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By Selwyn Duke Early in my commentary career, I found myself debating the meaning of one of my articles in an online chat with a woman who’d read the piece. Why the argument? Well, I was mischievous, I’ll confess, and, having a little fun, didn’t tell her I was the author. Towards our interaction’s conclusion…
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By Selwyn Duke As with representative government, the “rule of law” has been an anomaly on the world scene, historically speaking. The Romans had it; in fact, they essentially gave us the concept of the rule of law. It is the norm today, too, in the lands they most influenced, those of the modern West.…
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By Selwyn Duke “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion,” observed G.K. Chesterton in 1935. “In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” This could come to mind hearing about yet another “separation of church and state” lawsuit. This time the issue involves Catholic…
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By Selwyn Duke It has essentially been said that you can have a living Constitution or a surviving Republic. But you can’t have both. And, a University of Tennessee civics expert states in so many words, today’s Supreme Court will increasingly choose civilizational survival. This means that a majority of the Court rejects the “living…
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By Selwyn Duke We don’t know if Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is disabled as a jurist, but she certainly has made it onto the Supreme Court. She apparently, though, believes that black Americans are essentially “disabled” within the context of our American system. In fact, she just said as much Wednesday during oral arguments in…
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By Selwyn Duke Should the Ten Commandments be displayed in public schools? With relatively new Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas laws mandating such, this matter may soon come before the Supreme Court. The reportage on this is interesting, too. The “Court may soon consider overturning 45-year precedent,” reads a recent Newsweek headline. Unmentioned is that this now-“45-year precedent”…
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By Selwyn Duke A congresswoman created quite a stir Friday when she mistook a Sikh religious leader for a Muslim and then criticized his “Islamic” prayer before Congress. The condemnation this inspired came from both sides of the aisle, too, with many mocking her grasp of civics. Of course, it’s not unusual for Americans to…
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