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  • Study: Anti-bullying Programs Increase Bullying

    By Selwyn Duke Well, bully for anti-bullying programs. After spending countless millions instituting them nationwide, a university study has concluded that it isn’t just that they don’t work. They actually increase bullying. The head researcher of the study, University of Texas at Arlington criminologist Seokjin Jeong, did not start out as a critic of anti-bullying…

  • Why “Equality” Must Die

    By Selwyn Duke Take a look at the following list and tell me if anything strikes you: Prudence Justice Temperance Courage Faith Hope Charity Viewing these, the Seven Cardinal Virtues, anything make an impression? Okay, now try the Seven Heavenly Virtues of:  Chastity Temperance Charity Diligence Patience Kindness Humility Anything? What strikes me is that…

  • How to Enrich or Impoverish a Nation

    By Selwyn Duke What has lifted more people out of poverty, charity or economic freedom? It’s not even close. Charity is wonderful, and I’ll be the first to say we have an obligation to share our gifts, be they material, intellectual or talent oriented. Yet whether our redistributionist endeavor is charity — and charity is…

  • Americans’ Pre-existing Condition of Childishness

    By Selwyn Duke “Because!” This was a common childhood justification. A kid wouldn’t be able to provide a good reason for his little agenda, but, well, children want what they want. So he just might say, “Because!”     One sign of having truly reached emotional adulthood is the ability to accept life’s harsh realities, yet…

  • Why Millennials Won’t Turn “Conservative”

    By Selwyn Duke Every so often the wonks of wishful thinking give us an article about how blacks are becoming Republicans, how Hispanics are supposedly a natural GOP constituency, or, as is the subject here today, how the millennial generation is turning “conservative.” Perhaps pundits asserting the last thing recall Winston Churchill’s observation, “If you're…

  • Homosexual Lobby: Let the Christians Eat Cake

    By Selwyn Duke “The goal is to rehabilitate,” said the bureaucrat about a Christian-owned bakery that refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. The man who uttered that comment was Oregon labor commissioner Brad Avakian, and he’s obviously come to bear the secular man’s burden. He insists he doesn’t want to put the…

  • Despite Cooling, Warmists Haven’t Cooled on Global Warming

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps we could say that old mistaken theories never die — they just keep pace with government funding. A case in point is the vaunted scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They cannot explain why the Earth, defying their climate models, hasn’t warmed now in 15 years, but they’re…

  • Communism Now Big in Japan; Still Little in Virtue

    By Selwyn Duke Will the grinding poverty and initiative killing of collectivism soon wear the label “Made in Japan”? Such a prospect is likely a ways off, but it could become a reality if Yoshiko Kira has her way. Kira is one of a slew of Japanese Communist Party (JCP) candidates who won office in…

  • When Atlas Shrugged at Detroit

    By Selwyn Duke Many of us have seen the striking video footage. Dilapidated homes and buildings, whole neighborhoods abandoned, large areas being reclaimed by nature and people growing vegetables where businesses once stood. It looks a bit like a post-apocalyptic world. Some would say it’s the apocalypse of government policy. Detroit, Michigan’s recent declaration of…

  • Obama’s Dangerous Racial Hang-ups

    By Selwyn Duke When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon,” it perhaps didn’t say much for him as a parent. And when the president now says that Martin could have been him “35 years ago,” it doesn’t say much for him as a youth. Of course, we know…