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  • Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb

    By Selwyn Duke It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb. But it has happened before in recent years, and now it has happened again in Worcester, Massachusetts. Boston.com reports on the crime, writing, Julie Corey, 35,…

  • Fat in America: Taxing Us to Death in the Name of Taxing Us to Health

    First they came for the tobacco, and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the alcohol, and I did not speak out because I was not a drinker. Then they came for my food, and there was no one left to speak out for me because misery…

  • India Throws Monkey Wrench into West’s Global Warming Agenda

    By Selwyn Duke In bold defiance of the global-warming agenda, India is making it known that it rejects the science underpinning anthropogenic (human caused) climate-change theory. The bearer of this news is Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who just last week had informed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was unfair for the United…

  • Why I Must Defend Barbara Boxer

    By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing on “green” jobs. Boxer, the chairman of the EPW committee, was trying to refute a report commissioned by Alford’s organization stating that…

  • Reader Email: Turn Back the Rahmulans! (A Satire by a Nerd)

    After their sweeping Proconsul victory of the “Cap and Trade” bill, led by Chief Proconsul Nazi Pelosi, at the urging of Rahmulan Emanuel, it appears the Rahmulans and Prater Obama have been turned back and have been forced to their side of the neutral zone — for a time.  The Rahmulans started their incursion into…

  • Britannia Ruled by Knaves: Savage Banned to Fill White Man Quota

    By Selwyn Duke When I first heard that radio host Michael Savage had been banned from traveling to England along with an assortment of Moslem terrorists and other miscreants, my first thought was that the public relations arm of the politically correct thought police had struck again.  It only made sense.  Given how Britain is…

  • Another Minimum Wage Hike: But Will It Help?

    By Selwyn Duke In another example of turning lemonade into lemons in economically troubled times, the federal minimum wage increased yesterday from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It's certainly a fashionable measure, but will it actually improve the lot of low-income workers? Let's first discuss what the minimum wage is not. It's not…

  • Guest Commentary: And That’s The Way it Wasn’t – Walter Cronkite

    By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure.  Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility.  He had a long, happy marriage.  These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…

  • Obama Regulatory Pick’s Pro-animal Rights and Anti-First Amendment Activism

    By Selwyn Duke It’s not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn’t share late writer William F. Buckley’s sentiment that “I would rather be governed by 400 people out of the phone book than the whole faculty of Harvard.” In fact, although he won’t manage to fill the Congress with the staff of his alma…

  • Mom Arrested for Having Fat Son

    By Selwyn Duke While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia’s religious police, called “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” we do have our own strange version of vice squads. Only, the trespasses they root out today are less likely to involve heroin and harlots than Twinkies and trans-fats.…