Selwyn Duke's Past Articles

255 articles

How Conservative Candidates Can Give Us a RINO Nominee

published: October 08, 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 some would say, a matter of...

“Why do Women always….?”: Generalizations and the Building Blocks of Reality

published: October 03, 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 surprisingly, there was al...

Morgan Freeman is a Prejudiced Man

published: September 28, 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, actor Morgan Freeman recently made headl...

The Security Sex

published: 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 candidates than men are. For instan...

That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful and Voting-booth Realities

published: September 18, 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 about: appearance. That is to say, whe...

When Love Was a Warm Toy Gun

published: September 15, 2011

In a way, commercials can tell you more about how we’ve changed than history books. The other day I came across the above 1960s TV commercial on YouTube; it’s for a toy set called ...

My Solution: How to Restore Freedom of Association and End Government Tyranny

published: September 03, 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 government becomes a partner tha...

President Downgrade

published: August 14, 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 downgrade. But, well, yes &nda...;

The Myth of White Privilege

published: July 30, 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 they need male eye candy as well, ...

Three-monkey Authorities Ignoring another Black-on-white “Hate Crime”

published: July 24, 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 the New York City subway this p...

MediaMatters Takes another Shot at Stirring Up Anti-Truth Outrage

published: July 16, 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, self-proclaimed media watcher MediaMatte...

Noam Chomsky Gets Half a Clue

published: July 06, 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 Venezuelan strongman of making an “...

Politically Correct Washington Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction

published: June 13, 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 recording shot by a street perform...

Dalai Lama: “I am a Marxist”

published: June 12, 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 Marxist. Yet this is precisely what ...

The American Flag Is “Offensive” in Schools Now

published: 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 Butterfield Elementary in Orange...

Importing Disaster: Demographic Changes Mean Democrat Future

published: 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 socialist system, which, of cour...

No, Beauty is Not in the Eye of the Beholder

published: 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 euphemistically refer to ...

Yes, Violence Can be the Answer

published: 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 more than he bargained for. ...;

Wrestling with Morality: Boys vs. Girls on the Mat

published: 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 heart race. You also...

Journalist in France Convicted for Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

published: 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-that-be. But while the tow-...

What Justin Bieber and General McChrystal Have in Common

published: February 21, 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 upcoming interview with the teen sta...

Dallas Politician: “All of you are white. Go to hell!”

published: 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 Price, a Dallas County...

Democrazy: Egypt and the Eternal Constitution

published: 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 selling point, it was na...

The Independent’s Over-the-top Anti-Catholic Bias

published: February 09, 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. It’s also plain that centra...

The Brit PM’s Limp-wristed Attack on Multiculturalism

published: February 08, 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 Prime Minister David Cameron has m...