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  • The Hazards of Ensuring Safety

    By Selwyn Duke Back when my family vacationed in Miami Beach, it wasn’t uncommon for the hotels abutting the shoreline to have high diving boards. I mean sometimes really high — maybe even the kind you see on Olympics telecasts. It was a scary jump for me as a child, but I think I mustered…

  • New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors

    By Selwyn Duke Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there may cost a kidney and a heart. Under a proposed law, all state residents would automatically be enrolled as organ donors — without their consent. Proposed by Democrat Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, the law would presume consent and…

  • Bart Stupak Was for the Health Bill All Along http://youtube.com/v/URr68joWr1E In this video from last fall, it is apparent that Bart Stupak planned to vote for Obamacare all along, regardless of its provisions relating to abortion. Watch it and you'll see how he had already conjured up a convenient rationalization to justify his support. He…

  • Obama’s Healthcare Discrimination: Making Some More Equal than Others

    By Selwyn Duke One thing we get with our mother’s milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call “invidious” discrimination.  For the civil-rights lawyers who attained their status through the invidious discrimination known as affirmative action, the parenthesized word means “likely to create ill will” or “offensively or unfairly discriminating.”  Now, the problem with…

  • New Study Finds Spanking Is Good for Kids

    By Selwyn Duke Spanking is like milk: It does a body good — or at least a mind. No, this isn’t the conclusion of traditionalist parenting expert Dr. James Dobson but the finding of a study conducted by psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. FoxNews.com reports on the story, writing,…

  • Are Hormone-mimicking Chemicals Harming Our Children?

    By Selwyn Duke Are chemicals in our environment masculinizing girls and feminizing boys? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that this is the case, and one of the latest studies has linked exposure to a substance known as bisphenol A, or BPA, with aggressive behavior in girls. Liz Szabo reports on the research in…

  • Duke Reponds to Critics of Sexual Identity Crisis Article

    Why would you accept the emotion-based diagnosis of gender dysphoria but not the emotion-based one of body dysmorphia? Why are the feelings of those who suffer from the latter invalid but the feelings of those who suffer from the former a credible arbiter? Both groups have persistent feelings that their bodies aren’t as they should…

  • Death of the West: Our Sexual Identity Crisis

    So what are we to conclude about “gender” science? Decades ago its “experts” said society could turn your boy into a girl if it felt like it; now they say he can turn himself into a girl if he feels like it. Is it just a coincidence that Dr. Money’s “gender neutrality” theory accorded with…

  • Latest Savage Nation Appearance: “Dr Happy” Brought in to “Toughen Up” Troops

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  • Soda Is the New Tobacco

    Ever since Barack Obama floated the idea of a soda tax, oh-so-caring politicians have been lining up to save you from yourself. Ka-ching. First it was tobacco, with Al Gore, who grew the plant but never inhaled, preaching against it. Next it was SUVs, with Arianna Huffington warning that it was unsustainable for the average…