By Selwyn Duke
Upon being asked what wisdom was, the ancient sage Confucius once
replied, "Wisdom is, when you know something, knowing that you know it,
and when you do not know something, knowing that you do not know it."
If this definition is correct, I would say most politicians are sorely
lacking in the quality.
NEW YORK – Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, The New York Times reported Monday, citing an anonymous top administration official.
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By Selwyn Duke
Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but there’s an inordinate number of women — blond women — on pugnacious pundit Bill O’Reilly’s "O’Reilly Factor." Of course, it’s impossible to find media outlets that don’t assemble their stable based on a quota model; it’s customary to hire a certain number of news babes and people of various ethnicities and racial backgrounds, regardless of competence. But I sense that O’Reilly has taken it a step further.
The bigoted ideas of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger are well documented. She is a woman who once said,
"We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
Now, WorldNetDaily.com writes of a sting operation indicating that her spirit lives on within the organization. WND columnist Bob Unruh tells us:
By Selwyn Duke
It’s hard to think of anything more near and dear to our hearts,
anything of which we’re more protective, than our children. It’s also
hard to imagine a more important right than that to raise one’s
children in accordance with the dictates of a well-formed conscience.
Now, though, the 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles has abrogated that
right, ruling that a homeschooling couple, Phillip and Mary Long, must
enroll their two youngest children in a government school or "legally
qualified" private one.
By Selwyn Duke
Often the most fanciful ideas become the least
questioned assumptions. In this election
season a few have made themselves apparent, such as the notion that “change” is
good by definition and “experience” is definitely good. Yet an even better example is the
oft-repeated platitude that greater voter participation yields a healthier republic.
