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  • The War on Boys: Where Feminists and Men’s Rights Activists Go Wrong

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    By Selwyn Duke

    One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is
    that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the
    characteristics of feminists. Men get
    blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit
    for being its innovators and healers. We
    will hear about how women “create life” while men only destroy it, but
    forgotten are the fruits of men’s labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female
    death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn’t be around to crow about their
    fecundity.

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  • Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

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    By Selwyn Duke

    I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true
    nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian
    restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about
    his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want
    to do good things."

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  • This Really is Funny

    There are a lot of people who send me emails, and some of them contain humor.  I don’t usually print such things, but what follows is actually clean and funny.

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  • A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

    By Selwyn Duke

    One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else insists it’s 5, you’ll be labeled a radical.  The same is true if you assert that a certain society of men is full of wolves when everyone else believes they’re sheep.

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  • Demographic Winter

    By Selwyn Duke

    If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It’s the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

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  • Regulating Us to Death

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first
    road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking
    feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I
    missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my
    mother and found the octagonal red menace, barely visible amidst a sea
    of leaves, with just a few splotches of color showing through. My first
    thought was, "Are they kidding? Am I supposed to be watching the road
    or scouring the sidewalk, performing something akin to a ‘What’s wrong
    with this picture’ exercise?"

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  • Dawkins’ Delusion

    By Selwyn Duke

    I’ve long observed that great scientific minds virtually never make for formidable philosophical ones.  A perfect example of this is Richard Dawkins, the famous, and also infamous, British biologist and author of the book The God Delusion.  Dawkins has made quite a career out of attacking religion, rehashing the same worn-out arguments as many before him and missing the 800-pound reality in the center of the room.

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  • The Black “Conservatives” Who Might Vote for Obama

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    The Associated Press is running an article about black "conservatives" who are considering voting for Barack Obama.  And among these figures is Armstrong Williams and J.C. Watts. 

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  • Supreme Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke

    If you asked people what the role of a Supreme Court Justice was, most wouldn’t know the answer.  I experienced this with a former acquaintance of mine, a septuagenarian millionaire who probably would have been thought sophisticated by most.  He did know that such justices rule on law, but when I asked on what basis they were supposed to do so, he responded, "Well . . . based on how they feel."  In light of this widespread ignorance, it’s not surprising that our courts get away with a wholesale violation of their oath of office.

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  • Hate Speech Phonies

    By Selwyn Duke

    There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis — I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I’m not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws — something I’ve treated thoroughly — part of me just wants to roll my eyes.  Yet an article in the International Herald Tribune titled "Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S." really raised my ire.

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