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  • Schooling in the Third Millennium: Bible Out, Sodom In

    By Selwyn Duke If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it. One is out of the Marple Newtown School District in suburban Philadelphia, where a school decreed that a Bible couldn’t be read during show-and-tell. Then, across the country in…

  • Guest Piece: The Biggest Problem of the Mainstream Media

    By Bruce Walker The media – newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film – have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial.  Newspapers were once the whole heart and substance of our media.  They provided news, opinion, entertainment, advice, humor, advertisements and information.  Newspapers were often unabashed partisans.

  • Sugar and Spice and Nothing Nice

    By Selwyn Duke The Girl Scouts' new curriculum is rife with eastern mysticism, New Ageism, feminism, moral relativism, and communist and lesbian role models. Girl Scout cookies may still be sugar and spice, but the same can no longer be said of the organization itself. This is owing to a new curriculum adopted by the…

  • The Tears of the Goddess of Liberty

    By Bruce Walker Twenty years ago the light of liberty flickered briefly in China.  In May 1989, Chinese students built a “Goddess of Liberty,” alternatively called a “Goddess of Democracy,” in Tiananmen Square.  Throughout much of China, the subjects of the nation, on the fortieth anniversary of the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War,…

  • 13-Year-Old Cancer Victim & Parental Rights

    By Selwyn Duke Every so often there is a case in which parents refuse to submit their child to medical treatment, citing religious beliefs. The most recent example is the saga of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old Minnesota boy stricken with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After undergoing a round of chemotherapy that, understandably, made the boy quite sick,…

  • California’s High Court Upholds Proposition 8

    By Selwyn Duke In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. This concludes the Golden State court system’s adjudication of the proposition; however, a federal suit by a group called…

  • Guest Piece: Pondering Reagan-Kemp in 1980

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  • California and the Beauty of Bankruptcy

    By Selwyn Duke California's budget woes are the result of gross fiscal irresponsibility. And at this point there is only one realistic cure: bankruptcy. There is a beauty in bankruptcy. Strange words, I know, but it's true. As an example, there is the story of an old friend of my father's, a man who at…

  • Movie Review: Angels and Demons

    By Selwyn Duke This weekend I saw Angels & Demons, the controversial film directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown’s book by the same name. The movie is a sequel to the equally controversial The Da Vinci Code, also directed by Howard and written by Brown. The film is as fanciful as it…

  • Guest Commentary: War is Hell

    By Bruce Walker Sherman was right:  War is Hell.  The current war against the Judeo-Christian world waged by al-Qaida and other radical Moslems is no different.  War is Hell and Hell is full of torments.  Our role, as children of a Loving God, is to make that Hell and those torments as quick, as slight,…