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Ignorance in America

By Selwyn Duke

If ignorance really were bliss, anti-depressants would not be popped like M&M’s today. This is the conclusion we have to draw if a recent ABC News article entitled “Are We Becoming A Nation of Know-Nothings?” (ironically, ABC erred in capitalizing “a” in their title) is any indication of the true state of America.

The piece reports on interviews conducted by New Left Media, in which two of its reporters asked attendees at an Ohio Sarah Palin book signing simple questions on the day’s issues. Reporting on the answers, ABC writes:

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Chris Matthews - "It's not a crime to call Al-Qaeda"

Chris Matthews is definitely the kind of man who could double his I.Q. with one serving of fish. Here he is addressing Major Nidal Hasan's terrorist leanings and what could have been done to prevent the Fort Hood massacre and says "It's not a crime to call Al-Qaeda." Well, it may not be, but it also isn't a crime to walk around with a Swastika tattoo on your forehead. Yet I can't imagine that a person doing so would last long in the military.

The army is not the civilian world. There is and absolutely should be behavior that disqualifies one from service, and Hasan should have been court-martialed for being a man of Jihadist passions. Then he should have been watched . . . closely. As for Matthews, he's a good example of the intellectual vacuity that now characterizes the lamestream media.

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The Blasphemy Resolution Story: A Clarification

By Selwyn Duke

Recently I wrote a piece titled "Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution," wherein I reported on Barack Obama's support of a Muslim-inspired United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution. In it I cited a liberal professor named Jonathan Turley, who wrote the following:

While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for any "negative racial and religious stereotyping." The exception was made as part of a resolution supporting free speech that passed this month, but it is the exception, not the rule that worries civil libertarians.... It is viewed as a transparent bid to appeal to the "Muslim street" and our Arab allies, with the administration seeking greater coexistence through the curtailment of objectionable speech. Though it has no direct enforcement (and is weaker than earlier versions), it is still viewed as a victory for those who sought to juxtapose and balance the rights of speech and religion.

O'Reilly and Coulter Take a Stupid Pill

By Selwyn Duke

So I was watching the O'Reilly Factor last night, and the pugnacious pundit had as a guest the always entertaining Ann Coulter.  Now, Coulter is usually a bit more on the mark than O'Reilly, who often doesn't perceive the Truth until a building falls on him (several years ago, when he was already in his 50s, he finally acknowledge that, golly gee, there is a liberal bias in the lamestream media). Yet last night it seemed they both had their heads firmly planted in the sand.

Oh, Woe is Me, I'm in the Crosshairs of the SPLC

By Selwyn Duke

If you're an avid reader of news and commentary, you've no doubt heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  It masquerades as a "civil rights" organization — along with so many other pretenders — and it is perhaps the richest civil-rights con-job organization in the country.  I know, you probably thought the ACLU was the crème de la phlegm, but the SPLC is its eviler twin.  It was founded by Morris Dees, the mercenary lawyer who never saw a poor, downtrodden person he didn't want to help (except for the vast majority, off whose cases he can't make money) and whose claim to fame is that he broke some Klan groups about 15 or 20 years ago by suing them into oblivion.

If Rush Can’t, Who Can?

Disallowing Rush Limbaugh from buying into the St. Louis Rams is just the latest example of how the conservative is quickly becoming today’s pariah.

By Selwyn Duke

In 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy began the anti-communist crusade that would eventually make him a notorious public figure. Along with the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) (with which he actually had no direct involvement), he took on the task of investigating communists who, in typical Gramscian style, occupied positions of influence in American society.

To call McCarthy “controversial” would be an understatement. He has, in fact, become one of the most maligned men in American history, so much so that the term “McCarthyism” has come to refer to the practice of using scurrilous and unsubstantiated accusations for the purposes of stifling opposition. My view of the Wisconsin senator, however, is a bit more nuanced. While I believe he certainly was guilty of self-promotion, there’s also little doubt in my mind that he was correct about communist infiltration into the U.S. — even if he couldn’t always identify the infiltrators.

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Don’t Cry for Roman Polanski

By Selwyn Duke

Even if time does heal all wounds, it certainly doesn’t make us forget all crimes. And, finally, after 31 years on the run from U.S. authorities, Roman Polanski, director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist, may be brought to justice.

On September 26, Polanski was arrested at Zürich Airport in Switzerland on an outstanding international warrant as he tried to enter the country to attend an event. The Polish-born director had long avoided countries that might have extradited him to the United States, remaining mainly in France (where he holds citizenship), Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. However, American authorities had learned of Polanski’s trip to Switzerland in time to negotiate for his arrest with Swiss law enforcement.

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Schoolchildren Taught to Praise Obama

Here is yet another video of a leftist government schoolteacher brainwashing children and teaching them to praise Mr. Hussein.

Even more significant than this, however, is how YouTube is obviously cooking the video statistics so as to benefit Obama.  As of 1:04 PM Eastern Time today, the video's hit counter listed only 363 views but 2,279 comments.  Now, since comments always represent only a few percent of the total traffic, the most likely scenario is that YouTube — owned by leftist leviathan Google — is purposely suppressing the true hit number so as to keep the video off its main page and avoid exposing yet another ugly truth about the left. 

Disgusting, but par for the course for the shameless liars who run these companies.

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Mmm . . . Tastes like Liberal Journalist — Lion Samples Daily Telegraph Reporter

There are certain things I wouldn't do.  For instance, I just always realized that works such as The Lion King were fantasy and that it's probably not a good idea to think you can reason with an African lion (it took me a few years longer to understand that the same thing applies to liberals, even though they exist, lamentably, beyond the realm of fantasy).  Thus, I would never get into an enclosure with a wild beast that could rip me to shreds (Siegfried & Roy, anyone?).  Yet this is exactly what the Daily Telegraph writer featured in this video did — and he learned that a lion's conception of play is just a bit different from ours.

But, hey, this guy certainly proved he's a man.  I just feel so inadequate now, albeit wholly intact.