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Category: Social Issues
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By Selwyn Duke I received an email from a young man who is addressing a very interesting topic. Here is his email:
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By Selwyn Duke I truly cannot think of a more unfairly-maligned individual than Pope Pius XII, the pontiff during the darkest days of WWII. Even Senator Joe McCarthy, who has been relegated to Dante’s seventh circle of Hell by revisionist historians, has not been demonized like Pius. And the destruction of the Pope’s reputation is…
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By Selwyn Duke I’ve written about anti-smoking laws before and the zealots who often enforce them, but prohibiting lighting up at a pipe convention really takes the cake. And that’s exactly what has happened in St. Charles, Illinois, at the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show. Writing about this at ChicagoTribune.com, Steve Schmadeke tells us:
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By Selwyn Duke Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school diploma, it’s now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or should I say "get" — a bachelor’s degree. After all, this is how we increase our earning potential, right?
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By Selwyn Duke My last two pieces, the one on Obama and the one on psychology, have evoked quite a response. And the emails run the gamut; some are literate and uplifting, others are just complimentary (always welcome!), while others still are indicative of extreme dislocation from reality. Here are a few, and after each…
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By Selwyn Duke In his book The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality, “It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts and regulations of civilization.” In making this statement, Freud weighed in on one…
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By Selwyn Duke Well, Al Sharpton, a lowlife’s lowlife, is at it again. Now he’s threatening to "close down" New York City because the three officers charged in the Sean Bell shooting were acquitted. In other words, they weren’t lynched the way Sharpton would have preferred.
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By Selwyn Duke If you interview someone for a job, you’ll expect him to tell you what you want to hear. There’ll be a façade, and his darker side will remain well-hidden. Now, let’s say a requirement for the job is that the applicant likes children, and he does his best Captain Kangaroo. But then…
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By Selwyn Duke We’ve heard the stories about girls viciously beating rivals, and recently nine third-graders hatched a plot to kill their teacher. Yes, childhood misbehavior, once typified by Dennis the Menace or Leave it to Beaver’s Eddie Haskell, is now often more sinister in nature.
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By Selwyn Duke Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily.com has an interesting article about a state of Minnesota plan to collect the DNA of newborns without parental consent. Writes Unruh:
