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  • What is More Troubling than Pat Robertson’s Remarks?

    By Selwyn Duke Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson’s claim that the earthquake was divine retribution.  In making his case, he told a story about how Haitian leaders long ago made a pact with Satan, promising to serve him if he would help vanquish their…

  • The Quayled Lady: Why You Should Forget Sarah Palin

    By Selwyn Duke Really, there’s precious little fairness in the world.  People tend to be slaves to emotion, and prejudices often reign supreme even (in fact, especially) in those who rail against prejudice.  This is why we’ll see millions of Americans reflexively dismiss a politician simply because of the letter following his name; it is…

  • Trial Begins for Woman Who Cut Baby from Womb

    By Selwyn Duke It sounds like a dark story from the days of ancient pagan rituals: A person tears open a woman’s womb while she’s still alive and takes her baby from it. I wrote about such a crime in August of last year, but, tragically, it was no isolated event. And now a different…

  • A Foolproof Tax Plan: So Simple Even a Caveman IRS Commissioner Could do it

     What does it tell you when even the IRS commissioner doesn’t prepare his own taxes because the code is “complex”? By Selwyn Duke Given that my father had been a WWII-era prisoner of war in Germany, no one could accuse him of not doing his part for America. Yet he was no fan of Uncle…

  • Bravo to Brit Hume: Why Faith is Not a Private Matter

    By Selwyn Duke Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right and right to be wrong.  It’s not that I’m a pessimist — just a realist.  And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over…

  • Berkeley High Poised to Eliminate Science Classes Because They’re Too “White”

    By Selwyn Duke There are some things you just can’t make up — and many of them seem to originate in Berkeley, California. Berkeley really is stranger than fiction, and the latest example is a proposal to eliminate science classes at the city’s high school because, get the Digitalis, they’re too white. Thomas Lifson at…

  • Big Brother: France to Ban “Psychological Violence” in Marriages

    He said, she said? If she said he said the wrong thing, what he said won’t mean anything. By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit “psychological violence” within a relationship. In other words, if Pierre…

  • New Study Finds Spanking Is Good for Kids

    By Selwyn Duke Spanking is like milk: It does a body good — or at least a mind. No, this isn’t the conclusion of traditionalist parenting expert Dr. James Dobson but the finding of a study conducted by psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. FoxNews.com reports on the story, writing,…

  • “Youths” in France Torch Cars to Welcome New Year

    By Selwyn Duke We really should start to wonder if the automobile has the same status in Islamic teaching as pigs and dogs — and as that of truthful language in journalism.  In an event that was largely ignored by the Lamestream Media, Reuters reports that “youths” in France burned, according to its headline, “hundreds”…

  • Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

    By Selwyn Duke Ah, Christmastime.  Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire.  Sadly, the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture…