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In Defense of the White Man

By Selwyn Duke

While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it’s not really true.  Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it’s always blowing on some people somewhere.  Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases – and unfashionable people.

Obama: Selling Capitalists the Hope

By Selwyn Duke

Man's propensity for rationalization is truly amazing.  I know of a couple of men of faith who, even shortly before the election when an Obama victory was a given, were in denial and predicting a McCain win.  And these are true believers -- not in the faux messiah-in-chief but in the real God -- people to whom Truth is paramount.  Sometimes it's hard to stare reality right in the face.

The Artificial Reality of the Matrix Media

Selwyn Duke

A common defense of error today is to say, with deep indignation, “I have a right to my opinion!”  Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant.  But as G.K. Chesterton once said, “Having the right to do something is not at all the same as being right in doing it.”  There is no moral right to an immoral opinion – nor to one bred of emotionalism unconstrained by reason – nor to a deceitful one.

Guest Commentary: Our Foolish Infatuation with Change

By Bruce Walker

Barack Obama won the presidency based upon the theme of change.  We already live in a world of constant change, and we assume too easily that change is good. Politicians, professors, pundits, self-proclaimed champions of the oppressed - those with vested interests in change - repeat the lie that change makes things better. But these cheerleaders of constant change are unhappy people, by and large. Certainly there are some areas of human life in which change is good - who would want to go back to the medicine or dentistry of fifty years ago? – but, surely, if there is one idea which should have been debunked in the last century it would be the idea of beneficent progress. The First World War was dramatic and catastrophic progress. The Bolshevik junta in 1917 was progress in the direct of omnipresent police state and slave labor camps. The Second World War was progress along the road to genocidal madness and global war.  Ghastly diseases and debilitating physical conditions are “progressive,” and that means change which is bad.

Communists Celebrate Obama's Victory

By Selwyn Duke

It isn't just Bill Ayers, the ex-Weathermen terrorist and self-described small-c communist, who is happy about Barack Obama's presidential victory.  No, the big-c variety are quite pleased as well.  Writes the red rag People's Weekly World (PWW {"People's" in a name is always a bad sign}):

Reader Email: Hey, Why Don't You Lay Off Obama and His Birth Certificate, Duke?

By Selwyn Duke

Many people think it's crazy that some Americans are questioning whether Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen.  For instance, ST writes:

Kenyan Ambassador Says Obama Born in Kenya!
In this revelatory audio footage from the show "Mike in the Morning," the Kenyan ambassador Peter Ogego lets it slip that it's "well-known" Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The hosts asked the ambassador some light-hearted questions and engaged in some banter before casually asking him about Obama's birthplace, so it just came out as a matter of course. Of all the information I've come across regarding this matter, this is the closest thing to a smoking gun.  If you want to hear the full-length version of the segment, click here (the relevant portion is about 12 minutes in).

Responses to "Obama: Fear and the Security Force"

My recent piece, "Obama: Fear and the Security Force," evoked more responses than perhaps any other article I've ever written.  Many of them were very worthwhile contributions, and I've chosen three that I'm sure you'll find interesting.  In the first one a reader posits a theory as to the purpose behind Barack Obama's Universal Voluntary Public Service program, and the remaining two are from people who believe that the idea is eerily, and ominously, familiar.  They're worth your time.  So first we have James of Florida, who wrote:

Morphing Marriage in California

By Selwyn Duke

It’s said that history repeats itself. Nevertheless, we seem to live in unprecedented times, and a case in point is the issue of faux marriage. There certainly have been civilizations that accepted homosexuality – the ancient Spartans institutionalized it in their military training camps, for example – but I don’t know of even one that took such leave of its senses that it proposed to sanction homosexuals’ pretense at marriage.

Obama: Fear and the Security Force

By Selwyn Duke

In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with “hope” and chant Obama’s slogan “Yes, we can!” – for instance, the French are using their translation of it, “Oui, nous pouvons!” – some of the intense emotion is of a very different species.