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Category: Election 2008

  • VP Candidate Tim Walz Does NOT Believe in Free Speech

    By Selwyn Duke Is the title of this article “misinformation”? Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) certainly would say so. Many observers say the opposite, though, with Walz having stated in a recently unearthed interview that there’s “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” His defenders would aver here, however, “That’s taken out of…

  • In Defense of the White Man

    By Selwyn Duke While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true.  Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it’s always blowing on some people somewhere.  Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable people.

  • Obama: Selling Capitalists the Hope

    By Selwyn Duke Man's propensity for rationalization is truly amazing.  I know of a couple of men of faith who, even shortly before the election when an Obama victory was a given, were in denial and predicting a McCain win.  And these are true believers — not in the faux messiah-in-chief but in the real…

  • The Artificial Reality of the Matrix Media

    Selwyn Duke A common defense of error today is to say, with deep indignation, “I have a right to my opinion!”  Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant.  But as G.K. Chesterton once said, “Having the right to do something is not at all the same as being right in doing…

  • Guest Commentary: Our Foolish Infatuation with Change

    By Bruce Walker Barack Obama won the presidency based upon the theme of change.  We already live in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good. Politicians, professors, pundits, self-proclaimed champions of the oppressed – those with vested interests in change – repeat the lie that change makes things…

  • Communists Celebrate Obama’s Victory

    By Selwyn Duke It isn't just Bill Ayers, the ex-Weathermen terrorist and self-described small-c communist, who is happy about Barack Obama's presidential victory.  No, the big-c variety are quite pleased as well.  Writes the red rag People's Weekly World (PWW {"People's" in a name is always a bad sign}):

  • Reader Email: Hey, Why Don’t You Lay Off Obama and His Birth Certificate, Duke?

    By Selwyn Duke Many people think it's crazy that some Americans are questioning whether Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen.  For instance, ST writes:

  • Kenyan Ambassador Says Obama Born in Kenya! http://youtube.com/v/zH4GX3Otf14In this revelatory audio footage from the show "Mike in the Morning," the Kenyan ambassador Peter Ogego lets it slip that it's "well-known" Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The hosts asked the ambassador some light-hearted questions and engaged in some banter before casually asking him about Obama's…

  • Responses to “Obama: Fear and the Security Force”

    My recent piece, "Obama: Fear and the Security Force," evoked more responses than perhaps any other article I've ever written.  Many of them were very worthwhile contributions, and I've chosen three that I'm sure you'll find interesting.  In the first one a reader posits a theory as to the purpose behind Barack Obama's Universal Voluntary…

  • Morphing Marriage in California

    By Selwyn Duke It’s said that history repeats itself. Nevertheless, we seem to live in unprecedented times, and a case in point is the issue of faux marriage. There certainly have been civilizations that accepted homosexuality – the ancient Spartans institutionalized it in their military training camps, for example – but I don’t know of…