By Selwyn Duke
With campaign 2008 in full swing, pundits are wondering why Republicans aren’t coalescing around the candidate who has assumed the most conservative posture, Mitt Romney. They’re trying to explain why John McCain has become the front-runner despite an embrace of leftist measures ranging from the scamnesty bill to the McCain-Feingold violation of the First Amendment. And they generally get it all wrong.
By Selwyn Duke
Believe it or not, three Mississippi legislators, Bobby Shows, W.T.
Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, have proposed a law that would prohibit
restaurants from serving those with "friendly fronts." Imagine that,
denying a business its best customers.
By Selwyn Duke
On the heels of what I just posted about global warming comes another piece on the subject. Bill Hahn tells us of Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, a top climate scientist who fears that science will lose credibility once the public learns the truth about climate change. Writes Hahn:
By Selwyn Duke
Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. They are political creatures first, most everything else second and statesmen last. For this to elude one, he must have his head planted firmly in a particularly dense grade of sand.
By Selwyn Duke
Quite predictably, Rudolph Giuliani has withdrawn from the presidential race. His campaign had hit the skids, and, if he couldn’t win in Florida, with all its transplanted New Yorkers, he couldn’t have won anywhere. Yet his decline in the polls was also predictable, and, in fact, I did predict it.
There is a discussion on the Web about whether or not John McCain is constitutionally qualified to be president. Rodger Hedgecock discusses this, and here is an excerpt:
John McCain was born in 1936 on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone to American citizen parents. There is no question he is a citizen of the United States; the question is whether John McCain is a “natural born citizen” “eligible to the Office of President”.
Writer John McManus has a terrific piece about who is perhaps the most unfairly maligned man in American history, Joe McCarthy. McManus makes the case that McCarthy was correct: There was communist infiltration in the U.S. government in the 1950s. And, of course, not only is this true, but now those individuals get to run for the presidency.
But here’s how McManus frames it:
By Selwyn Duke
A New Mexico lawmaker aims to cut the fat – not in government, but through it. Educator-turned-legislator Gail Chasey (D) has proposed a measure dubbed the "Leave No Child Inside" bill, which would levy a 1 percent excise tax on televisions, video games and video game equipment to fund programs designed to fight childhood obesity.
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