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  • The Mall Shooter: Why Did He Do it?

    By Selwyn Duke After the horrible mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, people are asking the usual questions.  Many want to know why shooter Robert Hawkins did it.  A better question would be: Why not? 

  • The Culture of Death

    By Selwyn Duke There is a news story today about women who will not have babies because they don’t want to contribute to the strain on the environment.  The piece mentions an environmental charity worker named Toni Vernelli who said, "Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of…

  • Giving Thanks and Thanksgiving

    By Selwyn Duke The great philosopher G.K. Chesterton once said, "Thanks are the highest form of thought."  It was more than just a clever turn of phrase.  Not only is it true, but cultivating a thankful spirit is one of the keys to happiness.

  • Oh, So Brave: Artists Afraid to Mock Moslems

    By Selwyn Duke Whenever an artist creates a work that impugns tradition or mocks Christianity, it is often said that he is "brave" for challenging the "status quo."  Of course, the status quo they’re challenging is that of bygone days, the one that, like an old soldier, didn’t die but just faded away.  Thus, these…

  • Bible: Those Who Do Not Work, Should Not Eat

    By Selwyn Duke It’s so often the case today that the New Testament of the Bible is placed in the service of liberalism.  The leftists who do this often have never read it, but that doesn’t stop them from didactically quoting such  lines as "Do not judge lest you be judged"; of course, they never…

  • Atheism Radio

    By Selwyn Duke This just in: Airhead America, that leftist talk radio outfit, is launching a program devoted to atheism.

  • Evil

    By Selwyn Duke Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world.  It’s an age-old philosophical question that can cause those who want faith to doubt and those who want to doubt to mock faith.

  • The Anti-Islamist Manifesto

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and…

  • A Lump of Coal for Kwanzaa

    By Selwyn Duke For you religio-centric clods who haven’t yet expanded your celebratory horizons – and you know who you are – I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: December 26 marks the start of Kwanzaa.

  • The Liberals Who Stole Christmas

    Selwyn Duke Liberals we are and though we eschew its reason, Capitalize we will on the "Winter Break Season." It's good for making money and for spoiling offspring, But mention the Son and from the gallows you'll swing.