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  • The Election, Hispanics and Race

    Be Selwyn Duke Prior to the California primary, Barack Obama was well ahead of Hillary Clinton in many polls and Mitt Romney seemed to be inching ahead of John McCain.  Yet the results turned out to be just the opposite of what polls indicated.  What happened?

  • Archbishop of Canterbury: Institute Sharia Law in Britain

    Selwyn Duke Incredibly, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams has said that Sharia Law should be introduced in Britain.  Treating the matter, thisislondon.co.uk writes:

  • The Wrath of John

    By Selwyn Duke Writing in the New York Post, columnist Charles Hurt warns of the obvious.  John McCain may be campaigning as a conservative, says he, but once in office  the senator will show his true colors and take a sharp left turn.  Hurt opines:

  • Romney’s Real Problem

    By Selwyn Duke With campaign 2008 in full swing, pundits are wondering why Republicans aren’t coalescing around the candidate who has assumed the most conservative posture, Mitt Romney.   They’re trying to explain why John McCain has become the front-runner despite an embrace of leftist measures ranging from the scamnesty bill to the McCain-Feingold violation of…

  • Mississippi Fat Burning

    By Selwyn Duke Believe it or not, three Mississippi legislators, Bobby Shows, W.T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, have proposed a law that would prohibit restaurants from serving those with "friendly fronts." Imagine that, denying a business its best customers.

  • Exposing the Global Warming Hoax

    By Selwyn Duke Agricultural journalist Jerry Carlson has written an excellent article about the global warming hoax.   He  points out that the truth about climate change — that it’s simply part of a natural cycle — may start to be reported by the mainstream media.  He writes:

  • The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation

    By Selwyn Duke Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. They are political creatures first, most everything else second and statesmen last. For this to elude one, he must have his head planted…

  • Giuliani’s Out – Who’s Surprised?

    By Selwyn Duke Quite predictably, Rudolph Giuliani has withdrawn from the presidential race.  His campaign had hit the skids, and, if he couldn’t win in Florida, with all its transplanted New Yorkers, he couldn’t have won anywhere.  Yet his decline in the polls was also predictable, and, in fact, I did predict it.

  • Southern Ledger: Is John McCain Eligible to Be President?

    There is a discussion on the Web about whether or not John McCain is constitutionally qualified to be president.  Rodger Hedgecock discusses this, and here is an excerpt: John McCain was born in 1936 on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone to American citizen parents. There is no question he is a…

  • John McManus Piece: Trashing McCarthy Becomes a Lot More Difficult

    Writer John McManus has a terrific piece about who is perhaps the most unfairly maligned man in American history, Joe McCarthy.  McManus makes the case that McCarthy was correct: There was communist infiltration in the U.S. government in the 1950s.  And, of course, not only is this true, but now those individuals get to run…