Six-year-old Suspended for Bringing Cub Scout Tool to School
Our authorities may not be able to track down Osama bin laden, but never fear, they’re keeping us safe from budding little terrorists such as first grader Zachary Christie....
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Posts by Selwyn Duke
Are Hormone-mimicking Chemicals Harming Our Children?
Are chemicals in our environment masculinizing girls and feminizing boys? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that this is the case, and one of the latest studies has...
Obama: Beyond the Idea of an Icon
There has long been a certain objection to the divine command that we should worship God. It is simply: Why does God need you to worship Him? It is,...
Don’t Cry for Roman Polanski
Even if time does heal all wounds, it certainly doesn’t make us forget all crimes. And, finally, after 31 years on the run from U.S. authorities, Roman Polanski, director,...
Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever in Tucson
Would you hire school teachers and mete out punishment to students based on race? Some obviously would, as this is exactly what’s happening in Tucson Unified School District (TUSD)...
Back to School with Obama: Educational Talking Points 101
At high noon today, EDT, Barack Obama issued a challenge to America’s schoolchildren. In his much anticipated back-to-school speech, he appealed to students to stay in school, work hard,...
Obama’s Speech to the Children of America
Whether or not President Barack Obama’s September 8 back-to-school speech will be “historic” as his Department of Education (DOE) states, it certainly is headline grabbing. His talk is currently...
United Nations Plan: Teach Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds
A while back we heard about the United Nations pact that would prohibit parents from choosing their children's religion. Now the UN is issuing another dystopian proposal, a sex-education...
Democrat Plan: Make the IRS the Internal Medical Service
You probably don't associate the Internal Revenue Service with health, unless it's their letterhead's ability to make your heart stop. Yet, under both the House and Senate Health, Education,...
Yet Another Call to Overhaul Healthcare . . . This Time in Canada
In his captivating book The Screwtape Letters, the great philosopher C.S. Lewis noted that change is meant to be a means to an end and that it is only...
Resurrecting the Right-wing Militia Bogeyman
The Southern Poverty Law Center is up to its old tricks, demonizing conservatives and playing the race card for profit. ...
Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb
It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb. ...
India Throws Monkey Wrench into West’s Global Warming Agenda
In bold defiance of the global-warming agenda, India is making it known that it rejects the science underpinning anthropogenic (human caused) climate-change theory. ...
Another Minimum Wage Hike: But Will It Help?
In another example of turning lemonade into lemons in economically troubled times, the federal minimum wage increased yesterday from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It's certainly a...
Mom Arrested for Having Fat Son
While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia's religious police, called "The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," we do have our own strange...
Obama Regulatory Pick’s Pro-animal Rights and Anti-First Amendment Activism
It's not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn't share late writer William F. Buckley's sentiment that "I would rather be governed by 400 people out of the phone...
Rigged Honduran Election Results Found in Computers
While much of the world has lined up with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, time and truth do not seem to be his cause's friend. The latest...
Hate-crime Laws Expand, Freedom Contracts
The Senate has just passed the greatest expansion of federal hate-crime "protections" since the legislation's inception in 1968. While the original law was limited to crimes motivated by race,...
Should Taxes Pay for Abortion, Secularism?
Washington, D.C., would be able to use tax money to fund abortions under a $768 million spending bill passed by the House on July 16. An AP story carried...
The Prejudice of Atheists
Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments. The latest attack is a lawsuit...