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Wrestling with Morality: Boys vs. Girls on the Mat

By Selwyn Duke

Imagine that you’re a young adolescent boy.  Like many your age, you’re shy around girls, perhaps to the point at which even talking to one might make your heart race.  You also like sports, so you go out for your school’s wrestling team.  Then, lo and behold, you’re at a meet, and something hits you like a load of bricks.

Your opponent is going to be a girl. 

You’re going to have to grapple with her.  In front of spectators.  Touching—and being touched in—intimate places.

Now Marriage Is Above Obama’s Pay Grade, Too

By Selwyn Duke

Ever since a campaigning Barack Obama dodged an abortion question by saying it was above his pay grade, Americans have learned that economics, foreign policy, constitutionalism, and voting-rights equity, among other things, are as well. And now marriage has joined that list.

After the February 23 announcement that Obama had ordered the Justice Department not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, there was no word on whether he was motivated by a belief that matrimony is a state matter. It was mentioned, however, that the President is still “grappling” with his “personal views” on marriage. And Obama has said himself that they continue to “evolve.” No doubt. You Intelligent Design folks may not want to hear it, but politics is one arena in which God may be absent but evolution is absolutely a fact; politicians adapt to their environment like water takes the shape of its container.

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Journalist in France Convicted for Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard a lot about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian whose warnings about Muslim influence in his nation place him in the crosshairs of the powers-that-be.  But while the tow-headed modern-day Templar has thus far dodged the hangman on Truth-speech charges, another intrepid defender of Western civilization has not been so lucky.  And we haven’t heard much about him.

He is French journalist Eric Zemmour, and he was just convicted this week of “inciting racism.”  Writes The New American’s R. Cort Kirkwood:

What Justin Bieber and General McChrystal Have in Common

By Selwyn Duke

Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity.  And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine.

Excerpts released from an upcoming interview with the teen star included political statements that, as some reading this will know, have earned him criticism in conservative circles.  What fewer in the right-blogosphere may realize, however, is that they also brought him lashing from the left.  Attacked from the right, attacked from the left…yikes.  Just call him Bill O’Reilly, Jr.

Conservatives noted Bieber’s negative comments about the US healthcare system, but is such an opinion really notable?  Remember, we’re talking about a 16-year-old Canadian pop star here.  Far more notable is what raised the ire of the womyn on The (wrong) View and the capons at The New York Times: the singer’s thoughts on the left’s sacred cow, abortion.  As to this, Rolling Stone writes:

On Nullification, Just Follow Liberals’ Lead

By Selwyn Duke

It isn’t often that conservatives can learn something from liberals, but I think the current debate over nullification is an exception.

As you may know, nullification is the practice whereby a state or locality identifies a federal law as being unconstitutional and simply refuses to enforce it. It is also a practice that liberals have recently condemned without reservation. And it is something liberals don’t have to practice.  

They’re expert at it.

The unprecedented federal intrusion of recent years has inspired states to consider nullifying a whole host of Uncle Sam’s dictates, ranging from gun and health control laws to cap-and-tax schemes. And the Effluent Stream media casts such defiance as unprecedented in modern times, a throwback to antebellum rebellion. And, of course, conservatives do talk about nullification, while liberals don’t.

Liberals just do it.

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Dallas Politician: “All of you are white. Go to hell!”

By Selwyn Duke

Most of you won’t know the name John Wiley Price, but he’s obviously a man well qualified to hold a position at the Eric Holder Justice Department.  What has Price, a Dallas County Commissioner, done to distinguish himself? 

He told a group of five citizens during a local-government meeting, “All of you are white.  Go to hell!”

Democrazy: Egypt and the Eternal Constitution

By Selwyn Duke

A little less than a century ago, the West entertained the notion that WWI would be “the war to end all wars.”  Insofar as this was seriousness and not just selling point, it was naiveté.  Obviously, a military solution cannot solve a moral problem – nor can it change man’s nature.  And while we should realize this today, we now fall victim to another flight of fancy.  This is the idea that a political solution can solve a moral problem.

Why GOProud Didn’t Belong at CPAC

By Selwyn Duke

Many say that objection to homosexual group GOProud’s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention is much ado about nothing.  And while these critics aren’t necessarily proud of GOProud, they often say that the conservative ranks shouldn’t be creating unnecessary division.  I would agree — but necessary division is a different matter.

The question we’re confronted with here is this: If you have a cause, is it moral and wise to take support from wherever you can get it?  The answer is: not enough data. And the first thing we have to consider is what form that support will take. For example, if I’m running for office and members of CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) want to vote for me (hard to imagine, I know), I won’t take the podium and indignantly say that I only want votes from devout Catholic males of half German, one-quarter Russian and one-quarter Polish ancestry who grew up in NYC.  I won’t even demand that those casting ballots agree with me on one solitary issue. After all, accepting anonymous support doesn’t compromise principle. But if I hold a convention and allow CAIR to sponsor it, it’s a different matter. Its members aren’t then just “supporters of Selwyn Duke”; they are parading under the banner of something that contradicts a significant part of my agenda. There is a profound difference between appearing as a generic supporter of a cause and claiming to support it in the name of another cause.

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The Independent’s Over-the-top Anti-Catholic Bias

By Selwyn Duke

Except for those still caught in the web of the media matrix, it’s no secret that the Fossil Press seeks to destroy conservatism, tradition and Christianity.  It’s also plain that central to this are unrelenting attacks on the Catholic Church.  But a February 5 piece in The Independent written by one Michael Day reaches a low worthy of Cold War commissars.

Texas Schools Instituting Mandatory Arabic Language and Culture Classes

By Selwyn Duke

It seems that it was a well-kept secret. Residents in the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas found out just this Monday evening that the district had decided to force some of their children to take Arabic language and culture classes.

As for the impetus behind the move, as they say, just follow the money: The program is a condition for receipt of a federal grant. CBSDFW.com provides some detail, writing:

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