• Stereotyping 101

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    By Selwyn Duke

    In a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maryland State Police (MSP),
    a plaintiff’s attorney named Eliza Leighton said that some training
    documents contain “startling examples of racial stereotypes about
    Hispanics.”  (Just so you know, when leftists use the word “startling,”
    it usually means, “Man, this truth hurts!”)  According to the Associated
    Press
    :

    For
    example, one document cautions that Hispanics generally do not hold
    their alcohol well. They tend to drink too much and this leads to
    fights. And it notes, Hispanic males are raised to be MACHO and brave,
    while females are raised to be subservient. Other sterotypes [sic]
    include the assertion that the weapon of choice for Hispanics is a
    knife and that Hispanics are reluctant to learn English.

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  • The Danger of ADHD Drugs

    By Selwyn Duke

    Two articles have been posted in the news section about how ADHD drugs stunt growth and provide no long-term benefit.  I have long understood the folly of medicating kids for what is essentially bad behavior and have, in general, been opposed to the use of all mood-altering drugs.

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  • Big Brother’s Window into Our Lives

    By Selwyn Duke

    A reader sent me an interesting piece on the "American Community Survey" (ACS), a 24-page, highly intrusive census questionnaire (perhaps you’ve heard of it).  This Orwellian bureaucratic nightmare is sent out annually, and the fines for failing to respond honestly can amount to, get the Digitalis, $50,000.

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  • Thoughts on the News for Today – 11/11/07

    By Selwyn Duke

    I do have a nose for double standards, so my eyebrows were raised when I read about poor Paul Rein, the 76-year-old deputy who was recently murdered in Florida.  While transporting a prisoner, the criminal was able to take Rein’s gun from him and shoot him with it.  This has sparked a conversation about how old is too old to wear a badge.  Here’s my question: Why do we never apply the same scrutiny to women?

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  • Teens Banned from Shopping at Malls

    By Selwyn Duke

    More and more shopping malls are banning teens from entrance after a certain time of day.  For instance, Tower City Mall in Cleveland has now established a curfew of 2:30 PM; it says that no one under 18 will be allowed in the mall after that hour unless accompanied by an adult.

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  • More Hate Laws

    By Selwyn Duke

    Again proving why George Orwell’s dystopian story 1984 was set in Britain, the English are contemplating even more efforts at thought control.  They are proposing legislation that could make it illegal to tell jokes about homosexuals and want to make offenses against the elderly "hate crimes."

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  • Thoughts on the News for Today – 11/07/07

    By Selwyn Duke

    It has just been revealed that China will not allow participants in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to bring Bibles with them when they come  to compete in the events.  But, interestingly, while the Bible is on the list of prohibited items, the Koran is not.

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  • The Beauty of Punishment

    By Selwyn Duke

    Spare the rod, spoil the child.  There’s an interesting news piece today about British parents who send their delinquent children to a school in Ghana to be set straight.

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  • Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Get Fiscal

    By Selwyn Duke

    There’s a type of political creature known as a fiscal conservative (FC).  This sort of animal doesn’t believe that we should tax and spend like a liberal nor does he believe that we should hew to traditional social values like a "paleo-conservative" (I’m not fond of some of these labels).  For instance, an FC would be pro-abortion and might say that we should allow for the re-defining of marriage.

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  • Hillary Clinton and Don’t Hit Girls

    By Selwyn Duke

    There has been much talk about Hillary Clinton’s disastrous performance at the last Democratic debate.   Unfortunately, her stumbling and waffling probably won’t be the body blow to her campaign that some might fancy it to be.

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