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Will intellectualism ever intersect with wisdom? By Selwyn Duke A number of definitions of insanity have been put forth over the years, and a recent interview has inspired me to add the following: It is when one is wrong over and over again but still expects himself to be right. The interview was with…
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Who is really lying about sexual abuse, the Church or the media? By Selwyn Duke If the pen is mightier than the sword, misuse of it can be a murderous act. As my faithful readers know, I’ve devoted much ink lately to the media abuse scandal — that is, their abuse of the Truth in…
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By Selwyn Duke Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a song: “Sun City.” With the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994, however, people lost interest in the faraway land. But with the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, leader of…
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By Selwyn Duke Contradiction is no stranger to the mainstream media, and it is on full display in their treatment of the Catholic-priest sexual abuse story. Normally, the media take pains to point out that transgressors should not be used to typify the group with which they’re associated. For instance, when terrorism is covered, we’re…
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While often hailed as a triumph in Muslim democracy, Turkey may ultimately pose a greater Islamic threat than Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and even Iran, says former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat. By Selwyn Duke When we think of terrorism, our minds may go to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and nuclear ambitions, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. But…
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By Selwyn Duke Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech laws and halal ritual. For example, in recent times the U.K. has treated us to stories about a school guide stating that toddlers who say “yuck” in response to…
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Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those responsible don’t wear clerical collars.By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down…
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By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard the story. Hundreds of young sexual-abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of embarrassment and scorn, abusers escaping prosecution and quietly moving to different jurisdictions, authorities covering up the crimes to avoid scandal and litigation. It’s a saga of grave, grave sin.
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By Selwyn Duke After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio, although he’s most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller proposing a…
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The conservative firebrand tries to hoist the speech-stifling left on its own human-rights petards. By Selwyn Duke Most of us probably remember that standard elementary-school threat, “I’m gonna tell!” which meant that an appeal to authority for redress was in the offing. The one issuing it was sometimes a tattletale, but, regardless, since children aren’t…
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