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Noam Chomsky: Rise of Far-right Imperils U.S.

      Will intellectualism ever intersect with wisdom?

By Selwyn Duke

A number of definitions of insanity have been put forth over the years, and a recent interview has inspired me to add the following: It is when one is wrong over and over again but still expects himself to be right.

The interview was with a very worried man, linguist-turned-social critic Noam Chomsky. His concerns? Among other things, he said that he has “never seen anything like” what’s occurring in today’s America and that we are now “very similar to late Weimar Germany.” Yet the stuff of Chomsky’s nightmares is not ObamaCare and a metastasizing federal government but something else entirely: Tea Parties and middle-American angst.

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Shameful Media Malpractice and the Catholic Church

Who is really lying about sexual abuse, the Church or the media?

By Selwyn Duke

If the pen is mightier than the sword, misuse of it can be a murderous act. As my faithful readers know, I’ve devoted much ink lately to the media abuse scandal — that is, their abuse of the Truth in reporting on the Catholic Church. Now, it’s not my practice to fixate on one issue for so long, but determined propagandists call for determined defenses. And never have I seen the media so completely abandon proper journalistic standards as they have with respect to the Catholic Church.

As an example, Christopher Hitchens, today’s poster boy for militant atheism, has insisted that Pope Benedict XVI should be arrested for what he claims is complicity in a cover-up of sexual abuse. And while Hitchens should know better, it’s not surprising that he would take this view if he truly believes the nonsense he has been spouting.

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Is Genocide Against Whites Coming to South Africa?

By Selwyn Duke

Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a song: “Sun City.” With the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994, however, people lost interest in the faraway land.

But with the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), South Africa is, albeit briefly, back in the news. What the media isn’t reporting, though, is that the killing of Terreblanche has little to do with his unpalatable political views, but is part of a wider pattern of targeting whites — virtually none of whom are supremacists. In fact, thousands of white farmers have already been murdered.

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Are the Church Abuse Cases Problems of Homosexuality?

By Selwyn Duke

Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it is on full display in their treatment of the Catholic-priest sexual abuse story.  Normally, the media take pains to point out that transgressors should not be used to typify the group with which they’re associated.  For instance, when terrorism is covered, we’re told that the jihadists of the world constitute just a small group of “extremists” and do not represent Islam.  That is, when the media can’t manage to identify such people only as “youths” and must actually address the issue in the first place.  Yet, with the Church matter, they have no problem blaming the Church as a whole, tarnishing the reputations of the institution, Catholics in general and all priests through gratuitous, slanted coverage.

Is Turkey the Next Big Islamic Threat?

While often hailed as a triumph in Muslim democracy, Turkey may ultimately pose a greater Islamic threat than Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and even Iran, says former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat.

By Selwyn Duke

When we think of terrorism, our minds may go to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and nuclear ambitions, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. But we wouldn’t think of Turkey, the NATO member considered for full integration into the European Union. Yet this could be a serious mistake.

This is the message of Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist and current Christian convert. In a recent

with WorldNetDaily.com, Shoebat warned, "Turkey is the biggest threat. Turkey is the strongest military power in the region, and it's the second largest army in NATO.” He also says that Ankara is making statements that allude to Turkey’s intentions and that should serve as a red flag.

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Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech laws and halal ritual. For example, in recent times the U.K. has treated us to stories about a school guide stating that toddlers who say “yuck” in response to foreign food may have bigoted tendencies, about a 66-year-old pet shop owner and grandmother forced to wear an electronic tracking bracelet because she sold a goldfish to a 14-year-old, and a police officer who was harassed because he wouldn’t don a pink ribbon to mark a homosexual event.

And, now, in a case of Lord of the Flies meets 1984, Britain’s Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) is mandating that head teachers consult students on changes to school policy. In fact, children now have so much power in some British schools that they are allowed to sit on teacher interview panels, ask applicants ridiculous questions and destroy their chances for career advancement. Reporting on the story for the Daily Mail, Sarah Harris provides an example of just such a case, that of a teacher who was denied a position because the children felt he was “too strict.” Harris quotes the educator as saying, “I felt upset that two out of three of the adults liked me enough but that the pupils had that much sway.”

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The States Must Rise Again: The Only Way to Combat Obama’s Socialist Agenda

By Selwyn Duke

With the passage of ObamaCare coming on the heels of government takeover of industries and taxpayer-funded bailouts of the irresponsible, many are wondering how we can turn the socialist tide.  They see Uncle Sam expanding, their rights and economic prospects shrinking and their voices ignored.  For these people, November cannot come soon enough.

The Insincere Media Hit Job on the Catholic Church

Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those responsible don’t wear clerical collars.By

Selwyn Duke

It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down just a bit. It obviously was some time after their support of boy-lover Congressman Gerry Studds, the pedophile ring disguised as a research team known as the Kinsey Institute, and Safe Schools Perv . . . I mean, Czar, Kevin Jennings. But I guess what matters is that all the ink they’re devoting to the Catholic Church scandal shows that they care now, at least as much as their continual harping on America’s antebellum sins means they care about slavery.

If you’re wondering about my tone, I’m not minimizing the scandal in question. I don’t say there’s no “there” there. What I am saying is that the media is maximizing it and that there isn’t as much there as the molestation they pass off as reportage leads one to believe. I’m also saying that, sadly, the “there” today is everywhere.

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The Scandal Driving the Church Sex Scandal

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve all heard the story.  Hundreds of young sexual-abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of embarrassment and scorn, abusers escaping prosecution and quietly moving to different jurisdictions, authorities covering up the crimes to avoid scandal and litigation.  It’s a saga of grave, grave sin.