Category: Social Issues

  • 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:

  • By Selwyn Duke We all know about the lifespan gap between the sexes that favors women. Now, what if I said it was due to discrimination, that it obviously means men’s health issues are ignored by a callous, misandristic society; thus, government must intervene to balance the scales.

  • By Selwyn Duke Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call…

  • By Selwyn Duke To perpetuate anything worthy of the name "civilization," a people must be able to make correct judgments.  Oh, I know that j-word has become unfashionable, along with "punishment" and "sin" and a few others.  But don’t be fooled; don’t cede that illusory high road to the leftists, as most of their opponents…

  • 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:

  • 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…

  • By Selwyn Duke It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself. Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control…

  • By Selwyn Duke The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:

  • By Selwyn Duke Imagine this: You mistake an alcoholic beverage for a soft drink and give it to your child.  He then imbibes a relatively small amount of it and is none the worse for it.  You then get investigated by Child Protective Services (CPS) and lose custody of your children.

  • By Selwyn Duke To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he was.