Category: Education

  • By Selwyn Duke Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates that it certainly can — and does. Writing about the story at Christian Today, Jennifer Gold tells us: Read the rest here.

  • By Selwyn Duke In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet that is exactly what is happening in New York City, where hundreds of school teachers accused of misconduct — sometimes the sexual variety — are receiving upwards of $70,000…

  • By Bruce Walker The putrid comments by Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life.  It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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. 

  • 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…

  • 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.”

  • 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.