About: Selwyn Duke
Posts by Selwyn Duke
When a People Tyrannizes Itself
All around the realm was heard a fateful cry: ?'Twill make us sleep the nightmare if ye tax the other guy. ?We...
Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Still
The gulf oil gusher is a disaster of great proportions. We’ve all seen the pictures of petroleum-soaked birds and dead fish, and the...
The Big Government-Big Business Axis
If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it...
Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student
A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a public sidewalk. ...
Krauthammer Favors “Path to Citizenship” for Illegals
Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the...
New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors
Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there may cost a kidney and a heart. Under...
Is Genocide Coming to South Africa?
Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a...
Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech...
Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare...
Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World
First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing...
Nanotech Energy Source Discovered
Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that...
Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms
There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during...
Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking
The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the...
Children Directing Planes at JFK: Why it is a Big Deal
By now we’ve all heard about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes,...
Legal vs. Illegal Murder: Abortion in Utah
She is now a healthy baby, bouncing about, playing with bubbles in the bathtub, and taking in everything this mysterious world she entered...