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  • Demographic Winter

    By Selwyn Duke If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It’s the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

  • 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…

  • Supreme Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke If you asked people what the role of a Supreme Court Justice was, most wouldn’t know the answer.  I experienced this with a former acquaintance of mine, a septuagenarian millionaire who probably would have been thought sophisticated by most.  He did know that such justices rule on law, but when I asked…

  • 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…

  • Environmentalists Orchestrating Our Oil Woes

    By Selwyn Duke One of the very best columnists on the journalistic scene is Walter Williams.  His articles aren’t filled with flowery prose or esoteric terms (like esoteric!); they just cut to the heart of the matter and provide simple, reasoned analysis.  In fact, I can hardly think of an instance where he has written…

  • A Teacher Reports from the Front Lines

    By Selwyn Duke The St. Petersburg Times is running an article by one Melanie Hubbard, an erstwhile college professor who decided to take a foray into teaching high school.  She speaks of classroom horror stories; of undisciplined, uncivilized "students" who have no respect for anyone or anything; of an environment in which the inmates run…

  • Reader Email: Choosing Obama Based on Race is Fine

    By Selwyn Duke Today I’m responding to a reader who is quite dismissive about the truth regarding race and Barack Obama.  He is A.F. and writes:

  • European Court to Hear Chimp’s Plea for Human Rights

    By Selwyn Duke First there was the German Constitution, which actually contains a provision for animal rights, and now the "European Court of Human Rights" (another entity we should scrap) will hear a Chimps’ plea to be declared a "person."  Writes ThisisLondon.co.uk:

  • Obama’s Chivalry

    By Selwyn Duke So Barack Obama has just issued a warning: Lay off my wife!  Upset about the attacks on his unpatrio . . . oh, sorry, I mean, his better half, he said:

  • The Sexes: Wage Gap or Truth Gap?

    By Selwyn Duke Hillary Clinton recently scored political points talking about that infamous wage gap between the sexes.  This inspired Carey Roberts — a writer who mainly focuses on issues relating to feminism — to pen a piece exploring the notion that this gap is attributable to discrimination.  Roberts makes an excellent point as one…