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Hillary Clinton Said Profiling Muslims is Okay

By Selwyn Duke

Does Hillary Clinton accept the idea of profiling Muslims? Apparently the answer is yes — at least insofar as the 2001 Hillary goes. Because while being interviewed by This Week’s Sam Donaldson the Sunday after 9/11, then-Senator Clinton was quite amenable to the idea. Perhaps we can say, she was for it before she was against it.

Fast-forward to today and we have the 2015 Hillary. She made the claim at the last Democrat debate that Donald Trump is sending “discriminatory messages” and that Da’esh (ISIS) is “showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.” This has been proven false, and Trump, showing his usual circumspection, responded by saying that Clinton “lies like crazy about everything.” Yet one could wonder: Was Clinton lying in 2001 when she sent her discriminatory message in profiling’s favor? Or was it a moment of clarity?

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Landmark Court Ruling: Gov't Can’t Deny Trademark Protection to Politically Incorrect Names

By Selwyn Duke

Recent times have seen the revocation of six trademarks owned by the Washington Redskins. But now bureaucrats at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may be red-faced — as a federal court just ruled that the government may not deny trademark protection based on the notion that a mark is “disparaging.”

While the ruling will have a bearing on a host of marks, it was not the Redskins’ case, per se, that was before the court when it issued its ruling.

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Merry Christmas!

A very merry and blessed Christmas to you and yours.

And keep Christ in Christmas!

Selwyn Duke

Holy Day Video: Christmas Flash Mob Does Number on Mall

By Selwyn Duke

Here's a great Christmas video that, especially in this secular age, may bring tears to your eyes. It's from 2010 but is, as you'll see, timeless. It's well worth the five minutes it takes to watch.

 

(Hat tip: faith-filled, wise, longtime reader Philip Franzino, who sent me the video.)

Obama Tries to Trump Trump with “Race Card”

By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t seven years ago. Barack Obama, once hailed as the “post-racial president,” didn’t exactly say (this time) “They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” And he didn’t specifically mention that “they” referred to “mostly white voters,” though even the reliably left-wing Washington Post wrote that such people are precisely about whom Obama was talking. But when the president said in a Monday National Public Radio interview (see video below; remarks in question begin around 26:20) that Donald Trump was exploiting “blue collar” fears, he was, as the Post’s headline informed, reviving his “‘cling to guns or religion’ analysis.”

The Gateway Pundit was even more blunt, writing “Obama Plays Race Card Against Trump,” while radio host Michael Savage echoed this with the recent observation that “blue collar” is a code term for “white men.”

Here is the relevant portion of Obama’s remarks...

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Obama Spent $700 Million Promoting Homosexuality Overseas — and Bought Ill Will

By Selwyn Duke

They used to call it “cultural imperialism.” Now they call it tolerance. The Barack Obama administration has spent $700 million since 2012 promoting the homosexuality agenda overseas — with more than half of that sum being spent in sub-Saharan Africa — and has nothing to show for it except more anti-homosexuality laws and ill will. Ah, tax money at work.

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Muslim “Refugee” Admits: My Main Goal Is to “Islamize” Europeans

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve been told they’re fleeing war. But some Muslim migrants entering Europe are apparently bringing war — a war for the hearts and minds of Westerners. And one Syrian migrant has admitted as much, telling an Arabic television station that he wasn’t driven to the Old World mainly by fear of death or Da’esh (ISIS), but by a desire to Islamize Europeans.

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Activists Want to Lynch University President for Saying Instructors “Should be Shot”

By Selwyn Duke

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” said Barack Obama at a 2008 fund-raiser. No one troubled over that comment, but the same cannot be said of an utterance by another president, who, according to some, shot his mouth off.

University of Iowa’s new president, Bruce Harreld (shown, in sport jacket), is in hot water for using a time-honored metaphor. In fact, some agitators want his scalp.

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New Book from an Insightful Commentator

By Selwyn Duke

I want to let everyone know that a fellow writer, whom I've long respected, has a new book out. His name is Dr. Jack Kerwick, a philosopher and social commentator who is published at some of the websites that carry my work. His book is titled The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front, and is a collection of his articles from recent years. He is a true intellectual — in the positive sense of that word — and his work is well worth the read. His book is also a great stocking-stuffer for a thoughtful friend or family member who would enjoy imbibing some keen insights.

Dr. Kerwick's book is available at Amazon here and Barnes & Noble here.

 

Texas Imam Ousted After Supporting Trump's Muslim Ban

Selwyn Duke

They say “Politics makes strange bedfellows,” and none stranger than a Texas imam who is siding with Donald Trump — on the presidential candidate’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration into the United States. And politics can also make one strangely unemployed: The imam, Dr. Nidal Alsayyed, has just been forced to resign from his religious directorship for taking his position.

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