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  • In Defense of Price Gouging

    By Selwyn Duke In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, there has been much talk about price gouging. New Jersey is prosecuting some who engaged in it, and pundit Bill O’Reilly has threatened to put offending gas stations in his fearsome Factor pillory. But is this prudent? To be clear, I personally wouldn’t want to raise…

  • Was the 2012 Election Stolen?

    By Selwyn Duke As the 2012 election approached, conservative enthusiasm grew. Mitt Romney was drawing huge crowds while Barack Obama spoke in half-filled stadiums. All the passion lay on the right while the left was discouraged with a promised messiah who proved merely a politician. And the prediction was that, in contrast to 2008, Republican…

  • Reader Email: Possible Duke Contradiction?

    JM writes: Dear Sir, In your latest article “Where do we go from here”, you state:  And will we, as all civilizations eventually do, soon go the way of ancient Rome? It’s possible. Remember, however, that when Rome fell there were still people living in her lost lands. They still had to forge societies. And…

  • Losing the Future: The Fiscal-conservative Fantasy

    By Selwyn Duke With the loss of the 2012 election, there is much talk of how the Republican Party must do some soul searching. How will the GOP wage successful campaigns when demographic and cultural changes favor the opposition? Increasingly, the answer is that the party’s party is over, that it must move into the…

  • Death by Woman

    Not only did the Barack Obama win the women’s vote in the 2012 election, but the sex gap was the largest ever in history.

  • Ebony vs. Ivory: When Obama is 99 44/100% Pure

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps we’ve discovered the real cherished “99 percent.” Writing that “[s]ome Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday’s presidential election,” Philly.com reports that 13 of the city’s wards recorded a victory margin for Barack Obama of 99 percent or more. In other words, in some precincts, Mitt Romney was perhaps worth only three…

  • Where Obama Was 99-Percent Pure

    By Selwyn Duke In a 1936 referendum on his policies, Adolf Hitler “won” 99 percent of the German vote. A popular fellow he was. Yet he had nothing on Barack Obama’s performance in 13 Philadelphia (mental?) wards, where the president received upwards of 99 percent of the tally. Philly.com reports on the story, opining that…

  • Obama Calling: America’s Life after Death

    By Selwyn Duke I have never been so unhappy to be right. I’ve long said that Barack Obama would win re-election, and two weeks ago I stated as much in print. In making this prediction, I was almost alone among traditionalist pundits, with some, such as Dick Morris (Mr. Batting Zero), actually forecasting a Mitt…

  • My Prediction for the Election

    By Selwyn Duke It doesn’t make me happy to say it, but I believe that Barack Obama will win re-election. In fact, I predicted this more than two weeks ago here. Now I’ll provide more detail and give you my prediction for how the Electoral College will break down.

  • Barack Obama: Anatomy of an Ideologue

    By Selwyn Duke As with G.W. Bush before him, much time is spent arguing about Barack Obama’s character. Does he mean well and just not govern well, or is it something else? What can be missed during this debate, however, is that most damage is done in the name of doing good. Consider, for instance,…