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By Selwyn Duke If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it. One is out of the Marple Newtown School District in suburban Philadelphia, where a school decreed that a Bible couldn’t be read during show-and-tell. Then, across the country in…
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By Selwyn Duke Florida legislators want to force schools to teach sixth-graders about contraception and stop touting the benefits of sex within marriage. One of the latest battles in the culture war over sex education is being waged in Florida, where a lawmaker has said that touting marriage is “offensive” and that such discussion belongs…
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By Selwyn Duke There is often a profound difference between morality and legality, and, if this were a just world, a good percentage of the American left would be tried for treason. If that seems a radical statement, I ask you: What price should be paid for sowing the seeds of your nation's destruction? What…
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By Selwyn Duke There is a reason why G.K. Chesterton once called common sense ". . . that forgotten branch of psychology." It is because the field can reliably be used to govern your life; all you need do is listen closely to its prescriptions. And do exactly the opposite.
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By Selwyn Duke For a long time now, people have lamented the state of younger generations. And for a long time now, they have been right. If this makes me sound like a fuddy-duddy who bemoans the spirit of the age simply because he long ago wedded his own, know that indicting the next generation…
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By Selwyn Duke Imagine you see a nutritionist for dietary advice, and, instead of rendering counsel based on his best understanding of the laws of health, he simply prescribes what’s popular. Says he, “People ate different things years ago, but they weren’t ‘cool’; here’s what is in today.”
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By Selwyn Duke It was a long time ago that George Bernard Shaw said that youth was wasted on the young, but truths never get old. This occurred to me today when I came across one of the stupidest columns imaginable.
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By Selwyn Duke Daxx Dalton is a very principled boy. At the tender age of 11, not only does he have political passions, he is willing to wear them on his shirtsleeve (or at least his back) and go to the mat for them. Thus, when Aurora Frontier K-8 School made him an offer he…
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By Selwyn Duke When I consider the topsy-turvy world we live in, I can’t help but think of the Bible’s warning, “There will come a time when bad will be called good and good will be called bad.” A prime example of this is adult-child relations. In a reversal from a couple of generations ago,…
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By Selwyn Duke Has Barack Obama set his sights on the wrong seat of power? If this Daily Mail article is any indication, perhaps he should have run for prime minister of Britain. Writes the paper:
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