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The War on Boys: Where Feminists and Men’s Rights Activists Go Wrong

By Selwyn Duke

One problem with one-issue activists, it seems, is that they often view matters from only one dimension. This has always been one of the characteristics of feminists. Men get blame for being history’s conquerors and killers, for instance, but no credit for being its innovators and healers. We will hear about how women “create life” while men only destroy it, but forgotten are the fruits of men’s labors. Were it not for male medical advances that virtually eliminated female death during childbirth, many feminists wouldn’t be around to crow about their fecundity.

A Teacher Reports from the Front Lines

By Selwyn Duke

The St. Petersburg Times is running an article by one Melanie Hubbard, an erstwhile college professor who decided to take a foray into teaching high school.  She speaks of classroom horror stories; of undisciplined, uncivilized "students" who have no respect for anyone or anything; of an environment in which the inmates run the asylum.  Writes Hubbard:    

Read a Book, Get Charged with Racial Harassment

By Selwyn Duke

The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of being charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding. Sampson tells his story:

Heading to College and Failure-bound

By Selwyn Duke

Going to college has become a rite of passage. Like a high school diploma, it's now often expected that a student will go on to earn — or should I say "get" — a bachelor's degree. After all, this is how we increase our earning potential, right?

Ignorance is Not Bliss

By Selwyn Duke

There is another in a long line of articles about the striking lack of knowledge among today's youth.  Metro.co.uk writes:

JBS Piece: Making Government Indoctrination Compulsory

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.

Boy, Do I Hate Duke

By Selwyn Duke

Because my estimation of academia couldn't possibly get any lower, nothing Duke University does to further abuse the lacrosse players it crucified shocks me.  However, the world should be kept apprised of how the phony, hypocritical scoundrels at the institution are comporting themselves.  As to this, Clarice Feldman writing at American Thinker reports:

Obama's Terrorist Associations

By Selwyn Duke

Author Jonah Goldberg was on Hannity & Colmes last night talking about another one of Barack Obama's unseemly associations.  He pointed out that the Illinois Lip once consorted with Bill Ayers, a former Weather Underground terrorist who set off bombs as part of his campaign against America.

Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

Bring Back School Uniforms

By Selwyn Duke

Back when I used to have a real job (OK, almost real), I would pass the local secondary on my commute home from work.  It could be a sight to behold.  If the most bizarre elements of your average American high school congregated in one room, it would, to steal a Pat Buchanan line, look like the bar scene in  Star Wars.