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  • Guest Commentary: And That’s The Way it Wasn’t – Walter Cronkite

    By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure.  Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility.  He had a long, happy marriage.  These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…

  • Obama Regulatory Pick’s Pro-animal Rights and Anti-First Amendment Activism

    By Selwyn Duke It’s not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn’t share late writer William F. Buckley’s sentiment that “I would rather be governed by 400 people out of the phone book than the whole faculty of Harvard.” In fact, although he won’t manage to fill the Congress with the staff of his alma…

  • Mom Arrested for Having Fat Son

    By Selwyn Duke While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia’s religious police, called “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” we do have our own strange version of vice squads. Only, the trespasses they root out today are less likely to involve heroin and harlots than Twinkies and trans-fats.…

  • Feminist Folderol: Swedish Parents Refuse to Reveal Sex of Child

    A Swedish couple refuses to reveal whether their two-year-old child is a boy or girl, claiming that “gender” is a “social construction.” By Selwyn Duke Sweden has long been known for pristine lakes and forests, long-legged blondes and ultra-safe cars, but it’s now distinguishing itself in another, more dubious, way: as the nation of feminism…

  • Breaking Story: Computers with Rigged Honduran Election Results Discovered

    By Selwyn Duke While much of the world has lined up with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, time and truth do not seem to be his cause's friend. The latest shoe to drop is a shocking Catalan newspaper report stating that Honduran authorities have discovered 45 computers containing election results for an election…

  • Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts

    By Selwyn Duke The Senate has just passed the greatest expansion of federal hate-crime "protections" since the legislation's inception in 1968. While the original law was limited to crimes motivated by race, religion, and ethnicity, the current measure will increase federal scope to cover "sexual orientation," "gender," "gender identity," and disability. With even some conservatives…

  • Should Taxes Pay for Abortion, Secularism?

    By Selwyn Duke Washington, D.C., would be able to use tax money to fund abortions under a $768 million spending bill passed by the House on July 16. An AP story carried by FoxNews.com and other media reports: “The measure passed by a narrow 219-208 margin, with many anti-abortion Democrats voting against it because of…

  • The Prejudice of Atheists

    By Selwyn Duke Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments. The latest attack is a lawsuit to prevent “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance from being engraved on the newly-built Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.…

  • Bailing Out Minority Broadcasters

    Selwyn Duke If you understand the relative superiority of the free market, none of our government's recent business bailouts will find favor with you. Yet, while Uncle Sam's involvement in the auto and banking sectors is bad enough, nothing is more bone-chilling than proposals to bailout media. The reason for this should be obvious. If…

  • A Chicken in Every Pot and Healthcare for All

    By Selwyn Duke You're going to be healthy — whether you like it or not. The Obama administration is pushing for a national healthcare bill this summer and Democrats in the Senate are responding, with a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee measure that would make healthcare both a right and a responsibility. Writes the…