By Selwyn Duke
While the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was good
cinema, it was also a big fat Hollywood fiction. With Greece’s fertility rate of 1.36 children
per woman — well below the replacement level of 2.1 — “big” is not a modifier
demographers would associate with today’s Greek families. In fact, a more accurate film might be called
My Big Fat Muslim Wedding.
https://selwynduke.typepad.com/files/asc-sotomayor-and-the-role-of-justices-8-10-09-2.wma — The real reason Sotomayor is unqualified – 08/10/09
Contrary to the conventional narrative about European demographic
decline, a trio of researchers claims that increased prosperity is now
causing Old World birthrates to rise. But what are the statistics
behind the statistics?
By Selwyn Duke
Although there are still some kept awake by Soylent Green nightmares
of overpopulation, many recognize that the developed world has long
experienced a birth dearth. The pattern has been consistent: wherever
societies modernize and attain prosperity — be it Europe, North
America, Asia or elsewhere — a drop in birthrates to below replacement
level (2.1 children per couple) follows. (This doesn’t mean prosperity
necessarily causes demographic decline, only that there has in modern
times been a correlation between the two.)
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From G.K. Chesterton's St. Thomas Aquinas (1933):
By Selwyn Duke
I would like to comment on the
August 4 piece
titled "Avoiding the Next Obama" and commend the author, L.E. Ikenga,
for a job well-done. She articulated nicely something I've long lamented:
the virulence of the virus of liberalism. It is so virulent, in fact,
that it spreads like wildfire even throughout a place such as the Third World,
which some may think would have little acquaintance with it. And I have
sometimes told people how it spreads: oh-so bright young skulls full of mush
from faraway lands come to the West to be "educated" at our oh-so
fine universities, contract the virus, and then return to their own nations and
infect the hapless souls who lap up their "intellectualism."
I can't tell you how many times I've wished that I could just address these
people in the Third World en masse, because I know what I would tell
them. I would say:
By all means, embrace America's technology and medical
advances, but do not adopt her latest pop-philosophy and social innovations.
Spit them out; reject them without hesitation. If you embrace the modern
West’s psychology, child-rearing practices, entertainment, feminism and its
left-wing academics and its secularism, you will destroy yourselves before even
having a chance to come to flower.
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By Selwyn Duke
It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so
that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb.
But it has happened before in recent years, and now it has happened
again in Worcester, Massachusetts. Boston.com reports on the crime, writing,
Julie Corey, 35, had lived with her
parents for several months over the last year before returning to
Worcester and telling acquaintances she was pregnant.
Police believe that Corey never gave
birth, that she may have faked her pregnancy, and that the newborn girl
she was showing off last weekend was really the daughter of Darlene
Haynes, a 23-year-old mother of three who had been eight months
pregnant before she was found dead in her Worcester home on Monday
[7/27], her child ripped from her womb.
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Glenn Beck: Cash for Clunkers Program Gives Government Access to Private Computers
http://youtube.com/v/mqfuZ7hiap0
In this segment from the Glenn Beck show, Beck discuss how accessing the Cash for Clunkers website gives the government access to all the files in your computer. And it’s all legal.
How it works is that you’re told of the government’s “right” to access your files. Then, if you click “continue,” you’re fair game.
First they came for the tobacco, and I did not speak out because I
was not a smoker. Then they came for the alcohol, and I did not speak
out because I was not a drinker. Then they came for my food, and there
was no one left to speak out for me because misery loves company.
By Selwyn Duke
We've all heard about driving while black. Now we have eating while
fat. But, unlike the former, size profiling is more reality than
rhetoric. As to this, and coming on the heels of the recent story
about a mother arrested for having an obese son, is more folderol from
the fatism front: a proposal by the Urban Institute to tax "fattening"
foods to fight obesity. In other words, if you're overweight, you're
guilty until proven innocent and thus fair game for the most onerous
"corrective" action.
Reporting on this in the Los Angeles Times, Melissa Healy writes:
"'Facing the serious consequences of an uncontrolled obesity epidemic,
America's state and federal policy makers may need to consider
interventions every bit as forceful as those that succeeded in cutting
adult tobacco use by more than 50%,' the Urban Institute report says."
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By Selwyn Duke
In bold defiance of the global-warming agenda, India is making it
known that it rejects the science underpinning anthropogenic (human
caused) climate-change theory.
The bearer of this news is Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who just last week had informed
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that it was unfair for the United
States to expect a developing nation such as India to curtail its CO2
emissions. Yet, while balking at such expectations is common, overtly
rejecting the actual science behind them is not. MacedoniaOnline.eu
reports on the environment minister's position, writing,
"Jairam Ramesh … accused the developed world of needlessly raising
alarm over melting Himalayan glaciers. He dismissed scientists’
predictions that Himalayan glaciers might disappear within 40 years as
a result of global warming. 'We have to get out of the preconceived
notion, which is based on western media, and invest our scientific
research and other capacities to study Himalayan atmosphere,' he said."
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