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  • How to Use Your Children to Annoy a Liberal

    By Selwyn Duke Since liberals place a premium on tolerance, the loving and charitable thing to do is help them develop it.  Note here that, unbeknownst to many, tolerance involves enduring something considered to be a negative.  We don’t tolerate a fine meal or a nice car, for instance; we relish such things.  But we…

  • Targeting Guns: Good News, Bad News and Insight

    By Selwyn Duke A federal government action that would have undercut the civilian ammunition supply has been reversed. But since similar threats to Second Amendment rights lie on the horizon, we must remain ever vigilant. And, first and foremost, this means engaging the gun-rights battle on the cultural level. In Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for…

  • Barnewall: Where’s the Beef at AIG?

    By Marilyn Barnewall If the way Congress has mismanaged "The AIG Affair" doesn't tell you what a bunch of clowns represent you, nothing will. If you believe Congress is really trying to solve the AIG problem (which, to be totally truthful, Congress created) you should not read the rest of this article. It will make…

  • Guest Piece: The Banality of Obama

    By Bruce Walker Pundits have been critiquing the new administration for its socialism, for its willful ignorance of foreign policy, for its puerile missteps, but the salient fact of the Obama Presidency is its banality.  He who promised change has dredged up the failed nostrums of the past as if they were something new and…

  • We Need Something Stronger than SteeleRNC Chairman Michael Steele is inside the box and inside the beltway all the way

    By Selwyn Duke Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors.  In fact, they’re much like actors, only, their acting is generally a bit better.  But we tend to miss the point about our leaders.  The problem with politicians is that they’re trying to please…

  • Why 2010 Looks Good

    By Bruce Walker Pundits have already begun looking ahead to the 2010 midterm elections.  Is Obama like Clinton?  Is there a political agitator like Newt Gingrich on the Republican side?  Will the series of Obama goofs in cabinet appointments, the tension within the Democrat Party, and a downturn in the economy lead to massive voter…

  • The Soulless Beast of Science

    Barack Obama has lifted the ban on embryonic stem-cell research, saying that scientific decisions should be “based on facts, not ideology.” But this is nonsense. By Selwyn Duke Few of us will soon forget President Obama’s answer to the question of when human life begins. “That’s above my pay grade,” he said. It was a…

  • Why Stop With Global Warming?

    By Bruce Walker The heavy artillery of the Left has been wheeled into a line of barrage:  global warming is real; global warming is man-made; and if government does not stop, terrible things will happen.   This means  that we cannot save ourselves unless we are willing to make draconian sacrifices, to surrender our liberties to…

  • Obama: “I Am Not an Animal!”

    By Selwyn Duke Actually, Obama said, in so many words, "I am not a socialist!" in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter.  That is to say, his initial answer was a very pithy "no," but then he felt compelled to call the interviewer back and give the scribe a…

  • The Left’s War on Words

    Bruce Walker Men have long understood the special connection between words and the transcendent. Historians like John Lukacs have noted that virtually all of our reality is words. Novelists like George Orwell saw only too well how the mutilation of words by monsters could send reality into a hopeless downward spiral.