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By Selwyn Duke God may not have a place in the modern American classroom, but the Devil is a different story. That is, at least in one North Carolina high school. After reading the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker” — which involves a character who makes a deal with Satan but then balks…
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By Selwyn Duke At one time some would call them “deniers.” The more generous called them “skeptics.” But now, increasingly, it appears that they can be called something else: sane. Yes, the climate has certainly changed. Even in the mainstream media, the less liberal organs are waking up. There is now a never-ending barrage of…
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By Selwyn Duke Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious. Worse still, since even many good writers involved in Internet journalism disgorge the odd typo, there’s the chance you will come to be regarded as an expert on the glass-house real estate market. Yet there’s no doubt that the…
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By Bruce Walker Turner Movie Classics on February 27th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film which Robert Osborne advised his audience had been deliberately put out of circulation since soon after it was released. In his introduction to the film, Osborne acknowledges that the film’s stars and producers were first rate. The…
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Modern education theory is simply a rationalization that is used to avoid dealing with our real problems By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard about that proverbial portly dieter, the person who puts no-cal sweetener in his coffee and then uses it to wash down a piece of chocolate cake. It’s an eye-rolling image,…
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A commentator wonders why pro-choice men aren’t as numerous or as vocal as their pro-life counterparts. But the answer is so simple that only a pro-choice pundit could miss it. By Selwyn Duke Sometimes you just have to be thankful for your enemies. Case in point: The maelstrom surrounding the pro-life Super Bowl ad starring…
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By Selwyn Duke Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It’s shocking to many that you could be charged with a hate crime for expressing an opinion, but such prosecutions are not unheard of in the Western world beyond American shores. After…
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Were the Crusades really expansionist ventures by an imperialist Europe? Or were they something else entirely? By Selwyn Duke The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and the Muslim Moors are on the march. Growing in leaps and bounds, the…
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By Selwyn Duke Many years ago, I was told a story by a woman I knew whose son had been diagnosed with “A.D.D.” She said that she finally had to take from her boy a book a therapist had given him about how an A.D.D. child acts. The problem? Her son was reading it and…
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By Selwyn Duke Scott Brown may be the Massachusetts man of the moment, but it sure didn’t take him long to commit his first gaffe. The scene was the podium at his Senate-campaign victory speech, where, flanked by his two scantily clad daughters, he proclaimed to the world that they were “available.” No, Bill…
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