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  • 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…

  • People Who Want to be Crippled

    http://tvzone.us/p/veFccvtvia videosift.com This video is about people who crave amputation.  It's one of the weirdest things you will ever have heard, even if you live in San Francisco. 

  • Irreligious Leader Wants to Stifle Talk of Sin

    By Selwyn Duke It's really quite strange when you encounter a theologian or man of the cloth who appears to have no faith.  One could really wonder why they devote their lives to something they seem to believe is a fairytale.  I suppose they're much like experts in ancient literature. Some people who fit this…

  • The Nerdiness of the Left

    By Selwyn Duke As you may know, leftists have a habit of projecting their own prejudices and faults onto others.  They accuse their opponents of bigotry because they’re ridden with it (e.g., they preach tolerance but are completely inured to their own prejudices against Christians); they allege voter fraud at the drop of a hat…

  • When a Society Listens to Babies

    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.

  • NaCl is Worth its Salt

    By Selwyn Duke The topic of spiritual health is much more interesting than that of physical health (yet we’re obsessed with the latter), so I’d rather talk about fat egos than fat bodies.   But today I’m going to make an exception.