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  • The Rising Tide of Corruption

    By Selwyn Duke For a long time now, people have lamented the state of younger generations. And for a long time now, they have been right. If this makes me sound like a fuddy-duddy who bemoans the spirit of the age simply because he long ago wedded his own, know that indicting the next generation…

  • Guest Commentary: If We Don’t Learn from History. . .

    By Marilyn Barnewall To whom should we listen about banking, the stock market, the economy? There are so many differing analyses right now, it is difficult to know.

  • Intelligent Design and Evolution

    By Selwyn Duke While the debate over evolution in schools has been developing for many years in a primordial soup of passion, generally speaking, it hasn't reached a very high level of complexity. The opponents of Intelligent Design Theory (ID) tend to dismiss its advocates as serpent-handling dogmatists who make a sport of spitting on…

  • The Morality of Economics

    By Selwyn Duke Like everyone else, I pen my share of pieces about politics. Yet it’s not my favorite topic, as I have an issue with weighty matters. But it’s not that I tend toward frivolity – it’s that politics just isn’t important enough. 

  • Race in the Third Millennium

    By Selwyn Duke Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse “All in the Family” of not being funny.  Its protagonist, blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker, is one of those legendary television characters, and one of his uproarious lines is apropos here.  It was uttered during a scene in which…

  • Morphing Marriage in California

    By Selwyn Duke It’s said that history repeats itself. Nevertheless, we seem to live in unprecedented times, and a case in point is the issue of faux marriage. There certainly have been civilizations that accepted homosexuality – the ancient Spartans institutionalized it in their military training camps, for example – but I don’t know of…

  • Obama: Fear and the Security Force

    By Selwyn Duke In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with…

  • How Barack Obama Will Ensure His Victory in 2012

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  • Communism on the Rise

    By Selwyn Duke It may be clichéd to quote George Santayana and say that those who forget the mistakes of the past are damned to repeat them, but truer words were never spoken. Although it may be hard for those who remember Soviet bread lines to believe – and even harder for the well-versed in…

  • Obama the Justifier

    By Selwyn Duke Election reportage is reaching a fever pitch, and one of the hottest stories concerns a recently revealed interview Barack Obama gave to Chicago Public Radio in 2001. In it, then Illinois state senator Obama talked about whether his desire to spread the wealth around might be better accomplished legislatively or through the…