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  • Bill O’Reilly’s Obama Contradiction

    By Selwyn Duke When all is said and done, the slippery Illinois senator running for president may steal Molly Brown’s nickname and be known as the unsinkable Barack Obama.  This is especially likely given the kid-gloves treatment he’s receiving from the media.  And, unfortunately, Mr. No Spin himself, Bill O’Reilly, is part of this.

  • Bill O’Reilly’s Bimbo Brigade

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but there’s an inordinate number of women — blond women — on pugnacious pundit Bill O’Reilly’s "O’Reilly Factor."  Of course, it’s impossible to find media outlets that don’t assemble their stable based on a quota model; it’s customary to hire a certain number of news babes and people…

  • BBC News: Whistle-blower site taken offline

    By Selwyn Duke About a month ago I wrote a piece titled "The Race for the American Mind," which deals with free speech and discusses ways in which commentary on the Internet can be easily stifled.  Among the methods I discussed was one relating to domain registrars.  I wrote:

  • A Lesson in Reading the Media

    By Selwyn Duke While the job of the media should be to inform and clarify, our mainstream press long ago abdicated that responsibility.   It now specializes in muddying the waters and journalistic sleight-of-hand, and I came across a prime example of this just yesterday.

  • Times Leaking Oil Again

    Well, well, so the New York Times is cutting jobs again.  All I can say is that it couldn’t have happened to a nicer paper.  Reports Jeff Bercovici:

  • Romney’s Real Problem

    By Selwyn Duke With campaign 2008 in full swing, pundits are wondering why Republicans aren’t coalescing around the candidate who has assumed the most conservative posture, Mitt Romney.   They’re trying to explain why John McCain has become the front-runner despite an embrace of leftist measures ranging from the scamnesty bill to the McCain-Feingold violation of…

  • Exposing the Global Warming Hoax

    By Selwyn Duke Agricultural journalist Jerry Carlson has written an excellent article about the global warming hoax.   He  points out that the truth about climate change — that it’s simply part of a natural cycle — may start to be reported by the mainstream media.  He writes:

  • Giuliani’s Out – Who’s Surprised?

    By Selwyn Duke Quite predictably, Rudolph Giuliani has withdrawn from the presidential race.  His campaign had hit the skids, and, if he couldn’t win in Florida, with all its transplanted New Yorkers, he couldn’t have won anywhere.  Yet his decline in the polls was also predictable, and, in fact, I did predict it.

  • Trying to Kill the Immigration Card

    By Selwyn Duke With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney’s failures prior to Michigan, a fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position isn’t playing well in Peoria.

  • The Times Slimes Veterans

    By Selwyn Duke The New York Times really could be the poster rag for the decline of the mainstream media.  Its new motto should be "All the news that fits our agenda," as rarely a week passes where my low opinion of it isn’t affirmed.  This time the paper issued its offense against Truth on…