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  • Guest Piece: The Stalingrad of Sovietism

    By Bruce Walker Twenty years ago, the Kremlin lost its own Battle of Stalingrad:  Communist Poland formally legalized Solidarity, a labor union that truly was a labor union.  In 1943, after the Battle of Stalingrad, it was certain that Hitler could not “win” the war (i.e. he could not achieve the sort of military advantage…

  • Valkyrie: The Real Col. von Stauffenberg

    By Selwyn Duke On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair" carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to assassinate one of the world's most ruthless and powerful men, Adolf Hitler, and topple the whole of his Nazi government. Integral to this ambitious coup…

  • The Diamond Anniversary of Dehumanization

    By Bruce Walker Seventy-five years ago, on January 1, 1934, one of the most insidious laws in human history came into effect in Nazi Germany.  The innocent sounding name was The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring.   It was the ghastly pinnacle of an unholy theory of human eugenics.  Darwinism – not the…

  • Miracle in the Trenches: The WWI Christmas Truce

    By Selwyn Duke The scene was the dreaded “no man’s land” separating dank and dreary trenches during WWI. It was, as the name implies, a forbidding place, one which modern weaponry had transformed into a moonscape on which even stout-hearted warriors feared to tread. The conflict waged there was dubbed “the War to End All…

  • Church in State

    By Selwyn Duke If anyone subscribes to the militant-secularist notion that the First Amendment prohibits religious symbols and sentiments in government, he should read what follows.  It is a presentation by the Washington Constitution Party comprising acknowledgments of God from all of our 50 states’ constitutions.  At the end there is some commentary.

  • 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…

  • Race in the Third Millennium

    By Selwyn Duke Although the show was propaganda produced by leftist Norman Lear, no one could accuse “All in the Family” of not being funny.  Its protagonist, blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker, is one of those legendary television characters, and one of his uproarious lines is apropos here.  It was uttered during a scene in which…

  • Ex-KGB Defector on Demoralization in America http://youtube.com/v/qlpODYhnPEoThis is a very interesting video a reader sent me featuring Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov. He was a KGB man who was trained in subversion and who has some very interesting things to report about how communists work to corrupt the judgment and degrade the will of a targeted…

  • Was Civilization Always Promiscuous? Duke Responds to Poster

    By Selwyn Duke Was society always as promiscuous as today?  The answer to this question should be obvious, yet there are people who would say yes.  One of them responded to my piece "Does Pro-life Now Mean Pro-libertinism?" saying that the idea of traditional values before the time of the sexual revolution is a myth. …

  • Written in the Eternal Constitution

    This article originally appeared in the April 14, 2008 issue of The New American magazine. By Selwyn Duke Sixty years before Christ's birth, great orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero watched plaintively as his republic faded before his eyes and Julius Caesar became the first Roman emperor. As today, some felt betrayed by their leaders,…