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  • O’Reilly the Culture Warrior Doesn’t Understand the War

    By Selwyn Duke Quite a while ago, I wrote a piece titled "Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?" in which I explained the process by which the right loses the culture war and why the I won't call myself a "conservative."  A good example of the fault I describe in the article was exhibited on…

  • Responses to “Obama: Fear and the Security Force”

    My recent piece, "Obama: Fear and the Security Force," evoked more responses than perhaps any other article I've ever written.  Many of them were very worthwhile contributions, and I've chosen three that I'm sure you'll find interesting.  In the first one a reader posits a theory as to the purpose behind Barack Obama's Universal Voluntary…

  • Morphing Marriage in California

    By Selwyn Duke It’s said that history repeats itself. Nevertheless, we seem to live in unprecedented times, and a case in point is the issue of faux marriage. There certainly have been civilizations that accepted homosexuality – the ancient Spartans institutionalized it in their military training camps, for example – but I don’t know of…

  • Obama: Fear and the Security Force

    By Selwyn Duke In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with…

  • Where Does Obama Get His Ideas? Mao?

    By Selwyn Duke Most of us have heard about how Barack Obama has lifted language from others, people such as Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.  It’s what prompted Hillary Clinton to say in one of the primary debates that Obama’s words didn’t constitute change you can believe in but ". . . change you can Xerox"…

  • How Barack Obama Will Ensure His Victory in 2012

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  • College Professor Whines about Her Financial Woes

    By Selwyn Duke What many don’t want to mention about our financial crisis is that the greatest culprit is individual irresponsibility.  This is because many of us are part of the problem, and we don’t own up to this for two reasons.  Most obviously, people don’t like to admit fault.  But an even greater factor…

  • The French First Lady: Eye Candy and Air

    By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to shock a man living in a planetary insane asylum, so it doesn’t raise my eyebrows when I watch a people commit suicide.  Nevertheless, I had to shake my head when I read about how Barack Obama’s election has inspired France to consider affirmative-action policies to combat their dreaded "white…

  • Impeach Schwarzenegger

    By Selwyn Duke Proving that he is about as conversant with American civics as his foreign accent would indicate, Arnold Schwarzenegger has essentially stated that the will of the people means nothing to him.  Michael Rothfeld and Tony Barboza writing at the Los Angeles Times report: 

  • Communism on the Rise

    By Selwyn Duke It may be clichéd to quote George Santayana and say that those who forget the mistakes of the past are damned to repeat them, but truer words were never spoken. Although it may be hard for those who remember Soviet bread lines to believe – and even harder for the well-versed in…