Category: Social Issues

  • The Threat of Islam http://youtube.com/v/8789NMWZ9EIThis is a video that seeks to demonstrate the consequences of allowing Islam to make inroads into a nation. It presents examples of civilizations whose populations are some percent Moslem (e.g., 5, 10, 25, 50 percent) and the social effects associated with each percentage. A critic could accuse it of being…

  • By Selwyn Duke If the United States ratifies the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), parents could be prohibited from homeschooling, spanking or even choosing the religion of their child. If you’ve ever had to deal with a child-protective-services agency in a more statist part of the country, it’s an experience you’ll…

  • Another “Obama Youth” Video This is a video of middle-school youths dressed military-style and chanting in honor of Barack Obama. To be fair, I’ll point out that the incident was orchestrated by a teacher and was not part of any official program. In fact, it was in violation of school policy, and supposedly the teacher…

  • By Selwyn Duke What do you think of this reasoning: If a given group doesn't perform as well as other groups on a test, then the exam is by definition discriminatory and should be discarded?  This is the rationale that was applied to police-department exams in the 1970s in a bizarre application of government civil-rights…

  • By Selwyn Duke Article Synopsis: While we wouldn’t know it from listening to the mainstream media, the Islamization of Europe is occurring at a faster rate than anyone imagined. Not only that, the same threat looms here in America, as we are following in the Old World’s footsteps.  One of man’s tragic faults is that…

  • By Selwyn Duke Florida legislators want to force schools to teach sixth-graders about contraception and stop touting the benefits of sex within marriage. One of the latest battles in the culture war over sex education is being waged in Florida, where a lawmaker has said that touting marriage is “offensive” and that such discussion belongs…

  • By Bruce Walker What is the oldest mantra in the Cult of the Left?  Fairness:  the odd idea that the function of government is to make life fair.  Social justice is another name for this jihad in favor of absolute equality.  The Left begins with redistribution of wealth and progressive tax rates, but it usually…

  • By Selwyn Duke Man's propensity for rationalization is truly amazing.  I know of a couple of men of faith who, even shortly before the election when an Obama victory was a given, were in denial and predicting a McCain win.  And these are true believers — not in the faux messiah-in-chief but in the real…

  • Selwyn Duke A common defense of error today is to say, with deep indignation, “I have a right to my opinion!”  Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant.  But as G.K. Chesterton once said, “Having the right to do something is not at all the same as being right in doing…

  • By Selwyn Duke Most of you have probably heard about the racial accusations being hurled at Prince Harry of England.  The story is that he was caught on tape with his military outfit issuing utterances that didn't sit too well with the tea-time-and-plum-pudding types back at home.  What was his offense?  He referred to a…