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  • Revolutionary Nanotech Energy Source Discovered

    By Selwyn Duke Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline vehicle? For that matter, think about environmental sensors that could be scattered into the air like dust and collect data. While the last thing might not…

  • Texas Board of Education Tries to Correct History

    After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the Alamo, remember America and remember the West. By Selwyn Duke In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education…

  • Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms

    By Selwyn Duke There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during practice. But social engineers may make this passé with a proposal to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. No, this isn’t the plot of a decadent…

  • Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking

    By Selwyn Duke The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the doomed holdouts at the Alamo. But then there are the quiet heroes, people such as Oskar Schindler. Ever since Schindler’s List hit the silver…

  • Obama Nominee Liu Believes Constitution Half Living, Half Breathing

    Many have described Obama’s 9th-Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu as “brilliant,” but he’s not smart enough to know that rules apply to him also. By Selwyn Duke Like so many people nowadays, Barack Obama’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee is a very confused man. He seems to believe that rules are made to be broken.…

  • Children Directing Planes at JFK: Why it is a Big Deal

    By Selwyn Duke By now we’ve all heard about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes, that’s “kids” — plural. It is now being reported that after the controller, identified as 49-year-old Glenn Duffy, let his 8 or 9-year old son take the reins, he…

  • Legal vs. Illegal Murder: Abortion in Utah

    By Selwyn Duke She is now a healthy baby, bouncing about, playing with bubbles in the bathtub, and taking in everything this mysterious world she entered has to offer. But she almost never was. Or, at least, she almost never was outside the womb. In fact, she certainly never would have been had the aspiring…

  • Why Many American Christians Really are Un-Christian

    By Selwyn Duke In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion writers.  After all, both today seem to treat their subjects as matters of taste.  In fact, I expect to soon open a modern newspaper’s religion page and read something akin to the…

  • N.Y. Governorship Scandal Hits Again: Paterson Will Not Run

    By Selwyn Duke Damaged by scandal like his predecessor, New York’s Governor David Paterson has announced that he is withdrawing his bid to win election this November. The governor had been steadfast in his determination to capture a full term at the ballot box, despite low poll numbers and growing opposition within his own party.…

  • Most See Government as Threat to Rights

    By Selwyn Duke Ronald Reagan once said that the nine scariest words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” In thus opining, he was simply reflecting an American tradition that began with the Founding Fathers: a healthy suspicion of government. And, now, despite rampant government dependency, it seems…