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Category: Social Issues
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By Bruce Walker The doctored outrage at AIG executives raises one of the ugliest specters in modern political history: mindless fury directed at “Finance Capitalism.” The profits of men who create goods and services is easy to defend. Bill Gates gave us Windows. T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot drilled for oil. Sam Walton retailed…
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https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-how-we-will-lose-our-freedom-of-speech-thurs-03-26-09.mp3 My appearance on Michael Savage's radio show on Thursday, March 26.
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https://selwynduke.typepad.com/files/ap-al-gore-tobacco-hypocrisy-03-26-09.wma
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By Selwyn Duke With the recent passage of the “TARP bonus” bill, it’s obvious that our politicians are finally serious about tackling the problem of greed. It’s about time, too. We’ve long had “hate crime” laws, so one had to wonder when the next deadly sin would make it on the legislative agenda.
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By Selwyn Duke Since liberals place a premium on tolerance, the loving and charitable thing to do is help them develop it. Note here that, unbeknownst to many, tolerance involves enduring something considered to be a negative. We don’t tolerate a fine meal or a nice car, for instance; we relish such things. But we…
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By Selwyn Duke A federal government action that would have undercut the civilian ammunition supply has been reversed. But since similar threats to Second Amendment rights lie on the horizon, we must remain ever vigilant. And, first and foremost, this means engaging the gun-rights battle on the cultural level. In Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for…
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Dateline Royter’s 3/10/2011- In a plea for continuing funding for her research, Dr. Elita Desdemona (senior research coordinator at Harvard) asked President Obama this week to “please continue and enhance the governments funding of embryonic stem cell research.” In her 1500 page report, Dr. Desdemona cited, “although we have not, to this day, delivered to…
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https://selwynduke.typepad.com/files/sc-meghan-mccain-03-19-09.wma This is the first of what may become a regular feature at my site: Audio snap commentary. For you folks who love the written word, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean I’m abandoning the pen. But variety is the spice of Web life. Let me know what you thnk.
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By Selwyn Duke Most of us place politicians down at the level of used-car salesmen, personal injury lawyers and Hollywood actors. In fact, they’re much like actors, only, their acting is generally a bit better. But we tend to miss the point about our leaders. The problem with politicians is that they’re trying to please…
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Barack Obama has lifted the ban on embryonic stem-cell research, saying that scientific decisions should be “based on facts, not ideology.” But this is nonsense. By Selwyn Duke Few of us will soon forget President Obama’s answer to the question of when human life begins. “That’s above my pay grade,” he said. It was a…
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