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  • Welcome to EbolaCare — but the Website is Down

    By Selwyn Duke A well known phenomenon in the animal kingdom is that when taking over a new pride, a lion will sometimes kill all the cubs. We don’t know exactly what kind of feeling drives him in this bloody act, but there’s obviously a lack of attachment. Suffice it to say the problem can…

  • Patient Number Two: Obama Fiddles While Ebola Spreads

    By Selwyn Duke No one as yet knows how the United States' second Ebola patient — the first believed to have contracted the disease on American soil — became infected. We know that the person, a female nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, picked up the disease from recently deceased Liberian national Thomas Eric…

  • Kremlin Takes Action After Exchange Student Adopted by U.S. Homosexual Couple

    By Selwyn Duke When you send your son overseas through an exchange program for cultural enrichment, you don’t expect him to be adopted by a homosexual couple and never return home. But that’s exactly what is happening in the case of one Russian boy who was visiting the U.S. — over the protests of his…

  • Iraq and the Bloody Price of Lies

    By Selwyn Duke Western civilization lied and people died. It lied, that is, to itself. I am referring to Iraq, but not to the hapless George W. Bush and the claim of WMDs’ existence, which wasn’t a lie at all. What is at issue here is more fundamental. It’s a lie that imbues Bushes, Clintons…

  • Vladimir Putin Caesar and Our Great Geo-political Turning Point

    By Selwyn Duke We are witnessing, I believe, a turning point in geopolitical history, one future historians may analyze as we have the Roman Empire’s fall. Vladimir Putin is making a move — and it’s not just against Ukraine. It may not be just a move against Eastern Europe. It’s not even, perhaps, just a…

  • Suing Americans under International Law — in American Courts

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you go overseas and give a speech advocating a cause, only to come home and find you’re being sued for “crimes against humanity.” No, what you did wasn’t illegal under American law or under the laws of the nation in which you expressed your words. You’re being sued under international law.…

  • Treasonous Obama Strikes Again

    By Selwyn Duke The world is laughing at us. It has come to light that the Obama administration has allowed hundreds of Chinese nationals — who are closely associated with the Chinese Liberation Army — to work in a sensitive area of NASA's Langley Research Center. What could possibly go wrong? Here’s what: one of…

  • Barack Obama: Anatomy of an Ideologue

    By Selwyn Duke As with G.W. Bush before him, much time is spent arguing about Barack Obama’s character. Does he mean well and just not govern well, or is it something else? What can be missed during this debate, however, is that most damage is done in the name of doing good. Consider, for instance,…

  • Petulant, Perturbed Obama Just Can’t Help Himself

    By Selwyn Duke As with the vice-presidential debate and Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s attitude in Monday night’s debate spoke more clearly than anything he said. No, he didn’t laugh like Bozo the Clown, giggle like a schoolgirl, shake his head, and roll his eyes like Jokin’ Joe did. But he looked petulant, perturbed, and on…

  • Debating the Debate and Immoderate Moderation

    By Selwyn Duke Despite all the scrutiny placed on debate moderation, Candy Crowley nonetheless managed to stoop to the occasion Tuesday night at Hofstra University. Yet, although she gave it her best effort, the 2012 debate record is still Democrats and the media 0 for 3. Unfortunately, the truth has been a casualty as well.…