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  • Audio Snap Commentary — The Real Reason the Government Won’t Take the Tarp Money Back

    https://selwynduke.typepad.com/files/ap-why-the-government-wont-take-the-tarp-money-back-4-7-09.wma — The government’s goal isn’t the creation of a new economic system but the resurrection of a very, very old one. In fact, it’s one of the oldest institutions of man.

  • Dick Morris Reports on the Repealing of the Declaration of Independence http://youtube.com/v/dFDBkf4F_hsWhile I'm not the biggest fan of Dick Morris (he used to be Bill Clinton's propaganda minister), he's dead right about what he says in this video. And it's a very important and alarming message.

  • Nationalizing the Newspapers

    By Selwyn Duke Quite a while ago, when all the bailout mania was just getting started, I mentioned on a radio show that the left soon might propose aiding their public relations team, the newspaper industry.  Well, it wasn't but a few weeks later that a story on the subject broke, and I wrote about…

  • Guest Piece: Finance Capitalists and Scapegoats

    By Bruce Walker The doctored outrage at AIG executives raises one of the ugliest specters in modern political history:  mindless fury directed at “Finance Capitalism.”  The profits of men who create goods and services is easy to defend.  Bill Gates gave us Windows.  T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot drilled for oil.  Sam Walton retailed…

  • It’s Time for a Greed Czar

    By Selwyn Duke With the recent passage of the “TARP bonus” bill, it’s obvious that our politicians are finally serious about tackling the problem of greed.  It’s about time, too.  We’ve long had “hate crime” laws, so one had to wonder when the next deadly sin would make it on the legislative agenda.

  • Must-hear Speech: Brilliant British Politician Has Choice Words for Statists http://youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXsThis is Daniel Hannan, a British member of the European Parliament, rendering a speech with an eloquence that makes Barack Obama look like an amateur. He is delivering a tour de force, giving leftist British Prime Minister Gorden Brown a tongue lashing he'll never forget.…

  • 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…

  • The Dark Truth about Socialized Medicine

    By Selwyn Duke George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams has penned another excellent article, this time about socialized medicine.  And since he relates the truth, it’s not a pretty picture.  He talks about how the health-care systems in Britain, Canada and Sweden are running on fumes, and in particular I call your attention 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…