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  • Here Comes Peter Cottontail Hopping Down the Statist Trail: Feds Fine Missouri Farmer $90,000

      By Selwyn Duke The definition of “totalitarian” is: “of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. [Emphasis added.]” And while we’re not quite there yet — we still do hear other (mostly stupid) opinions — read the following…

  • He May be a Dog, but Weiner Will be a Winner in 2012

    By Selwyn Duke New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sexual impropriety sure does make titillating copy. I mean, take his zipper-like stature, the nature of his transgressions, and combine that with his name, and you have the perfect running joke. And we can add to this a touch of irony. The following is still found on…

  • Desexing Children: The Acceptable Abuse

    By Selwyn Duke “We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? …).” So wrote parents David Stocker and Kathy Witterick after the birth of their third child,…

  • 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…