By Selwyn Duke
In his book The
Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud said of religion and morality,
“It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to
leave God out altogether and admit the purely human origins of all the precepts
and regulations of civilization.”
In making this statement, Freud weighed in on one of
life’s most important questions: What is the nature of right and wrong? Is it real, something existing apart from
man, a reflection of Absolute Truth, of God’s will? Or is it, in accordance with the atheist
model, merely a product of mortal minds and thus synonymous with consensus opinion? Freud made it clear he believed the latter.
By Selwyn Duke
The director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute, Irwin Stelzer, has penned a very interesting article called "It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out." As the title indicates, Stelzer puts forth the thesis that the Earth contains enough accessible oil to last for generations. Moreover, he says that when these ample fuel resources are not exploited, it’s only due to factors such as politics, bad economic decisions and war. And he provides several examples of nations in which this is the case, such as:
By
Selwyn Duke
If you interview someone for a job, you’ll expect him
to tell you what you want to hear. There’ll
be a façade, and his darker side will remain well-hidden. Now, let’s say a requirement for the job is
that the applicant likes children, and he does his best Captain Kangaroo. But then you find out he has a job history of
indifference to and perhaps even abuse of them and that, during unguarded
moments, he has expressed disdain for them. What will you believe, what he tries to sell you or history and
hair-down revelations?
By Selwyn Duke
So Hillary Clinton has won Pennsylvania, which means the media will have something to talk about for the next week at least. Really, though, this is much ado about nothing; I mean, for approximately the last couple of months, her chances of winning the nomination have been between slim and none, and slim just . . . well, you know the rest (yes, I know it’s clichéd)
By Selwyn Duke
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Kopel discusses Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s newfound love of guns. The piece is titled "The Democrats and Gun Control," and Kopel does an excellent job of exposing the comic hypocrisy exhibited by these hard-core leftists who now masquerade as staunch supporters of second-amendment rights. Kopel begins:
