By Selwyn Duke
It seems that judicial adventurism is as old as our republic itself.
Lamenting such usurpation, Thomas Jefferson once said, "The original
error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and
which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they
were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its
own will."
By Selwyn Duke
The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article
by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith
John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial
harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku
Klux Klan book. I’m not kidding. Sampson tells his story:
By Selwyn Duke
I’d appreciate a viable alternative energy source as much as anyone else. After all, who wouldn’t like to run his car for a third or fourth the cost? I don’t have much confidence in government schemes to develop those new sources, however, and the May 12 edition of The Wall Street Journal helps to illustrate why.
By Selwyn Duke
To paraphrase that great man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, “There will
come a time when people consider smoking a cigar to be more offensive
than abortion.” Given that the jolly philosopher left us for the
ethereal typewriter in the sky in 1936, it’s amazing how prescient he
was.
By Selwyn Duke
Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school
diploma, it’s now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or
should I say "get" — a bachelor’s degree. After all, this is how we
increase our earning potential, right?
