Selwyn Duke's Past Articles

266 articles

The Bad Christian and the Good Secularist

published: January 05, 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 could call himself a Chr...

Ultimate Schadenfreude: Democrat is Twice Bitten, Not Shy

published: November 23, 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 article titled “T...

Welcome to EbolaCare — but the Website is Down

published: November 16, 2014

A well known phenomenon in the animal kingdom is that when taking over a new pride, a lion will sometimes kill all the cubs. We don’t know exactly what kind of feeling drives him in this bloo...

It’s Official: The Democrats are the Party of the Devil

published: November 16, 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 that the measure to do so had ...

Does Barack Obama Have Blood on His Hands?

published: November 09, 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 — quite possibly because a boy w...

The Special Treatment Homosexuals Demand

published: November 03, 2014

There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness — and some would say gall — of homosexuality activists. It’s not demanding that baker...

The Rise of the Professional Slut

published: October 22, 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 them are beside ...

Equal Work? Government Has No Idea What That is

published: October 12, 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 the fall ...

If You Want to Get into a Really Big War, Elect a Liberal

published: September 21, 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, there was WWI under Wilson, WWII un...

Immigration: The Ultimate Get-out-the-vote Drive

published: August 25, 2014

One reason predictions of a Mitt Romney victory in 2012 were inaccurate, say analysts, is that the turnout among certain Democrat constituencies — in particular blacks and Hispanics — w...

Libertarian Folly: Why Everybody is a Social-issues Voter

published: August 11, 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 business of government!” says th...

Muslim Kills Teacher in Front of Class

published: July 13, 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 crime occurred in the southern French...

Iraq and the Bloody Price of Lies

published: June 29, 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 WMDs’ existence, which wasn’t a ...

Benedict Obama’s Invasion of America

published: June 22, 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 some amongst us were aiding and abett...

Are Most Mass Murderers Really White?

published: June 16, 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 mass killers are white. After ...

How Covering up Minority Crime Leads to Gun Control

published: June 08, 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 in their homes…and t...

Leftists Cancel School Honors Night — Too “Exclusive”

published: May 28, 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 Island. Writes East Greenwich P...

Michelle Obama in 1954

published: May 28, 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 the Topeka, Kansas, school district, the...

A Question for those Who Believe in Homosexual Scouts

published: May 25, 2014

Not satisfied with having pressured the Boy Scouts of America into lifting their prohibition against openly homosexual scouts, activists now want homosexual scoutmasters to be allowed as well. Equa...

Where is the Rehabilitation for “Racists”?

published: May 12, 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, someone caught in the crosshairs of bad...

The Liberal Media’s Donald Sterling Race-baiting

published: May 12, 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 haven’t missed a chance to play the...

So What if Cliven Bundy is a “Racist”?

published: May 12, 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 all know is the wo...

The New York Times Discovers the Rule of Law

published: May 03, 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 the Cliven Bundy situation, a piece c...

Vladimir Putin Caesar and Our Great Geo-political Turning Point

published: April 28, 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 making a move — and it&rsq...;

University Wants Fewer Whites — Fears “Mediocrity”

published: April 22, 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) president Bru...