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  • Gandhi Reconsidered: When Paganism Met Progressivism

    By Selwyn Duke When an Indian-born man I knew a couple of decades ago expressed an intense dislike for Mohandas Gandhi, I found it a bit surprising. Wasn’t the “Great Soul,” that quintessential 20th-century icon, India’s George Washington? That certainly is the narrative created by historians — who, history has taught us, can tell a…

  • Illegal Aliens Get More Welfare Benefits Than Citizens

    By Selwyn Duke Whether or not illegal aliens are doing jobs Americans won’t do, they’re certainly getting benefits Americans don’t get. This is the finding of a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report stating that a whopping 70 percent of illegal-immigrant households with children receive handouts via a government program. The rate for immigrant households with…

  • Socialized Medicine Director Dies After Waiting Nine Months for Operation

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a bit like a supermarket manager dying of starvation or a bottled-water distributor dying of thirst: In the U.K., a former National Health Service (NHS) director died because she was forced to wait for medical care — at her own hospital. The Daily Mail reports: Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had…

  • Barack Obama’s Paycheck Unfairness Act

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re a stay-at-home mom, I don’t think you’ll like a policy that makes it harder for your husband to support your family. Yet Barack Obama is advocating just such a policy — it’s called the “Paycheck Fairness Act” (PFA). While pushing the legislation in a radio address this past Saturday, Obama…

  • Obama’s America: Bureaucracy Fines Theater $80,000 for Racism

    By Selwyn Duke When you hear that a movie theater was fined $80,000 dollars for discrimination, you might wonder if it refused to hire blacks or promote women. But this wasn’t the case with the Carmike 14 cinema, in Dover, Delaware. What was its Bull Connor moment? Its manager asked patrons to refrain from cellphone…

  • Review of “Trickle Up Poverty”

    By Selwyn Duke As I was listening to Michael Savage’s radio show no more than a year ago, I heard something that might have caused his faithful listeners to scurry for the anti-depressants. (That is, if the host weren’t so steadfast in counseling against their use.) Dejected over his unfair inclusion on a list of…

  • Now Marriage Is Above Obama’s Pay Grade, Too

    By Selwyn Duke Ever since a campaigning Barack Obama dodged an abortion question by saying it was above his pay grade, Americans have learned that economics, foreign policy, constitutionalism, and voting-rights equity, among other things, are as well. And now marriage has joined that list. After the February 23 announcement that Obama had ordered the Justice…

  • Journalist in France Convicted for Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

    By Selwyn Duke We’ve heard a lot about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian whose warnings about Muslim influence in his nation place him in the crosshairs of the powers-that-be.  But while the tow-headed modern-day Templar has thus far dodged the hangman on Truth-speech charges, another intrepid defender of Western civilization has not been so lucky. …

  • What Justin Bieber and General McChrystal Have in Common

    By Selwyn Duke Well, Justin Bieber has lost his political virginity.  And it was taken by, of all people, the stoners at Rolling Stone magazine. Excerpts released from an upcoming interview with the teen star included political statements that, as some reading this will know, have earned him criticism in conservative circles.  What fewer in…

  • On Nullification, Just Follow Liberals’ Lead

    By Selwyn Duke It isn’t often that conservatives can learn something from liberals, but I think the current debate over nullification is an exception. As you may know, nullification is the practice whereby a state or locality identifies a federal law as being unconstitutional and simply refuses to enforce it. It is also a practice…