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  • Real Inconvenient Truths…. About Abortion

    By Selwyn Duke Out of Britain comes a very sad, sad story. Emma Beck, an artist tormented by having aborted her twins, was found hanging at her home a day before her 31st birthday. Expressing her grief and regret in a suicide note, she wrote: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now…

  • A Must-read – Kosovo: Islamism’s New Beachhead?

    On Friday, FrontPageMagazine.com published an absolutely phenomenal article about our insane recognition of an "independent Kosovo," an action which helps to establish a Moslem beachhead in Europe.  The piece is written by Julia Gorin, and she does an excellent job of placing this matter in perspective, writing:

  • Newsmax: The Real Barack Obama

    Ronald Kessler of Newsmax.com wrote a very good piece titled "The Real Barack Obama."   He discusses Michelle Obama’s statement wherein she said, "I am proud of my country for the first time in my adult life."

  • 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.