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  • Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

    By Selwyn Duke I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

  • Dawkins’ Delusion

    By Selwyn Duke I’ve long observed that great scientific minds virtually never make for formidable philosophical ones.  A perfect example of this is Richard Dawkins, the famous, and also infamous, British biologist and author of the book The God Delusion.  Dawkins has made quite a career out of attacking religion, rehashing the same worn-out arguments…

  • Hate Speech Phonies

    By Selwyn Duke There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis — I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I’m not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws — something I’ve treated thoroughly — part of me just wants…

  • Warped Moral Compasses

    By Selwyn Duke To perpetuate anything worthy of the name "civilization," a people must be able to make correct judgments.  Oh, I know that j-word has become unfashionable, along with "punishment" and "sin" and a few others.  But don’t be fooled; don’t cede that illusory high road to the leftists, as most of their opponents…

  • Tobacco, Tolerance and Truth

    By Selwyn Duke To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he was.

  • Reader Email: On Who Shouldn’t Vote

    By Selwyn Duke I received an email from a young man who is addressing a very interesting topic.  Here is his email:

  • The Hard Truth about a Soft Science: Why Psychology Does More Harm Than Good

    By Selwyn Duke  In his book The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality, “It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts and regulations of civilization.” In making this statement, Freud weighed in on one…

  • Unfair and Unbalanced

    By Selwyn Duke The phrase “fair and balanced” certainly has a positive connotation. It is thought the greatest quality a news outlet can possess; it has even become a motto of the Fox News Network. Yet I don’t find Fox very balanced at all.

  • Obama’s Incorrect Definition of Love

    By Selwyn Duke As you probably know, Barack Obama has been doing much to polish up his credentials as a patriot.  Thus, while speaking to an audience in North Dakota recently he said:

  • Barack Obama: Elitist, but Not Elite

    By Selwyn Duke Barack Obama has made his opinion of small town America known, and he doesn’t hold it in very high regard.  Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser on Sunday, Senator Sweetness and Light said: