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Become a big liar often enough and you start to believe yourself By Selwyn Duke When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while…
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By Selwyn Duke Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech laws and halal ritual. For example, in recent times the U.K. has treated us to stories about a school guide stating that toddlers who say “yuck” in response to…
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Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those responsible don’t wear clerical collars.By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down…
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By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard the story. Hundreds of young sexual-abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of embarrassment and scorn, abusers escaping prosecution and quietly moving to different jurisdictions, authorities covering up the crimes to avoid scandal and litigation. It’s a saga of grave, grave sin.
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By Selwyn Duke After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio, although he’s most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller proposing a…
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By Selwyn Duke There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s health-care vote. It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby. It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization they…
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By Selwyn Duke First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing the same hallways and bathrooms. Now, this evolution (devolution?) has brought us sex-neutral housing, where male and female students can share the same room. Already allowed in approximately 50…
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After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the Alamo, remember America and remember the West. By Selwyn Duke In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education…
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By Selwyn Duke There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during practice. But social engineers may make this passé with a proposal to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. No, this isn’t the plot of a decadent…
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By Selwyn Duke God may not have a place in the modern American classroom, but the Devil is a different story. That is, at least in one North Carolina high school. After reading the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” — which involves a character who makes a deal with Satan but then balks…
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