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  • Oh, So Brave: Artists Afraid to Mock Moslems

    By Selwyn Duke Whenever an artist creates a work that impugns tradition or mocks Christianity, it is often said that he is "brave" for challenging the "status quo."  Of course, the status quo they’re challenging is that of bygone days, the one that, like an old soldier, didn’t die but just faded away.  Thus, these…

  • Billionaires Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

    By Selwyn Duke During WWII, the medium of film was used to great effect in the combating nations’ war efforts.  Adolf Hitler had his propaganda filmmaker extraordinaire, Leni Riefenstahl, who exalted Nazi Germany.  But such film footage was used to demonize as well, and we certainly characterized the Japanese in less than flattering terms.  (The…

  • When Bad Journalism Meets Bad Science

    By Selwyn Duke If you believe "evolutionary theorist" Oliver Curry, man will divide into two distinct species after approximately another 100,000 years.

  • Revealing Left-wing Media Bias

    The British Broadcasting Network (BBC) has tipped its hand.  It has just been revealed that its employees have exposed their leftist leanings at the networking website "Facebook."

  • Atheism Radio

    By Selwyn Duke This just in: Airhead America, that leftist talk radio outfit, is launching a program devoted to atheism.

  • Google’s Machinations

    Many have long worried about government control of the Internet.  After all, for all the latter’s faults — and it is a purveyor of cultural poison — it’s also a great medium through which to disseminate truth.

  • The New Lynching: Why I Must Defend Don Imus

    By Selwyn Duke So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own. But even though his is a vessel I…

  • The Barker and the ShillThe Fraud of the Fairness Doctrine

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very different. The…