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  • Getting the Government the Third World Deserves

    By Selwyn Duke When Thomas Jefferson said that “people get the government they deserve,” it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, one expressed by many. William Cowper said, “When was public virtue to be found when private was not?” Benjamin Franklin…

  • Immigration: Solutions, Not Excuses

    By Selwyn Duke One frailty of man is that he is very adept at finding excuses to justify laziness and irresponsibility. There’s no point helping people because everyone is just out for himself anyway. Why study or work? I mean, no one is going to give me a break. I won’t take care of myself…

  • Why They Won’t Assimilate

    By Selwyn Duke In the piece I recently wrote about the threat posed by immigration, both illegal and legal, I mentioned that today’s immigrants are not assimilating into our culture. And, as I pointed out, since Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail…

  • Are You Really a Liberal?

    By Selwyn Duke Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself and relinquish any pretense at that most illusory quality, impartiality. This places you in the crosshairs, although you can take solace in…

  • The Barker and the ShillThe Fraud of the Fairness Doctrine

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very different. The…

  • A Lump of Coal for Kwanzaa

    By Selwyn Duke For you religio-centric clods who haven’t yet expanded your celebratory horizons – and you know who you are – I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: December 26 marks the start of Kwanzaa.

  • The Liberals Who Stole Christmas

    Selwyn Duke Liberals we are and though we eschew its reason, Capitalize we will on the "Winter Break Season." It's good for making money and for spoiling offspring, But mention the Son and from the gallows you'll swing.

  • Speaking out of the left sides of our mouthsHow the language engineers reshape civilization by reshaping the language

    By Selwyn Duke It has been said that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate.  This idea was expressed in George Orwell’s book 1984 with "Newspeak," which was the name given to the language paradigm that the oppressive government portrayed in the book sought to foist upon its people.  The…

  • Saturday Morning Cartoons

    By Selwyn Duke I bound out of bed in eager anticipation of the start of the day. No one had to tell me to set the alarm last night — it's the only time I don't mind rising early.  It's the mid 1970s, and for me it's the days of Lego blocks and Tinker Toys,…