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  • Scientist Says Obesity Needs to be Addressed Like Climate Change

    By Selwyn Duke

    The health police are at it again.  One Professor Philip James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said obesity was such a big problem worldwide that, writes BBC News, ". . . action was needed now, even without
    clear evidence of the best options." Yup, sounds like the Al Gore school of social policy to me.

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  • BBC News: Whistle-blower site taken offline

    By Selwyn Duke

    About a month ago I wrote a piece titled "The Race for the American Mind," which deals with free speech and discusses ways in which commentary on the Internet can be easily stifled.  Among the methods I discussed was one relating to domain registrars.  I wrote:

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  • Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It seems like just yesterday
    that many were reading liberalism’s epitaph    . After the Reagan
    years, Republican Revolution of 1994, retreat of the gun-control hordes after
    Al Gore’s 2000 defeat and George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs,
    many thought conservatism was carrying the day. 

    Ah, if only.

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  • A Lesson in Reading the Media

    By Selwyn Duke

    While the job of the media should be to inform and clarify, our mainstream press long ago abdicated that responsibility.   It now specializes in muddying the waters and journalistic sleight-of-hand, and I came across a prime example of this just yesterday.

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  • Times Leaking Oil Again

    Well, well, so the New York Times is cutting jobs again.  All I can say is that it couldn’t have happened to a nicer paper.  Reports Jeff Bercovici:

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  • WND Piece: Why Lovers of Freedom Are Camera Shy

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    By Selwyn Duke

    New York City officials have announced
    that “it’s only a matter of time” before parks throughout the Big Apple are
    equipped with surveillance cameras. Washington, D.C., police are now going to monitorlive footage from some of their cameras (those in the highest-crime areas),
    joining other American localities that embrace the practice.

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  • Why ‘superbugs,’ TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading U.S

    World Net Daily has a piece about how diseases once eliminated in the U.S. are now making a frightening comeback.  And they point out the obvious, which is that the huge influx of Third World immigrants is largely to blame.

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  • Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

    World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

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  • Exposing China

    Recently I was emailed a link to a site named "unmadeinchina.org."  It’s designed to expose the evils of the despotic Chinese regime.  While some of the presentations are definitely over the top, it does provide valuable information and I think those who run it are doing the world a service.

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  • Chesterton on War

    Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [the
    Middles Ages]; which, while it was international was also internal and
    intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men
    disagree, but because more men agree.

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