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  • Women in Combat: Battling Nature, Battering Reality

    Female SoldierBy Selwyn Duke

    Senseless advice and nothing nice; that’s what
    little-girls-in-combat policy is made of.

    The obvious has already been said about placing women in front-line
    combat positions. Their presence will reduce unit cohesiveness; male soldiers’
    natural instinct to protect women will influence battlefield decisions; there
    will be the problem of sexual impropriety within the ranks and of rape when
    women are captured; women will have more trouble measuring up to the physical
    and psychological demands of battle; special accommodations will no doubt be
    made so that women may tend to feminine concerns; and, as the high pregnancy
    rate aboard naval vessels has proven, having young men and women operate in
    close quarters is folly. Yet the truth is that it was just a matter of time
    before women were allowed in combat; it’s a piece that fits seamlessly into the
    modern sex-role puzzle. And it’s not surprising if a majority of Americans
    support the policy; they are sex-role puzzled.

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  • The Great Gun Debate: Selwyn Duke vs. Brett Joshpe

    Ar15The following is my first entry in a gun debate with Politico writer Brett Joshpe. I will post a link to his response when it is published.

    By Selwyn Duke

    A few weeks ago, author and Manhattan-based lawyer Brett
    Joshpe penned a pro-gun-control piece
    whose thrust was that conservatives need to be sensible with respect to
    firearms legislation. It’s not sensible, said he, to oppose any and all further
    restrictions on Second Amendment rights. Well, let’s discuss what’s “sensible.”

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  • Is Man a Plague Upon the Earth?

    Pregnant WomanBy Selwyn Duke

    First there was the anti-Western Westerner, the hate-America-first
    crowd, and the self-loathing white person. Now we have the anti-human
    human, who, like General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes,
    seems to think that “the only good human is a dead human!” Of course,
    the Kum-Gaia-singing misanthropes don’t actually say that; rather, as
    David Attenborough recently opined, they assert that man is a “plague”
    whose burgeoning population threatens to do to the planet’s resources
    what the feds do to the treasury. Now, I already pointed out in a recent piece that Attenborough is factually wrong: The world will in the foreseeable future likely face a population implosion, not an explosion. But he is philosophically wrong as well.

    There is no doubt that we should be good shepherds of the Earth. We
    have a responsibility to conserve resources when possible and should
    cherish God’s creation. And while we can acknowledge that we all too
    often fail in that regard, it is quite another thing to call man a
    “plague,” which clearly implies that he is a troublesome life form
    deleterious to something more important. Yet the issue here isn’t just
    that some ascribe greater value to the Earth than to man, or at best
    equal value. It is the larger questions of why they believe the Earth
    has any intrinsic value at all and the basis on which that value is assessed.

    Read the rest here.

  • Joe Biden: No Reason to Ban AR-15s

    Ar15By Selwyn Duke

    Okay, half-slow laughin’ Joe didn’t actually say that, but
    he might as well have. While defending his position a week ago that
    banning the rifles incorrectly called “assault weapons” won’t negatively impact
    upon Americans’ safety, he pointed out that you shouldn’t trouble yourself:
    shotguns would still be available — and they’re more effective, anyway. He
    said, reports
    the Daily Caller:

    A shotgun will keep you a lot safer
    — a double-barreled shotgun — than an assault weapon in somebody’s hand who
    doesn’t know how to use it, even one who does know how to use it. You know,
    it’s harder to use an assault weapon to hit something than it is a shotgun.

    […]You want to keep people away in
    an earthquake? Buy some shotgun shells.

    Alright, Joe; if you’re talking about close-quarters
    self-defense, you’ll get no argument from me. Now, would you again explain why
    you want to ban AR-15s?

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  • The Ignorance of Anti-human David Attenborough

    Back to School DuncecapBy Selwyn Duke

    Liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “You’re
    entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” But
    that was decades ago, and today more leftists than ever have graduated from
    confusion to delusion and believe they’re entitled to their own fiction.

    A good example is naturalist David Attenborough, who
    recently complained that man is a plague upon our planet. He warns that our
    burgeoning population will ensure that we consume the world’s resources like a
    sun-occluding swarm of high-tech locusts. Writes The
    Telegraph    :

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  • Ten Piers Morgan Gun Lies, Untruths, and Deceptions

    Pinnochio2By Selwyn Duke

    It’s probably not quite true that gun-control advocate Piers Morgan
    has been “standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook,” as
    Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro put it.
    It’s more correct to say that the cheeky Brit has been standing on the
    graves of the children of Sandy Hook, jumping up and down, and stamping
    his foot. I can say nothing else about a man who repeatedly combines the
    Newtown tragedy with lies, misconceptions, and deceptions to push a
    political agenda. What am I talking about? Well, here’s a top 10 list.

    Walmart and the 100-round magazine

    Morgan wrote in the Daily Mail,
    “I can saunter into Walmart — America’s version of Tesco — and help
    myself to an armful of … magazines that can carry up to 100 bullets at a
    time.” Perhaps he could.

    But he can’t.

    Read the rest here.

  • When Kids and Guns Mix

    By Selwyn Duke

    We
    all know what can happen when kids and guns mix. And today I will tell
    you some stories about that very thing. The kids' names were Kendra and
    Alyssa, and then there was the 11-year-old boy whose name we just don't
    know. What we do know is that they lived in places called Bryan County,
    Albuquerque, and Palmview. We know that guns were in their homes — and
    that something horrible befell them.

    Last
    year, 12-year-old Oklahoman Kendra St. Clair was home alone,
    unsupervised. At some point she accessed her mother's handgun – a
    .40-caliber Glock. Then Kendra pulled the trigger.

    And that bullet tore into flesh.

    You probably know the rest of the story.

    Or maybe not.

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  • School Shootings Solution: Not Gun Control or Guard Patrol — Door Control

    By Selwyn Duke

    In the wake of tragic Sandy Hook, many Americans are
    desperate to prevent further school shootings. Thus do we find ourselves
    debating two very divisive ideas: gun control and armed guards in schools. But
    there is another idea, one both simple and acceptable to virtually all:
    lockable, bulletproof doors for classrooms and school entrances.

    This is a common-sense suggestion that has precedent. After
    9/11, we had similar debates to those raging now. Today we’re divided over the
    idea of arming some teachers; back then there was rancor over the idea of
    arming pilots. Of course, we did finally appoint air marshals, the equivalent of
    armed guards in schools. Yet no one had to debate what was universally self-evident:
    the need to reinforce cockpit doors.

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  • When Teachers aren’t Smarter than a Fifth-grader

    By Selwyn Duke

    When I’ve written about our listing mis-education system, my
    focus has mainly been on rampant political correctness, on how students learn
    few of the right things partially because of emphasis on teaching the wrong
    things. Yet there’s another problem: in some cases the teachers couldn’t teach
    the right things even if they wanted to — they don’t know them.

    Professor Walter Williams treated this in his latest
    syndicated column, “Dishonest Educators.” He introduces the topic by talking
    about the fairly recent cheating scandals in places such as Atlanta,
    Philadelphia, Houston, New York, Detroit, and other large cities (in areas
    that, not coincidentally, also have high rates of vote fraud and other
    criminality). These are shocking instances in which teachers would commit
    transgressions such as reading answers aloud in class during the National
    Assessment of Educational Progress test. How did they justify this? Well,
    Williams quotes one teacher who told a fellow “educator,” “I had to give your
    kids, or your students, the answers because they’re dumb as hell."

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