Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke Every so often there is a case in which parents refuse to submit their child to medical treatment, citing religious beliefs. The most recent example is the saga of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old Minnesota boy stricken with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After undergoing a round of chemotherapy that, understandably, made the boy quite sick,…

  • By Selwyn Duke In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. This concludes the Golden State court system’s adjudication of the proposition; however, a federal suit by a group called…

  • By Selwyn Duke California's budget woes are the result of gross fiscal irresponsibility. And at this point there is only one realistic cure: bankruptcy. There is a beauty in bankruptcy. Strange words, I know, but it's true. As an example, there is the story of an old friend of my father's, a man who at…

  • Judith Reisman, the intrepid culture warrior and sex researcher, has an excellent piece at WorldNetDaily.com titled “Gay-on-gay ‘hate crimes.’”  In it she documents how there actually is far more homosexual-on-homosexual violence than the straight-on-homosexual variety. This comes as no surprise to me, as I have long been aware of the rampant violence among homosexuals and…

  • By Selwyn Duke Today's kids are ruder than ever, and the "experts" suspect it may be a by-product of self-esteem training and modern parenting methods. If you ever curse someone with the old standby, "I hope he has kids who are just like he is," chances are greater than ever that you'll get your wish.…

  • https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-stopping-truth-at-the-border-05-06-09.mp3 Stopping Truth at the Border: Banning Michael Savage from Britain — 05/06/2009

  • By Selwyn Duke If our military is any indication, it just may be true that there are no atheists in a foxhole. The armed forces have long seemed to be an arena wherein faith runs strong, and while this is laudable, it also creates problems with today’s secular civilian authorities and top brass. One example…

  • By Selwyn Duke When I awoke Tuesday morning, I ambled over to the computer, as is my wont, and made my usual cyber rounds.  I logged on to the Drudge Report and, lo and behold, saw the following headline, “RADIO HOST MICHAEL SAVAGE BANNED FROM UK FOR 'EXTREME VIEWS'….”  “Wow,” I thought, “Britain strikes again.”

  • By Selwyn Duke Back during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, we became acquainted with the term “human shields.” This was the name given to innocent citizens whom the Iraqis would place in buildings that were obvious military targets so as to confront the West with a dilemma: either refrain from bombing such facilities and handicap yourself…

  • By Selwyn Duke Hate Crime law HR-1913 may offer federal protection to 30 different “sexual orientations.” Yet, as alarming as this is, the problem with hate-crime laws doesn’t lie in the details. It lies in the laws themselves. In another example of creating specially-protected classes of people, the government is poised to offer homosexuals and…