Selwyn Duke
Selwyn Duke is an entrepreneur and writer whose works appear widely on the Internet. He is a columnist at NewsWithViews.com, Renewamerica.us (Alan Keyes' site), as well as at many others, is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker and has a regular column in Christian Music Perspective Magazine. Selwyn's work has been featured numerous times on the Rush Limbaugh Show, and he sometimes does radio commentary on the award-winning Michael Savage Show. His homepage is: www.SelwynDuke.com.
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Articles by Selwyn Duke
July 11, 2007
Recently the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives. One of them is Morse et al. v. Frederick, a case involving the free speech rights of students. At issue is a five year old incident wherein a Juneau-Douglas High School senior named Joe Frederick r...
May 28, 2007
In the piece I recently wrote about the threat posed by immigration, both illegal and legal, I mentioned that today’s immigrants are not assimilating into our culture. And, as I pointed out, since Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigr...
May 17, 2007
Most of us will publicly lament our immigration woes, but not without a disclaimer. “Look, I have no problem with immigration,” say we, “I just want people to come here legally.” This, after all, is supposed to be the sober, sane, American point of view, as we “know” that immigration is the lifebl...
April 13, 2007
It seems that the more we come to believe that “Violence has to be taught,” the more our children learn to be violent. It’s a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off with a five-finger attention-getter. “Don’t yo...
March 26, 2007
The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recently penned an article that has both fellow evangelicals and homosexual activists feeling none too gay. Mohler raised the ire of the former group by stating that science may very well prove...
March 15, 2007
Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself and relinquish any pretense at that most illusory quality, impartiality. This places you in the crosshairs, although you can take solace i...
February 12, 2007
With the issuing of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on February 2, waxing climactic about the climatic is the order of the day. The esteemed, government-funded scientists with no agenda who rendered the study inform us that man is almost certainly responsible for rising temper...
February 08, 2007
The voicing of the unpopular, being the very soul of free speech, the right to give and take offense shall not be infringed.
Sometimes I think it is time to insert the above into our First Amendment. Whether it’s an off-color joke or colorful commentary, it’s now hard to make anything but the mo...
January 31, 2007
If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very d...
January 26, 2007
Last week many were commemorating Muhammad Ali’s sixty-fifth birthday with a zeal reminiscent of Roman pagans cheering a triumphant Caesar. And as I ponder this, I’m reminded of how people are as quick to forget as they are to condemn.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Ali. Although he knocked the ven...
January 22, 2007
If the 1976 western The Last Hard Men has it right, we Occidentals metamorphosed into jellyfish sometime around the early twentieth century. Although this title is more movie marketing than historical statement, there may be something to it. After all, Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in ...
January 11, 2007
With the 2008 presidential campaign looming just on the horizon, speculation about political fortunes abounds. On the Democrat side, Lady Hillary is waiting in the wings, and the media’s profilers have found their fair-haired boy in Barack Obama. On the Republican side, the picture is murkier. Of...
December 31, 2006
For you religio-centric clods who haven’t yet expanded your celebratory horizons – and you know who you are – I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: December 26 marks the start of Kwanzaa.
As some know, this High Holy Week saw its birth 482 moons in the distant past, which means abou...
December 18, 2006
A long time ago I read a short online piece about how women could get their men to put the toilet seat down. Inherent in it was the idea that this was an example of men’s lack of consideration and that the task at hand was one of disciplining these bad boys. I don’t know, my attitude is that if wo...
December 11, 2006
The precedents you set really do matter. In my recent piece, How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech, I mentioned that the concept of “hate speech” is a corollary of that of “hate crime.” The brief reference was probably glossed over by most, but it is in fact such a significant element in our Orwe...
December 01, 2006
If people were asked about actor Michael Richards' epithet-laced outburst at a Los Angeles nightclub, there would be a lot of focus on the verbal assault but very little on an assault on freedom of speech. In truth, however, if there's anything at all relating to this story that rises above gossip-...
November 22, 2006
It’s funny how the conclusion of an election can completely alter media reportage. The day after the Democrat Public Relations Arm (DPRA) – euphemistically known as the “mainstream media” – got its party elected, they actually started broaching a couple of real issues. Such as amnesty for illegal ...
November 09, 2006
There are certain people you never forget. One is a man I knew who was an anomaly in more ways than one. He was a politically conservative Jewish septuagenarian living in Westchester County, NY, within the gravitational pull of the Den of Iniquity (that would be NYC). Possessing a genius IQ and i...
November 06, 2006
To still the siren of the heart and defer to the head is to seldom be wrongly led.
So many wrong things feel so right. “You know, I really told my mother-in-law off the other day and, boy, did it feel good.” Of course, what has changed? Your mother-in-law is still the nag she always was. One ...
October 18, 2006
It’s no secret that hurling names about is as common in the political world as it is in a grammar school playground. One oft-used pejorative is “fascist,” which, along with racist, sexist, homophobe and others, tends to be least understood by those who utter it most. And because these damning term...
March 29, 2006
One reason we’re supposed to rejoice at the pitter-patter of illegal feet is that foreigners are only coming here to “do jobs Americans won’t do.” It’s one of those basic assumptions upon which the argument in favor of forgetting we have borders, a culture and laws rests, and even President Bush me...
March 28, 2006
Are conservative leanings the fruits of intellectual inquiry or the fault of psychological frailty? If psychologist Jack Block is to be believed, it’s the latter.
Publishing his findings in the Journal of Research into Personality (a must read, I’m sure), the UC Berkeley professor claims to hav...
March 26, 2006
While the invasion of our nation through the southern border continues unabated, our fearless leaders are once again busy cooking up cures that are worse than the disease. The latest scheme is a form of de facto amnesty euphemistically called the ?Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act.? And i...
March 17, 2006
We hear a lot about women?s ?reproductive rights.? In fact, some leftist politicians ? Barbara Boxer comes to mind ? seem to be able to segue from any conceivable topic to a discussion of them with aplomb. But do men have reproductive rights too?
Answering in the affirmative, a men?s group is f...
March 06, 2006
No, Not All Cultures and Religions are Equal
By Selwyn Duke
If anything renders people sheep among wolves, it’s when they convince themselves that every creature is a sheep. We live in an age in which one of the few sins is giving offense, one of the only virtues is a tendentious tolerance and ...
February 23, 2006
It really is true that lies have short legs. One way or another, liberals always end up contradicting themselves, tacitly acknowledging that their pronouncements are more political artifice than statesmanlike artistry, more incitive than insightful.
What brings this to mind is the controversial...
February 22, 2006
There’s a gathering political storm centered around ports, one that has united a motley crew from across the political spectrum, from Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer to Rick Santorum and Michael Savage. At issue is a deal that would allow DP World, a United Arab Emirates company, to assume contro...
February 09, 2006
When is a hate-crime not a hate-crime? Answer: when the powers-that-be say it isn?t.
One problem with hate-crime laws is that they?re more the result of bad ideology than good criminology, and nothing illustrates this point better than the current spate of church burnings in Alabama.
As you...
February 04, 2006
If a new application of the Global Positioning System (GPS) passes muster and finds favor with the Big Siblings of Western democracies, speeding may eventually become a thing of the past. Being tested in Canada and at least contemplated in Britain, the system would be placed in vehicles and communi...
January 21, 2006
Sometimes the news’ timing is bittersweet. On the heels of a piece I just wrote about modern man and the wrath of God, New Orleans Mayor “Sugar Ray” Nagin chimed in with his own thoughts on the matter. While he seemed to agree with those who attribute Hurricane Katrina to divine retribution, his ...
January 16, 2006
Whether or not you believe in the wrath of God, there is no question that the wrath of the ungodly left is often on full display. As for the latter, evangelist Pat Robertson got quite a liberal dose of it most recently. The founder of the 700 Club was placed in the crosshairs for suggesting that ...
January 05, 2006
When one hears the word chivalry, thoughts of both the fanciful and practical are evoked. There are the quaint images of a valiant hero rescuing a damsel in distress from train tracks or of a man throwing his coat over a puddle for an enchanting belle (Was this obligatory with leather coats, too?...
December 24, 2005
While many are still oblivious to it and the effluent-stream media deny it’s happening, there is an attack on Christmas. Like others, I would say “war,” but that would be inaccurate. A conflict in its totality could be called a war; what transpires within a specific theater of operations during a ...
December 12, 2005
Liberals we are and though we eschew its reason,
Capitalize we will on the “Winter Break Season.”
It's good for making money and for spoiling offspring,
But mention the Son and from the gallows you’ll swing.
We abhor yuletide symbols, like red combined with green.
Of the latter color, on...
December 05, 2005
While flying on Qantas Airlines, New Zealander Mark Worsley was asked to change his seat. You see, the airline viewed him as a threat to the child seated next to him. What was Mr. Worsley’s crime? Was he on a sex-offenders database? Far from it.
The shipping manager and father of two-year-ol...
November 29, 2005
It has long been said that money can come between friends. But as the recent hysteria over rising oil prices reminds me, it can also come between the human mind and sound economic principles.
There has been much talk about “price gouging” by the oil companies, as we witnessed the average gasoli...
November 16, 2005
Perhaps the only thing that bores me more than hearing incessant murder-mystery reportage is writing about it. And although I?m not sure which I find less tolerable, watching a washed-up ex-jock lead police on a low-speed chase as Geraldo waxes redundant, reporting on each tire rotation, or seeing ...
November 08, 2005
As riots spread throughout France like wildfires left unattended by those afraid to use water, a sane person has to be struck by the impotence of modern Western governments. Whether it’s Moslem enclaves in France, New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, or South Central Los Angeles after the Rodney Kin...
October 27, 2005
It has long been an assertion of mine that there’s only one difference between Adolph Hitler and some of the misbegotten souls who lurk among us: means. I don't know that I subscribe to the notion that power corrupts, but I do know that it releases inhibitions, causing one’s true colors to shine th...
October 26, 2005
The insidious thing about evolutionary tyranny is that it’s only as visible as the people are perceptive. It doesn’t beat you over the head like the iron fist of a despot or sweep you aside like a wave of revolution, but, rather, is a death by a thousand doses of bad medicine that makes benign negl...
October 04, 2005
By Selwyn Duke
Well, we knew it was coming. After having the unmitigated gall to appoint to the High Court that odious creature known as a white man, President Bush has redeemed himself before the altar of baal with an affirmative-action nominee.
Oh, don’t misunderstand me, I don’t care a ...
October 01, 2005
Something truly outrageous has recently come to light, but it hasn’t gotten much play in the effluent-stream media. This something is the stomach-turning revelation that a Chinese cosmetics company is using, get this, human skin from murdered prisoners to make beauty products.
So, now you can sm...
September 22, 2005
By Selwyn Duke
“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us . . .” Few topics are as misunderstood as forgiveness. Bits and pieces about it are imbibed during sermons as wandering minds vacillate between spiritual prescriptions and worldly concerns, but such cogitatio...
September 13, 2005
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina there were certain inevitabilities. No, scores of thousands of hapless souls trapped in a city on a precipice was not one of them. Personal and governmental responsibility would have relegated that scenario to the realm of imagination. Nor were looting and all the...
August 11, 2005
Cindy Sheehan’s son fought under our Commander-in-Chief. Cindy Sheehan fights against him. Cindy Sheehan’s son was killed on the front lines. Cindy Sheehan is pushed to the front because she tows the liberal line. We aren’t supposed to fight against Cindy Sheehan because she’s a wounded soul.
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August 10, 2005
There’s sweet irony, there’s delicious irony, and then there’s irony that a spoonful of which would just make medicine go down.
As you may know, slavery reparations shakedown thugs have been beating their drum for quite some time now, but have thus far failed to achieve their ends through Congres...