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  • When a People Tyrannizes Itself

      By Selwyn Duke                                        Tax 'Em High All around the realm was heard a fateful cry: 'Twill make us sleep the nightmare if ye tax the other guy. We can accept the yoke of poor polity, If the misery cursing all gives equality. Play one group against…

  • Why Kagan is Unqualified — and Dangerous

    By Selwyn Duke Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court.  This is because most of our 100 senators are almost as unqualified to judge a judge as she is to be one.  What is the proper criterion to apply?  Well, a simple analogy…

  • Barack Obama’s Attention Deficit Disorder

      By Selwyn Duke While I’m no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis, I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama.  After all, the man seems to suffer from a case of it that mainlining Ritalin wouldn’t remedy. Just consider Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright.  Despite calling the prejudiced preacher a friend, mentor…

  • Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Still

    By Selwyn Duke The gulf oil gusher is a disaster of great proportions. We’ve all seen the pictures of petroleum-soaked birds and dead fish, and the area’s economy is on life support. The mishap truly is a tragedy for all, from Gulf residents to English pensioners to marine wildlife to, yes, BP itself. As bad…

  • Would You Rather Have Obama Golf or Govern?

    By Selwyn Duke After seeing Barack Obama’s golf swing, I’m confronted with the staggering possibility that he might actually be better at governing than golfing.  And this is despite the fact that he seems to devote more time to the latter, an impression that has won him much bad publicity.

  • Online Society, Offline Civilization: How the Internet is Ushering in the End of the Age

    By Selwyn Duke When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad.  On one side, they may mention how the Web, along with talk radio, has broken the stranglehold over public opinion the mainstream media once enjoyed; on the other, they may cite the pernicious effects of…

  • The Big Government-Big Business Axis

    By Selwyn Duke If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it not for Washington’s protection, we’d all be under the boot of rapacious robber barons. In reality, however, the two bigs have far more acquaintance with each other than with…

  • Goodbye to One Man, One Vote

    By Selwyn Duke If you thought that “one man, one vote” reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again.  In the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just a few towns north of my locality in Westchester County, there is a new system.  It’s “one man, six votes” — brought to us courtesy of the…

  • Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student

    By Selwyn Duke A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a public sidewalk. The 71 seconds of footage opens with a student in a jacket and tie greeting Etheridge with “Hi, Congressman, how are you?” The Representative seems to respond cordially enough but…

  • Liberals’ Lies about Religion in American History

    Become a big liar often enough and you start to believe yourself By Selwyn Duke When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while…