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  • Political Elections, Cultural Elections, and the Votes that Really Matter

    By Selwyn Duke To be honest, treating politics isn’t my favorite pastime. Sure, like other commentators I do it, but it’s not something I can truly sink my teeth into. I’ll explain why momentarily. This election season, my pen has directed many slings and arrows Barack Obama’s way. I criticized John McCain, too, but that…

  • Socialism Comes on Little Cat Feet

    By Selwyn Duke When I ponder the bailout of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), a move which will cost American taxpayers $200 billion (and who knows how much more tomorrow?), I can’t help but think of some wisdom expressed in an oft-used, apocryphal quotation:

  • Radio Host Sentenced to Prison on Child Porn Charges

    By Selwyn Duke Left-wing KGO radio host Bernie Ward has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for the distribution of child pornography. Most people wouldn’t take issue with this, as virtually all consider such material beyond the pale. But are some of our defenses of adult pornography also indefensible?

  • A Global Population Ice Age

    This article first appeared in the June 23, 2008 issue of The New American magazine. By Selwyn Duke If you’re like most alive today, you grew up with Paul R. Ehrlich’s Malthusian idea of a “population bomb.” It just seems like common sense that man will increase his numbers inexorably until, one day, we find…

  • Was Sarah Palin Really the Right Choice for Vice-president?

    By Selwyn Duke Surprising many a political prognosticator, John McCain has announced that his running mate will be 44-year-old Sarah Palin, Alaska’s first female governor.  Honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised, as I told someone just a week ago that she could be the choice.  The question is, is she a good choice?

  • Is the Presidency above Obama’s Pay Grade?

    By Selwyn Duke It’s interesting to hear the euphemisms bandied about in campaigns. After Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s appearance a week ago at Saddleback Church, for instance, the former’s ardent supporters were as effusive in their praise as ever. His stammering and copious “uhs” weren’t signs of a befuddled and muddled mind, but of “thoughtfulness” and…

  • Democrats: It’s Time to Feign Green

    By Selwyn Duke If you listened to the mainstream media, you’d think conservatives have a monopoly on hypocrisy. If a figure has espoused traditional morality even just once at some point in the past and then falls from grace, our press will descend on him like vultures. You can be a Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy…

  • Written in the Eternal Constitution

    This article originally appeared in the April 14, 2008 issue of The New American magazine. By Selwyn Duke Sixty years before Christ's birth, great orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero watched plaintively as his republic faded before his eyes and Julius Caesar became the first Roman emperor. As today, some felt betrayed by their leaders,…

  • Why John Edwards’ Affair Matters

    By Selwyn Duke It has become a stereotypical pattern with men. A lad with a salad-days libido has a girl in every port, plays fast and loose with feelings and breaks hearts. Then he gets older, marries, has a daughter, and becomes very protective. He doesn’t want her dating guys who are just like he…

  • New American Piece – The New Nanotech World: Good and Bad Things Come in Small Packages

    By Selwyn Duke Ever since the dawn of the atomic age, the world has been a different place. This change is epitomized by an image we’ve all seen, that of a nuclear detonation and ensuing mushroom cloud. It’s a picture worth more than a thousand words, one representing the ultimate in worldly power: the capacity…