• You Could Hear a Pin Drop . . .

    Like everyone else, I receive many bulk emails.  Some are nonsensical, some are banal, but then there are a few that are worth relating.  The one that follows falls into that category.  While I can’t be sure that all the events actually happened (how can one be?), it nevertheless makes some important points in a very powerful way.

    It starts out:

    When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by
    the Archbishop of Canterbury [this is the lunkhead who recommended acceptance of certain elements of Sharia Law] if our plans for Iraq were just an example
    of empire building’ by George Bush.

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  • Arming the Academy

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Virtually all public universities maintain a prohibition against gun
    possession on their grounds. But in the wake of the recent campus
    shootings, this policy is coming under scrutiny. A chorus of activist
    voices, such as an Internet-based group named Students for Concealed
    Carry on Campus, is asking authorities to guarantee Second Amendment
    rights at public universities. While the activists have a long hill to
    climb — only Utah presently allows gun-permit holders to carry their
    weapons at such institutions — 12 other states are considering
    following Utah’s lead.

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  • The Melding of Man and Robot?

    In this modern age, there are technologies coming to the fore with the potential to alter life on Earth irrevocably.   In particular, I’m talking about nanotechnology, genetic engineering and robotics. 

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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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