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Category: Social Issues
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By Selwyn Duke There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here's an example: Leftists call conservatives "racists." Conservatives cower and stutter some defense. Leftists call conservatives "racists" some more. Conservatives cower some more. Question: How do you think you break this pattern? We've seen this again with the recent vitriol spewed by NAACP…
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By Selwyn Duke While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans stand with their countrymen. They are troubled by the strain illegals place on services, the drugs and thugs moving north and blue-collar job prospects moving south. Then there is another factor: the political and cultural one.
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By Selwyn Duke Shortly after Barack Obama was elected, one of his supporters, alluding to George W. Bush’s supposedly lacking intellect, said to me, “I’m just happy to have someone intelligent in the White House.” I’m sure Rahm Emanuel would be very flattered. Whatever you think of Bush, admittedly, his habitually knotted tongue did give…
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By Selwyn Duke Tax 'Em High All around the realm was heard a fateful cry: 'Twill make us sleep the nightmare if ye tax the other guy. We can accept the yoke of poor polity, If the misery cursing all gives equality. Play one group against…
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By Selwyn Duke While I’m no fan of the Attention Deficit Disorder diagnosis, I think it may be applicable to Barack Obama. After all, the man seems to suffer from a case of it that mainlining Ritalin wouldn’t remedy. Just consider Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright. Despite calling the prejudiced preacher a friend, mentor…
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By Selwyn Duke After seeing Barack Obama’s golf swing, I’m confronted with the staggering possibility that he might actually be better at governing than golfing. And this is despite the fact that he seems to devote more time to the latter, an impression that has won him much bad publicity.
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By Selwyn Duke When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they may mention how the Web, along with talk radio, has broken the stranglehold over public opinion the mainstream media once enjoyed; on the other, they may cite the pernicious effects of…
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Become a big liar often enough and you start to believe yourself By Selwyn Duke When I was in high school in the early 1980s, I knew that my education was a cakewalk as compared to that of two generations earlier. And I assumed the other teens knew this, too. It took me a while…
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By Selwyn Duke It seems that the more parents treat their children like friends, the more unfriendly the world becomes. While at a recreational facility the other day, I overheard a mother call her six-year-old son “bud.” No, I don’t think that was his name and he wasn’t a beer. Rather, the woman was exhibiting…
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Hailed as a breakthrough, a cell driven by synthetic DNA has been created. But what are the implications for science, man and faith? By Selwyn Duke In a development that has alarmed and excited many, scientists have brought the world one step closer to creating what’s known as “artificial life.” The breakthrough is the handiwork…
