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  • Man Allowed in Women’s Athletic Event . . . and Wins It

    By Selwyn Duke A man undergoes the mutilative procedure known as “gender-reassignment surgery” and then wins the women’s division of golf’s premier long drive championship. There was a time when a sexual identity crisis was thought a problem of adolescence and only discussed in psychology journals. But now our whole civilization is experiencing one, as…

  • Self-esteem: Smells Like Teen Trouble

    By Selwyn Duke There is a reason why G.K. Chesterton once called common sense ". . . that forgotten branch of psychology."  It is because the field can reliably be used to govern your life; all you need do is listen closely to its prescriptions. And do exactly the opposite. 

  • Intelligent Design and Evolution

    By Selwyn Duke While the debate over evolution in schools has been developing for many years in a primordial soup of passion, generally speaking, it hasn't reached a very high level of complexity. The opponents of Intelligent Design Theory (ID) tend to dismiss its advocates as serpent-handling dogmatists who make a sport of spitting on…

  • Duke’s Reponse to Loving, Angry Atheists

    By Selwyn Duke The great G.K. Chesterton once said, "Really, there are only two kinds of people: those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don’t know it."  If you want to read the musings of those in the latter category, you need look no further than the hostile postings…

  • What’s that up in the sky, a bird a plane, a UFO? Scientists: We’re Stumped

    By Selwyn Duke Writing at American Thinker, Rick Moran reports on a strange celestial object that has stumped scientists.  In a nutshell, it appeared out of nowhere, its brightness varied, its distance from Earth couldn’t be ascertained with any precision, it disappeared inexplicably after only 100 days, scientists have never encountered anything like it before,…

  • European Environment Minister Calls Green Position on Climate Change “hysterical psuedo-religion”

    By Selwyn Duke BBC News is running a piece about British Environment Minister Sammy Wilson.  He is one of those rare politically-incorrect European public figures, as he scoffs at the notion of anthropogenic climate change.  Writes the BBC: 

  • A Global Population Ice Age

    This article first appeared in the June 23, 2008 issue of The New American magazine. By Selwyn Duke If you’re like most alive today, you grew up with Paul R. Ehrlich’s Malthusian idea of a “population bomb.” It just seems like common sense that man will increase his numbers inexorably until, one day, we find…

  • Guiness World Record: Worst Mouse Plague

    This isn’t a new story anymore, but the footage is so unbelievable that it’s worth posting.  It is of the Australian mouse plague, a disaster of biblical proportions.  It really makes you realize that you have to count your blessings. Oh, by the way, if you’re easily put off by such things, you may not…

  • New American Piece – The New Nanotech World: Good and Bad Things Come in Small Packages

    By Selwyn Duke Ever since the dawn of the atomic age, the world has been a different place. This change is epitomized by an image we’ve all seen, that of a nuclear detonation and ensuing mushroom cloud. It’s a picture worth more than a thousand words, one representing the ultimate in worldly power: the capacity…

  • Audio: Autism Experts Speak Out

    By Selwyn Duke On Monday of this week, The Savage Nation radio show was devoted to the topic of autism, with many experts from the mental-health field appearing.  It was possibly one of the best shows on the condition ever aired, informative and eye-opening.  Thus, I’m providing a link here to interviews and audio clips…