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  • Guest Commentary: An Old Film with a Vital Message

    By Bruce Walker Turner Movie Classics on February 27th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film which Robert Osborne advised his audience had been deliberately put out of circulation since soon after it was released.  In his introduction to the film, Osborne acknowledges that the film’s stars and producers were first rate.  The…

  • Recalling the History of RINOs

    By Bruce Walker As a Republican victory in 2010 becomes increasingly likely, conservatives need to understand that the fight to keep the Republican Party really stand for something is not new.  In the last eighty years, except for Reagan and Goldwater, every Republican presidential nominee has been what we today would call a RINO.  Does…

  • The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back

    Were the Crusades really expansionist ventures by an imperialist Europe? Or were they something else entirely? By Selwyn Duke The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and the Muslim Moors are on the march. Growing in leaps and bounds, the…

  • The Christmas Controversy: Duke Responds to Reader

    Karl wrote: Mr. Duke: I sent your link to my list. This came in from a fellow who lives in south Africa. He's a good man. He gave me permission to forward to you. If you have time to correspond with him, I would be interested in being copied. Sent: 12/24/2009 12:09:14 P.M. Eastern Standard…

  • Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

    By Selwyn Duke Ah, Christmastime.  Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire.  Sadly, the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture…

  • Is Obama Turning Us into the Next Evil Empire?

    By Selwyn Duke When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in 1983, he was articulating in the boldest terms what had always been an American understanding. The Kremlin had long been fomenting communist revolution the world over, and we had long pursued our policy of "containment." Thus did we fight wars in…

  • TNA Cover Story — Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon

    And it seems this expanded presidential role may now be accompanied by an expanded president’s ego and expanded peasant mentality. For example, there was a recent Harpo Productions video featuring Hollywood types such as Ashton Kutcher that was shown in at least one elementary school. In it they ask viewers to make a humanitarian pledge,…

  • Guest Piece: The Wages of Appeasemennt

    By Bruce Walker The world has known for many years that the wages of appeasement are the loss of moral high ground to monstrous villains.  During the Cold War, although America usually kept its military power adequate to deter Soviet aggression, the American Left (and European Left) blithely pretended that a regime which conspired with…

  • Guest Commentary: And That’s The Way it Wasn’t – Walter Cronkite

    By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure.  Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility.  He had a long, happy marriage.  These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…

  • Savage Appearance: Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009

    https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-critics-rebuke-pope-benedict-5-22-09.mp3 Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009