About: Selwyn Duke
Posts by Selwyn Duke
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 song: “Sun City.” With the fall...
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 laws and halal ritual. For example,...
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 moderate in talk radio, although he’s...
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 the same hallways and bathrooms. Now,...
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 of a gasoline vehicle? For 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 practice. But social engineers may make...
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 Spartans at Thermopylae, or the doomed...
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, that’s “kids” — plural. It is...
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 has to offer. But she almost...
N.Y. Governorship Scandal Hits Again: Paterson Will Not Run
The governor had been steadfast in his determination to capture a full term at the ballot box, despite low poll numbers and growing opposition within his own party. Yet...
Most See Government as Threat to Rights
Ronald Reagan once said that the nine scariest words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” In thus opining, he was simply...
Students Told to Write Essay on How They Would Make Deal with Devil
God may not have a place in the modern American classroom, but the Devil is a different story. That is, at least in one North Carolina high school. ...
High Crimes: White House Accused of Using Bribery to Preserve Senate Majority
Has a bombshell just been dropped in the November elections? If a story that broke on Thursday gets enough ink, the answer may be yes. It’s being reported that...
Will Politically Incorrect Opinion Become a Hate Crime?
Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It’s shocking to many that you could be charged...
The Crusades: When Christendom Pushed Back
The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and the Muslim Moors are on the...