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  • Is Tax Money Subsidizing Useless Energy Schemes?

    By Selwyn Duke    I’d appreciate a viable alternative energy source as much as anyone else.  After all, who wouldn’t like to run his car for a third or fourth the cost?  I don’t have much confidence in government schemes to develop those new sources, however, and the May 12 edition of The Wall Street…

  • More Child Protective Services Abuse

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine this: You mistake an alcoholic beverage for a soft drink and give it to your child.  He then imbibes a relatively small amount of it and is none the worse for it.  You then get investigated by Child Protective Services (CPS) and lose custody of your children.

  • Reader Email: On Who Shouldn’t Vote

    By Selwyn Duke I received an email from a young man who is addressing a very interesting topic.  Here is his email:

  • A Rabbi Defending a Pope

    By Selwyn Duke I truly cannot think of a more unfairly-maligned individual than Pope Pius XII, the pontiff during the darkest days of WWII.  Even Senator Joe McCarthy, who has been relegated to Dante’s seventh circle of Hell by revisionist historians, has not been demonized like Pius.  And the destruction of the Pope’s reputation is…

  • The Anti-tobacco Nazis

    By Selwyn Duke I’ve written about anti-smoking laws before and the zealots who often enforce them, but prohibiting lighting up at a pipe convention really takes the cake.  And that’s exactly what has happened in St. Charles, Illinois, at the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show.  Writing about this at ChicagoTribune.com, Steve Schmadeke tells us:

  • Reader Email: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    By Selwyn Duke My last two pieces, the one on Obama and the one on psychology, have evoked quite a response.  And the emails run the gamut; some are literate and uplifting, others are just complimentary (always welcome!), while others still are indicative of extreme dislocation from reality.  Here are a few, and after each…

  • The Myth of Peak Oil?

    By Selwyn Duke The director of  economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute, Irwin Stelzer, has penned a very interesting article called "It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out."  As the title indicates, Stelzer puts forth the thesis that the Earth contains enough accessible oil to last for generations.  Moreover, he says…

  • Al Sharpton at it Again

    By Selwyn Duke Well, Al Sharpton, a lowlife’s lowlife, is at it again.  Now he’s threatening to "close down" New York City because the three officers charged in the Sean Bell shooting were acquitted.  In other words, they weren’t lynched the way Sharpton would have preferred.

  • Does Bill Want Hill to Lose?

    By Selwyn Duke Writing at The Loft, Cheri Jacobus posits the theory that Bill Clinton’s missteps during the campaign are not missteps at all, but part of a Machiavellian strategy to ensure his wife’s defeat.  In making her case, Jacobus writes:

  • Clinton Wins Pa. — What Were We Talking about?

    By Selwyn Duke So Hillary Clinton has won Pennsylvania, which means the media will have something to talk about for the next week at least.  Really, though, this is much ado about nothing; I mean, for approximately the last couple of months, her chances of winning the nomination have been between slim and none, and…