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  • United Nations Plan: Teach Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds

    By Selwyn Duke A while back we heard about the United Nations pact that would prohibit parents from choosing their children’s religion. Now the UN is issuing another dystopian proposal, a sex-education curriculum that would teach children as young as five about masturbation and “gender roles, stereotypes and gender-based violence.” And those are just two…

  • Obama and Legislating Morality in Health Care

    In an effort to regain momentum in the health-care debate, Barack Obama is attempting to reframe the push for government intervention as a moral issue. By Selwyn Duke Just a few short months ago, few imagined that Barack Obama would have trouble marshalling a Democrat majority for one of his major initiatives. He was the…

  • Democrat Plan: Make the IRS the Internal Medical Service

    By Selwyn Duke You probably don't associate the Internal Revenue Service with health, unless it's their letterhead's ability to make your heart stop. Yet, under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions healthcare reform bills, the dreaded tax department will be a major player in making sure you comply with government healthcare…

  • Yet another Call to Overhaul Healthcare . . . This Time in Canada

    By Selwyn Duke In his captivating book The Screwtape Letters, the great philosopher C.S. Lewis noted that change is meant to be a means to an end and that it is only the destroyers of civilization who try to convince us that it is an end unto itself. It is an alluring mantra, that change…

  • Fat in America: Taxing Us to Death in the Name of Taxing Us to Health

    First they came for the tobacco, and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the alcohol, and I did not speak out because I was not a drinker. Then they came for my food, and there was no one left to speak out for me because misery…

  • Mom Arrested for Having Fat Son

    By Selwyn Duke While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia’s religious police, called “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” we do have our own strange version of vice squads. Only, the trespasses they root out today are less likely to involve heroin and harlots than Twinkies and trans-fats.…

  • A Chicken in Every Pot and Healthcare for All

    By Selwyn Duke You're going to be healthy — whether you like it or not. The Obama administration is pushing for a national healthcare bill this summer and Democrats in the Senate are responding, with a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee measure that would make healthcare both a right and a responsibility. Writes the…

  • Harvard Academic: Pope is Right about Condoms

    While major media characterize Pope Benedict XVI’s prescription for combating HIV infection as “unrealistic and ineffective” and unscientific, an authority on the disease has a different message: “More and more AIDS experts are coming to accept . . .” that “the Pope is correct.” By Selwyn Duke “We have found no consistent associations between condom…

  • The Dark Truth about Socialized Medicine

    By Selwyn Duke George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams has penned another excellent article, this time about socialized medicine.  And since he relates the truth, it’s not a pretty picture.  He talks about how the health-care systems in Britain, Canada and Sweden are running on fumes, and in particular I call your attention to…

  • Why Sex Education is Doomed to Failure

    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…