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August 25, 2008

Mail Bag: Reader Says Duke is Anti-male

By Selwyn Duke

In response to my piece "Why John Edwards’ Affair Matters," F wrote:

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August 22, 2008

Democrats: It’s Time to Feign Green

By Selwyn Duke

If you listened to the mainstream media, you’d think conservatives have a monopoly on hypocrisy. If
a figure has espoused traditional morality even just once at some point
in the past and then falls from grace, our press will descend on him
like vultures. You can be a Barney Frank, Ted
Kennedy or Gerry Studds, but woe betide the Larry Craigs, Mark Foleys,
and Ted Haggards of the world, for justice is mine, saith the New York Times.

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August 21, 2008

Written in the Eternal Constitution

This article originally appeared in the April 14, 2008 issue of The New American magazine.

By Selwyn Duke

Sixty years before Christ's birth, great orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero watched plaintively as his republic faded before his eyes and Julius Caesar became the first Roman emperor. As today, some felt betrayed by their leaders, but Cicero knew that the people themselves were ultimately responsible for Rome's slide into empire, saying, "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have … rejoiced in their loss of freedom … who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of … "more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man."

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August 16, 2008

Howard Dean: Republicans the “White Party”

By Selwyn Duke

So Howard "Dumbo" Dean is at it again. In the interview excerpt above, he calls the Republican Party the "white party" while touting the inclusiveness of the Democrats. It’s really amazing that the Democratic National Committee allows this buffoon to be their standard bearer. I mean, he really is the gift that keeps on giving.

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August 14, 2008

Guiness World Record: Worst Mouse Plague

This isn’t a new story anymore, but the footage is so unbelievable that it’s worth posting. It is of the Australian mouse plague, a disaster of biblical proportions. It really makes you realize that you have to count your blessings.

Oh, by the way, if you’re easily put off by such things, you may not want to view this right before dinner.
August 14, 2008

Why John Edwards’ Affair Matters

By Selwyn Duke

It has become a stereotypical
pattern with men. A lad with a
salad-days libido has a girl in every port, plays fast and loose with feelings
and breaks hearts. Then he gets older,
marries, has a daughter, and becomes very protective. He doesn’t want her dating guys who are just
like he was.

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August 11, 2008

New American Piece – The New Nanotech World: Good and Bad Things Come in Small Packages

By Selwyn Duke

Ever since the dawn of the atomic age, the world has been a
different place. This change is epitomized by an image we’ve all seen,
that of a nuclear detonation and ensuing mushroom cloud. It’s a picture
worth more than a thousand words, one representing the ultimate in
worldly power: the capacity to extinguish human life on a scale
previously unimagined. It’s a power that inspired the overseer of the
Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, to quote the Bhagavad Gita
and lament, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

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August 10, 2008

The Moralists of San Francisco

By Selwyn Duke

In the latest bid by the new-morality police, the City by the Bay
has decided to prohibit pharmacies from selling cigarettes. And this is
just the beginning; the left is chock full of good ideas about how
government can save us from ourselves.

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August 8, 2008

Breaking: Russia at War

By Selwyn Duke

Russian jets bombed a Georgian airbase just outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday, and today Russia sent perhaps as many as 150 tanks into the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia in support of Russian separatists in the area. Reports Reuters:

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August 7, 2008

Americans Who Fled to the Soviet Union

By Selwyn Duke

There is a price to be paid for embracing lies. This truth is never more evident than in an almost-forgotten story from American history: The depression-era emigration of Americans to the Soviet Union.

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