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  • Taking a Toll on the PeopleWhy toll roads are absolutely the worst way to raise revenue

    By Selwyn Duke You’re driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95), heading toward the Big Apple. Cruising along, you pass exits 7, then 8, 9, 10 and 11, and everything is fine.  Then you come to exit 12, and traffic starts to slow down; soon, it’s a New York bumper-to-bumper nightmare, the worst kind.…

  • Enviro-lies

    By Selwyn Duke Upon being asked what wisdom was, the ancient sage Confucius once replied, "Wisdom is, when you know something, knowing that you know it, and when you do not know something, knowing that you do not know it." If this definition is correct, I would say most politicians are sorely lacking in the…

  • Making Government Indoctrination Compulsory

    By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to think of anything more near and dear to our hearts, anything of which we’re more protective, than our children. It’s also hard to imagine a more important right than that to raise one’s children in accordance with the dictates of a well-formed conscience. Now, though, the 2nd Appellate Court…

  • Why Most Voters Shouldn’t Vote

    By Selwyn Duke Often the most fanciful ideas become the least questioned assumptions. In this election season a few have made themselves apparent, such as the notion that “change” is good by definition and “experience” is definitely good. Yet an even better example is the oft-repeated platitude that greater voter participation yields a healthier republic.

  • Real Inconvenient Truths…. About Abortion

    By Selwyn Duke Out of Britain comes a very sad, sad story. Emma Beck, an artist tormented by having aborted her twins, was found hanging at her home a day before her 31st birthday. Expressing her grief and regret in a suicide note, she wrote: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now…

  • Arming the Academy

    By Selwyn Duke Virtually all public universities maintain a prohibition against gun possession on their grounds. But in the wake of the recent campus shootings, this policy is coming under scrutiny. A chorus of activist voices, such as an Internet-based group named Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, is asking authorities to guarantee Second Amendment…

  • Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?

    By Selwyn Duke It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism’s epitaph. After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after Al Gore’s 2000 defeat and George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs, many thought conservatism was carrying the day.  Ah, if only.

  • WND Piece: Why Lovers of Freedom Are Camera Shy

    By Selwyn Duke New York City officials have announced that “it’s only a matter of time” before parks throughout the Big Apple are equipped with surveillance cameras. Washington, D.C., police are now going to monitorlive footage from some of their cameras (those in the highest-crime areas), joining other American localities that embrace the practice.

  • The Coming Global Cooling

    By Selwyn Duke When I was a lad in primary school, we were warned of climate change. It was a tad scary, too, as the prospect of becoming an ice sickle in a frozen wasteland wasn’t very appealing. Hey, we wanted to be able to go outside and sometimes play with balls not made out…

  • Mississippi Fat Burning

    By Selwyn Duke Believe it or not, three Mississippi legislators, Bobby Shows, W.T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, have proposed a law that would prohibit restaurants from serving those with "friendly fronts." Imagine that, denying a business its best customers.