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  • New Year’s Resolutions

    By Selwyn Duke I was never one for New Year’s Resolutions.  Quite frankly, they always struck me as silly.  If a change is warranted, why wait for a certain date to make it?

  • Faith on Your Lips

    By Selwyn Duke People of true faith increasingly become aware of the effort to strike Christmas and Christianity from our cultural landscape.  And some of us fight quite feverishly to preserve our traditions, we really do.  We may find out that certain stores prohibit their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" and then boycott those establishments. …

  • Thought of the Day – The Wisdom of Edmund Burke

    The following are select quotations from the great Irish orator and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). On Freedom . . . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and…

  • How Free Are We Really?

    By Selwyn Duke We Americans take great pride in our freedom.  We call ourselves “the land of the free, home of the brave,” have Lady Liberty in New York Harbor and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.  America is synonymous with freedom in the minds of most.  Much of the rest of the world, however, is…

  • The Mall Shooter: Why Did He Do it?

    By Selwyn Duke After the horrible mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, people are asking the usual questions.  Many want to know why shooter Robert Hawkins did it.  A better question would be: Why not? 

  • Confusing Beauty With the Beast

    By Selwyn Duke Today’s topic is definitely one of the more amusing things I’ve treated.   Oh, it’s not fall-down-on-the-floor-and-rupture-yourself funny, but it is deliciously, give-the-phonies-just-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves, smirk-inducing funny.    

  • The Culture of Death

    By Selwyn Duke There is a news story today about women who will not have babies because they don’t want to contribute to the strain on the environment.  The piece mentions an environmental charity worker named Toni Vernelli who said, "Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of…

  • Giving Thanks and Thanksgiving

    By Selwyn Duke The great philosopher G.K. Chesterton once said, "Thanks are the highest form of thought."  It was more than just a clever turn of phrase.  Not only is it true, but cultivating a thankful spirit is one of the keys to happiness.

  • Bible: Those Who Do Not Work, Should Not Eat

    By Selwyn Duke It’s so often the case today that the New Testament of the Bible is placed in the service of liberalism.  The leftists who do this often have never read it, but that doesn’t stop them from didactically quoting such  lines as "Do not judge lest you be judged"; of course, they never…

  • Iraq: The Folly of Deifying Democracy

    By Selwyn Duke We hear lots of criticism of the Iraq venture from the left, right and center.  There is everything from silly notions about presidential prevarication to how “it is only about oil” to one-world government conspiracy theories.  Yet, while military action can rise from policy objectives, it’s often ignored that policy objectives tend…