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Reader Email: Possible Duke Contradiction?

JM writes:

Dear Sir,

In your latest article “Where do we go from here”, you state: 

And will we, as all civilizations eventually do, soon go the way of ancient Rome? It's possible. Remember, however, that when Rome fell there were still people living in her lost lands. They still had to forge societies. And some did a better job than others. 

As a fellow Christian, I viewed the entire article as an appropriate view of our current society and likely future. 

I read your article about Justice Roberts’ decision regarding Obamacare (a low point in history for the court) where you made the statement: 

(If you're unusually astute [this does not include Roberts], you understand that civilizations move through phases, and our current leftist one won't last forever.)

In less than three weeks you went from “phases, and our current leftist one won't last forever” to basically advising to stockpile and form local groups for common defense and needs.  That’s a bit of a change of perspective in such a short period of time.  This change of attitude is what I would like to see explained a bit further. 

Sincerely,

JM

Dear JM,

Duke Responds to Reader: What is the Nature of Law?

A reader recently posted the following response to my article "The Truth on Biden's Abortion Malarkey." 

JasonP wrote:

Very nice discussion, Mr. Duke, but you present a false alternative. It’s subtly implicit in your text here: “So a just law must reflect morality, but what is morality? Who determines it? There are only two possibilities: man or something outside of man does.”

Reader Email: Uncle Santa Clause, I want a Pony

It’s Christmas Eve and Jimmy has just been tucked snugly in bed.  The anxiety for the day to come has him plum tuckered out.  As he drifts off to sleep, the last vision that passed across his mind is a photographic memory of the crayon written letter he sent to Santa:

Dear Santa,

It’s me Jimmy.  I have been a very good boy this year and I got all A’s on my report card.  All I want for Christmas is a pony; a brown pony with white spots is what I really want but any pony will do if you can’t find one with spots.

Thanks,

Jimmy

The Christmas Controversy: Duke Responds to Reader

Karl wrote:

Mr. Duke:

I sent your link to my list. This came in from a fellow who lives in south Africa. He's a good man. He gave me permission to forward to you. If you have time to correspond with him, I would be interested in being copied.

Sent: 12/24/2009 12:09:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time     Subj: Re: Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas     Sorry, but Mr Duke is wrong on many points. It is well established (and has been for more than 150 years in a wide range of scholarship) that Christmas and Easter are "Christianized" pagan     events (along with dozens of others, including Lent, "All Saints Day," and so on). I personally have studied this issue deeply and    for some years and I'm satisfied with the provenance of the scholarship and analysis. I'm afraid he's a reverse-PC revisionist. This kind of thing does little for the credibility of the cause of Biblical Christianity.

Reader Email: Agenda 21 for Dummies

By Savant Noir

Sustainable Development is a framework of thought to "save our planet" by harmonizing eco-systems with industry and population. In its most modern iteration (inasmuch it has been around a long time), it is the outcome of the Earth Summit, and is organized around "climate change," man's impact on environmental resources and the organic biosphere we live within. It is currently getting notoriety as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which is the Treaty that legally binds all nations to Agenda 21. Although much larger than this, we could summarize that it is the outcome of the Rio Earth Summit where Al Gore unveiled his Inconvenient Truths. It is a blueprint to radically change the entire world in the name of Economic, Social, and Environmental equity.

Reader Email: Turn Back the Rahmulans! (A Satire by a Nerd)

After their sweeping Proconsul victory of the “Cap and Trade” bill, led by Chief Proconsul Nazi Pelosi, at the urging of Rahmulan Emanuel, it appears the Rahmulans and Prater Obama have been turned back and have been forced to their side of the neutral zone — for a time.  The Rahmulans started their incursion into the neutral zone back on January 20^th, with the inauguration of their figurehead Prater Obama.  Cloaked in ambiguity, platitudes and faux-altruism, the Rahmulans struck fast, knowing that their numbers and intellect were far inferior to the Vulconservatives.  Although hardly a victory for the Vulconservatives, the most recent Rahmulan assault on the Universe, via Universal Health Care has been turned back, even at the urge to forge ahead by Rahmulan himself.  The Vulconservatives first goal is to expose the Rahmulan cloaking devices, so they can be seen for what they are; tyrants and villains.  Also part of the Vulconservative plan is once the cloak starts to weaken, assault the enemy with logic, reason and Truth.  Such an assault will surely unite the Federation and insure victory. 

Reader Email — The Fetal Position: A Prospective

Dateline Royter’s 3/10/2011-

In a plea for continuing funding for her research, Dr. Elita Desdemona (senior research coordinator at Harvard) asked President Obama this week to “please continue and enhance the governments funding of embryonic stem cell research.”

In her 1500 page report, Dr. Desdemona cited, “although we have not, to this day, delivered to humanity a cure for cancer, diabetes or Parkinson’s disease, it is very important that we continue our work.”  She continued, “You just never know when the day may come when a discovery will be made that will change life on earth as we know it.  Imagine the day when there will be no disease, no sickness; the great minds of this world could live on.”

Reader Email - The Great American Bribe: Statehood Lost

The Senate, Congress and President of the United States have recently passed a partisan spending bill, AKA “The Stimulus Package,” for the total amount of $787 BILLION dollars.  To put that into perspective, if one dollar bills were lined up end to end, 787 billion dollar bills would go to the moon 312 times, with enough change left over to buy a yacht or two. Or, if you please, a five lane highway all the way to the moon covered completely with dollar bills.  I use an astronomical analogy as to gain the astronomical perspective of the situation.  That is a gob of money.  Money we don’t have.  Each State is to claim its portion of the loot; in the case of Idaho a rough calculation based upon population would be 2.6 BILLION, or one trip to the moon (if it were doled out based upon population).