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  • A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

    By Selwyn Duke One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else…

  • Regulating Us to Death

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my mother…

  • Prescribing Ritalin for Toddlers

    By Selwyn Duke While we commonly see bumpers bearing the message "Hugs are better than drugs," you’d never know we believe it from our legalized-drug culture. Recently I cited statistics indicating that 20 million Americans, 40 percent of college students, and 1 out of 9 schoolchildren are on psychoactive medication.

  • Hitler and Christianity

    By Selwyn Duke    Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children. While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene involving some words a Nazi official uttered to a dissident, a heroic Catholic bishop. Dripping with contempt, the officer said (I’m paraphrasing),…

  • The Real Discrimination Causing the Male/Female Wage Gap

    By Selwyn Duke We all know about the lifespan gap between the sexes that favors women. Now, what if I said it was due to discrimination, that it obviously means men’s health issues are ignored by a callous, misandristic society; thus, government must intervene to balance the scales.

  • The Crime of Being White

    By Selwyn Duke Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call…

  • Warped Moral Compasses

    By Selwyn Duke To perpetuate anything worthy of the name "civilization," a people must be able to make correct judgments.  Oh, I know that j-word has become unfashionable, along with "punishment" and "sin" and a few others.  But don’t be fooled; don’t cede that illusory high road to the leftists, as most of their opponents…

  • California Supreme Court Overturns Laws Upholding Marriage

    By Selwyn Duke It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself. Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control…

  • Read a Book, Get Charged with Racial Harassment

    By Selwyn Duke The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:

  • Tobacco, Tolerance and Truth

    By Selwyn Duke To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he was.