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Killing Charity

“Outsourcing” charity to the government is not only inefficient, it’s not charity. Worse still, it’s evil.

By Selwyn Duke

A while back I read about a woman whose college professor had told her not to give to charity. His reasoning?

It’s the government’s job.

I wonder, would the good professor maintain this perspective were he stuck by the side of a lonely road on a wintery night without cell phone service? Well, I suppose that’s when Situational Values Man comes to the rescue.

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Students Told to Write Essay on How They Would Make Deal with Devil

By Selwyn Duke

God may not have a place in the modern American classroom, but the Devil is a different story. That is, at least in one North Carolina high school.

After reading the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” — which involves a character who makes a deal with Satan but then balks — students at Gray's Creek High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were told “to write an essay on how they would sell their souls — or what trade they would make with the Devil,” writes ABC News.

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Time to Turn Up the Heat on the Warmists

By Selwyn Duke

At one time some would call them “deniers.”  The more generous called them “skeptics.”  But now, increasingly, it appears that they can be called something else: sane.  Yes, the climate has certainly changed.

Even in the mainstream media, the less liberal organs are waking up.  There is now a never-ending barrage of articles on the climate scam, with The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post firing some recent salvos.  And these inconvenient truths are just adding to a case against the Climateers that has become dizzying.

High Crimes: White House Accused of Using Bribery to Preserve Senate Majority

By Selwyn Duke

Has a bombshell just been dropped in the November elections? If a story that broke on Thursday gets enough ink, the answer may be yes.

It’s being reported that the White House has sought to entice Senate primary challengers into dropping their campaigns against incumbent Democrats with the offer of plum government appointments — a jailable offense.

Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator reports on the story, writing:

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Hitler Learns of Global Warming Collapse

I'm sure many of you have seen these Hitler parody videos, which have been made about a great number of issues.  This one concerns the global-warming scam.  It's quite clean and, as far as comedic value goes, it has its moments.  Enjoy.

Guest Commentary: Our Broken Constitution

By Bruce Walker

The recent news stories that Obama intends to implement much of his health care agenda through executive orders shows just how broken the Constitution of the United States has become.  The foundational document of American government provides no legislative power in the presidency – none, zero, nada.  George Washington felt that even the presidential veto should be used only in opposition to congressional bills that were unconstitutional.  Now, the notion that the president can, effectively, legislate without the involvement of Congress (in certain areas and for certain reasons) has become quietly accepted as part of our federal system.

Why I’m Not a Conservative

                  Do we really know our right from our left?

By Selwyn Duke

There is something G.K. Chesterton called the “degrading slavery” of being a child of your age. It is the inability to think outside the box of time and place — and most people fall victim to it.

I think about this when I hear talk about “liberals” and “conservatives,” “right” and “left.” Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying there aren’t differences between the groups those labels describe. I also often use the terms myself, as they do have provisional meaning. But they lack eternal meaning.

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Guest Commentary: Fabian Conservatism

By Bruce Walker

Conservatives , the overwhelming majority of Americans, are angry with the Republican Party leadership and how politics has been  played since Ronald Reagan left office.   Often Republican nominees have seemed to copy Bill Clinton’s “triangulation” or strategically placing themselves as the arbitrators between conservatives and leftists.   McCain luxuriated in fawning media coverage of his “independence” from conservatives.  George H. Bush, as soon as the Gipper was gone, promised to move us to a “Kinder, Gentler” – moderate - America.   Specter and Jeffords switched parties at critical times.  Who trusts Republican leaders?  Not serious conservatives, who have been burned so often.

Is “Journalist” Another Job Americans Won’t Do?

By Selwyn Duke

Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious.  Worse still, since even many good writers involved in Internet journalism disgorge the odd typo, there’s the chance you will come to be regarded as an expert on the glass-house real estate market.  Yet there’s no doubt that the much lamented decline in journalism is about style as well as substance.  And, just occasionally, you encounter an example of it that demands some attention.

Guest Commentary: An Old Film with a Vital Message

By Bruce Walker

Turner Movie Classics on February 27^th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film which Robert Osborne advised his audience had been deliberately put out of circulation since soon after it was released.  In his introduction to the film, Osborne acknowledges that the film’s stars and producers were first rate.  The cast included Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, and Robert Walker.  Osborne also makes it clear that the film is an embarrassment to the film industry, full of childish anti-Communism and the foolish paranoia of America in the 1950s.