By Selwyn Duke

“Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” warned Benjamin Franklin in 1775. This apparently has been forgotten — so thoroughly, in fact, that now emotion is sometimes prescribed as a governing factor in the most obviously objective of realms: science.

Just consider the Washington state Department of Health’s climate curriculum, which counsels teachers to emphasize “emotions” over “rational thinking.” The appeal is in “Climate Change & Pregnancy,” the second phase of the five part curriculum, which purports to aid students in learning the “intersections of biological, societal, and environmental issues.”

The curriculum reads, “As teachers and students consider the impacts of climate change, we should be mindful of the emotional dimensions of the human experience. For too long, science and science education have prioritized my rational thinking. As we delve more deeply into the impacts of climate change using the data [from the Washington Tracking Network] and the practices of the Next Generation Science Standards, we must learn to pay attention to our own emotions and those of other people.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Question: Is the following a good summation of the argument used, starting decades ago, to normalize homosexuality?

“Many researchers [are] taking a different view of homosexuality,” a newspaper wrote late last century. “Homosexuality once was thought to stem from psychological influences early in life. Now, many experts view it as a deep-rooted predisposition that does not change.” These “experts view it as a sexual orientation as immutable as heterosexuality…,” the periodical later added.

You may recognize this as the foundation of the “born that way” argument, with such claims regularly used to promote the idea that if something is innate, questioning it smacks of bigotry. But I have a confession to make: I told a little fib (for effect). The above quotation is not from decades ago but from the Los Angeles Times on January 14, 2013 — and the subject wasn’t “homosexuality.” I’d inserted that term in place of another: pedophilia.

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By Selwyn Duke

This appearance is related to my cover story in the latest issue of The New American magazine: "Enduring Faith." The theme: Evil forces have always attacked Christianity, all throughout its history — and they always lose. They will lose again, too. 

By Selwyn Duke

Ever since that fateful day, November 23, 1963, controversy has swirled around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Entities ranging from the mafia to the Cubans to then-vice president Lyndon Johnson to the KGB to the CIA have been said to be complicit in his death. In fact, at one time or another, people “have accused 42 groups, 82 assassins and 214 people of being involved in the assassination,” CNN related, in 2013, author Vincent Bugliosi as having stated. But now a shocking new report lends credence to one of these theories.

A source who has reportedly seen files the CIA is still withholding from the public — withholding in violation of the law — said when asked if the CIA itself killed Kennedy, “The answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It's a whole different country from what we thought it was. It's all fake.”

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By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 52:20. 

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By Selwyn Duke

“Government must see to it that conversions, whether open or on the sly, must be stopped,” opines writer Sumit Paul. “Mankind has already had enough of God and religion. Give it breathing space.”

Paul is passionate about this position, too, so much so that he devotes a goodly amount of picturesque prose to trying to convert us to his position.

Interestingly, he doesn’t mention if it should be legal to convert people from Republican to Democrat or vice versa, though.

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By Selwyn Duke

While I used to quip before the millennium’s turn that “I’m a real man of the ’90s — the 1890s,” the truth is that I’m more like Mayberry Meets the Middle Ages.

It’s not so much that I hate new ideas (insofar as such things exist) or love old ideas, but that I yearn for eternal ideas. I thus very well could turn back the clock to the days of chivalry, when virtue was exalted and “values” (the term) unknown, faith was fact and “atheism” (the term) unheard, and “equality” was applied only to weights and measures. But while I could, I can’t. This brings me to the matter of women and the draft.

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By Selwyn Duke

Anyone who ever pooh-poohed the idea of a slippery sexual slope should meet Joseph Bruno — that is, during one of his honest moments. Then you might hear the “educator” say what he revealed in a recently released video:

He has sexual devolutionaries give his school’s students sex toys and instruct them on “queer” sex.

He’s proud of this, too, calling it “a really cool part of my job.”

Very effeminate and sporting painted fingernails, Bruno, the “dean of student life” at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, was secretly….

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By Selwyn Duke

“The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values,” reads a short bio under the by-line of a Saturday New York Times article on guns. Strangely, though, that “expertise” and “research” didn’t inform the editorial board that they probably shouldn’t use shotgun-shell images to promote an article inveighing against AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles. After all, trying to fit a shotgun shell into a standard AR chamber is a bit like Michael Moore trying to get into your five-year-old’s bathing suit.

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By Selwyn Duke

"I was used…. I was very naive; I was in a really bad way, and I got taken advantage of.” So said Chris Beck, who for about a decade went by “Kristen Beck” after claiming to have transitioned to being a woman.

Beck was a convenient poster boy for the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) cause, too, with two decades of U.S. Navy service that included being on SEAL Team Six, a baker’s dozen of deployments, and earning more than 50 service-related medals and ribbons. But now he says,

“Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it.”

Beck made his comments to conservative commentator Robby Starbuck in an interview published early this month. He has come forward to undo the damage his former testimonials have done and to issue a warning: MUSS-related “services” are destroying children.

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