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  • We Need Something Stronger than SteeleRNC Chairman Michael Steele is inside the box and inside the beltway all the way

    By Selwyn Duke Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors.  In fact, they’re much like actors, only, their acting is generally a bit better.  But we tend to miss the point about our leaders.  The problem with politicians is that they’re trying to please…

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  • Why 2010 Looks Good

    By Bruce Walker Pundits have already begun looking ahead to the 2010 midterm elections.  Is Obama like Clinton?  Is there a political agitator like Newt Gingrich on the Republican side?  Will the series of Obama goofs in cabinet appointments, the tension within the Democrat Party, and a downturn in the economy lead to massive voter…

  • The Soulless Beast of Science

    Barack Obama has lifted the ban on embryonic stem-cell research, saying that scientific decisions should be “based on facts, not ideology.” But this is nonsense. By Selwyn Duke Few of us will soon forget President Obama’s answer to the question of when human life begins. “That’s above my pay grade,” he said. It was a…

  • Why Stop With Global Warming?

    By Bruce Walker The heavy artillery of the Left has been wheeled into a line of barrage:  global warming is real; global warming is man-made; and if government does not stop, terrible things will happen.   This means  that we cannot save ourselves unless we are willing to make draconian sacrifices, to surrender our liberties to…

  • The Dark Truth about Socialized Medicine

    By Selwyn Duke George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams has penned another excellent article, this time about socialized medicine.  And since he relates the truth, it’s not a pretty picture.  He talks about how the health-care systems in Britain, Canada and Sweden are running on fumes, and in particular I call your attention to…

  • Obama: “I Am Not an Animal!”

    By Selwyn Duke Actually, Obama said, in so many words, "I am not a socialist!" in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter.  That is to say, his initial answer was a very pithy "no," but then he felt compelled to call the interviewer back and give the scribe a…

  • The Left’s War on Words

    Bruce Walker Men have long understood the special connection between words and the transcendent. Historians like John Lukacs have noted that virtually all of our reality is words. Novelists like George Orwell saw only too well how the mutilation of words by monsters could send reality into a hopeless downward spiral.

  • Blaming Economic Freedom: Using the Malaise to Spread the Disease

    By Selwyn Duke “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” said Barack Obama’s chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, late last year. Mindful of this advice, the left is using our current economic woes to resurrect socialism’s star – and, by extension, communism’s (Marx identified socialism as a transitional stage to communism) – by bemoaning…

  • Guest Piece: The Coming Battle over Reapportionment and Redistricting

    By Bruce Walker The decision by Senator Gregg not to become Commerce Secretary is the first round in a vital battle over reapportionment and redistricting. Title 13 Section 2 provides “The Bureau [of the Census] is an agency within, and under the jurisdiction of, the Department of Commerce.”President Obama and his Chief of Staff lack…