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  • The War on Christmas: Lincoln Chafee’s Holy Day Tree

    By Selwyn Duke I’m not sure why ex-Senator and current Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee keeps getting elected, but I’m quite sure he offends me. I truly can’t stand seeing his face, and you don’t have to ask why. You see, that’s the way offensiveness is: It’s completely subjective and not constrained by rhyme or…

  • College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist”

    By Selwyn Duke Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, has certainly made waves. Well-received by the mainstream media, The Baltimore Sun wrote that the President has finally found “his voice” while the ever-dour Bill Press said that Obama was “channeling Teddy Roosevelt.” Yet if talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is correct, the President was channeling someone…

  • Obama’s Teleprompter Joins the Occupy Wall Street Movement

  • Do States Have a Right to Do Wrong?

    By Selwyn Duke During the Thanksgiving Family Forum (TFF) this past Saturday, moderator Frank Luntz asked the Republican candidates a very interesting Tenth Amendment question: “Do states have a right to do wrong?” In case you missed it, the TFF was another unusual event in what is proving to be a very unusual campaign season. Held…

  • Cain’s Pains: Let’s Talk about Character

    Selwyn Duke In the Republican debate on Wednesday, moderator Maria Bartiromo raised the issue of the sexual-harassment allegations that have plagued Herman Cain. “Why should the American people hire a president if they feel there are character issues?” she asked the GOP hopeful. It’s a question we should pose more often. That’s not to say…

  • Herman Cain and the Experience Factor

    By Selwyn Duke People use many words today without fully knowing what they mean – or should mean.  “Tolerance,” “gender” and “truth” come to mind.  But then there is one that rears its head every campaign season: “experience.”

  • Will Newt Gingrich Win the Republican Nomination?

    By Selwyn Duke If slow and steady really does win the race, Newt Gingrich could well end up being the Republican nominee for president. Thus far, this campaign season has been defined by flash-in-the-pan fortunes. Michele Bachmann was first out of the blocks and won the Iowa straw poll, but this seemed much like a…

  • The Tax Plan that’s Better than Cain’s, Perry’s or Gingrich’s

    By Selwyn Duke Bold tax reform is front and center this campaign season.  First Herman Cain made waves and poll headway with his 9-9-9 tax plan, which involves national 9-percent taxes on personal and corporate income and a 9-percent national sales tax.  Now Rick Perry has followed suit with a 20-percent flat-tax plan, and Newt…

  • The Myth of Fascism

    By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is a series of agreed-upon myths.” I’m not quite that cynical, but our history books do sometimes seem more like mythology than reality. In fact, in school we don’t even call the subject “history” anymore but “social studies” (socialist studies?). Yes, the victors write the history, and…

  • Imagine if the 2008 Obama Had Listened to the 2004 Obama…