Category: Articles
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By Selwyn Duke The Soviets tried creating ape-human hybrids and embraced Lysenkoism, which held that acquired traits could be inherited. Nazi academics, such as Philipp Lenard, promoted the idea that science itself had racial character. Looking back on such pseudo-science, we now just shake our heads. Yet those who shake their fists at the heavens…
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By Selwyn Duke “Education is useless without the Bible,” stated Noah Webster (1758-1843), known as the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.” “The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields,” he continued. “God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.” Texas is now taking this to heart.…
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By Selwyn Duke “Republicans are conservatives,” said author and CEO Kenin Spivak recently. “Conservatives are conservative.” This tautology was uttered to answer a question: Why do Republicans lose social and cultural wars despite winning elections?
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Trump’s DOJ Just Overturned Decades of Institutionalized Discrimination, Scoring a Victory for Merit
By Selwyn Duke It was in 2014 that the Obama administration sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating women equally. No, that’s not a typo. Already dumbed down fitness standards, applied to applicants of both sexes, were deemed discriminatory for applying equality. How? It was nothing new even back then, but the product of long-embraced…
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By Selwyn Duke When thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then…
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By Selwyn Duke “Is it better to be loved or feared?” the main mobster character, Sonny, was asked in the film A Bronx Tale (1993). His answer was that he’d like to enjoy both. But if he had to choose one, it would be fear, he stated, because “[f]ear lasts longer than love.” Of course,…
