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  • “Thanks Are the Highest Form of Thought”

    By Selwyn Duke My father once told me a story about when he was a boy. He said there was a certain man who every now and again would visit his family and give him 10 cents for an ice cream soda each time. Well, one day this fellow came ‘a callin’, but for some…

  • Statists Want to Force Priests to Reveal Confessions

    By Selwyn Duke First there were efforts to compel Catholic hospitals to perform abortions. Now statists in some nations want to force priests to violate the confidentiality of confession for, ostensibly, the purpose of uncovering sexual abuse. Adam Shaw at American Thinker provides some background and then explains the recent proposals, writing: [O]ne of the most…

  • New American Cover Story: Multiculturalism

    By Selwyn Duke It is 1991, and Yugoslavia, born of the ashes of WWI, is starting to break up. It is a violent affair that will be long, painful, bloody, and complex. Numerous wars in the multi-ethnic region will be fought, with Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia declaring independence from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and, in turn, Serb…

  • Dalai Lama: “I am a Marxist”

    By Selwyn Duke There is no better way to proclaim your lack of spiritual and philosophical depth than by, two decades after the fall of communism, disclosing that you’re Marxist.  Yet this is precisely what Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama did during a speech before 150 Chinese students at the University of Minnesota this…

  • Gandhi Reconsidered: When Paganism Met Progressivism

    By Selwyn Duke When an Indian-born man I knew a couple of decades ago expressed an intense dislike for Mohandas Gandhi, I found it a bit surprising. Wasn’t the “Great Soul,” that quintessential 20th-century icon, India’s George Washington? That certainly is the narrative created by historians — who, history has taught us, can tell a…

  • The Independent’s Over-the-top Anti-Catholic Bias

    By Selwyn Duke Except for those still caught in the web of the media matrix, it’s no secret that the Fossil Press seeks to destroy conservatism, tradition and Christianity.  It’s also plain that central to this are unrelenting attacks on the Catholic Church.  But a February 5 piece in The Independent written by one Michael…

  • Texas Schools Instituting Mandatory Arabic Language and Culture Classes

    By Selwyn Duke It seems that it was a well-kept secret. Residents in the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas found out just this Monday evening that the district had decided to force some of their children to take Arabic language and culture classes. As for the impetus behind the move, as they say, just…

  • Americans Lack Faith in Obama’s Faith

    By Selwyn Duke Increasingly, Americans might say the following about Barack Obama: “He’s definitely a man who has faith…. In what, I have no idea.” There’s good reason to wonder. Despite Obama’s claims of piety, his words and deeds speak otherwise. For example, during a trip to Indonesia, Obama told an audience that America’s motto…

  • Little Christian Boy Gives His Life Confronting Terrorists

    By Selwyn Duke He was small in stature but big in heart — and, presumably, faith. His name was Adam. And he is among the youngest of Christian martyrs. On October 31 there was a deadly terrorist attack on the Syrian Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad, Iraq, while Mass was being…

  • Citizen, Class Warrior, Florida School Board Gunman…and Good Humanist

    By Selwyn Duke In the film “The Devil’s Advocate,” Satan poses as a powerful attorney bent on undermining man through the law.  When he finally reveals himself to the main character toward the movie’s end, he delivers a self-adulatory monologue during which he proudly states, “I’m a fan of man.  I’m a humanist.  Maybe the…