Selwyn Duke
A common defense of error today is to say, with deep
indignation, “I have a right to my opinion!”
Legally this is true, given that our First Amendment is extant. But as G.K. Chesterton once said, “Having the
right to do something is not at all the same as being right in doing it.” There is no moral right to an immoral opinion
– nor to one bred of emotionalism unconstrained by reason – nor to a deceitful
one.
By Selwyn Duke
Politicians can’t talk enough of carbon taxes and credits and
cleaner technologies, but are they just fiddling while Rome freezes?
If
the climate were a sentient adversary with a will, he might be laughing
right now. Because while mankind is doing a Chicken Little worrying
about anthropogenic global warming (AGW), nature just might be
preparing an attack we least expect: another ice age.
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By Jack Swift
(Editor's note: This piece is one of the most brilliant analyses of our economic problems I have read.)
What
is Sustainability?
The
recent election focused upon the American voter’s dis-satisfaction
with the state of our government and the state of our economy. Each
campaign played upon this angst by pitching “change” but
neither candidate articulated a vision of what is wrong or what might
be an effective cure. The national change required is far more fundamental
than anything suggested by the politicians. The problem is one of sustainability.
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By Selwyn Duke
A man undergoes the mutilative procedure known as
“gender-reassignment surgery” and then wins the women’s division of
golf’s premier long drive championship.
There was a time when a sexual identity crisis was thought a problem of adolescence and only discussed in psychology journals. But
now our whole civilization is experiencing one, as we’ve gone from
confusion about the roles of the sexes, to a battle of the sexes, to a
battle about how significant the category of “sex” actually is, to
subordinating it to “gender,” and finally to a battle of the “genders.”
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By Selwyn Duke
On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair"
carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to
assassinate one of the world's most ruthless and powerful men, Adolf
Hitler, and topple the whole of his Nazi government. Integral to this
ambitious coup is what lies in his briefcase, a bomb. It is set to
detonate … the wheels are in motion. It is only a matter of time now.
The man was Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the
driving force behind what became known as the July 20 plot and the main
character in Valkyrie, the recently released movie about the
event. The film seeks to acquaint the audience with this hero and the
conspiracy of which he was part, yet it depicts the machinations better
than the man. And this is a shame, because quite a man he was.
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