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  • You Could Hear a Pin Drop . . .

    Like everyone else, I receive many bulk emails.  Some are nonsensical, some are banal, but then there are a few that are worth relating.  The one that follows falls into that category.  While I can’t be sure that all the events actually happened (how can one be?), it nevertheless makes some important points in a…

  • Arming the Academy

    By Selwyn Duke Virtually all public universities maintain a prohibition against gun possession on their grounds. But in the wake of the recent campus shootings, this policy is coming under scrutiny. A chorus of activist voices, such as an Internet-based group named Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, is asking authorities to guarantee Second Amendment…

  • Scientist Says Obesity Needs to be Addressed Like Climate Change

    By Selwyn Duke The health police are at it again.  One Professor Philip James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said obesity was such a big problem worldwide that, writes BBC News, ". . . action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options." Yup, sounds like the Al…

  • BBC News: Whistle-blower site taken offline

    By Selwyn Duke About a month ago I wrote a piece titled "The Race for the American Mind," which deals with free speech and discusses ways in which commentary on the Internet can be easily stifled.  Among the methods I discussed was one relating to domain registrars.  I wrote:

  • Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?

    By Selwyn Duke It seems like just yesterday that many were reading liberalism’s epitaph. After the Reagan years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after Al Gore’s 2000 defeat and George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs, many thought conservatism was carrying the day.  Ah, if only.

  • WND Piece: Why Lovers of Freedom Are Camera Shy

    By Selwyn Duke New York City officials have announced that “it’s only a matter of time” before parks throughout the Big Apple are equipped with surveillance cameras. Washington, D.C., police are now going to monitorlive footage from some of their cameras (those in the highest-crime areas), joining other American localities that embrace the practice.

  • Why ‘superbugs,’ TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading U.S

    World Net Daily has a piece about how diseases once eliminated in the U.S. are now making a frightening comeback.  And they point out the obvious, which is that the huge influx of Third World immigrants is largely to blame.

  • Exposing China

    Recently I was emailed a link to a site named "unmadeinchina.org."  It’s designed to expose the evils of the despotic Chinese regime.  While some of the presentations are definitely over the top, it does provide valuable information and I think those who run it are doing the world a service.

  • The Coming Global Cooling

    By Selwyn Duke When I was a lad in primary school, we were warned of climate change. It was a tad scary, too, as the prospect of becoming an ice sickle in a frozen wasteland wasn’t very appealing. Hey, we wanted to be able to go outside and sometimes play with balls not made out…

  • The Homosexual Mafia

    A British columnist named Richard LittleJohn recently wrote a very funny column about a very tragic form of social devolution.  The title is "Now they want to ban mums and dads," and it’s about the advance of the homosexual agenda in the U.K.