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 fully-formed beings, their lives often
have to be micromanaged. They don’t enjoy the freedom of adulthood.
By Selwyn Duke
There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s
health-care vote. It was fairly obvious
that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead
principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby. It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such
as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization
they needed to cast aside a position that was never really a principle. That it came in the form of an executive
order with the credibility of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is of little consequence. It was also predictable that the Monday after
would bring talk about the extinguishment of liberty and the republic, and
heads hanging so low that good Americans could look up and see their
shoelaces.
By Selwyn Duke
Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does. And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who
has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking — from
moron to imbecile.
By Selwyn Duke
First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different
wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing the same
hallways and bathrooms. Now, this evolution (devolution?) has brought us
sex-neutral housing, where male and female students can share the same
room.
Already allowed in approximately 50 colleges nationwide, including
some Ivy League schools, it’s a trend of which many parents are unaware.
And they won’t always be consulted, either. Many schools, such as
Harvey Mudd College, don’t allow parents to veto their child’s decision
on housing. The thinking, I suppose, is that the students are over 18
years of age.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How
about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline
vehicle? For that matter, think about environmental sensors that could
be scattered into the air like dust and collect data. While the last
thing might not exactly be what you want for Christmas, a breakthrough
in energy production made by MIT researchers could make such technology a
reality during the next few years.
The process, dubbed “thermopower waves” by its discoverer, MIT’s Dr.
Michael Strano, does nothing less than open up “a new area of energy
research, which is rare,” says the scientist. MSNBC’s Michelle Bryner
describes the phenomenon and its applications in brief, writing:
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After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the
Alamo, remember America and remember the West.
By Selwyn Duke
In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is
usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not
so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education (SBOE) has just
voted to resurrect a more traditional curriculum for schools statewide.
Along a strict 10 to 5 party-line vote, the board’s Republican majority
decided to institute standards that, among other things, question the
constitutionality of the “separation of church and state” principle,
mention the Christian nature of the Founding Fathers, emphasize the
superiority of free-enterprise systems, and point out the unintended
consequences of leftist legislation such as the Great Society programs
and Title IX. In fact, writes James McKinley, Jr. of The New York Times,
“Since January, Republicans on the board have passed more than 100
amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history,
sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school.”
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves
with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during practice. But
social engineers may make this passé with a proposal to allow boys to
use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
No, this isn’t the plot of a decadent B movie.
The story comes out of Maine, with a state proposal that would grant
boys claiming to be female the right to use the aforementioned girls’
facilities. It may even give such boys the right to compete on girls’
sports teams.
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By Selwyn Duke
The word “hero” so often conjures up
images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII
exploits, the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the doomed holdouts at the
Alamo. But then there are the quiet heroes, people such as Oskar
Schindler. Ever since Schindler’s List hit the silver screen
in 1993, his clandestine efforts resulting in the rescue of almost
1,200 Jews from Nazi death camps have been well known.
Yet that dark time birthed another quiet
hero, one who saved as many as 860,000 Jewish lives. Today, however,
few know of his accomplishments, few sing his praises. And Steven
Spielberg will undoubtedly never make a movie lauding him. On the
contrary, this man is roundly maligned as a WWII villain who was at
best indifferent to the plight of the people in the Nazis’ crosshairs.
This man is Eugenio Pacelli. But he is better known as Pope Pius XII.
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