Category: Social Issues

  • By Selwyn Duke This just in: Airhead America, that leftist talk radio outfit, is launching a program devoted to atheism.

  • By Selwyn Duke The following piece of snap commentary about the perfidious Mike Huckabee was originally posted a few weeks ago.  However, with all the "buzz" he has been receiving of late, I decided it was time to give him a bit more of the kind of buzz he deserves. 

  • By Selwyn Duke There is a news story about how Europe’s fear of Moslems is on the rise.  In particular, the piece focuses on the Netherlands and Iranian-born Dutch politician and former Moslem Ehsan Jami, an outspoken critic of Moslems who try to impose their values on his adopted homeland.

  • By Selwyn Duke James Watson, the geneticist who helped unravel the structure of DNA, came under fire for saying that Africans are not as intelligent as Westerners.  Aside from his remarks being deemed baseless and unscientific, he has quite predictably been labeled “racist.”  Why, some thought police even want him charged under Britain’s Orwellian “racial…

  • By Selwyn Duke J. K. Rowling, the moderately talented author who penned the Harry Potter series, has announced that beloved character Albus Dumbledore is a homosexual.  This revelation was in response to a question from a "young fan."

  • Currently there is a news story about how the geneticist who helped unravel DNA’s structure, James Watson, has come under a firestorm of criticism for saying that studies have shown that Africans are not as intelligent as Westerners.

  • City by the Bay’s Politicians Preach Tolerance but Won’t Tolerate Dissent By Selwyn Duke It cannot be a coincidence that those who preach tolerance the most are often the most intolerable.  On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to condemn talk show host Michael Savage for “hate speech” after a failed attempt to…

  • By Selwyn Duke Huck Finn must be spinning in his literary grave.  Just recently a Colorado Springs, Co., elementary school banned tag during recess, joining other schools that have prohibited this childhood pastime.  Upon hearing this, I thought about the movement to ban cops and robbers, musical chairs, steal the bacon, and the kill-joys’ most…

  • By Selwyn Duke Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and…

  • By Selwyn Duke Last week the Supreme court handed down three free speech rulings that find favor with conservatives.  One of them is Morse et al. v. Frederick, a case involving the free speech rights of students. At issue is a five year old incident wherein a Juneau-Douglas High School senior named Joe Frederick raised…