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  • Guest Piece: The Wages of Appeasemennt

    By Bruce Walker The world has known for many years that the wages of appeasement are the loss of moral high ground to monstrous villains.  During the Cold War, although America usually kept its military power adequate to deter Soviet aggression, the American Left (and European Left) blithely pretended that a regime which conspired with…

  • Talk Show Host Michael Savage’s Website Attacked by Hackers

    By Selwyn Duke Just recently, talk show host Michael Savage had to endure an attack on his character when the British government associated him with terrorists and other criminals and banned him from traveling to the U.K.  But on Saturday the attack — or at least an attack — was brought to his own shores…

  • Obama and Legislating Morality in Health Care

    In an effort to regain momentum in the health-care debate, Barack Obama is attempting to reframe the push for government intervention as a moral issue. By Selwyn Duke Just a few short months ago, few imagined that Barack Obama would have trouble marshalling a Democrat majority for one of his major initiatives. He was the…

  • The Race Idiots

    By Selwyn Duke With relativistic people, there is no such thing as a true axiom, yet you’d never know it listening to our modern mantras.  We hear things such as “Our strength lies in our diversity,” “Religion has caused all the wars in history,” and “Everything is a matter of perspective” proclaimed with theological assurance. …

  • “Dr. Happy” Brought in to “Toughen Up” Army Troops

    By Selwyn Duke When we hear that the U.S. Army is spending $117 million to toughen up combat troops mentally, we certainly don’t expect the ancient Spartan regime of blood soup, reed beds and whippings to inure one to pain. Yet we might not guess a program of “emotional resiliency classes,” either. But the money…

  • Democrat Plan: Make the IRS the Internal Medical Service

    By Selwyn Duke You probably don't associate the Internal Revenue Service with health, unless it's their letterhead's ability to make your heart stop. Yet, under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions healthcare reform bills, the dreaded tax department will be a major player in making sure you comply with government healthcare…

  • Yet another Call to Overhaul Healthcare . . . This Time in Canada

    By Selwyn Duke In his captivating book The Screwtape Letters, the great philosopher C.S. Lewis noted that change is meant to be a means to an end and that it is only the destroyers of civilization who try to convince us that it is an end unto itself. It is an alluring mantra, that change…

  • All the President’s Bigoted Men

    By Selwyn Duke When Barack Obama said that the Henry Louis Gates affair was a teaching moment, he spoke truly.  But the key is ensuring that the right things are taught and the right people learn. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen. There is no need to rehash the events of July 16 chapter and…

  • 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…