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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.

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.

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.

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.

Supreme Nonsense

By Selwyn Duke

If you asked people what the role of a Supreme Court Justice was, most wouldn't know the answer.  I experienced this with a former acquaintance of mine, a septuagenarian millionaire who probably would have been thought sophisticated by most.  He did know that such justices rule on law, but when I asked on what basis they were supposed to do so, he responded, "Well . . . based on how they feel."  In light of this widespread ignorance, it's not surprising that our courts get away with a wholesale violation of their oath of office.

Hate Speech Phonies

By Selwyn Duke

There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis -- I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I'm not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws -- something I've treated thoroughly -- part of me just wants to roll my eyes.  Yet an article in the International Herald Tribune titled "Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S." really raised my ire.

Environmentalists Orchestrating Our Oil Woes

By Selwyn Duke

One of the very best columnists on the journalistic scene is Walter Williams.  His articles aren't filled with flowery prose or esoteric terms (like esoteric!); they just cut to the heart of the matter and provide simple, reasoned analysis.  In fact, I can hardly think of an instance where he has written something with which I disagree.  Every piece is a home run, including this one, about how Congress, at the behest of environmentalist extremists, is largely responsible for our high oil prices.