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Limbaugh's Deal: Talk Radio Thriving

By Selwyn Duke

The big news in the broadcast industry is Rush Limbaugh's record-breaking, $400 million radio deal.  It promises to keep him on the air through 2016, a prospect that should please liberals to no end.

Africa's Worst Dictator

By Selwyn Duke

We don't hear as much as we should about Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean thug of a leader who has just stolen another election in his nation.  This is at least partially attributable to the fact that he's not a politically-incorrect scoundrel, in that the group he most obviously persecutes is whites.  As to this, he long ago started seizing their very productive farms, thereby removing the land from the hands that had long fed the country.  The result is that while Zimbabwe was once a bread basket, it's now a basket case and has trouble feeding its people.  But this piece isn't about Mugabe.

Ireland: Every Time I Try to Get Out, They Pull Me Back In

By Selwyn Duke

Over at JBS.org, Ann Shibler has an excellent piece about the European Union's imminent arm-twisting of Ireland into acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty.  As some of you may know, the Irish recently rejected the treaty via a referendum, one in which 53.4 percent of the voters said nay (the margin was almost 7 points).  As to why, Shibler provides a little background:

Daily Mail: White boy, 12, suspected of being Islamic extremist recruit after he showed beheading videos to classmates

By Selwyn Duke

It's now well-known that the mainstream media studiously avoids identifying the race or ethnicity of criminals or terrorists.  When Moslems riot, for instance, usually absent from articles on the subject is any reference to the religious classification of the rioters.  Used instead is a characterization such as the generic "youths."  "Two-hundred 'youths' rioted in protest of police measures," a paper may write.  I have found an interesting exception to this practice, however, in a Daily Mail article in which they seem to take pains to identify a terrorist suspect as a white, "fair-haired" lad.

The War on Boys: Where Feminists and Men’s Rights Activists Go Wrong

By Selwyn Duke

One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how women “create life” while men only destroy it, but forgotten are the fruits of men’s labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn’t be around to crow about their fecundity.

JBS Piece: Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

By Selwyn Duke

I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

This Really is Funny

There are a lot of people who send me emails, and some of them contain humor.  I don't usually print such things, but what follows is actually clean and funny.

A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

By Selwyn Duke

One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn't mean you're wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else insists it's 5, you'll be labeled a radical.  The same is true if you assert that a certain society of men is full of wolves when everyone else believes they're sheep.

Demographic Winter

By Selwyn Duke

If you're a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It's the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

Regulating Us to Death

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my mother and found the octagonal red menace, barely visible amidst a sea of leaves, with just a few splotches of color showing through. My first thought was, "Are they kidding? Am I supposed to be watching the road or scouring the sidewalk, performing something akin to a 'What’s wrong with this picture' exercise?"

Dawkins' Delusion

By Selwyn Duke

I've long observed that great scientific minds virtually never make for formidable philosophical ones.  A perfect example of this is Richard Dawkins, the famous, and also infamous, British biologist and author of the book The God Delusion.  Dawkins has made quite a career out of attacking religion, rehashing the same worn-out arguments as many before him and missing the 800-pound reality in the center of the room.