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  • Resurrecting the Right-wing Militia Bogeyman

    The Southern Poverty Law Center is up to its old tricks, demonizing conservatives and playing the race card for profit. By Selwyn Duke Until a long time after Napoleon's death, English mothers would admonish their children with, "Be good or Nappy will get you." Well, now we hear, be vigilant or the "racist" righties will…

  • Empty Cradles, Demographic Destiny and the Death of the West

    By Selwyn Duke While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good cinema, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction.  With Greece’s fertility rate of 1.36 children per woman — well below the replacement level of 2.1 — “big” is not a modifier demographers would associate with today’s Greek families.  In fact, a…

  • Demographic Sleight-of-hand

    Contrary to the conventional narrative about European demographic decline, a trio of researchers claims that increased prosperity is now causing Old World birthrates to rise. But what are the statistics behind the statistics? By Selwyn Duke Although there are still some kept awake by Soylent Green nightmares of overpopulation, many recognize that the developed world…

  • American Thinker Blog Piece: Liberating the Third World with the Chains of Liberalism

    By Selwyn Duke I would like to comment on the August 4 piece titled "Avoiding the Next Obama" and commend the author, L.E. Ikenga, for a job well-done.  She articulated nicely something I've long lamented: the virulence of the virus of liberalism.  It is so virulent, in fact, that it spreads like wildfire even throughout…

  • Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb

    By Selwyn Duke It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb. But it has happened before in recent years, and now it has happened again in Worcester, Massachusetts. Boston.com reports on the crime, writing, Julie Corey, 35,…

  • Fat in America: Taxing Us to Death in the Name of Taxing Us to Health

    First they came for the tobacco, and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the alcohol, and I did not speak out because I was not a drinker. Then they came for my food, and there was no one left to speak out for me because misery…

  • India Throws Monkey Wrench into West’s Global Warming Agenda

    By Selwyn Duke In bold defiance of the global-warming agenda, India is making it known that it rejects the science underpinning anthropogenic (human caused) climate-change theory. The bearer of this news is Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who just last week had informed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was unfair for the United…

  • Why I Must Defend Barbara Boxer

    By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing on “green” jobs. Boxer, the chairman of the EPW committee, was trying to refute a report commissioned by Alford’s organization stating that…

  • Britannia Ruled by Knaves: Savage Banned to Fill White Man Quota

    By Selwyn Duke When I first heard that radio host Michael Savage had been banned from traveling to England along with an assortment of Moslem terrorists and other miscreants, my first thought was that the public relations arm of the politically correct thought police had struck again.  It only made sense.  Given how Britain is…

  • Another Minimum Wage Hike: But Will It Help?

    By Selwyn Duke In another example of turning lemonade into lemons in economically troubled times, the federal minimum wage increased yesterday from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It's certainly a fashionable measure, but will it actually improve the lot of low-income workers? Let's first discuss what the minimum wage is not. It's not…