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  • Barack Obama’s Attention Deficit Disorder

      By Selwyn Duke While I’m no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis, I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama.  After all, the man seems to suffer from a case of it that mainlining Ritalin wouldn’t remedy. Just consider Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright.  Despite calling the prejudiced preacher a friend, mentor…

  • Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Still

    By Selwyn Duke The gulf oil gusher is a disaster of great proportions. We’ve all seen the pictures of petroleum-soaked birds and dead fish, and the area’s economy is on life support. The mishap truly is a tragedy for all, from Gulf residents to English pensioners to marine wildlife to, yes, BP itself. As bad…

  • Would You Rather Have Obama Golf or Govern?

    By Selwyn Duke After seeing Barack Obama’s golf swing, I’m confronted with the staggering possibility that he might actually be better at governing than golfing.  And this is despite the fact that he seems to devote more time to the latter, an impression that has won him much bad publicity.

  • The Big Government-Big Business Axis

    By Selwyn Duke If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it not for Washington’s protection, we’d all be under the boot of rapacious robber barons. In reality, however, the two bigs have far more acquaintance with each other than with…

  • Goodbye to One Man, One Vote

    By Selwyn Duke If you thought that “one man, one vote” reflected the full flowering of representative democracy, think again.  In the village of Port Chester, N.Y., just a few towns north of my locality in Westchester County, there is a new system.  It’s “one man, six votes” — brought to us courtesy of the…

  • Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student

    By Selwyn Duke A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a public sidewalk. The 71 seconds of footage opens with a student in a jacket and tie greeting Etheridge with “Hi, Congressman, how are you?” The Representative seems to respond cordially enough but…

  • Why Arizona Should “Racially Profile”

    By Selwyn Duke When the Times Square bombing suspect was first reported to be a “white male,” I shook my head.  I knew that, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s asinine musings about how the perpetrator was probably “homegrown” and perhaps someone upset about the healthcare bill, this was nonsense.  “It’s about as likely as a story about…

  • Separation-of-Church-and-State Tyranny

    With separation-of-church-and-state prohibitions continuing to metastasize, what lies in the future for Americans of faith? By Selwyn Duke “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” So said G.K. Chesterton in his autobiography, published in 1937. A…

  • Cinco to Midnight: The Great Mexican End Game

    By Selwyn Duke Recently, columnist Charles Krauthammer expressed support for amnesty for illegals, while Newt Gingrich advocated a path to what he called “legality.” The two men stipulated that border control must come first, but, still, what makes these two conservatives such weak sisters on this issue?  Perhaps part of the answer was provided by…

  • Charles Krauthammer Drops the Hammer on Conservatism and America: Supports Amnesty for Illegals

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the conservative standard bearer he’s reputed to be. On the O’Reilly Factor this on May 4, he supported a “path to citizenship” for illegals, otherwise known as amnesty. To be…