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GOP Debate: Trump Was the Winner

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps it was a first: a man winning a debate by not showing up. That’s my take, anyway, that Donald Trump prevailed at Thursday night’s GOP debate. Although, something curious did happen after the event that gives me pause for thought, but more on that later.

The debate served to draw a significant and sharp contrast on today’s top (or almost so) issue, immigration — between Trump and the rest of the field. When the Fox News moderators showed Marco Rubio on video repeatedly saying he wouldn’t support amnesty, even by another name, and then Megyn Kelly pointed out that he went on to be part of scamnesty group the Gang of Eight, it was a stake-through-the-heart moment. Even more amusingly, Jeb Bush chimed in and tag-teamed with Kelly; he emphasized that not only did Machiavellian Marco support the amnesty, but repeated at least twice that Rubio asked him to support it as well. Bush said that he did so and that what Rubio did was the right thing, but then castigated the Florida senator for cowardly retreating from his position. So there you had one guy trying to wriggle out of supporting stupidly disastrous policy being cornered by another guy who was proud of his stupidity. I guess it’s what happens when a wholly resistible force meets a thoroughly movable object. But three things occur to me:

1. I now completely believe the reports about large non-indigenous snakes invading Florida.
2. Oranges aren’t the only mandarins in the state.
3. Trump should send Bush a check (if I didn’t know better, I’d think Bush signed on with the Trump campaign).

The Crime of Being Christian? Atheistic State Seizes Theists’ Children

By Selwyn Duke

Is Christianity now a crime? Is teaching of sin now a sin itself? Some would say this is the case in Norway, where a couple has had their five children seized by the government based on charges of, their lawyer reports, “Christian radicalization and indoctrination.”

Marius and Ruth Bodnariu’s problems began late last year when their five children, three boys and two girls aged three months to nine years, were seized by Barnevernet, Norway’s child-protection agency. According to a December 3 communiqué sent by Marius’ brother, Daniel Bodnariu, the principal of the school attended by the Bodnariu’s daughters, Eliana and Naomi, “reported to Barnevernet that the girls had talked about being disciplined, that the family was ‘very Christian.’ She also reported that, in Daniel’s words, ‘the grandmother has a strong faith that God punishes sin, which, in her opinion, creates a disability in children’ and that the parents needed ‘help’ in raising their children,” wroteLifeSiteNews.   

This led to the children being seized November 16 and 17 — without due process.

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Series “Lucifer” Makes Satan Seductive — and God a Stern Killjoy

By Selwyn Duke

The Devil entered American homes Monday night, at least in a sense. Oh, it wasn’t the first time, but usually it’s not so explicit. For Monday saw the premiere of Lucifer, the new Fox network series that makes Satan the main character. And this is no Devil with a pitchfork and horns but is precisely what the theologically sophisticated would expect him to be: attractive and alluring — a supernatural seducer.

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Is Trump the First “European-conservative” American Presidential Candidate?

By Selwyn Duke

Ever since Donald Trump’s rise to 2016-contender prominence, the rap on him, and perhaps part of his broad appeal, has been that he’s not a conservative. And he’s not — he’s a nationalistic populist. Yet there’s another way to understand The Donald’s professed politics: as that of the first prominent “European-conservative” American presidential candidate. He’s not so much America’s next Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater, but her first Marine Le Pen. 

Pro-life Truth-tellers Indicted While Flesh-trading Planned Parenthood Is Cleared

By Selwyn Duke

Once again, a cynic might say that “no good deed goes unpunished.” Much of America was aghast at last year’s Planned Parenthood videos apparently showing the pro-pre-natal infanticide group coldly and cavalierly trafficking in babies’ body parts. And now indictments have been issued in the case — against the people who exposed the carnage.

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Those Crying Oscar “Racism” Are “Spoiled Brats,” Says Hollywood Producer

By Selwyn Duke

In today’s world, you could say that cries of “racism” are the last refuge of a scoundrel — and the first, too. One man who might agree is Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer who gave usSchindler’s List. Reacting to the current brouhaha over this year’s Oscars featuring only white nominees, Molen called those screaming “racism” “spoiled brats” and said, writes the Hollywood Reporter, “There is no racism except for those who create an issue. That is the worst kind. Using such an ugly way of complaining."

This issue has become quite the tempest in a teapot. “Whiter than the Oscars” has now been made a headline, used already to refer to the major weekend snowstorm and a Bernie Sanders political ad. A potty-mouthed Daily Beast writer named Kevin Fallon called the situation “bull****,” and Vanity Fair opined that the “Oscars are way too white, again” without specifying what the proper degree of whiteness might be. Then there are those who stoked these racial fires, the figures boycotting the event: Michael Moore, Spike Lee, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith (shown). And about them Molen minced few words. Writes the Reporter, "‘The only comment that might have some legitimate substance is the one from Jada Pinkett. I understand her disappointment for her husband, but that doesn't mean she is correct in her analysis,’ Molen said. ‘As far as Michael Moore is concerned, he is a socialist always looking to insert his brand of racist hatred. Spike Lee — haven't I heard this from him before?’"

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Man’s Ego and Michael Bloomberg

By Selwyn Duke

The presidency had LBJ — now meet LBG. That’s another presidential aspirant, known to this writer as Little Big Gulp. You probably know him as ex-mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg.

Little Big Gulp is a very small man with a very big wallet and an even bigger ego, but who doesn’t like big sodas. He successfully pushed for a 2012 ban on pop larger than 16 ounces, applicable to most businesses, but which was overturned by the courts as “arbitrary and capricious.” It certainly was. Perhaps, as comedian-cum-commentator Dennis Miller put it, Little Big Gulp didn’t like Big Gulps because he had to look up at the rim. Whatever the case, LBG also has big ambitions: he’s now considering a third-party presidential run.

The Trump Love Affair Explained in Terms Even Beltway Pundits Can Understand

By Selwyn Duke

Donald Trump’s rise this election season has been historic, amounting to something heretofore unseen in the annals of American politics. Given this, it’s perhaps not surprising that many are still befuddled by the phenomenon. Pundit Charles Krauthammer is bewildered, saying that “for some reason” Trump “is immune to the laws of contradiction.” (In reality, Democrats get away with contradiction continually; the only difference is that the media actually report on Trump’s.) Also in the news recently is that some find his appeal among evangelicals “inexplicable.” Of course, it’s all quite explainable.

Ex-Textbook Company Exec. Admits: Common Core Has Anti-American, Anti-Christian Agenda

By Selwyn Duke

Islam is in and Christianity is out, the Founding Fathers are just “dead white guys,” “D**n the Second Amendment,” and people who oppose Common Core are “idiots.” These are just a few of the sentiments expressed by a former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education, as she reveals on hidden camera that the federal government’s Common Core and Advanced Placement U.S. History framework are designed to indoctrinate America’s children with a leftist world view.

Kim Koerber made the startling comments in the third video (below) of a Project Veritas series on Common Core, the controversial educational scheme Barack Obama has sought to impose on states nationwide. As Project Veritas reports, the former Pearson insider, “who now works for National Geographic, was caught on camera justifying the Common Core curriculum on the grounds of anti-American and unconstitutional values. ‘People that are not educated, Fox TV viewers, think that Common Core comes from the educated liberal groups and that’s why they are against it…,’ revealed Koerber to undercover Project Veritas journalists.”

 

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Tenn. Bill to Nullify Supreme Court Marriage Ruling Dies — but Fight Lives on

By Selwyn Duke

With “each decision ... unabashedly based not on law” the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote last year. The warning was issued in his dissent from the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which sought to compel states nationwide to recognize faux marriage. But that inevitable reminder to the Court will have to wait in Tennessee, as a bill that would have directed state officials to defy the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional 2015 decision died in committee Wednesday. Nonetheless, the fight continues.

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