Selwyn Duke's Past Articles

255 articles

The Nanny Staters at Life’s Dangerous Intersections

published: February 02, 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 grip of seemingly pe...

Is it Time to Expand the Fairness Doctrine?

published: 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 they can. It is...

The Great Race Deception

published: January 26, 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 war. And the latest on this fron...

Walking Short: The Life and Lies of Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

published: 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 in the response to it, too &ndash...;

Attacking the Family: Making the Terms “Father” and “Mother” Passé

published: January 11, 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 sense and Truth is a...

The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama

published: December 30, 2010

One of the problems with the idea of “American exceptionalism” is that it exacerbates a kind of complacency common to man. This is the phenomenon whereby people often view themselv...

Citizen, Class Warrior, Florida School Board Gunman…and Good Humanist

published: 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 character toward t...

Ending the TSA Madness: Listen Up, Folks, Here’s How You Win the Profiling Debate

published: December 13, 2010

One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we’re missing a great opportunity. Sure, the insanity of patting down three-year-old, blonde-haired lasses and octoge...

Whoopi Goldberg’s Ignorance

published: 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 Tuesday when Whoopi Gol...

You Can Touch My Junk, but Nothing Else

published: November 28, 2010

Now that “Don’t touch my junk!” has become a rallying cry, I must ask a question: What’s with this youth-culture tendency to refer to male genitalia as “junk”? ...

Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?

published: November 19, 2010

With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can’t be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation Security Administration, Touches Sensitive Areas or Truly Scandalous Attention....

Caught Red-handed: CBS Reporters’ Scheme to Undermine Republican Joe Miller

published: November 01, 2010

In a case of JournoList redux, mainstream media reporters have again shown that their business is propaganda, not news. In a shocking voicemail accidentally left on the cell phone of Alaska GO...

When the Democrat Party Left You Behind

published: November 01, 2010

Many years ago, a very nice lady with whom I was having a political discussion announced to me, “I’m a Democrat.” My immediate response was, “By birth or by choice?” ...

The Democrats’ Final Recourse: Massive Vote Fraud

published: October 29, 2010

The reports are rolling in from all over the country. A Craven County, NC resident attempts to vote a straight Republican ticket but his choices come up straight Democrat four times, despite receiv...

If You’re Not Reading This Article, Please Don’t Vote

published: October 23, 2010

It has become apparent that most Americans simply don’t take voting very seriously. This is especially true of those who encourage voting. They’ll tell us that walking into a ...

Yes, Folks, We All Would Legislate Morality (Psst, Even You Libertarians)

published: October 20, 2010

Really, I must be a glutton for punishment. During the past couple of weeks, I wrote two articles on libertarianism and made the point that for a law to be just, it must have a basis in morali...

Libertarianism’s Folly, Part Two

published: October 13, 2010

In a piece I recently wrote about the dangers inherent in libertarianism, I pointed out that libertarians, by applying their live-and-let-live philosophy to the moral sphere as well as the governme...

Libertarianism’s Folly: When the “Live and Let Live” Mentality Becomes Vice

published: October 05, 2010

While there was a time when I might have described myself as a libertarian, those days are long gone.  In fact, I don’t even call myself a conservative anymore. Oh, don’t get ...

Analyzing Extremism: O’Donnell vs. Coons

published: September 23, 2010

Unlike for most Americans, the Delaware senatorial primary was not my first introduction to Christine O’Donnell. I remembered her from as far back as approximately two decades ago, makin...

Barack Obama: The Man Who Would be God?

published: September 21, 2010

When writing about Barack Obama’s religious orientation recently, I pointed out that while I do believe he favors Muslim over Western culture, bowing before another — even God — i...

Bill Clinton Helps the Republicans Run against Bush

published: 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 tongue. And his...

The Envious Feminist

published: September 03, 2010

People are emotional beings, often governed more by feelings than reason. And this is never truer than with leftist people. If you want to understand liberals, know that most of their ideolog...

Muslim Soldier Refuses Deployment: Won’t be Part of Any War “U.S. Army would conceivably participate in”

published: August 30, 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 is refusing deploy...

The Truth about Obama’s Muslim “Faith”

published: August 25, 2010

Now that Barack Obama has decided to be for the Ground Zero mosque before being implicitly against it (perhaps), discussion about his faith has once again reached a fever pitch. To many, his s...

Hello, I’m a Racist, Pleased to Meet You

published: July 25, 2010

There is such a thing as a conditioned response.  Here’s an example: Leftists call conservatives “racists.” Conservatives cower and stutter some defense. Leftists c...