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  • Church in State

    By Selwyn Duke If anyone subscribes to the militant-secularist notion that the First Amendment prohibits religious symbols and sentiments in government, he should read what follows.  It is a presentation by the Washington Constitution Party comprising acknowledgments of God from all of our 50 states’ constitutions.  At the end there is some commentary.

  • Guest Commentary: Draft Ditka

    By Bruce Walker The Illinois State Legislature is going to quickly remove the power of senatorial appointment from its latest disgraced governor.  That means some other politician will fill the seat held by another politician, all of whom are steeped in the corruption that is Illinois politics.  The bipartisan slime includes the oldest and biggest…

  • The Socialist and the Stone

    By Selwyn Duke When I was still within a stone’s throw of ladhood, I had an acquaintance who was essentially a socialist.  I can’t say for sure he proclaimed himself as such — although I believe he did — but that was certainly where his passions lay.  He was a man of about 60 years,…

  • Illinois Governor Arrested by FBI on Corruption Charges

    By Selwyn Duke The Democrat governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on corruption charges at approximately 6:15 AM today.  The arrests are the result of a three-year federal investigation that involved secretly taping the governor's conversations with the help of his friend and confidant,…

  • Self-esteem: Smells Like Teen Trouble

    By Selwyn Duke There is a reason why G.K. Chesterton once called common sense ". . . that forgotten branch of psychology."  It is because the field can reliably be used to govern your life; all you need do is listen closely to its prescriptions. And do exactly the opposite. 

  • Guest Commentary: Our Foolish Infatuation with Change

    By Bruce Walker Barack Obama won the presidency based upon the theme of change.  We already live in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good. Politicians, professors, pundits, self-proclaimed champions of the oppressed – those with vested interests in change – repeat the lie that change makes things…

  • Communists Celebrate Obama’s Victory

    By Selwyn Duke It isn't just Bill Ayers, the ex-Weathermen terrorist and self-described small-c communist, who is happy about Barack Obama's presidential victory.  No, the big-c variety are quite pleased as well.  Writes the red rag People's Weekly World (PWW {"People's" in a name is always a bad sign}):

  • Reader Email: Hey, Why Don’t You Lay Off Obama and His Birth Certificate, Duke?

    By Selwyn Duke Many people think it's crazy that some Americans are questioning whether Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen.  For instance, ST writes:

  • Guest Commentary: If We Don’t Learn from History. . .

    By Marilyn Barnewall To whom should we listen about banking, the stock market, the economy? There are so many differing analyses right now, it is difficult to know.

  • Intelligent Design and Evolution

    By Selwyn Duke While the debate over evolution in schools has been developing for many years in a primordial soup of passion, generally speaking, it hasn't reached a very high level of complexity. The opponents of Intelligent Design Theory (ID) tend to dismiss its advocates as serpent-handling dogmatists who make a sport of spitting on…