Category: Crime and Justice

  • 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.…

  • By Selwyn Duke At one time some would call them “deniers.”  The more generous called them “skeptics.”  But now, increasingly, it appears that they can be called something else: sane.  Yes, the climate has certainly changed. Even in the mainstream media, the less liberal organs are waking up.  There is now a never-ending barrage of…

  • By Selwyn Duke Has a bombshell just been dropped in the November elections? If a story that broke on Thursday gets enough ink, the answer may be yes. It’s being reported that the White House has sought to entice Senate primary challengers into dropping their campaigns against incumbent Democrats with the offer of plum government…

  • By Selwyn Duke It sounds like a dark story from the days of ancient pagan rituals: A person tears open a woman’s womb while she’s still alive and takes her baby from it. I wrote about such a crime in August of last year, but, tragically, it was no isolated event. And now a different…

  • He said, she said? If she said he said the wrong thing, what he said won’t mean anything. By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit “psychological violence” within a relationship. In other words, if Pierre…

  • By Selwyn Duke We really should start to wonder if the automobile has the same status in Islamic teaching as pigs and dogs — and as that of truthful language in journalism.  In an event that was largely ignored by the Lamestream Media, Reuters reports that “youths” in France burned, according to its headline, “hundreds”…

  • By Selwyn Duke It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and bustle and crime are very far away. Yet, like a pig in a beauty contest, within this pastoral setting lies something incongruent: a Jihadist training center. In this compound, women…

  • By Selwyn Duke Could you imagine being jailed simply because you decided to opt your children out of sex education? Well, this is exactly what is happening to a number of fathers in Germany. And, if certain forces in the United States have their way, such a policy could one day find its way to…

  • We’ve all heard about false accusations of sexual criminality, incidents such as the 2006 Duke University rape frame-up case. They are a form of psychological molestation and can destroy a person’s life just as being physically molested can. Well, now such an accusation might have ended a man’s life. The hapless victim, 63-year-old British citizen…

  • We certainly know why unity is beneficial. We’ve all heard “E pluribus Unum” and “United we stand, divided we fall.” They are slogans, too, of course, but they speak to a great truth. You’ll never hear anyone say, “You know, Bill and Susan should do well in married life; they’re really diverse.” On the contrary,…