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January 5, 2009

Greenhouse-gas Tax on Cows

By Selwyn Duke

Many of us have long known that the climate-change con is largely driven by a desire to exert further control over our lives and extract more money from us. But a tax on cow flatulence? Believe it or not, such a thing could become a reality if a new permit program proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency becomes a reality. It's all part of an effort to reduce "carbon emissions" (I'd like to reduce liberal ones), and the cost would be steep. As the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB) tells us:

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January 3, 2009

The American Form of Government
http://youtube.com/v/DioQooFIcgE
This video does a good job of explaining different forms of government and the folly of democracy. I don't agree with every word, but it is nevertheless one of the best expositions on the subject I've encountered.

Hat tip: Walt, the reader who sent us the video.
January 1, 2009

The Diamond Anniversary of Dehumanization

By Bruce Walker

Seventy-five years ago, on January 1, 1934, one of the most
insidious laws in human history came into effect in Nazi Germany. The
innocent sounding name was The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased
Offspring. It was the ghastly pinnacle of an unholy theory of
human eugenics. Darwinism – not the Theory of Evolution, per se,
but the sinister notion that natural selection made God superfluous –
liberated man from his obligation to treat fellow men as special creatures in a
divinely ordered universe.

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December 30, 2008

Government Schools Then and Now
http://youtube.com/v/D0lR1KQq2-U
This is a wonderful video that seeks to illustrate the precipitous decline in American education. It points out what most of us already know: Schools long ago abdicated their responsibility to teach basics and devolved into leftist propaganda mills. Without a doubt, Johnny may not know how to write, but he sure understands the importance of "tolerance."

As to today's schools' relative effectiveness, consider the following statistic: In 1950, the average 14-year-old had a vocabulary of 25,000 words. What is the figure now? Ten-thousand words.

Tolerance? The government-school system is intolerable.
December 29, 2008

Illegal Immigrants Getting Mortgages
http://youtube.com/v/Zch0gUwcPQ4
Most Americans aren't aware of it, but illegal aliens have long been receiving mortgage loans and buying homes. The above video is an oral presentation of a Michelle Malkin article in which she talks about this outrage and how it has contributed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

Now, since this is what's going on, we need to ask a question: How much of the bailout money is going to illegal aliens who can't pay their mortgages and shouldn't be in our country in the first place?
December 27, 2008

That Thing Called Feminism

By Selwyn Duke

Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree, and sometimes that's a
good thing. You may not know the name Rebecca Walker, but she is a
woman who learned, in a very harsh way, the often stark difference
between theory and fact. She is the daughter of The Color Purple
author Alice Walker, a militant feminist who, in deference to her
belief that children enslave women, treated Rebecca as a burdensome
cross.

Read the rest here.
December 24, 2008

When God is Cast from the Altar

By Selwyn Duke

According to The Sun, Russia has experienced a series of
murders, rapes, mutilations, and desecrations linked to Satanists. No,
I did not say Stalinists, although, given how communists will persecute
Christians, one could be forgiven for confusing the two. And a most
horrific example of such ritualistic murder has just taken place in the
nation's hinterlands, as a ring of Satanists has just killed and
cannibalized four teens, three girls, and a boy. Writes The Sun:

The gang of Devil worshippers butchered their victims and roasted them on a bonfire before devouring their flesh….

Their private parts had also been cut off in the sickening ritual in a rural area of Russia.

After police arrested eight suspected members of the ring, one boasted
how they had previously dug up the grave of a newly-dead girl and eaten
her heart.

Read the rest here.
December 23, 2008

Miracle in the Trenches: The WWI Christmas Truce

By Selwyn Duke

The scene was the dreaded “no man’s land” separating dank and dreary
trenches during WWI. It was, as the name implies, a forbidding place,
one which modern weaponry had transformed into a moonscape on which
even stout-hearted warriors feared to tread.

The conflict waged there was dubbed “the War to End All Wars,” but it
was merely one that changed war forever. Gone were the days of the bold
cavalry charge, as a fearsome new weapon, the machine gun, made such
tactics suicidal. Other fearsome weapons would also be introduced, such
as the tank, the bomber and mustard gas. And certain terms were
originated to describe the horrors wreaked by these new technologies,
such as Anzac soup, which was water in a shell-hole contaminated with a
corpse; and basket case, which originally described a quadruple-limb
amputee.

Read the rest here.
December 18, 2008

Our Bailout Culture and the Beauty of Bankruptcy

By
Selwyn Duke

The story of the Prodigal Son teaches a beautiful lesson about repentance and
forgiveness. As you may know, it involves
a lazy, irresponsible young man who insists upon taking his share of the family
inheritance immediately and striking out on his own. He then proceeds to squander it on a dissolute
lifestyle and ends up destitute, living like an animal. Duly chastened and humbled and purged of his
spirit of entitlement, he approaches his father in contrition and asks for aid,
saying that he would be satisfied to just be treated as a servant. The father, overwhelmed with joy, forgives
his son, proclaims him “found” and holds a celebration commemorating his
return. Of course, the idea is that he
was “found” spiritually; he had developed wisdom, the capacity to not just
manage money, but life.

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December 16, 2008

Bailing Out Big Media

By Selwyn Duke

While a guest on a radio show a few weeks back, a caller asked a
question about how the media and leftist government establishment were
joined at the hip. In response, I mentioned something I had been
pondering. With bailouts all the rage in Washington, said I, it
wouldn’t surprise me if the ailing newspaper industry
received one in the not-too-distant future. After all, the statists
have their three pillars of deceit – the brain trust called academia,
the bread-and-circuses culture shapers in entertainment, and the
mainstream media – and why would they let their crack public relations
arm go bankrupt?

Read the rest here.