Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke If Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs the take-your-guns-to-work measure into law, the state’s residents won’t have to worry about being rendered defenseless in the workplace. This is a noble aim, and I can certainly sympathize with the motivation behind it, as employers who kowtow to political correctness find no favor with me.…

  • By Selwyn Duke I’m not sure when most of our somnolent countrymen will awake from their slumber and grasp the danger lying just on the horizon, but the speech-police fascists are getting more brazen by the day.  Now they’re prosecuting former film star Brigitte Bardot for "inciting racial hatred." 

  • By Selwyn Duke The phrase “fair and balanced” certainly has a positive connotation. It is thought the greatest quality a news outlet can possess; it has even become a motto of the Fox News Network. Yet I don’t find Fox very balanced at all.

  • By Selwyn Duke The New York Times has run a piece titled "Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism," about how stocking up on non-perishable foods and water and taking other survivalist measures is becoming more mainstream.  In other words, even some liberals are doing it.

  • By Selwyn Duke Weathering a maelstrom of controversy, Geert Wilders’ cinematic warning about Islamism has finally made it to cyberspace. The path it’s taking may be more interesting than the film itself; Wilders’ domain www.fitnathemovie.com was frozen by Network Solutions, the movie was removed from host Liveleak.com’s servers after threats against its staff and then…

  • By Selwyn Duke Since we now live in a daytime-talk-show culture, it didn’t surprise me to see that one of the biggest news stories during the last couple of days concerned a pregnant "man."  Of course, since ours is now also a culture of lies, it shouldn’t shock anyone to learn that the individual in…

  • By Selwyn Duke My recent piece about how we should react to those who pray for our conversion evoked a greater response than I had supposed it would.  (I expect Howard Stern, rap stars and all other things scatological to attract attention, but not something frivolous like philosophy).  Most of the emails were positive; however,…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s a story that would shock me, were we living in a sane age.  Eleven third grade students in Waycross, Ga., devised a plot to kill their teacher and were in the process of carrying it out.  In discussing the details of the plan, Local6.com writes:

  • By Selwyn Duke On Tuesday, truckers across the country staged a loosely organized protest against high fuel prices, clogging up the New Jersey Turnpike in the process.

  • Threats to its employees have caused Liveleak.com to pull Geert Wilders movie "Fitna" from its servers.  But you can watch it here.