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  • Surprise: Wall Street May Refuse Bailout Money

    By Selwyn Duke You probably didn’t see this one coming, but many Wall Street banks and financial firms may actually refuse to accept the taxpayer funds the government is shoveling its way.  It may seem counterintuitive, but the Guardian.co.uk tells us:

  • 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:

  • 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…

  • Our Energy Woes: Just Nuke It

    By Selwyn Duke While many stress that we must become energy sufficient, relatively few are truly serious about it.  I know this because achieving such a state isn’t that difficult; it just requires one to accept reality and reject ideology. 

  • Barack Obama and Equal Pay for Women

    By Selwyn Duke What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? While a certain unflattering noun would leap to the minds of most, we can now apply a proper one: Barack Obama.

  • A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

    By Selwyn Duke One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else…

  • Demographic Winter

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It’s the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

  • Environmentalists Orchestrating Our Oil Woes

    By Selwyn Duke One of the very best columnists on the journalistic scene is Walter Williams.  His articles aren’t filled with flowery prose or esoteric terms (like esoteric!); they just cut to the heart of the matter and provide simple, reasoned analysis.  In fact, I can hardly think of an instance where he has written…

  • The Sexes: Wage Gap or Truth Gap?

    By Selwyn Duke Hillary Clinton recently scored political points talking about that infamous wage gap between the sexes.  This inspired Carey Roberts — a writer who mainly focuses on issues relating to feminism — to pen a piece exploring the notion that this gap is attributable to discrimination.  Roberts makes an excellent point as one…

  • Is Tax Money Subsidizing Useless Energy Schemes?

    By Selwyn Duke    I’d appreciate a viable alternative energy source as much as anyone else.  After all, who wouldn’t like to run his car for a third or fourth the cost?  I don’t have much confidence in government schemes to develop those new sources, however, and the May 12 edition of The Wall Street…