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  • Sanford’s and Ensign’s Fall from Grace Fuels Immorality Police

    The marital infidelity of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and Nevada senator John Ensign provides yet more ammunition to those who would attack morality. By Selwyn Duke When I placed Governor Mark Sanford's name and the word "hypocrite" into the Google search engine, it yielded 14,700 results. Since he admitted that he had an extra-marital…

  • Guest Commentary: Who Should Build America’s Rail System?

    By Marilyn Barnewall Why is high speed rail important to economic recovery? Why should you care about it? There is one primary reason and a large number of secondary ones.

  • Teachers Paid to do Nothing

    By Selwyn Duke In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet that is exactly what is happening in New York City, where hundreds of school teachers accused of misconduct — sometimes the sexual variety — are receiving upwards of $70,000…

  • Which Side Really Inspires Violence, the Right or Left?

    By Selwyn Duke Is the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder?  Some certainly seem to think so.  For instance, the Friday before last Bill O’Reilly had as a guest on his show Joan Walsh, the editor of leftist news site Salon.com.  She appeared…

  • Guest Piece: The Murder of Civil Life

    By Bruce Walker The putrid comments by Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life.  It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism…

  • The Mystery of the Bearer Bonds

    On June 3, what appeared to be United States securities worth $134.5 billion were confiscated by Italy’s financial police at the Swiss border. Two weeks later, the mystery still remains. Are they authentic or counterfeit? What’s the story behind the story? By Selwyn Duke It sounds like the beginning of a Tom Clancy novel. Two…

  • Guest Piece: What Happens When CBS Goes Bankrupt?

    By Bruce Walker Government ownership of business will cause – as history has shown so many times – gross mismanagement and inefficiency.   We can expect that, of course, but those are recoverable calamities.   What worries me more is what happens when CBS goes bankrupt?  The network news audience is dropping like a rock?  http://newsbusters.org/node/29019/hmtl.  What…

  • Putting Hollywood in the Hallowed

    By Selwyn Duke First there were “inclusive language” Bibles, which extended a bizarre form of chivalry to feminists with lexical peculiarities such as “Our Mother/Father who art in Heaven.” Now, there is something equally bizarre: a Bible illustrated with pictures of celebrities who supposedly exemplify goodness and compassion. Writes Beliefnet.com: Last year, a Swedish ad…

  • Home Bible Study Threatened in Bonito, Calif.

    By Selwyn Duke If the Chinese need any help with their crackdown on the Falun Gong religious group, perhaps they should try to recruit San Diego County bureaucrats. Because if a recent attempt on the municipality’s part to stifle Bible study in a private home in Bonita, California, is any indication, there are at least…

  • Governments Abroad Moving Right . . . Right, Left, Right . . .

    Some journalists are saying that while the left currently holds sway in the United States, it is collapsing in foreign lands. Yet, what is the left? What is the right? Do we really know our right from our left? By Selwyn Duke It has long been observed that the easiest way to be a giant…