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  • 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…

  • Reader Email – The Great American Bribe: Statehood Lost

    The Senate, Congress and President of the United States have recently passed a partisan spending bill, AKA “The Stimulus Package,” for the total amount of $787 BILLION dollars.  To put that into perspective, if one dollar bills were lined up end to end, 787 billion dollar bills would go to the moon 312 times, with…

  • Milton Friedman Schools Phil Donahue http://youtube.com/v/RWsx1X8PV_AThis is one of the best two-minute videos I've ever watched. In it, famed economist Milton Friedman lays waste to Phil Donahue's naive socialist prattle and skepticism about the free market. Putting these men side-by-side is the greatest of contrasts: It's the giant and the court jester. The saddest part…

  • In Defense of the White Man

    By Selwyn Duke While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true.  Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it’s always blowing on some people somewhere.  Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable people.

  • The Right: Losing the Language and Losing the Debate

    By Selwyn Duke Proposition 8 is still under legal assault in California. But whether or not traditionalists lose this battle, their loose tongues help guarantee they will lose the war. According to the left, we traditionalists just aren’t as smart as they are. We’re not college professors, 95 percent of whom are registered Democrats. We’re…

  • When Small Men Cast Big Shadows

    By Selwyn Duke "When small men cast big shadows, it's a sign that the sun is about to set." — Lin Yutang When I read the above proverb, I can't help but think about our time.  Can anyone deny that we have become the land where small men cast big shadows?  Think about it.  The…

  • Big Brother is Watching You: A “Camera on Every Corner”

    By Selwyn Duke If you know anything about Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, you may understand that he is one of the truly odious characters on the American political scene.  He is the quintessence of a leftist: Ever ready to wax sanctimonious, act paternalistically, and micromanage people lives while being thoroughly corrupt in his own.

  • Is Anyone Smart Enough to Micromanage an Economy?

    The always-perspicacious economics professor Walter Williams' latest column contains an excellent explanation of why it is impossible for anyone, no matter how brilliant, to micromanage an economy.  What he says is something wise people know instinctively, but, nevertheless, it's worth a read.  If nothing else, it may provide you with another way to explain the…