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  • Bolivia: Fresh footage reveals violence of land reform clash
    http://youtube.com/v/saEUl9F8VjY

  • Does Pro-life Now Mean Pro-libertinism?

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    By Selwyn Duke

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    At NationalPost.com,
    journalist David Frum has a piece
    in which he discusses what he perceives to be the transformation of the pro-life
    movement. His thesis is that the
    widespread acceptance of unwed motherhood – including by pro-lifers – has
    eliminated the stigma attached to the state, thereby causing a quarter-century
    decrease in the abortion rate.

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  • What Ever Happened to Richard the Lionheart? Britain Accepts Sharia Law

    By Selwyn Duke

    It was quite a while ago that the sun set on the British Empire, and now it may be setting on British civilization as well.  Writes TimesOnline.co.uk:

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  • Vicente Fox Wants North American Union

    By Selwyn Duke
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    Although I’ve never been a conspiracy theorist, there is no doubt that the erosion of our sense of nationhood makes us easy prey for a loss of sovereignty.  After all, if we have no common sense of what it means to be an American — if we become just a gaggle of competing subcultures within certain borders — how much is it going to bother us if those borders are eliminated? 

    Regardless, there certainly are powerful people who relish the idea of consolidating national powers (as long as they still have their wealth and are at the helm).  In this Fox News video, it’s mentioned that the odious Vicente Fox explicitly favors a North American Union, with no borders and a single currency.  Watch the whole thing, as it’s at the very end.

  • Brand Spanking New Rule Would Give Teachers the Right to Use Force

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    By Selwyn Duke

    When I consider the topsy-turvy world we live in, I can’t help but
    think of the Bible’s warning, “There will come a time when bad will be
    called good and good will be called bad.” A prime example of this is
    adult-child relations. In a reversal from a couple of generations ago,
    a child can strike an adult and it’s sometimes shrugged off, but if an
    adult disciplines a youngster corporally, the police may come
    a-knockin’. (By the way, if society would arrest someone for using
    physical force against a minor based on the supposition that it isn’t a
    proper remedy for intransigence or misbehavior, why do the authorities
    use same against the suspect if he resists arrest? Can’t they just reason
    with him or give him a time-out?) The thinking, I suppose, is that
    adults should know better. They certainly should: they should know that
    such permissive ideas do violence to our capacity to civilize the young.

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  • Political Elections, Cultural Elections, and the Votes that Really Matter

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    By Selwyn Duke

    To be honest, treating politics
    isn’t my favorite pastime. Sure, like
    other commentators I do it, but it’s not something I can truly sink my teeth
    into. I’ll explain why momentarily.

    This election season, my pen has
    directed many slings and arrows Barack Obama’s way. I criticized John McCain, too, but that was
    during the primaries. Now there is what
    I perceive to be a clear and present danger in the person of a slick demagogue,
    so my sights – and my site – are trained in one particular direction. Because of this, however, I sometimes receive
    emails from disenchanted rightist voters. “What do you have to say about McCain?” some ask. “How is he any better than Obama?”

    My feelings toward such respondents
    vacillate between surliness and sympathy. I understand why they feel the way they do, but they don’t understand
    me. I’m neither a party man nor a
    doctrinarian. I’m probably at least as
    dissatisfied with our wanting candidates as those who write me, and I can sum
    up my reasoning very simply:

    Both candidates deserve to lose.

    Only, one deserves to lose more.

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  • What’s that up in the sky, a bird a plane, a UFO? Scientists: We’re Stumped

    By Selwyn Duke

    Writing at American Thinker, Rick Moran reports on a strange celestial object that has stumped scientists.  In a nutshell, it appeared out of nowhere, its brightness varied, its distance from Earth couldn’t be ascertained with any precision, it disappeared inexplicably after only 100 days, scientists have never encountered anything like it before, and they haven’t the foggiest idea what it was.  Writes Moran: 

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  • Teach Homosexuality to Five-year-olds?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Has Barack Obama set his sights on the wrong seat of power?  If this Daily Mail article is any indication, perhaps he should have run for prime minister of Britain.  Writes the paper:

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  • Jury Accepts “Global Warming Made Me Do it” Defense

    By Selwyn Duke

    If you’re like me, you’ve become accustomed to the insanity that reigns in modern times and are hard to shock.  But try this story on for size:

    A jury in England has acquitted some Greenpeace activists for damaging a power station because their concern over climate change gave them a compelling reason to commit the crime.

    I kid you not.

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  • Socialism Comes on Little Cat Feet

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    By Selwyn Duke

    When I ponder the bailout of the government sponsored enterprises
    (GSEs), a move which will cost American taxpayers $200 billion (and who
    knows how much more tomorrow?), I can’t help but think of some wisdom
    expressed in an oft-used, apocryphal quotation:

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