Category: History
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By Selwyn Duke When discussing a new study about liberals’ and conservatives’ favorite television shows recently, pundit Bill O’Reilly and his guests mentioned that liberals like works about “flawed people.” If this is so, they will certainly appreciate Barack Obama’s just published children’s book, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters. Much like…
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By Selwyn Duke The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members of the Waffen-SS, thought the cream of the crop — have a special purpose. In many occupied countries, they are encouraged to mate with blonde-haired, blue-eyed women — those…
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Become a big liar often enough and you start to believe yourself By Selwyn Duke When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while…
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Will intellectualism ever intersect with wisdom? By Selwyn Duke A number of definitions of insanity have been put forth over the years, and a recent interview has inspired me to add the following: It is when one is wrong over and over again but still expects himself to be right. The interview was with…
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By Selwyn Duke Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does. And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking — from moron to imbecile.
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After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the Alamo, remember America and remember the West. By Selwyn Duke In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education…
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By Selwyn Duke The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the doomed holdouts at the Alamo. But then there are the quiet heroes, people such as Oskar Schindler. Ever since Schindler’s List hit the silver…
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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…
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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…
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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…
