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  • 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…

  • Barack Obama Will Steal Your Future http://youtube.com/v/UEvvml2JJaUWell, I’ve finally decided to enter the third millennium.  I’ve long wanted to plunge into the realm of video commentary, since visual media long ago trumped the written word, and here is my first effort.  It’s out with the old and in with the new. OK, I do jest,…

  • Guest Column: Obama’s Economic Nazism

    By Bruce Walker (Editor’s note: I don’t usually publish guest pieces at my site, but this one is a must-read.  It provides further evidence as to the true nature of Nazism.  And, after you read it, also take a look at Ace Walker’s {no relation} classic "American Fascism" and my piece Hitler and Christianity, which…

  • Obama Bombshell: Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered http://youtube.com/v/iivL4c_3pckThis is a radio interview with Barack Obama from 2001.   In it he flaunts his Marxist stripes, speaking about how the Constitution is flawed because it doesn’t prescribe wealth redistribution.  This is a dangerous, evil man who has managed to do the impossible: Make John McCain look good. …