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  • This Is the Article That Will Never be Published

    By Selwyn Duke As you may know, the world will end today at 6 p.m. Or, that’s the prediction at least by 89-year-old California preacher Harold Camping. Camping had forecast the Earth’s demise before, in 1994, and thus joined a list of errant end-of-worlders that goes back to biblical times and beyond. Of course, whether you…

  • Soviet Style, Facebook Plants Negative Stories about Google

    By Selwyn Duke Sometimes you just wish that both sides in a contest could lose. Such is the case with respect to the latest revelation about Facebook: that it hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google. Writes Dan Lyons at The Daily Beast: For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding…

  • Barack Obama’s Seven-dollar-a-gallon Gas Ambitions

    By Selwyn Duke “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” said Steven Chu — the man Barack Obama would ultimately tap to be energy secretary — in September 2008. He was explaining to The Wall Street Journal that higher energy prices are the centerpiece of…

  • Do You Really Want Constitutional Government?

    By Selwyn Duke There is a simple reason why we don’t have constitutional government: By and large, most Americans don’t want it. In fact, most don’t even know what it would entail. This is true even of most people who preach adherence to the Constitution. Just recently I lunched with a fellow commentator, an extremely…

  • Importing Disaster: Demographic Changes Mean Democrat Future

    By Selwyn Duke At a gathering some years ago, I had a political conversation with a man who had recently arrived here from Denmark.  He was advocating his home country’s socialist system, which, of course, led to profound disagreement.  He was good natured and cordial, however, so the debate ended on a polite note.  Yet…

  • Up from Mexico Way: A Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers

    By Selwyn Duke In the early days it was Pancho Villa, then it was undocumented Democrats and drug runners, and now we have the latest incursion across our southern border: The Mexican government is poised to file a lawsuit against our domestic firearms manufacturers over U.S.-made guns that are finding their way into Mexico. Writes…

  • No, Beauty is Not in the Eye of the Beholder

    By Selwyn Duke The American Thinker’s Rick Moran recently wrote a blog piece about how some Catholics in France destroyed two of Andres Serrano’s creations, excreta that some euphemistically refer to as art.  Moran opened by saying that his topic would make for lively debate among commenters, and he was right.  And it has also…

  • Gandhi Reconsidered: When Paganism Met Progressivism

    By Selwyn Duke When an Indian-born man I knew a couple of decades ago expressed an intense dislike for Mohandas Gandhi, I found it a bit surprising. Wasn’t the “Great Soul,” that quintessential 20th-century icon, India’s George Washington? That certainly is the narrative created by historians — who, history has taught us, can tell a…

  • Illegal Aliens Get More Welfare Benefits Than Citizens

    By Selwyn Duke Whether or not illegal aliens are doing jobs Americans won’t do, they’re certainly getting benefits Americans don’t get. This is the finding of a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report stating that a whopping 70 percent of illegal-immigrant households with children receive handouts via a government program. The rate for immigrant households with…

  • Socialized Medicine Director Dies After Waiting Nine Months for Operation

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a bit like a supermarket manager dying of starvation or a bottled-water distributor dying of thirst: In the U.K., a former National Health Service (NHS) director died because she was forced to wait for medical care — at her own hospital. The Daily Mail reports: Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had…