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Hey, Libs, What about the Employer’s Body?

By Selwyn Duke

If a leftist expressed new-age spirituality and uttered the Zen idea that he was one with the Universe, I’d certainly believe him. What else could explain liberals’ seeming inability to know where their body ends and someone else’s begins?

For instance, while abortion is justified with the battle cry “My body, my choice!” it is in reality a matter of what will happen to a body within the chooser’s body. Yet another example of this leftist tendency to confuse bodies as much as choices is the ObamaCare contraception mandate.

What Would Jesus Shoot?

By Selwyn Duke

A co-religionist friend of mine asked some years ago, “What is the [Catholic] Church’s teaching on firearms…?

Does it recommend an assault rifle or a shotgun?”

He was kidding, of course, but not so funny are some recent attempts by liberal “Christians” to turn Jesus into Sarah Brady. Motivated by their unique brand of religiosity in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, they say that the Lord would never condone gun ownership. Why, didn’t He state, “[A]ll that take the sword shall perish with the sword”?

Revealing Gun-owners Names Reveals Truth

By Selwyn Duke

A birdcage liner in my county of Westchester, NY, The Journal News, has made national headlines by releasing the addresses of county residents licensed to own a handgun. The paper claims that in the wake of the Newtown shooting, citizens want to know more about the arsenals their neighbors may possess. Of course, the rag’s real motivation is obvious: it wants to “out” firearms owners. The thinking is, “Hey, you want to own a gun? Then we’re going to put you in the pusillanimous people’s pillory, where all things manly and traditional belong.” Hence the title of the Journal piece, “The gun owner next door,” which could be followed with “The pedophile next door” or “The terrorist next door.” Ooh, scary. I’m more worried about the journalist next door.

Not surprisingly, the paper is taking a lot of heat for revealing who is packing heat. And one of the more common criticisms reveals a truth.

It's Official: Mayor Bloomberg Needs Mental Help

By Selwyn Duke

Since removing constitutional rights is all the rage now, I have to ask: when does dislocation from reality become severe enough to justify involuntary commitment? A good study case is NYC's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently uttered a real gem on his weekly radio show. Writes Politicker.com:

"I don't think there's anybody that's defended the Second Amendment as much as I have, Ray," Mr. Bloomberg said to a caller who asked him why he was "so against" the constitutional passage. "I think you have a perfect right to buy weapons and keep them for protection or for sport. We have tried to make sure that you have it."

Well, take that, Wayne LaPierre. You thought you were the point man on gun rights, but you're actually outshone by Little Big Gulp, who has defended the Second Amendment more than "anybody."

A 60-year-old Mystery Finally Solved

This song is almost 60 years old, and it has only recently been discovered what the bah-dah, bah-dah, bah-dah referenced are.

Liberals!

Listen to the song and weight in on whether this rings true. I believe it. Liberals are everywhere, it seems, and whenever they render opinion, it always sounds the same: bah-dah, bah-dah, bah-dah!

The Chinese Want Gun Control — in America

By Selwyn Duke

Who’d have guessed it? When the Chinese aren’t busy effecting forced abortions, persecuting political dissidents, sending contaminated products to our shores, or shipping us other junk that malfunctions a month after you buy it, they concern themselves with our well-being.

In an article published by the Chinese government-front media outlet Xinhua, the Beijing regime calls on the Obama administration to use the Sandy Hook massacre as a pretext for more gun control. The outlet writes, “Every time a tragedy occurs, there are renewed appeals for gun regulation. However, the calls disappointingly always fail.” Gee, we wouldn’t want to disappoint the Chinese fascists again now, would we?

Proof the Left Wants All Guns Outlawed

By Selwyn Duke

It has been said that to identify a liar, look for contradiction, because it’s hard keeping lies straight.

It’s no revelation that leftists would like to effect gun confiscation (except for themselves and their bodyguards, of course), but they generally maintain plausible deniability so that the world’s Dirty Harry Reids can convince the flyover-country bitter clingers that they believe in the Second Amendment. And they certainly do — the way the Devil believes in God. Nonetheless, leftists sometimes tip their hand, and such is the case with a recent New York Post editorial.

The End of the World

By Selwyn Duke

This is the piece that will never be published. Haven’t you heard?

The world’s going to end on December 21.

End-of-the-world hysteria is rather interesting. The Argentine government has restricted access to a mountain over a mass “spiritual suicide” threat associated with it, and the Chinese regime has responded to a doomsday cult by staying true to form: it arrested people. And all this based upon an interpretation of the Mayan calendar that predicts a Winter Solstice apocalypse.

Of course, every age has its end-times expectations. Martin of Tours predicted that the end would come by 400 A.D.; many believed, not surprisingly, it would happen on Jan. 1, 1000; perhaps a tad more scientific, mathematician Michael Stifel predicted that at 8:00 am on Oct. 19, 1533 Judgment Day would begin; and, more recently, radio personality Harold Camping prophesied a 2011 demise, which turned out to be as accurate as a 2012 Dick Morris election prediction.

For Harry Belafonte: The Banana Republic Song

By Selwyn Duke

As many of you know, singer Harry Belafonte recently suggested that Barack Obama handle dissenters the way a Third World dictator would. So in recognition of Belafonte's contributions and because, since we're getting musical here, "I'm Just Not Wild about Harry," I've created "The Banana Republic Song." It goes like this:

Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain

By Selwyn Duke

It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick.

It’s as with a man I once knew who insisted it couldn’t be proven that smoking was bad for you. He knew better in his heart, but his available choices — giving up cigarettes or accepting the danger of their use —were both emotionally unpalatable to him. Enter the rationalization.

We’re seeing the same thing with Republicans in the wake of Barack Obama’s re-election. Radio host Sean Hannity, citing changing American demographics, stated a while back that his position on immigration has “evolved”: we now must offer illegals some kind of pathway to citizenship (a.k.a. amnesty). Other conservatives are warning that we must dispense with social issues or the Republican Party will be dispensed with.