Alison Becker sends racist, sexist tweet
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2017

It's yet another example of Trump-era celebrity derangement. Comedienne and actress Alison Becker attacked me via Twitter recently, saying I "have absolutely no . . .


How to drain the judicial swamp
Selwyn Duke
February 4, 2017

It's no surprise the Democrats plan to fight against the nomination of President Trump's Supreme Court pick, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge Neil Gorsuch. . . .


Trump vs. the "Islamic Conquest of the West"
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2017

The irrational left, which means virtually all the left, is apoplectic over President Trump's executive order halting immigration from terrorist-spawning . . .


The Women's March and the real deplorables
Selwyn Duke
January 24, 2017

In a recent viral Facebook post, a conservative woman found it necessary to point out that she wasn't a "disgrace to women" for not supporting the Women's March . . .


Let's stop with the carbon con already
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2017

The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So we could ask: as we fight the global-warming scam, why are we using the language of the . . .


Even if the Russians did hack the emails, so what?
Selwyn Duke
December 31, 2016

"The Russians hacked the election!" say Democrats trying to discredit Donald Trump's presidency. Of course, their statement is deceptive, referring only to the . . .


Islam is the problem
Selwyn Duke
December 26, 2016

"Islam is not the problem," proclaims the Left. And if you say otherwise, you're a "racist," even though "Muslim" is not a race. Yet a fact remains: virtually . . .


Conservatives like "Merry Christmas"; liberals like "Happy Holidays"
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2016

Ah, liberals. They really are a breed apart (mostly from sanity). And a timely example of how we're a divided nation concerns the conservative/liberal dispute . . .


Petulant children whining about Electoral College shouldn't have the vote
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2016

There's a reason we don't let nine-year-olds vote. But what about those overgrown children who are nine between the ears? It wasn't long ago that Hillary . . .


Time for a complete halt on all immigration
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2016

Immigration today, immigration tomorrow, immigration forever? In recent times there has been much controversy over President-elect Donald Trump's campaign-trail . . .


Kowtowing to Kaepernick may have permanently damaged the NFL
Selwyn Duke
November 4, 2016

There's a price to be paid for everything – even for being politically correct in a "politically correct time." A new poll shows that the main cause of . . .


The terrorism threat: Trump is right -- profile, profile, profile
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2016

You do it. I do it. He does it. She does it. The guy down the block does it. Everyone engages in profiling – continually. For example, if you see a . . .


Another reason why Trump is right: no conceding a rigged election
Selwyn Duke
October 26, 2016

"Hey, lie just like Hillary Clinton and the rest of the establishment" is the message. After Donald Trump said he'd only accept the results of the November 8 . . .


No, Trump should not accept the results of a possibly stolen election
Selwyn Duke
October 22, 2016

Crooks on the left, cowards on the right. Where do we go to find integrity? One of the most talked about parts of last night's final presidential debate was . . .


More anthem hypocrisy: kneeling, yes; Confederate flag, no
Selwyn Duke
October 7, 2016

In today's politically correct schools, all types of divisive expression are equal, but some are more equal than others. A case in point is Wiregrass Ranch High . . .


Liberal mother pushes her little son into masquerading as a girl
Selwyn Duke
September 25, 2016

One of the characteristics of our declining civilization is that, more and more, reality seems like satire. A good example is a recent New York Times article . . .


Stain that would be on Obama's conscience -- if he had one
Selwyn Duke
September 21, 2016

While speaking at the United Nations Tuesday and advocating more Muslim migration into the West, Barack Obama likened a refusal to accept the Muslims to the  . . .


Islam and the West's Death by "Freedom"
Selwyn Duke
September 5, 2016

It can be a good thing to be idealistic. But you'd better make sure you have the right ideals. As to this, the modern West is quickly becoming something non . . .


"Sexism" at the Olympics? How's this: Why do women's sports even exist?
Selwyn Duke
August 22, 2016

My, my, there those feminists go, complaining again. This time the whining concerns supposedly "sexist" Olympics coverage. Their problem? Many journalists . . .


Athlete with no womb or ovaries but internal testes will compete with women in Rio
Selwyn Duke
August 6, 2016

With reports of dead bodies and excrement floating in the water, the threat of Zika, and the Russian doping scandal, the Rio Olympics appears the Frankenstein . . .


Whitewashing Muslim violence and blacklisting reality
Selwyn Duke
August 4, 2016

The media and effete powers-that-be have been twisting themselves into Halal pretzels Islamsplainin', rationalizing how a given Muslim terrorist attack isn't . . .


BBQ bushwa: When liberals drive other liberals more batty than they already are
Selwyn Duke
July 8, 2016

It's funny that liberals try to advance the caricature of the stuffed-shirt conservative. It's projection, actually, because "killjoy" could be synonymous with  . . .


School of Selwyn: The price of political correctness [VIDEO]
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2016

There's a price to be paid for everything in life – even political correctness. And sometimes that price is paid in blood.  . . .


AR-15 speaks! A new – and real – anti-black bigotry
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2016

Hi, my name is AR-15. Some of you know me, but many more of you know of me – through the media. But you may not know the real me. I'm that cool, sleek . . .


School of Selwyn: Orlando, Trump and Muslims [Video Commentary]
Selwyn Duke
June 21, 2016

After the Orlando terrorist massacre, are we going to be politically correct? Or are we going to be wise . . .


Missing the point on the "transgender" bathroom wars
Selwyn Duke
June 20, 2016

"You fundamentally can't change sex.... Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists," said former "transsexual" Alan Finch in 2004. This is a truth; however, . . .


Ignorant judge lets "trans" man legally change his "sex"
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2016

In an unprecedented move, an Oregon judge has allowed a so-called "transgender" man to legally change his sex from female (he had previously been allowed to . . .


Why morality is the only thing we should legislate
Selwyn Duke
May 31, 2016

"You can't legislate morality!" is a common battle cry today. It's thought to be a quintessentially American idea, even though the Founding Fathers never . . .


Glenn Beck: Fooled by Facebook?
Selwyn Duke
May 28, 2016

In the wake of reports that Facebook censors conservative voices, media figure Glenn Beck met with company chairman Mark Zuckerberg and emerged from the meeting . . .


Democrazy: Venezuela needs a military coup
Selwyn Duke
May 26, 2016

With Venezuela spinning out of control, it's said that U.S. officials fear a military coup. We ought to ask "Why?" Democracy on the brain can be a dangerous . . .


Drafting women: do we believe in equality or don't we?
Selwyn Duke
May 17, 2016

With Congress poised to possibly require women to register for the draft, reaction from the conservative pundit class has been swift and severe. WND's Jane . . .


I am Barack Obama
Selwyn Duke
May 11, 2016

It's always hard coming out. But it's even harder not being true to yourself. So, inspired by Bruce Jenner and other intrepid souls, I've decided to finally . . .


Boxing Barbara Boxer: Is "inequality the root of all evil"?
Selwyn Duke
April 29, 2016

"Inequality is the root of all evil" said left-wing senator Barbara Boxer recently, while lecturing a Catholic priest about Catholicism. Boxer claimed to be . . .


If bakers can be forced to service faux weddings, so can churches
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2016

As our Great Sexual Heresy continues its march onwards and downwards, state governments have forced bakers, wedding planners, florists and other businessmen to . . .


Death of America: Why this presidential election isn't as important as people think
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2016

It's easy to get wrapped up in men and moments. In the current election season, for instance, we may see a candidate appearing to embody all our hopes and . . .


Cupcake Kasich is a (rather dull) tyrant enabler
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2016

When Governor John Kasich said recently that he probably should be running in the Democrat Party, he wasn't kidding. Although seeking office in Cuba might be . . .


Did Justice Scalia already give us the solution to the problem of filling his seat?
Selwyn Duke
February 17, 2016

The death of the intrepid Justice Antonin Scalia has shaken the political world. If his successor's appointment cannot be delayed until the next presidency, it . . .


NAACP head can use bad language when complaining about language because he's "one of the best guys"
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2016

Perhaps NAACP now stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Cursing and Profanity. Don Harris is the white head (yes, he really is white, and . . .


How to avoid being raped? Just say no
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2016

As they circle the drain, Western societies increasingly start to seem like parodies of real civilizations. It's as if, to twist Shakespeare's famous line, all . . .


GOP debate: Trump was the winner
Selwyn Duke
February 1, 2016

Perhaps it was a first: a man winning a debate by not showing up. That's my take, anyway, that Donald Trump prevailed at Thursday night's GOP debate. Although, . . .


Is Trump the first "European-conservative" American presidential candidate?
Selwyn Duke
January 27, 2016

Ever since Donald Trump's rise to 2016-contender prominence, the rap on him, and perhaps part of his broad appeal, has been that he's not a conservative. And he . . .


The Trump love affair explained in terms even Beltway pundits can understand
Selwyn Duke
January 26, 2016

Donald Trump's rise this election season has been historic, amounting to something heretofore unseen in the annals of American politics. Given this, it's . . .


Trump, Cruz and New York values
Selwyn Duke
January 20, 2016

New York City values are going through the roof. And it's not just real estate. A prime story the last many days has been the GOP debate dust-up between Donald . . .


Donald Trump is a political and cultural phenomenon
Selwyn Duke
January 6, 2016

Perhaps it's not surprising that Time magazine named Angela Merkel its "Person of the Year." With her flooding of Europe with Muslim migrants, the German . . .


Hiding Malik's Face: To be or Not to be a Muslim -- that is the Question
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2015

"You ain't no Muslim, bruv!" As you may know, this statement was uttered by a bystander after a non-Muslim Muslim™ slit the throat of a man in the Leytonstone . . .


Where Trump is wrong on Muslim immigration
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2015

Donald Trump proved again why he's the man the Establishment loves to hate, suggesting early last week that we ban Muslim immigration "until our country's . . .


"Racial" and "religious" profiling now -- or death later
Selwyn Duke
December 12, 2015

"If You See Something, Say Something™" the DHS slogan goes (yes, it is trademarked). "It takes a community to protect a community," the feds continue.  . . .


Stay out of the Bushes: The best reason not to vote for an establishment candidate
Selwyn Duke
December 10, 2015

Would you hire someone for an important job if he admitted right off the bat he couldn't perform one of the basic functions of the job? Our federal . . .


Mizzou crew: the liars who hate the lie of academic freedom
Selwyn Duke
December 6, 2015

It could occur to one that the difference between "safe spaces" in today's U.S. and yesterday's U.S.S.R., other than the name, is the size. Here they're tiny . . .


San Bernardino shooting: political correctness kills
Selwyn Duke
December 4, 2015

There was a tragic incident of climate change Wednesday, or so Barack Obama might say. As I was driving home that evening listening to the still sparse details . . .


Hulu running homosexual-themed ad during family/kids programming
Selwyn Duke
December 2, 2015

What's worse for a business's bottom line than wading into controversial, divisive issues? Wading into controversial, divisive issues with the very . . .


Put "refugees" in FEMA camps
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2015

Roanoke, Virginia, mayor David Bowers has just created a stir by suggesting that Syrian migrants be placed in internment camps. I found his comments interesting . . .


Feminist teacher's lesson plan: discriminate against boys
Selwyn Duke
November 25, 2015

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. And inequality is equality – at least in the mind of Karen Keller, the Bainbridge Island Review . . .


Islamic influx: why a religious test for immigrants is moral and wise
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2015

With the Paris terror attack and flooding of Western nations with Muslim migrants, Senator Ted Cruz and others have proposed limiting Muslim immigration into . . .


Why Muslim migrants always = terrorism
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2015

What's the point in the West sending troops to the Middle East if we bring the Middle East to the West? The preceding is a money line, one that should be used . . .


Media nixing comments sections: When "civility" really means "political correctness"
Selwyn Duke
November 9, 2015

When leftists start talking about "civility," watch out for your freedom of speech. This again comes to mind with reports that some media outlets are . . .


GOP media takedown: a recipe for victory
Selwyn Duke
November 1, 2015

It's long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real. When CNBC's GOP . . .


Crock Boy: When the media get owned by a 14-year-old
Selwyn Duke
October 24, 2015

Take the money and run. With the huge windfall enjoyed by the Mohamed family – of clock-bomb-arrest fame – in "Islamophobic" America, one might . . .


The evil of gun-free zones
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2015

One thing worse than supporting bad policy is knowingly supporting bad policy. Worse still is knowingly supporting bad policy and shielding yourself from its . . .


Trump and the chumps: what's a serious candidate, anyway?
Selwyn Duke
October 15, 2015

Ever since Donald Trump rose to front-runner status in the 2016 GOP presidential field, we've heard dismissive talk about how he's not a "serious" candidate. . . .


What really drives Obama's destructive mideast policy?
Selwyn Duke
October 9, 2015

It's not a stretch to say that what ex-president Jimmy Carter did for Iran, Barack Obama is doing for the whole Middle East and beyond. Islamic State is on the . . .


"Gender-neutral" bathrooms, the mixed-up kid and homosexual dad
Selwyn Duke
September 10, 2015

The big news out of San Francisco last week was that it would register another first: a city elementary school is going to switch to all "gender-neutral" . . .


Liberalism created the WDBJ killer
Selwyn Duke
September 2, 2015

Barack Obama won't be saying, "If I had a psycho son, he'd look like Vester Lee." But he might as well. Because Vester Lee Flanagan II, the bigoted maniac who . . .


Immigration: the refugee scam
Selwyn Duke
August 28, 2015

Jeb Bush has called illegal migration "an act of love." And all over the West we see nations being loved to death, with endless human waves from Third World . . .


Surrender like a Boy Scout
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2015

There has been much written about the Boy Scouts of America's recent acceptance of openly homosexual scout masters. The organization has been raked over the . . .


They're just committing the crimes Americans won't commit
Selwyn Duke
July 6, 2015

With the San Francisco woman murdered by one of Barack Obama's "new Americans," we should ask: how much innocent blood will be spilled on the altar of the Left . . .


Cultural Marxism: Nobel scientist sacked for making innocent joke about women
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2015

We just heard about the Miami high-school principal fired for soberly disagreeing on social media with the McKinney narrative. Now comes an even more outrageous . . .


Colonization and cultural genocide -- and they call it "immigration"
Selwyn Duke
June 17, 2015

Have you heard about the millions of Chinese flooding into Tibet? With their displacement of the native peoples and the supplanting of Tibetan with Chinese . . .


God and evil: my answer for Michael Savage
Selwyn Duke
June 2, 2015

Torture, pain, beheadings, the murder of children.... If God exists and is all good, how could He allow such suffering and evil? This is a common question, and . . .


Biker shootout: libs going wacko over race in Waco
Selwyn Duke
May 27, 2015

Leftists are upset about what they view as a double standard with respect to the Baltimore/Ferguson affair and the recent Waco gang shootout. They're right, too . . .


Obama amnesty plan: legalize foreigners, "take over the host," push "citizens into the shadows"
Selwyn Duke
March 6, 2015

It was supposed to be a phone call for Obama administration ears only. But hear it the radio host did, she says. And what she heard should make your blood run . . .


Bill Nye on Muslim terrorism: Jews need to get to know their neighbors better
Selwyn Duke
March 5, 2015

It was a solution right up there with "Let them eat cake." Addressing the issue of Jews fleeing Europe due to increasing Islamic terrorism and Prime Minister . . .


How to win the Christian baker/same-sex "wedding" cake debate
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2015

A homosexual couple goes into a known Christian bakery and asks for a wedding cake for a same-sex "marriage," is refused, and then files a government complaint . . .


Why not one governor is qualified to be president
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2015

Our Constitution has become a suicide pact. That's the view of Thomas Jefferson, expressed in an 1819 letter to jurist Spencer Roane, when he said "If this . . .


The real white privilege and my radio race war
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2015

If you look for the worst in a group, you're sure to find it. Using a twist on an Abraham Lincoln line, I made that statement on the Mildred Gaddis Show (Radio . . .


My problem with Sarah Palin
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2015

With Sarah Palin once again hinting at a presidential run, pundits and politics wonks are all the more aflutter with 2016 talk. The predictable slings and . . .


The Northeast nanny-staters who are and the blizzard that never was
Selwyn Duke
January 29, 2015

Call it the Blizzard of Oz. The "Snowstorm of the Century" Monday was supposed to be historic. All we got was histrionics. It turned out that the real . . .


Muslims and the left's death by tolerance
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2015

Aside from the three Muslim men who perpetrated the deadliest terror attack in France since 1961, there are some other individuals complicit in the Wednesday . . .


Je ne Suis pas Charlie -- I'm sane
Selwyn Duke
January 15, 2015

It's so often the case that the best thing a person can do to improve his reputation is die. John F. Kennedy is now a legendary president, but would he be . . .


The deadly Paris terror attack and the myth of religion
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2015

"Another attack in the name of religion," I heard someone say after the vicious and vile Wednesday assault on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. And . . .


The bad Christian and the good secularist
Selwyn Duke
January 5, 2015

"If not for my faith, I would be barely human." That was the answer English writer Evelyn Waugh gave when asked, as all Christians will be at some point, how he . . .


When liberal preferences meet Islamic principles
Selwyn Duke
December 11, 2014

There was a recent scandal that, as much as anything else, illustrates the intellectual emptiness and moral ennui of the modern liberal man. It occurred in . . .


The bright side to amnesty
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2014

To many, the above title may seem much like speaking of the bright side to malignant cancer. And did it really come out of this writer's pen? Long a staunch . . .


Ultimate schadenfreude: Democrat is twice bitten, not shy
Selwyn Duke
November 17, 2014

There's stupid. There's really stupid. There's really, really stupid. Then there's Democrat stupid. A prime example is a Friday Wall Street Journal . . .


2014 election: blacks, hispanics, young and women still reliably liberal
Selwyn Duke
November 14, 2014

The best predictor of future voting patterns is past voting patterns, to use a twist on a famous maxim. This is probably even truer of groups than individuals, . . .


It's official: the Democrats are the party of the Devil
Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2014

Perhaps the first clue, or the ten thousandth, was when many Democrats opposed the reinsertion of God into their party's platform in 2012 and booed the judgment . . .


Does Barack Obama have blood on his hands?
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2014

Little Eli Waller will never grow up to be president. The four-year-old New Jersey boy will never grow up to be anything because enterovirus D68 took his life  . . .


The special treatment homosexuals demand
Selwyn Duke
October 27, 2014

There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness – and some would say gall – of homosexuality activists . . .


The rise of the professional slut
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2014

"There was a time when you knew who the bad girls were," someone close to me once said. "Now you know who the good girls are." And I hear that all three of . . .


Equal work? Government has no idea what that is
Selwyn Duke
September 30, 2014

"Equal pay for equal work!" the mantra goes. "Women get only 73 cents on a man's dollar!" These are oft-heard slogans, and we may well hear them again during . . .


Liberal BBC asks "Is sport sexist?" while promoting inequality
Selwyn Duke
September 22, 2014

It long ago became clear to me that, despite all the pretense, protesting and politicking, no one who has ever seriously thought about equality actually . . .


If you want to get into a really big war, elect a liberal
Selwyn Duke
September 13, 2014

If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals' watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, . . .


Immigration: the ultimate get-out-the-vote drive
Selwyn Duke
August 11, 2014

One reason predictions of a Mitt Romney victory in 2012 were inaccurate, say analysts, is that the turnout among certain Democrat constituencies – in . . .


Libertarian folly: why everybody is a social-issues voter
Selwyn Duke
August 9, 2014

There is this notion, one we hear more and more, that the Republican Party has to shed the social issues to seize the future. "Social issues are not the . . .


Muslim kills teacher in front of class
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2014

It was headlining AOL on Friday, a story about a woman stabbing a schoolteacher to death in front of a class of five and six-year-olds. The gruesome and bloody . . .


Iraq and the bloody price of lies
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2014

Western civilization lied and people died. It lied, that is, to itself. I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George W. Bush and the claim of . . .


Benedict Obama's invasion of America
Selwyn Duke
June 18, 2014

If millions of soldiers from south of the border were flooding our nation for the purposes of colonizing our land, we would easily recognize the threat. And if . . .


Why I hate soccer
Selwyn Duke
June 16, 2014

This article will be a departure from my usual fare. I will not claim there is some Absolute Truth deeming soccer the bane of humanity's sports. I do not . . .


Are most mass murderers really white?
Selwyn Duke
June 11, 2014

Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that's now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all . . .


How covering up minority crime leads to gun control
Selwyn Duke
June 7, 2014

Commenting recently on the Elliot Rodger killings, arch-leftist Michael Moore wrote that while "other countries have more violent pasts...more guns per capita . . .


Leftists cancel school honors night -- too "exclusive"
Selwyn Duke
May 24, 2014

It's increasingly the case in America that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A case in point is Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, Rhode . . .


Michelle Obama in 1954
Selwyn Duke
May 22, 2014

Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco – and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954. Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in . . .


A question for those who believe in homosexual Scouts
Selwyn Duke
May 21, 2014

Not satisfied with having pressured the Boy Scouts of America into lifting their prohibition against openly homosexual scouts, activists now want homosexual . . .


How demagogues con people
Selwyn Duke
May 16, 2014

How do you know you're being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the . . .


Where is the rehabilitation for "racists"?
Selwyn Duke
May 8, 2014

For decades liberals have lobbied against punishment and for rehabilitation. The argument was that a mugger or murderer was just a victim of his environment, . . .


The liberal media's Donald Sterling race-baiting
Selwyn Duke
May 2, 2014

Never let a racial crisis go to waste is, I suppose, the credo of the Machiavellian mainstream media. Since the release of the Don Sterling audio, liberals . . .


So what if Cliven Bundy is a "racist"?
Selwyn Duke
May 1, 2014

For the record, I don't believe Cliven Bundy is a "racist." For the record, I don't even care. Such indifference to that damnable failing, that thing we . . .


The New York Times discovers the rule of law
Selwyn Duke
April 30, 2014

Leave it to The Gay Lady to be a day late and a few brain cells short. The New York Times recently published an article by some journalism-school retread about . . .


Vladimir Putin Caesar and our great geo-political turning point
Selwyn Duke
April 25, 2014

We are witnessing, I believe, a turning point in geopolitical history, one future historians may analyze as we have the Roman Empire's fall. Vladimir Putin is . . .


University wants fewer whites -- fears "mediocrity"
Selwyn Duke
April 17, 2014

If you thought the "educator" who saw "racist" intent behind offering someone a peanut-butter sandwich was a loon, consider Western Washington University (WWU) . . .


Saving civilization means killing equality
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2014

If a famine befell us and you couldn't save everyone, would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve rather than endure the inequality of just . . .


Top ten things Putin said to Obama about Ukraine
Selwyn Duke
March 29, 2014

While Barack Obama's recent telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin about the Crimean standoff has been widely reported, the exact . . .


The plan for police nullification
Selwyn Duke
March 27, 2014

"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 . . .


Cop: I'd love to "bang down your door and come for your gun"
Selwyn Duke
March 13, 2014

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 your . . .


Razing Arizona: conservatives succeed at failing again
Selwyn Duke
February 28, 2014

Perhaps Arizona governor Jan Brewer was sincere when saying that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 1062) she vetoed yesterday could "create more . . .


Why Obama is uneducated
Selwyn Duke
February 26, 2014

A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on "white privilege" with a certain man, whose name is unimportant, who had a Ph.D. in "ethnic studies." At one . . .


Suing Americans under international law -- in American courts
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2014

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 . . .


Immigration and national survival
Selwyn Duke
February 14, 2014

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 . . .


America has lost her will to live
Selwyn Duke
February 7, 2014

Perhaps we should have chosen the turkey as our national bird, as Benjamin Franklin suggested. It would certainly be more appropriate for our times. But if any . . .


Divided we stand: a traditionalist manifesto
Selwyn Duke
February 3, 2014

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 . . .


Why is the Southern Poverty Law Center trying to crush a small Jewish organization?
Selwyn Duke
January 30, 2014

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 . . .


Thus spake the potheads
Selwyn Duke
January 14, 2014

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 . . .


Forget Christie, let's talk about big fat traffic jams
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2014

One unmentioned irony of the Chris Christie road-revenge scandal is that the powers-that-be finally found a traffic jam they didn't like. Now, don't get me . . .


Homosexuals get Duck Dy-Nasty
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2013

When I saw the headline yesterday about how "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson had commented on a certain sexuality-defined group, I wondered how long it . . .


When Britain savages itself
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2013

England's prestigious Oxford Union recently invited famed raconteur and talk-radio host Michael Savage to a debate on whether or not NSA leaker Edward Snowden . . .


White-washing Mandela's memory
Selwyn Duke
December 17, 2013

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 . . .


The road to genocide is paved with liberal intentions
Selwyn Duke
December 16, 2013

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 . . .


ObamaCare Lawbreaker in Chief: Barack Obama
Selwyn Duke
November 21, 2013

"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 . . .


Black supremacist who wants whites dead still employed by Obama DHS
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2013

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 . . .


The Obama purchase: liberals still can't admit they bought a clunker
Selwyn Duke
November 12, 2013

Many years ago I knew a couple who adopted the habit of being gratuitously defensive about one another. If you made even the slightest comment questioning one . . .


The last word on the Cuccinelli race
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2013

There has been much analysis of the Virginia governor's race in which Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe edged out Republican Ken Cuccinelli by two points. Liberals . . .


Marvel rolls out Muslim girl superheroine
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2013

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 . . .


There are lies, damned lies and Democrats
Selwyn Duke
October 31, 2013

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 . . .


Is Obama creating a martial-law-ready military?
Selwyn Duke
October 17, 2013

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 . . .


"Racist" L.A. police dogs think whites taste bad
Selwyn Duke
October 14, 2013

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 . . .


Why "equality" must die
Selwyn Duke
October 3, 2013

Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you: Prudence Justice  . . .


Pope Francis said what?! Actually, no, he didn't
Selwyn Duke
October 2, 2013

That NBC had doctored a 911 call for the purposes of making George Zimmerman look like a bigot was a shocking revelation. Yet cut-and-paste propaganda is a . . .


How to enrich or impoverish a nation
Selwyn Duke
September 26, 2013

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 . . .


Why millennials won't turn "conservative"
Selwyn Duke
September 15, 2013

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 . . .


The babe and the cynic
Selwyn Duke
August 13, 2013

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 . . .


The post-racial president's profiling: DWW (Defending While White)
Selwyn Duke
July 26, 2013

What would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of emerging from his . . .


Obama's dangerous racial hang-ups
Selwyn Duke
July 24, 2013

When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon," it perhaps didn't say much for him as a parent. And when the president now says that . . .


Total recall: why recall elections are a must
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2013

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, . . .


Holder and Zimmerman: will blackness trump fairness?
Selwyn Duke
July 16, 2013

While George Zimmerman has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly behind him. It's not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a platter, but that . . .


Women vs. men: who governs better?
Selwyn Duke
July 14, 2013

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 . . .


Obama: forcing Christians to eat the pork
Selwyn Duke
July 11, 2013

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 . . .


Trayvon, Rachel, and white privilege
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2013

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. And . . .


Treasonous immigrationists and the death of America
Selwyn Duke
July 1, 2013

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 . . .


Socially engineering racial conflict
Selwyn Duke
June 26, 2013

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 . . .


Where Serena Williams is right about rape
Selwyn Duke
June 24, 2013

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 . . .


Why liberals kill
Selwyn Duke
June 23, 2013

"Liberal institutions straightaway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough . . .


The bright side of amnesty
Selwyn Duke
June 19, 2013

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  . . .


Marco Rubio is dead to me
Selwyn Duke
June 14, 2013

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 . . .


Rise in female breadwinners means America is a loser
Selwyn Duke
June 13, 2013

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 . . .


The schools' sinister war on guns
Selwyn Duke
June 9, 2013

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 . . .


What's the difference between Mark Sanford and Bill Clinton?
Selwyn Duke
May 10, 2013

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 . . .


Obama's and Holder's selective constitutional deafness
Selwyn Duke
May 8, 2013

Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, "selective deafness" is when one hears only what is convenient. The same failing manifests itself in government when . . .


Airline passenger detained for being a jerk
Selwyn Duke
May 1, 2013

The bigger the government, the greater the opportunity to seek revenge by state action. This has been demonstrated throughout history, and now current events . . .


American arrested for anti-homosexual statements
Selwyn Duke
April 4, 2013

What does the Islamic world and Europe have in common? There are actually many similarities, but one is this: in neither place are Christians allowed to fully . . .


Bill O'Reilly vs. the Bible thumpers
Selwyn Duke
March 31, 2013

If an argument falls in a forest of confusion and nobody hears it, does it make an impact? In a segment with Megyn Kelly on the Wednesday edition of the O . . .


The Supreme Court and faux-marriage fallacies
Selwyn Duke
March 30, 2013

With cultural defenders such as some of our conservatives, who needs liberals? One could draw this conclusion when observing the Proposition 8 case currently . . .


If I were a governor....
Selwyn Duke
March 28, 2013

If I were a governor, the first thing I'd do is scrutinize the school curriculum in my state. For the teachings in the schools today will be the ideology of . . .


Treasonous Obama strikes again
Selwyn Duke
March 24, 2013

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 . . .


White and wrong in Philly
Selwyn Duke
March 22, 2013

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 . . .


Why the NRA is right about Hollywood
Selwyn Duke
March 21, 2013

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 . . .


Is Pope Francis liberal or conservative?
Selwyn Duke
March 20, 2013

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 . . .


Senator Rob Portman's homosexual descent
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2013

In another case in the annals of conservative "adaptation" to yesterday's liberal innovation, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman has just announced that he now . . .


Mississippi Bloomberg burning
Selwyn Duke
March 16, 2013

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 . . .


What the greatest Catholic thinker says about the latest Catholic pope
Selwyn Duke
March 15, 2013

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 . . .


Beppe Grillo, just the wacko we don't know
Selwyn Duke
March 12, 2013

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 . . .


We might be Muslim today if....
Selwyn Duke
March 8, 2013

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 . . .


Unmasking the Grim Reaper's foot soldiers
Selwyn Duke
March 2, 2013

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 . . .


Liberal CNN panelists defend murderer Dorner
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2013

"Modern liberalism is moral dysfunction." When I recently made that statement after citing leftist social-media support for murderer Christopher Dorner, some . . .


Killer Dorner's supporters are par for the left's course
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2013

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, . . .


John McCain's "racist" joke that wasn't
Selwyn Duke
February 6, 2013

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 most interesting career: housewife
Selwyn Duke
February 5, 2013

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 of . . .


Women in combat: battling nature, battering reality
Selwyn Duke
February 4, 2013

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 . . .


Joe Biden: No reason to ban AR-15s
Selwyn Duke
January 28, 2013

Okay, half-slow laughin' Joe didn't actually say that, but he might as well have. While defending his position this past Thursday that banning the rifles . . .


The ignorance of anti-human David Attenborough
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2013

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 . . .


When kids and guns mix
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2013

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, and . . .


When teachers aren't smarter than a fifth-grader
Selwyn Duke
January 11, 2013

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 . . .


Bank of America freezing gun manufacturer's accounts
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2013

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 . . .


Obama supporters are shocked, shocked, I tell you....
Selwyn Duke
January 8, 2013

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 . . .


Vote-stealing Dem pleads guilty to beating up girlfriend
Selwyn Duke
January 5, 2013

If you're a Democrat operative forced to resign for facilitating vote fraud, what do you do for a follow-up? If you said brutally attack your girlfriend, . . .


Six-year-old suspended for firing assault finger
Selwyn Duke
January 3, 2013

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 . . .


Hey, libs, what about the employer's body?
Selwyn Duke
January 2, 2013

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 . . .


Piers Morgan takes aim at the Bible
Selwyn Duke
January 1, 2013

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 . . .


What would Jesus shoot?
Selwyn Duke
December 29, 2012

A co-religionist friend of mine asked some years ago, "What is the [Catholic] Church's teaching on firearms...? Does it recommend an assault rifle or a . . .


Revealing gun-owners' names reveals truth
Selwyn Duke
December 27, 2012

A birdcage liner in my county of Westchester, NY, The Journal News, has made national headlines by releasing the addresses of county residents licensed to own a . . .


It's official: Mayor Bloomberg needs mental help
Selwyn Duke
December 23, 2012

Since removing constitutional rights is all the rage now, I have to ask: when does dislocation from reality become severe enough to justify involuntary . . .


The end of the world
Selwyn Duke
December 22, 2012

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 . . .


Proof the left wants all guns outlawed
Selwyn Duke
December 21, 2012

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 . . .


The Banana Republic Song
Selwyn Duke
December 20, 2012

Jail-bro, Jail-ail-ail-bro Darkness come and me hate ma' home Jail, me say jail, me say jail, me say jail Me say jail, me say jail-ail-ail-bro Darkness come . . .


Conservatives rationalize as America circles the drain
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2012

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 . . .


Time for schools to be gun-free free
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2012

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 . . .


Judge: "Choose Life" out in North Carolina
Selwyn Duke
December 12, 2012

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 . . .


Students forced to stand for "Black National Anthem"
Selwyn Duke
December 8, 2012

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 . . .


I'll see your economic collapse and raise you national demise
Selwyn Duke
December 5, 2012

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 . . .


Another victory for the anti-Christian grinches
Selwyn Duke
December 3, 2012

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 . . .


In defense of old white men
Selwyn Duke
November 30, 2012

While modern society prides itself on being unbiased, it's no exception to the rule that every age has its fashionable prejudices — and unfashionable . . .


Invasion of the liberal body snatchers
Selwyn Duke
November 24, 2012

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 really change . . .


What do we have to be thankful for?
Selwyn Duke
November 23, 2012

Among the beautiful messages in the 1937 film Captains Courageous is one relating to thankfulness. When spoiled rich kid Harvey says to Portuguese fisherman . . .


Maine's mysterious black voters
Selwyn Duke
November 22, 2012

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 . . .


Useful liberal idiots and vote fraud
Selwyn Duke
November 19, 2012

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. . . .


Was the 2012 election stolen?
Selwyn Duke
November 16, 2012

As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the . . .


Ebony vs. ivory: when Obama is 99% pure
Selwyn Duke
November 10, 2012

Perhaps we've discovered the real cherished "99 percent." Writing that "[s]ome Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday's presidential election," . . .


Obama calling: America's life after death
Selwyn Duke
November 8, 2012

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 this . . .


Third World corruption and the 2012 election
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2012

One characteristic of Third World nations is corruption woven into the system. When I was in India many years ago, for instance, I learned you had to offer . . .


On angels and demons
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2012

When actor and director Mel Gibson was asked some years ago about certain difficulties he had when making his film The Passion of the Christ, he registered a . . .


If you're not reading this, please don't vote
Selwyn Duke
November 5, 2012

"I'm guessing that as soon as I walk into the voting booth, I'll probably make up my mind then." So said undecided voter Kerry Ladka, appearing on Greta Van . . .


Can Democrat-leaning voting machines win election for Obama?
Selwyn Duke
November 3, 2012

Imagine you go to the polls and choose Mitt Romney on an electronic machine, but your vote comes up Barack Obama. So you re-enter your choice, but the president . . .


When feminists criminalize "sexist" speech
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2012

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 . . .


Why accept contraception as a women's issue?
Selwyn Duke
October 31, 2012

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 . . .


Barack Obama is a liar
Selwyn Duke
October 26, 2012

Calling someone a liar is a serious accusation. This is why, aside from the unwritten contract allowing for mutual prevarication, politicians are so reluctant . . .


Candy Crowley plays biggest loser with Obama
Selwyn Duke
October 18, 2012

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 . . .


Politicians, Catholicism and the false equivalence
Selwyn Duke
October 16, 2012

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 . . .


The truth on Biden's abortion malarkey
Selwyn Duke
October 15, 2012

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 . . .


Bus driver to conservative child: "Your mother should have chosen abortion for you"
Selwyn Duke
October 13, 2012

Actress Stacey Dash was attacked viciously on Twitter after she expressed support for Mitt Romney, with several people telling her "Kill yourself," another . . .


Biden's strategy: be a jerk
Selwyn Duke
October 12, 2012

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 . . .


My answer for Lloyd Marcus
Selwyn Duke
October 11, 2012

"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, . . .


Do we want Mr. Nice Guy as president?
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2012

Watching the debate on Wednesday, I truly can't imagine Barack Obama having come off as the more likeable candidate. Continuously glancing downwards, perhaps . . .


The sideshow at the DOJ
Selwyn Duke
August 26, 2012

Step right up, folks! We have here behind these mysterious walls curiosities to amaze and astound. See the lawyer with anger issues who'll scream at the court . . .


Hey, Fareed, you've got a paragraph; you didn't write that
Selwyn Duke
August 14, 2012

He really didn't. In penning his recent piece "The Case for Gun Control," Time editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria actually made the case that he needs to . . .


The Olympics and feminist-style reporting
Selwyn Duke
August 3, 2012

It's difficult to say if the greatest drama of the 2012 Olympics has occurred inside or outside the athletic arena, but it's hard for anything to compare to the . . .


Grand Mufti Emanuel's Chicago values
Selwyn Duke
July 30, 2012

When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago's political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the . . .


What everyone forgets when debating gun control
Selwyn Duke
July 28, 2012

In the wake of the Aurora mass shooting, the usual pattern is playing out with respect to gun control. People such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Piers Morgan and . . .


The Aurora propaganda award goes to...
Selwyn Duke
July 26, 2012

The New York Daily News. Hands down. The winning entry is an anti-Second Amendment Rights piece written in the wake of the Colorado tragedy, one in which . . .


Tea party targeted by "All the Bolsheviks' Children" (ABC)
Selwyn Duke
July 23, 2012

It wasn't just that ABC's Brian Ross was wrong in suggesting that the "Jim Holmes" he found on a Tea Party website was the same man who committed the heinous . . .


Please, no rice with that Romney
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2012

With the rumor that Condoleezza Rice is a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick, she's the talk of the town. She's so intelligent, so . . .


The real reason John Roberts upheld Obamacare?
Selwyn Duke
July 12, 2012

It's now well established that Chief Justice John Roberts had ulterior motives for upholding ObamaCare. The usual theories involve his being concerned about . . .


Arrest Eric Holder
Selwyn Duke
July 3, 2012

The House has voted overwhelmingly to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the Fast and Furious scandal, but where do we go . . .


The un-American sin of property taxes
Selwyn Duke
June 13, 2012

When North Dakotans went to the polls on Tuesday, they had a chance to strike a blow for freedom and make their state the first in the nation to ban all . . .


The immorality of liberals
Selwyn Duke
June 10, 2012

"I think he did the right thing," said the man, emphatically, in reference to Bill Clinton's 1990s infidelity with Monica Lewinsky. The sentiment, expressed . . .


Is this Barack Obama's brain on drugs?
Selwyn Duke
May 30, 2012

We all know the difference between normal mistakes and those that hint at a deeper, more frightening problem, such as Alzheimer's or another brain condition.  . . .


Demographic tipping point: whites now less than half of US births
Selwyn Duke
May 23, 2012

Bill Clinton once said that he looked forward to the day when whites were a minority in America. While he won't live to see such a time, a demographic milestone . . .


The real news today: Obama was always for faux marriage
Selwyn Duke
May 12, 2012

So another mask has dropped. Barack Obama made history Wednesday in becoming the first president to announce support for faux marriage. And on January 20th, . . .


Why the health Nazis are on the march
Selwyn Duke
May 11, 2012

They say "Jolly is the fat man," but perhaps not when he's being chased (and, I'm sure, caught) like a Frankenstein monster by the Body Cult crazies. And that . . .


Hokumhontas Warren's stupid horse moment
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2012

Many critics have called Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren a "racist" for relating a family story about how her grandfather had "high cheekbones . . .


Birmingham News drops the ball on black-on-white crime
Selwyn Duke
April 16, 2012

This past Tuesday I reported on the stabbing of white truck driver Nick Stokes by members of a black motorcycle gang called the Outcasts of Alabama. It's not . . .


Obama's America: why black grievance will never end
Selwyn Duke
April 13, 2012

When I was 12 years old, I played tennis at a certain public park in the Bronx. One day it got back to me that a black fellow at the courts, whose name I . . .


Police to white victim: we "don't mess" with black gang
Selwyn Duke
April 12, 2012

Most of us have heard about how the media won't report on black-on-white crime. We also may know that authorities sometimes sweep it under the rug due to . . .


Why Obama's birth certificate matters, especially now
Selwyn Duke
March 21, 2012

There was a time when someone could perhaps justify sitting on the fence on the matter of Barack Obama's birth certificate. There were those on the left who . . .


Was boy in K.C. fire attack burned by his school's racist teaching?
Selwyn Duke
March 8, 2012

The boy raised his hand, eager to answer the question. "What would you know about it?" exclaimed the teacher dismissively. "You're not our race." This was . . .


She's no fluke: is the word "slut" still relevant?
Selwyn Duke
March 6, 2012

A woman close to me once characterized the sea change in our society well. "Years ago you knew who the bad girls were," said she. "Now you know who the good . . .


When conservatives wax liberal: is sex a qualification?
Selwyn Duke
February 21, 2012

Is it a conservative position that only women are qualified to comment on abortion? A writer named Leann Horrocks certainly seems to think so. In an . . .


Are conservatives with Ginsburg or the founders on the Constitution?
Selwyn Duke
February 19, 2012

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Egypt recently that she "would not look to the U.S. Constitution if [she] were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," it . . .


Samuel L. Jackson drops the act: admits he only voted for Obama because of race
Selwyn Duke
February 15, 2012

Hey, Jackson, is it Samuel L. or Jesse? Actually, it's more likely that the actor was channeling Jeremiah Wright. In a racial-epithet-laced interview with . . .


How to win the marriage debate: the flaw in the Ninth Circuit's (and most everyone else's) reasoning
Selwyn Duke
February 10, 2012

The big news on the culture-war front is a federal court's striking down of Proposition 8, California's constitutional amendment protecting marriage. In a two . . .


A beating and racial slurs -- but no hate-crime charges
Selwyn Duke
February 8, 2012

Ah, the left-wing capacity for rationalization knows no bounds. While we're told that even substantive criticism of Barack Obama is driven by the hatefulness . . .


In praise of a do-nothing Congress
Selwyn Duke
January 23, 2012

Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it? It's always a disturbing experience when you're . . .


If Republicans want to win, they must rebrand "capitalism"
Selwyn Duke
January 19, 2012

One of the simplest rhetorical truths is that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. Yet, amazingly, we still see experienced . . .


The myth of bad Republican candidates
Selwyn Duke
January 13, 2012

Repeat a big Democrat talking point often enough, and it becomes the truth. There is a certain liberal narrative that has recently filtered down to many . . .


What conservatives and the GOP dare not say about immigration
Selwyn Duke
January 7, 2012

In a recent election piece, pundit Ann Coulter identified illegal migration as one of the two most important issues of our time. She writes that if we fail at . . .


Upset about Big Brother's ban on incandescent bulbs? Buy a heatball!
Selwyn Duke
December 31, 2011

This is just too good. Many of you know that in a few days the federal ban on conventional incandescent light bulbs will go into effect. And while House . . .


Herman Cain and the experience factor
Selwyn Duke
November 7, 2011

People use many words today without fully knowing what they mean — or should mean. "Tolerance," "gender" and "truth" come to mind. But then there is one . . .


Will Newt Gingrich win the Republican nomination?
Selwyn Duke
November 6, 2011

If slow and steady really does win the race, Newt Gingrich could well end up being the Republican nominee for president. Thus far, this campaign season has . . .


The tax plan that's better than Cain's, Perry's or Gingrich's
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2011

Bold tax reform is front and center this campaign season. First Herman Cain made waves and poll headway with his 9-9-9 tax plan, which involves national 9 . . .


Clinton's cackling at Cain takes the cake
Selwyn Duke
October 25, 2011

Upon watching footage of Hillary Clinton mocking Herman Cain in Afghan president Hamid Karzai's presence, one could wonder: would she really want to stack her . . .


Political persecution in Maricopa County
Selwyn Duke
October 13, 2011

When we think of political persecution, places such as Tiananmen Square may come to mind. Increasingly, however, this tool of tyranny is coming to our shores  . . .


"The black US attorney has common cause with the black criminal"
Selwyn Duke
October 9, 2011

According to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams, AG Eric Holder has a certain something in his wallet. It is a quotation — and he has . . .


How conservative candidates can give us a RINO nominee
Selwyn Duke
October 6, 2011

While I certainly understand the frustration of those who complain of RINO primary rise, it's important to accept the reality of how it happens. It is not, as . . .


"Why do women always....?": Generalizations and the building blocks of reality
Selwyn Duke
October 1, 2011

Recently I wrote an article about women's tendency to support statist candidates. As my emails attest, it was met with quite a positive response. Yet, not . . .


Morgan Freeman is a prejudiced man
Selwyn Duke
September 29, 2011

When someone insists on making negative judgments about a group, in the face of numerous facts saying otherwise, what do you call it? As most already know, . . .


The Security Sex
Selwyn Duke
September 21, 2011

We have all heard about the sex gap in voting patterns. This is the phenomenon whereby, in every election, women are far more likely to support liberal . . .


That presidential look: the bad, the beautiful and voting-booth realities
Selwyn Duke
September 16, 2011

While there was more than one reason why John McCain was a long shot to win the 2008 general election, a big one was something almost no one talked seriously . . .


When love was a warm toy gun
Selwyn Duke
September 13, 2011

In a way, commercials can tell you more about how we've changed than history books. The other day I came across the following 1960s TV commercial on YouTube; . . .


My solution: how to restore freedom of association and end government tyranny
Selwyn Duke
September 1, 2011

Unfortunately, many Americans have become inured to the trampling of freedom of association. You can work your fingers to the bone starting a business, and the . . .


President downgrade
Selwyn Duke
August 12, 2011

When Barack Obama promised change that would transform America, most never suspected that he would make history by presiding over the nation's first-ever credit . . .


The myth of white privilege
Selwyn Duke
July 29, 2011

Something must be wrong. My finances are in shambles; mainstream newspapers won't publish my pieces; and, no matter how much I try to convince Fox News that . . .


Three-monkey authorities ignoring another black-on-white "hate crime"
Selwyn Duke
July 21, 2011

Like the three monkeys who see, hear and speak no evil, our authorities seem intent on ignoring the true nature of yet another black-on-white racial attack. In . . .


MediaMatters takes another shot at stirring up anti-truth outrage
Selwyn Duke
July 14, 2011

It really is a shame when a media watchdog has a twisted nose that mistakes putrescence for floral aroma — and vice versa. In a piece published Monday, . . .


Noam Chomsky gets half a clue
Selwyn Duke
July 6, 2011

Of all idiots, none is so useful as he who can masquerade as a genius. MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky recently denounced Hugo Chavez, accusing the . . .


Politically correct Washington Supreme Court overturns murder conviction
Selwyn Duke
June 14, 2011

In 2007, Kevin L. Monday Jr. was convicted for the murder of Francisco Green and received 64 years in prison. The incident ad been caught on a 3-minute video . . .


Dalai Lama: "I am a Marxist"
Selwyn Duke
June 11, 2011

There is no better way to proclaim your lack of spiritual and philosophical depth than by, two decades after the fall of communism, disclosing that you're . . .


The American flag is "offensive" in schools now
Selwyn Duke
May 17, 2011

Increasingly, it seems that the American flag is joining toy guns and dodgeball on the banned-from-school list. And the latest story on this front involves The . . .


Importing disaster: demographic changes mean Democrat future
Selwyn Duke
April 28, 2011

At a gathering some years ago, I had a political conversation with a man who had recently arrived here from Denmark. He was advocating his home country's . . .


No, beauty is not in the eye of the beholder
Selwyn Duke
April 21, 2011

The American Thinker's Rick Moran recently wrote a blog piece about how some Catholics in France destroyed two of Andres Serrano's creations, excreta that some . . .


Yes, violence can be the answer
Selwyn Duke
March 24, 2011

It was the body slam heard around the world. When some Australian schoolboys decided to videotape themselves bullying 15-year old Casey Heynes, one of them got . . .


Wrestling with morality: boys vs. girls on the mat
Selwyn Duke
February 28, 2011

Imagine that you're a young adolescent boy. Like many your age, you're shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your . . .


Journalist in France convicted for anti-Muslim hate speech
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2011

We've heard a lot about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian whose warnings about Muslim influence in his nation place him in the crosshairs of the powers . . .


What Justin Bieber and General McChrystal have in common
Selwyn Duke
February 22, 2011

Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity. And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine. Excerpts released from an . . .


Dallas politician: "All of you are white. Go to hell!"
Selwyn Duke
February 17, 2011

Most of you won't know the name John Wiley Price, but he's obviously a man well qualified to hold a position at the Eric Holder Justice Department. What has . . .


Democrazy: Egypt and the eternal constitution
Selwyn Duke
February 11, 2011

A little less than a century ago, the West entertained the notion that WWI would be "the war to end all wars." Insofar as this was seriousness and not just . . .


The Independent's over-the-top anti-Catholic bias
Selwyn Duke
February 10, 2011

Except for those still caught in the web of the media matrix, it's no secret that the Fossil Press seeks to destroy conservatism, tradition and Christianity.  . . .


The Brit PM's limp-wristed attack on multiculturalism
Selwyn Duke
February 9, 2011

A sad testimonial as to the effete state of Western culture is that even ineffectual, feminized defenses of it are applauded as brave. Case in point: British . . .


The nanny staters at life's dangerous intersections
Selwyn Duke
January 31, 2011

Increasingly, our government reminds me of a certain old Star Trek episode. It was titled "I, Mudd," and in it the Enterprise explorers found themselves in the . . .


Is it time to expand the Fairness Doctrine?
Selwyn Duke
January 27, 2011

In keeping with the demagogue's credo "Never let a good tragedy go to waste," some among us are extracting as much mileage from the Jared Loughner massacre as . . .


The great race deception
Selwyn Duke
January 25, 2011

Just about two years ago, people were speaking of a new era: post-racial America. Well, it occurs to me that if we get any more post-racial, we'll have a race . . .


Walking short: the life and lies of Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Selwyn Duke
January 12, 2011

The obvious villain in the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy is the man who caused it, the very disturbed Jared Lee Loughner. Sadly, though, there have been villains . . .


Attacking the family: making the terms "father" and "mother" passé
Selwyn Duke
January 10, 2011

It seems that our neutered, post-Christian culture just can't do enough to vindicate Muslims' accusation of Western decadence. And the latest affront to common . . .


The missing link in the evolution of Barack Obama
Selwyn Duke
December 30, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) One of the problems with the idea of "American exceptionalism" is that it exacerbates a kind of complacency common . . .


Citizen, class warrior, Florida school board gunman...and good humanist
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2010

In the film "The Devil's Advocate," Satan poses as a powerful attorney bent on undermining man through the law. When he finally reveals himself to the main . . .


Ending the TSA madness: listen up, folks, here's how you win the profiling debate
Selwyn Duke
December 13, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we're missing a great opportunity. Sure, the . . .


Whoopi Goldberg's ignorance
Selwyn Duke
November 30, 2010

Since I'm well aware of how leftists' claims of erudition are as empty as their ideology, not many of their failures surprise me. But an exception came last . . .


You can touch my junk, but nothing else
Selwyn Duke
November 27, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Now that "Don't touch my junk!" has become a rallying cry, I must ask a question: What's with this youth-culture . . .


Profile Muslims or pat down the masses?
Selwyn Duke
November 20, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can't be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation . . .


Caught red-handed: CBS reporters' scheme to undermine Republican Joe Miller
Selwyn Duke
November 2, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) In a case of JournoList redux, mainstream media reporters have again shown that their business is propaganda, not . . .


When the Democrat Party left you behind
Selwyn Duke
November 1, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Many years ago, a very nice lady with whom I was having a political discussion announced to me, "I'm a Democrat."  . . .


The Democrats' final recourse: massive vote fraud
Selwyn Duke
October 29, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) The reports are rolling in from all over the country. A Craven County, NC resident attempts to vote a straight . . .


If you're not reading this article, please don't vote
Selwyn Duke
October 24, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) It has become apparent that most Americans simply don't take voting very seriously. This is especially true of . . .


Yes, folks, we all would legislate morality (psst, even you libertarians)
Selwyn Duke
October 20, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Really, I must be a glutton for punishment. During the past couple of weeks, I wrote two articles on . . .


Libertarianism's folly, Part Two
Selwyn Duke
October 13, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) In a piece I recently wrote about the dangers inherent in libertarianism, I pointed out that libertarians, by . . .


Libertarianism's folly: when the "live and let live" mentality becomes vice
Selwyn Duke
October 5, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) While there was a time when I might have described myself as a libertarian, those days are long gone. In fact, I . . .


Analyzing extremism: O'Donnell vs. Coons
Selwyn Duke
September 23, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Unlike for most Americans, the Delaware senatorial primary was not my first introduction to Christine O'Donnell.  . . .


Barack Obama: the man who would be God?
Selwyn Duke
September 21, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) When writing about Barack Obama's religious orientation recently, I pointed out that while I do believe he favors . . .


Bill Clinton helps the Republicans run against Bush
Selwyn Duke
September 17, 2010

You've probably heard that joke concerning what's actually happening when Bill Clinton's lips are moving, but sometimes the truth does manage to negotiate his . . .


The envious feminist
Selwyn Duke
September 2, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) People are emotional beings, often governed more by feelings than reason. And this is never truer than with . . .


Muslim soldier refuses deployment: won't be part of any war "U.S. army would conceivably participate in"
Selwyn Duke
August 31, 2010

Twenty-year-old Naser Abdo joined the U.S. Army more than a year ago. Now that it's time to be sent to Afghanistan, however, he's having second thoughts. He . . .


The truth about Obama's Muslim 'faith'
Selwyn Duke
August 25, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Now that Barack Obama has decided to be for the Ground Zero mosque before being implicitly against it (perhaps), . . .


Lack of intellectualism is losing the marriage debate
Selwyn Duke
August 14, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Judge Vaughn Walker's legal ruling striking down California's Proposition 8 certainly was no triumph of . . .


Hello, I'm a racist, pleased to meet you
Selwyn Duke
July 24, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here's an example: Leftists call conservatives "racists." . . .


Immigration, reconsidered
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans . . .


Why Kagan is unqualified -- and dangerous
Selwyn Duke
July 6, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme . . .


Barack Obama's Attention Deficit Disorder
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) While I'm no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis, I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama. After . . .


Would you rather have Obama golf or govern?
Selwyn Duke
June 30, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) After seeing Barack Obama's golf swing, I'm confronted with the staggering possibility that he might actually be . . .


Online society, offline civilization: how the internet is ushering in the end of the age
Selwyn Duke
June 25, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they . . .


Goodbye to one man, one vote
Selwyn Duke
June 17, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) If you thought that "one man, one vote" reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again. In . . .


Why Arizona should "racially profile"
Selwyn Duke
May 19, 2010

When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to be a "white male," I shook my head. I knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg's asinine musings about . . .


Cinco to midnight: the great Mexican end game
Selwyn Duke
May 17, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) Recently, columnist Charles Krauthammer expressed support for amnesty for illegals, while Newt Gingrich advocated . . .


Are the Church abuse cases problems of homosexuality?
Selwyn Duke
April 16, 2010

(Originally published by American Thinker) Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it is on full display in their treatment of Catholic . . .


The states must rise again: the only way to combat Obama's socialist agenda
Selwyn Duke
April 7, 2010

With the passage of ObamaCare coming on the heels of government takeover of industries and taxpayer-funded bailouts of the irresponsible, many are wondering how . . .


The scandal driving the church sex scandal
Selwyn Duke
April 2, 2010

(Originally published at American Thinker) We've all heard the story. Hundreds of young sexual abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of . . .


Our problem is a lack of health care -- the moral variety
Selwyn Duke
March 26, 2010

Originally published at American Thinker There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday's health-care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago . . .


And that's all he has to say about that: Tom Hanks and twisted history
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2010

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does. And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U . . .


Why many American Christians really are un-Christian
Selwyn Duke
March 1, 2010

Published by American Thinker In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion . . .


Time to turn up the heat on the warmists
Selwyn Duke
February 23, 2010

Published at American Thinker At one time some would call them "deniers." The more generous called them "skeptics." But now, increasingly, it appears that . . .


Is "journalist" another job Americans won't do?
Selwyn Duke
February 21, 2010

Published at American Thinker Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious. Worse still, since even many good . . .


Culture in the Rye
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2010

Originally published by American Thinker Many years ago, I was told a story by a woman I knew whose son had been diagnosed with "A.D.D." She said that she . . .


Obama's healthcare discrimination: making some more equal than others
Selwyn Duke
January 20, 2010

One thing we get with our mother's milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call "invidious" discrimination. For the civil-rights lawyers who . . .


What is more troubling than Pat Robertson's remarks?
Selwyn Duke
January 19, 2010

Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the earthquake was divine retribution. In . . .


Understanding the global-warming jihadists
Selwyn Duke
December 19, 2009

"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877. Today, anxiety about the weather is more common than ever, although it's . . .


Do not blame Barack
Selwyn Duke
October 6, 2009

Contrary to what my title indicates, I probably judge Barack Obama more harshly than most reading this page. I don't think he is just a misguided ideologue or . . .


Death of the West: our sexual identity crisis
Selwyn Duke
September 29, 2009

Perhaps you've heard the tragic story of David Reimer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1966, David was the victim of a botched circumcision that left his . . .


YouTube caught red-handed cooking stats for Obama
Selwyn Duke
September 24, 2009

News aggregator DrudgeReport.com is currently linking to a YouTube video of a government schoolteacher instructing young students to praise Obama in song. While . . .


Talk show host Michael Savage's website attacked by hackers
Selwyn Duke
September 11, 2009

A little while back, talk show host Michael Savage had to endure an attack on his character when the British government associated him with terrorists and other . . .


The race idiots
Selwyn Duke
August 24, 2009

With relativistic people, there is no such thing as a true axiom, yet you'd never know it listening to our modern mantras. We hear things such as "Our strength . . .


All the president's bigoted men
Selwyn Duke
August 17, 2009

When Barack Obama said that the Henry Louis Gates affair was a teaching moment, he spoke truly. But the key is ensuring that the right things are taught and . . .


Empty cradles, demographic destiny, and the death of the West
Selwyn Duke
August 13, 2009

While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good cinema, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction. With Greece's fertility rate of 1.36 children per woman — . . .


Why I must defend Barbara Boxer
Selwyn Duke
July 28, 2009

We've all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an . . .


Britannia ruled by knaves: Savage banned to fill white man quota
Selwyn Duke
July 27, 2009

When I first heard that radio host Michael Savage had been banned from traveling to England along with an assortment of Moslem terrorists and other miscreants, . . .


Can Obama spell "failure"?
Selwyn Duke
July 15, 2009

There actually was a time when an "e" ended a political career. Or, at least, the misuse of an "e." I refer to that fateful day in 1992 when Vice President . . .


U.S. News and hot, sexy chicks
Selwyn Duke
July 14, 2009

If you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy, the title of this piece may seem familiar. The film is a dystopian comedy about a futuristic America in which complete . . .


Gang attacks white family, shouts "this is a black world"; police "aren't ready to call it a hate crime"
Selwyn Duke
July 9, 2009

Many opponents of hate-crime laws have long pointed out that they will never be applied equitably. The laws exist solely to punish members of politically . . .


Mark Sanford and the left's Romper Room commentary
Selwyn Duke
July 7, 2009

There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative's fall from grace. Just witness the predictable feeding frenzy that . . .


The ugly face behind the mask of liberalism
Selwyn Duke
July 2, 2009

It has been interesting watching the response to the Honduran military's recent ousting of its nation's president, Manuel Zelaya. Barack Obama called the . . .


Which side really inspires violence, the right or left?
Selwyn Duke
June 22, 2009

Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder? Some certainly seem to think . . .


Stopping truth at the border: banning Michael Savage from Britain
Selwyn Duke
May 6, 2009

When I awoke Tuesday morning, I ambled over to the computer, as is my wont, and made my usual cyber rounds. I logged on to the Drudge Report and, lo and behold . . .


Why the law is foreign to Ginsberg
Selwyn Duke
April 27, 2009

There is an old saying, "A man who is capable of deceiving only others is not nearly as dangerous as a man who is capable of deceiving himself." Truer words . . .


Barack Obama: chairman of the bored
Selwyn Duke
April 16, 2009

Perhaps I was wrong about Barack Obama. Maybe his words can bring peace to the world. That is to say, if he keeps talking, he just may put all the world's . . .


Notre Dame's betrayal of faith
Selwyn Duke
April 6, 2009

When John the Baptist said to King Herod, "It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife," the price he paid was his head on a platter. He had spoken . . .


It's time for a Greed Czar
Selwyn Duke
March 26, 2009

With the recent passage of the "TARP bonus" bill, it's obvious that our politicians are finally serious about tackling the problem of greed. It's about time, . . .


How to use your children to annoy a liberal
Selwyn Duke
March 24, 2009

Since liberals place a premium on tolerance, the loving and charitable thing to do is help them develop it. Note here that, unbeknownst to many, tolerance . . .


We need something stronger than Steele
Selwyn Duke
March 19, 2009

Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors. In fact, they're much like actors, only, . . .


Obama gunning for the Second Amendment
Selwyn Duke
March 18, 2009

This will seem like a strange way to open a piece of commentary, but the gun owners who voted for Barack Obama believing he respected Second Amendment rights . . .


Obama: "I am not an animal!"
Selwyn Duke
March 11, 2009

Actually, Obama said, in so many words, "I am not a socialist!" in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter. That is to say, . . .


In defense of the white man
Selwyn Duke
February 24, 2009

While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it's not really true. Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and . . .


Giving Obama a chance
Selwyn Duke
February 20, 2009

Being a cerebral sort, when I ponder President Obama's seduction of America, I think of the story of the snake and the duck. To be brief, the snake wants the . . .


Defending the Pope
Selwyn Duke
February 13, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI has found himself in a maelstrom of controversy over his lifting of the excommunication of Richard Williamson, an illegally-consecrated . . .


Yes, Rush, I hope Obama fails, too
Selwyn Duke
February 2, 2009

Ever since President Obama (PBUH) dropped Rush Limbaugh's name recently, the talk-show host has figured prominently in the news. And now he is being attacked . . .


The artificial reality of the matrix media
Selwyn Duke
January 16, 2009

A common defense of error today is to say, with due indignation, "I have a right to my opinion!" Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant . . .


Our bailout culture and the beauty of bankruptcy
Selwyn Duke
December 18, 2008

The story of the Prodigal Son teaches a beautiful lesson about repentance and forgiveness. As you may know, it involves a lazy, irresponsible young man who . . .


The Ignoramus Americus
Selwyn Duke
December 15, 2008

There is often a profound difference between morality and legality, and, if this were a just world, a good percentage of the American left would be tried for . . .


The socialist and the stone
Selwyn Duke
December 11, 2008

When I was still within a stones' throw of ladhood, I had an acquaintance who was essentially a socialist. I can't say for sure he proclaimed himself as such  . . .


Race in the third millennium
Selwyn Duke
November 25, 2008

Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse "All in the Family" of not being funny. Its protagonist, blue-collar . . .


Obama: fear and the security force
Selwyn Duke
November 17, 2008

In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn't enjoy . . .


How Barack Obama will ensure his victory in 2012
Selwyn Duke
November 13, 2008

Even before the election, with the realization that a Barack Obama presidency lay on the horizon, many saw a silver lining in the cloud that drifted into . . .


The French first lady: eye candy and air
Selwyn Duke
November 11, 2008

It's hard to shock a man living in a planetary insane asylum, so it doesn't raise my eyebrows when I watch a people commit suicide. Nevertheless, I had to . . .


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