Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke There is a news story today about women who will not have babies because they don’t want to contribute to the strain on the environment.  The piece mentions an environmental charity worker named Toni Vernelli who said, "Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of…

  • By Selwyn Duke Whenever an artist creates a work that impugns tradition or mocks Christianity, it is often said that he is "brave" for challenging the "status quo."  Of course, the status quo they’re challenging is that of bygone days, the one that, like an old soldier, didn’t die but just faded away.  Thus, these…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s very easy to fall behind the times.  It is for this reason that you find parents who never seem to really know what the younger generation is involved in, older folks who still act as if a hot dog should be 10 cents, and people who fight yesterday’s social battles.  As…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s so often the case today that the New Testament of the Bible is placed in the service of liberalism.  The leftists who do this often have never read it, but that doesn’t stop them from didactically quoting such  lines as "Do not judge lest you be judged"; of course, they never…

  • By Selwyn Duke There were many email responses to my piece titled "Stereotyping 101," including a minority in which readers expressed disfavor with my acceptance of what has incorrectly been called "racial profiling."  Below are two of those emails, followed by my refutations.

  • By Selwyn Duke Few things get my dander up like the betraying of children’s trust.  Guilty of this is an attorney named Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the Cambridge, Ma., election commission, who has done the Boy Scouts dirty.   

  • By Selwyn Duke During WWII, the medium of film was used to great effect in the combating nations’ war efforts.  Adolf Hitler had his propaganda filmmaker extraordinaire, Leni Riefenstahl, who exalted Nazi Germany.  But such film footage was used to demonize as well, and we certainly characterized the Japanese in less than flattering terms.  (The…

  • By Selwyn Duke In a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maryland State Police (MSP), a plaintiff’s attorney named Eliza Leighton said that some training documents contain “startling examples of racial stereotypes about Hispanics.”  (Just so you know, when leftists use the word “startling,” it usually means, “Man, this truth hurts!”)  According to the Associated Press:…

  • By Selwyn Duke Two articles have been posted in the news section about how ADHD drugs stunt growth and provide no long-term benefit.  I have long understood the folly of medicating kids for what is essentially bad behavior and have, in general, been opposed to the use of all mood-altering drugs.

  • By Selwyn Duke More and more shopping malls are banning teens from entrance after a certain time of day.  For instance, Tower City Mall in Cleveland has now established a curfew of 2:30 PM; it says that no one under 18 will be allowed in the mall after that hour unless accompanied by an adult.