Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke What many don’t want to mention about our financial crisis is that the greatest culprit is individual irresponsibility.  This is because many of us are part of the problem, and we don’t own up to this for two reasons.  Most obviously, people don’t like to admit fault.  But an even greater factor…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to shock a man living in a planetary insane asylum, so it doesn’t raise my eyebrows when I watch a people commit suicide.  Nevertheless, I had to shake my head when I read about how Barack Obama’s election has inspired France to consider affirmative-action policies to combat their dreaded "white…

  • By Selwyn Duke Proving that he is about as conversant with American civics as his foreign accent would indicate, Arnold Schwarzenegger has essentially stated that the will of the people means nothing to him.  Michael Rothfeld and Tony Barboza writing at the Los Angeles Times report: 

  • By Selwyn Duke It may be clichéd to quote George Santayana and say that those who forget the mistakes of the past are damned to repeat them, but truer words were never spoken. Although it may be hard for those who remember Soviet bread lines to believe – and even harder for the well-versed in…

  • A loyal reader has taken exception to the fact that I posted the video "The Audacity of Hate," which highlights Barack Obama’s bigoted allies.  Here is her criticism:

  • Obama Bombshell: Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered http://youtube.com/v/iivL4c_3pckThis is a radio interview with Barack Obama from 2001.   In it he flaunts his Marxist stripes, speaking about how the Constitution is flawed because it doesn’t prescribe wealth redistribution.  This is a dangerous, evil man who has managed to do the impossible: Make John McCain look good. …

  • By Selwyn Duke As you may know, leftists have a habit of projecting their own prejudices and faults onto others.  They accuse their opponents of bigotry because they’re ridden with it (e.g., they preach tolerance but are completely inured to their own prejudices against Christians); they allege voter fraud at the drop of a hat…

  • By Selwyn Duke Imagine you see a nutritionist for dietary advice, and, instead of rendering counsel based on his best understanding of the laws of health, he simply prescribes what’s popular. Says he, “People ate different things years ago, but they weren’t ‘cool’; here’s what is in today.”

  • By Selwyn Duke It speaks volumes about our world that as time progresses, it becomes increasingly hard to distinguish real headlines from those at the satire site the Onion.  A case in point is this one, "Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants," by Meg Hamill.  She writes:

  • By Selwyn Duke Many view freedom of speech as our most cherished right, but, believe it or not, it’s imperiled in America.  I’ve written numerous articles about attacks upon it in the West, most notably one titled "How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech."  I explain in the piece the process by which we…