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  • Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World

    Girl in Dorm Room 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.

  • Revolutionary Nanotech Energy Source Discovered

    Carbon Nanotube 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:

    Read the rest here.

  • Texas Board of Education Tries to Correct History

    After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the
    Alamo, remember America and remember the West.

    Bald Eagle in Front of Flag 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.

  • Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms

    Girls Bathroom Sign 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.

    Read the rest here.

  • Latest Savage Nation Radio Appearance: Protecting Our Freedoms and Wallets

    https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-protecting-our-freedoms-and-wallet-03-05-10.mp3 Protecting Our Freedoms and Wallets — 03/05/10

  • Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking

    Pope Pius XII Statue 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.

    Read the rest here.

  • Obama Nominee Liu Believes Constitution Half Living, Half Breathing

    Many have described Obama’s 9th-Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu as
    “brilliant,” but he’s not smart enough to know that rules apply to him
    also.

    Bullets on Constitution By Selwyn Duke

    Like so many people nowadays, Barack Obama’s 9th Circuit Court of
    Appeals nominee is a very confused man. He seems to believe that rules
    are made to be broken.

    That is, at least by those with the clout to do the breaking.

    Goodwin Liu, the University of California, Berkeley law professor
    nominated for the 9th Circuit, believes that judges have a right to
    impose their values on us from the bench — after, of course, running
    the Constitution through the spin cycle and divining from it a
    creative, unique meaning heretofore undiscerned by all the greatest
    legal minds in the annals of American jurisprudence.

    Read the rest here.

  • Children Directing Planes at JFK: Why it is a Big Deal

    Boy Looking at Jet By Selwyn Duke

    By now we’ve all heard
    about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes
    at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes, that’s “kids” — plural. It
    is now being     reported
    that after the controller, identified as 49-year-old Glenn Duffy, let
    his 8 or 9-year old son take the reins, he followed suit with his
    daughter the next day.

    Duffy and his supervisor have been
    suspended pending a review of the incidents, but some would go even
    further. For example, ABC reports that aviation attorney Mary Schiavo
    said, “Given the child was involved with actual air traffic was a
    fireable offense … not only a cavalier attitude but a shirking of his
    responsibilities.” Retired air traffic controller Bob Richards echoed
    the latter part of that comment, calling Duffy’s decision “bad
    judgment.” Yet, what concerns me more than the incidents themselves is
    the judgment of most citizen respondents.

    Read the rest here.

  • Legal vs. Illegal Murder: Abortion in Utah

    Baby in Womb By Selwyn Duke

    She is now a healthy baby, bouncing about, playing with bubbles in
    the bathtub, and taking in everything this mysterious world she entered
    has to offer. But she almost never was.

    Or, at least, she almost never was outside the womb.

    In fact, she certainly never would have been had the aspiring
    abortionist in whose crosshairs she found herself been more skilled.
    But, in this case, the man had no medical degree — just consent from
    the baby’s mother and a pair of fists and feet.

    Read the rest.

  • Why Many American Christians Really are Un-Christian

    Confusion-Traffic Signs By Selwyn Duke

    In this age of media insolvency
    and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling
    as religion writers.  After all, both
    today seem to treat their subjects as matters of taste.  In fact, I expect to soon open a modern
    newspaper’s religion page and read something akin to the following:

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