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January 18, 2008

Trying to Kill the Immigration Card

By Selwyn Duke

With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two
primary contests and Mitt Romney’s failures prior to Michigan, a
fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position isn’t playing
well in Peoria.

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January 18, 2008

Commentary by Walter Williams – 1/18/08

As usual, my favorite economist (OK, I have a favorite economist; I’m a boring guy), Walter Williams, is right on the money. In his latest column he talks about the energy czars.

Tyranny Update

Last December, President Bush signed an energy bill that will ban the sale of Edison’s
incandescent bulb, starting with the 100-watt bulb in 2012 and ending
with the 40-watt bulb by 2014. You say, "Hey, Williams, what’s wrong with
saving energy, reducing our carbon footprint and stopping global warming?"
Before you get too enthused over governmental energy-saving efforts, you might
ponder what’s down
the road.

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January 17, 2008

The Times Slimes Veterans

By Selwyn Duke

The New York Times really could be the poster rag for the decline of the mainstream media. Its new motto should be "All the news that fits our agenda," as rarely a week passes where my low opinion of it isn’t affirmed. This time the paper issued its offense against Truth on the Lord’s day, with a piece titled "Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles."

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January 16, 2008

Thomas Jefferson Said . . . 1/16/08

"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their
own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good
government."

– Thomas Jefferson (1801)
January 16, 2008

Constitutional Confusion

By Selwyn Duke

World Net Daily had a piece yesterday about the Bush administration’s support for a gun-control measure. WND tells us that U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement argued,

"Since ‘unrestricted’ private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions . . . ."

Regardless of one’s position on gun ownership, this should be recognized as a flawed argument.

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January 15, 2008

The Race for the American Mind

By Selwyn Duke

Last year’s scamnesty bill
had widespread support among the powers-that-be, with the president,
the Democrat majority and mainstream media all singing its praises.
Yet it went down to defeat, slain by a new-media coalition of talk
radio and blogosphere warriors. Working tirelessly to expose the truth
and rally the grassroots, they became a David who slew a Goliath.

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January 15, 2008

A Great Exposé of Hillary Clinton

By Selwyn Duke

There are many things I dislike about snooty former Britisher Christopher Hitchens; in fact, I’ve been thinking about making him the centerpiece of a none-too-flattering article. Having said that, there’s no denying that when he’s right on an issue, he can treat it with flair and wit that are almost unparalleled. Such is the case with his exposé of Hillary Clinton; in it he captures her dishonesty and ineptitude in a way that characterizes perfectly why she should be kept far from the White House.

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January 14, 2008

My Favorite Poem

The following is my favorite poem, "If," by Rudyard Kipling. The author wrote it for his 12-year-old son, and it’s a must-read for all children, from 7 to 107. It’s a great piece of work that expresses some timeless virtues. It’s also taught all too infrequently nowadays. Enjoy.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

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January 14, 2008

Canadian Publisher Investigated for “Hate Speech”

By Selwyn Duke

In a day or two I will publish a piece about the battle for free speech being waged throughout the West. Thus, it’s quite apropos that I came across the story of Ezra Levant, a Canadian publisher and commentator who is being investigated for "hate speech" by one of those euphemistically-named "human rights commissions." What was his offense?

He published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

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January 13, 2008

Bring Back School Uniforms

By Selwyn Duke

Back when I used to have a real job (OK, almost real), I would pass the local secondary on my commute home from work. It could be a sight to behold. If the most bizarre elements of your average American high school congregated in one room, it would, to steal a Pat Buchanan line, look like the bar scene in Star Wars.

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