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  • The New Lynching: Why I Must Defend Don Imus

    By Selwyn Duke So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own. But even though his is a vessel I…

  • Does Violence Have to Be Taught?

    By Selwyn Duke It seems that the more we come to believe that “Violence has to be taught,” the more our children learn to be violent. It’s a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off with a five-finger attention-getter. “Don’t you dare spank…

  • What if Homosexuality is Biological?

    By Selwyn Duke The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recently penned an article that has both fellow evangelicals and homosexual activists feeling none too gay. Mohler raised the ire of the former group by stating that science may very well prove there is a biological…

  • Are You Really a Liberal?

    By Selwyn Duke Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself and relinquish any pretense at that most illusory quality, impartiality. This places you in the crosshairs, although you can take solace in…

  • The Barker and the ShillThe Fraud of the Fairness Doctrine

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re old enough to remember the days when freak shows were in carnivals and not daytime television, you may know about the barker and the shill. These were carnival employees who both worked to entice customers into entering the mysterious realm of the sideshow, only, their methods were very different. The…

  • A Lump of Coal for Kwanzaa

    By Selwyn Duke For you religio-centric clods who haven’t yet expanded your celebratory horizons – and you know who you are – I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: December 26 marks the start of Kwanzaa.

  • Speaking out of the left sides of our mouthsHow the language engineers reshape civilization by reshaping the language

    By Selwyn Duke It has been said that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate.  This idea was expressed in George Orwell’s book 1984 with "Newspeak," which was the name given to the language paradigm that the oppressive government portrayed in the book sought to foist upon its people.  The…

  • Was Jesus a Liberal?

    By Selwyn Duke Abraham Lincoln once said, "I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God’s side." Most who believe in God — and even many of those who see Him as being just a…

  • Saturday Morning Cartoons

    By Selwyn Duke I bound out of bed in eager anticipation of the start of the day. No one had to tell me to set the alarm last night — it's the only time I don't mind rising early.  It's the mid 1970s, and for me it's the days of Lego blocks and Tinker Toys,…

  • The Nature of Right and Wrong

    By Selwyn Duke  Do not judge lest you be judged . . . .  It's a phrase so frequently misused nowadays.  It's often uttered in an attempt to immunize oneself against value judgments about one's behavior.  After all, few people brook criticism very well, and many of us fear the re-emergence of a dominant moral…