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Category: Social Issues
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By Selwyn Duke When Thomas Jefferson said that “people get the government they deserve,” it was more than just a clever turn of phrase. It also was not an isolated insight but a timeless truth, one expressed by many. William Cowper said, “When was public virtue to be found when private was not?” Benjamin Franklin…
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By Selwyn Duke One frailty of man is that he is very adept at finding excuses to justify laziness and irresponsibility. There’s no point helping people because everyone is just out for himself anyway. Why study or work? I mean, no one is going to give me a break. I won’t take care of myself…
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By Selwyn Duke In the piece I recently wrote about the threat posed by immigration, both illegal and legal, I mentioned that today’s immigrants are not assimilating into our culture. And, as I pointed out, since Ted Kennedy’s Immigration Reform Act of 1965 has created a situation in which 85 percent of our immigrants hail…
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By Selwyn Duke So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. We all know about the maelstrom that developed around the aging shock jock, who has found out how loose lips sink ships, in this case his own. But even though his is a vessel I…
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By Selwyn Duke It seems that the more we come to believe that “Violence has to be taught,” the more our children learn to be violent. It’s a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off with a five-finger attention-getter. “Don’t you dare spank…
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By Selwyn Duke The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recently penned an article that has both fellow evangelicals and homosexual activists feeling none too gay. Mohler raised the ire of the former group by stating that science may very well prove there is a biological…
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By Selwyn Duke Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself and relinquish any pretense at that most illusory quality, impartiality. This places you in the crosshairs, although you can take solace in…
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By Selwyn Duke For you religio-centric clods who haven’t yet expanded your celebratory horizons – and you know who you are – I bring a message of tolerance and inclusiveness: December 26 marks the start of Kwanzaa.
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Selwyn Duke Liberals we are and though we eschew its reason, Capitalize we will on the "Winter Break Season." It's good for making money and for spoiling offspring, But mention the Son and from the gallows you'll swing.
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By Selwyn Duke It has been said that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate. This idea was expressed in George Orwell’s book 1984 with "Newspeak," which was the name given to the language paradigm that the oppressive government portrayed in the book sought to foist upon its people. The…
