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  • Guest Piece: The Reality of Sustainability

    By Jack Swift (Editor's note: This piece is one of the most brilliant analyses of our economic problems I have read.) What is Sustainability? The recent election focused upon the American voter’s dis-satisfaction with the state of our government and the state of our economy. Each campaign played upon this angst by pitching “change” but…

  • Greenhouse-gas Tax on Cows

    By Selwyn Duke Many of us have long known that the climate-change con is largely driven by a desire to exert further control over our lives and extract more money from us.  But a tax on cow flatulence?   Believe it or not, such a thing could become a reality if a new permit program proposed…

  • Illegal Immigrants Getting Mortgages http://youtube.com/v/Zch0gUwcPQ4Most Americans aren't aware of it, but illegal aliens have long been receiving mortgage loans and buying homes. The above video is an oral presentation of a Michelle Malkin article in which she talks about this outrage and how it has contributed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Now, since this is…

  • Our Bailout Culture and the Beauty of Bankruptcy

    By Selwyn Duke The story of the Prodigal Son teaches a beautiful lesson about repentance and forgiveness.  As you may know, it involves a lazy, irresponsible young man who insists upon taking his share of the family inheritance immediately and striking out on his own.  He then proceeds to squander it on a dissolute lifestyle…

  • Bailing Out Big Media

    By Selwyn Duke While a guest on a radio show a few weeks back, a caller asked a question about how the media and leftist government establishment were joined at the hip. In response, I mentioned something I had been pondering. With bailouts all the rage in Washington, said I, it wouldn’t surprise me if…

  • The Socialist and the Stone

    By Selwyn Duke When I was still within a stone’s throw of ladhood, I had an acquaintance who was essentially a socialist.  I can’t say for sure he proclaimed himself as such — although I believe he did — but that was certainly where his passions lay.  He was a man of about 60 years,…

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • College Professor Whines about Her Financial Woes

    By Selwyn Duke What many don’t want to mention about our financial crisis is that the greatest culprit is individual irresponsibility.  This is because many of us are part of the problem, and we don’t own up to this for two reasons.  Most obviously, people don’t like to admit fault.  But an even greater factor…

  • Laissez-faire Lies

    By Selwyn Duke It’s no secret to the informed that statists are using the current financial crisis as a pretext to increase the power and scope of government.  Yet, the bold-faced lies shameless politicians and pundits will tell in the service of this cause are striking.  And one of them concerns the fanciful notion that…