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Category: Election 2008

  • Rats and Socialized Medicine

    By Selwyn Duke Out of Britain comes a story about a teenager who decided against having an operation because he was told that there might be a dead rat in the operating room.  Ah, another one of the beauties of socialized medicine. 

  • Vindicating My Assessment of Most Voters

    By Selwyn Duke I just issued a piece titled "Why Most Voters Shouldn’t Vote," and it has evoked a great response.  Virtually all the emails have been positive, by the way, but I nevertheless would like to buttress its thesis.  So I’m providing a couple of links to Sean Hannity’s "Man on the Street" interviews,…

  • Why Most Voters Shouldn’t Vote

    By Selwyn Duke Often the most fanciful ideas become the least questioned assumptions. In this election season a few have made themselves apparent, such as the notion that “change” is good by definition and “experience” is definitely good. Yet an even better example is the oft-repeated platitude that greater voter participation yields a healthier republic.

  • A Woman on Women

    By Selwyn Duke I must say that my eyebrows were raised by a piece by Charlotte Allen titled "We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?"  She writes about her incredulity at how emotion driven and bereft of logic so many of her fellow women are.  Now, it’s not the subject matter that shocked…

  • The Mother of All Freudian Slips

    By Selwyn Duke When we use the term "Freudian Slip," it’s usually in reference to some ironic but meaningless slip of the tongue.  We might poke some good-hearted fun at the possessor of the slipped tongue, but we know we’re making sport of him and don’t really attach much importance to his mistake.  Yet, if…

  • Obama’s Terrorist Associations

    By Selwyn Duke Author Jonah Goldberg was on Hannity & Colmes last night talking about another one of Barack Obama’s unseemly associations.  He pointed out that the Illinois Lip once consorted with Bill Ayers, a former Weather Underground terrorist who set off bombs as part of his campaign against America.

  • Newsmax: The Real Barack Obama

    Ronald Kessler of Newsmax.com wrote a very good piece titled "The Real Barack Obama."   He discusses Michelle Obama’s statement wherein she said, "I am proud of my country for the first time in my adult life."

  • Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?

    By Selwyn Duke It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism’s epitaph. After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after Al Gore’s 2000 defeat and George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs, many thought conservatism was carrying the day.  Ah, if only.

  • The Election, Hispanics and Race

    Be Selwyn Duke Prior to the California primary, Barack Obama was well ahead of Hillary Clinton in many polls and Mitt Romney seemed to be inching ahead of John McCain.  Yet the results turned out to be just the opposite of what polls indicated.  What happened?

  • The Wrath of John

    By Selwyn Duke Writing in the New York Post, columnist Charles Hurt warns of the obvious.  John McCain may be campaigning as a conservative, says he, but once in office  the senator will show his true colors and take a sharp left turn.  Hurt opines: