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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.

On the Brink of Climatic Disaster: The Coming Ice Age

By Selwyn Duke

Politicians can’t talk enough of carbon taxes and credits and cleaner technologies, but are they just fiddling while Rome freezes?

If the climate were a sentient adversary with a will, he might be laughing right now. Because while mankind is doing a Chicken Little worrying about anthropogenic global warming (AGW), nature just might be preparing an attack we least expect: another ice age.

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Defending Prince Harry

By Selwyn Duke

Most of you have probably heard about the racial accusations being hurled at Prince Harry of England.  The story is that he was caught on tape with his military outfit issuing utterances that didn't sit too well with the tea-time-and-plum-pudding types back at home.  What was his offense?  He referred to a fellow soldier of Pakistani descent as "our little Paki friend" and told a white comrade wearing some type of headgear that he looked like a "raghead."  For this he has been demonized as a racist.

Guest Piece: The Reality of Sustainability

By Jack Swift

(Editor's note: This piece is one of the most brilliant analyses of our economic problems I have read.)

What is Sustainability?

The recent election focused upon the American voter’s dis-satisfaction with the state of our government and the state of our economy. Each campaign played upon this angst by pitching “change” but neither candidate articulated a vision of what is wrong or what might be an effective cure. The national change required is far more fundamental than anything suggested by the politicians. The problem is one of sustainability.

People Who Want to be Crippled

via videosift.com

This video is about people who crave amputation.  It's one of the weirdest things you will ever have heard, even if you live in San Francisco. 

Mailbag: Duke, You're Insensitive! How Dare You Doubt the Altered Men!

By Selwyn Duke

After writing my piece about the man who won the women's long drive contest, I received a lot of criticism from altered-men apologists.  One of these critiques was just posted at my site, and here it is as it was sent to me (my response follows):

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Man Allowed in Women’s Athletic Event . . . and Wins It

By Selwyn Duke

A man undergoes the mutilative procedure known as “gender-reassignment surgery” and then wins the women’s division of golf’s premier long drive championship.

There was a time when a sexual identity crisis was thought a problem of adolescence and only discussed in psychology journals. But now our whole civilization is experiencing one, as we’ve gone from confusion about the roles of the sexes, to a battle of the sexes, to a battle about how significant the category of “sex” actually is, to subordinating it to “gender,” and finally to a battle of the “genders.”

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Flight 93 Memorial Rife with Moslem Symbolism; Points toward Mecca
It seems fairly obvious that the the planned Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania was designed around Moslem symbolism. The architect denies it, but, as others have pointed out, architects are intensely aware of symbolism, so it's not believable that the design is an accident. It's another example of the great cultural patriots among us.

Valkyrie: The Real Col. von Stauffenberg

By Selwyn Duke

On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair" carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to assassinate one of the world's most ruthless and powerful men, Adolf Hitler, and topple the whole of his Nazi government. Integral to this ambitious coup is what lies in his briefcase, a bomb.  It is set to detonate ... the wheels are in motion. It is only a matter of time now.

The man was Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the driving force behind what became known as the July 20 plot and the main character in Valkyrie, the recently released movie about the event. The film seeks to acquaint the audience with this hero and the conspiracy of which he was part, yet it depicts the machinations better than the man. And this is a shame, because quite a man he was.

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