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Big Brother: France to Ban “Psychological Violence” in Marriages

He said, she said? If she said he said the wrong thing, what he said won’t mean anything.

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit “psychological violence” within a relationship. In other words, if Pierre and Angelique get into a shouting match and Petey happens to drop a comment about Angie’s weight, the gendarmes could come a knockin’. The Daily Mail reports, writing, “The new law, which would also apply to co-habiting couples, would see people getting criminal records for insulting their loved ones during domestic arguments.”

I’m not sure how thoroughly this will be enforced, but couldn’t such a law place about 95 percent of all couples behind bars?

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New Study Finds Spanking Is Good for Kids

By Selwyn Duke

Spanking is like milk: It does a body good — or at least a mind. No, this isn’t the conclusion of traditionalist parenting expert Dr. James Dobson but the finding of a study conducted by psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. FoxNews.com reports on the story, writing, “According to the research, children spanked up to the age of 6 were likely as teenagers to perform better at school and were more likely to carry out volunteer work and to want to go to college than their peers who had never been physically disciplined.”

This may come as a relief to parents who don’t wish to spare the rod, but have been accosted with numerous studies stating just the opposite. But how do we reconcile these contradictory findings? Well, perhaps the answer is that the previous scientific studies weren’t very scientific. Fox points out that, in the past, such research was lacking because it was difficult in more traditional times to find subjects who had never been spanked. In contrast, Professor Gunnoe included 2600 such individuals in her study.

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"Youths" in France Torch Cars to Welcome New Year

By Selwyn Duke

We really should start to wonder if the automobile has the same status in Islamic teaching as pigs and dogs — and as that of truthful language in journalism.  In an event that was largely ignored by the Lamestream Media, Reuters reports that “youths” in France burned, according to its headline, “hundreds” of cars on New Year’s Eve.  But when you read the very short article, you learn that the headline certainly understates the matter.  Writes Reuters,  "The number of vehicles torched was only 10 short of the record 1,147 burned this time last year, even though the Interior Ministry mobilized 45,000 police during the night — 10,000 more than 12 months ago. "

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Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

By Selwyn Duke

Ah, Christmastime.  Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire.  Sadly, the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture into oblivion has gotten a lot of ink.  Yet there is another attack on Christmas — actually, another attack on Christianity itself — one that could ultimately prove more damaging than the usual atheistic assaults.  And it’s embraced by religionists themselves.

I’m sure you’ve heard the charges.  Christmas is a “pagan holiday,” they say.  It originated with a celebration dedicated to Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture), which, upon coming to full flower, took place between December 17 and 23.  Or perhaps it was inspired by the commemoration of a sun-god’s birth, and here we have two candidates: the Indo-Iranian god Mithras and the Roman god Sol.  And people often seem to confuse these two deities — and their festivals — mixing and matching them in a game of musical myths.  But it doesn’t really matter because both Mithras’ and Sol’s mythical births, we’re told, occurred on the same day: December 25^th.

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The Jihadists in America

By Selwyn Duke

It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and bustle and crime are very far away. Yet, like a pig in a beauty contest, within this pastoral setting lies something incongruent: a Jihadist training center. In this compound, women are taught to slit throats and mount assault-weapon attacks and, presumably, some brand of Islamic piety is the order of the day. But this place isn’t found in the Mideast’s Fertile Crescent or in sub-Saharan Africa. It's name is Islamberg. It's in the town of Hancock.

And it's in upstate New York.

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Understanding the Global-warming Jihadists

By Selwyn Duke

"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather," said John Burroughs in 1877.  Today, anxiety about the weather is more common than ever, although it’s not inborn but cultivated in schoolrooms, through television sets and by lying, rapacious ex-vice presidents.  And I have anxiety about the weather, too — especially when it’s being used to promote a destructive agenda.

The Pathology of the Rich Socialist

By Selwyn Duke

People such as George Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother Teresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-market system; wealth just wasn't for her. Soros and Moore are quite the opposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselves to helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow of poverty and become poor.

Fathers Jailed for Opting Children Out of Sex Ed

By Selwyn Duke

Could you imagine being jailed simply because you decided to opt your children out of sex education? Well, this is exactly what is happening to a number of fathers in Germany. And, if certain forces in the United States have their way, such a policy could one day find its way to our shores as well.

This story is unfolding in the German state of Salzkotten, where the government has decided that all children must be indoctrinated with a state-designed curriculum — including explicit sex education that most parents would agree is inappropriate for children. Bob Unruh reports on the story at WorldNetDaily.com, writing, “The students who are being held out of sex education classes also are not being allowed by their parents to participate in a play-acting program called ‘My Body Belongs to Me,’ which essentially teaches children how to engage in sex....”

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On the Front Lines of Global Warming Hysteria: Your Kids

By Selwyn Duke

When I was a wee lad in elementary school — this was back when global cooling was dogma — we kids had all heard about killer bees. You may remember the story: Scientists in Brazil had bred the African honey bee with a European honey bee and succeeded in creating, well, a really mean bee. These hybrids then escaped from their captors and started spreading throughout the Americas, bullying the nice bees and occasionally killing people. This prompted some sensationalistic stories in the media about the perils of these impudent insects, and we kids were scared. Would K-i-l-l-e-r B-e-e-s (gasp!) be the end of us? I suppose it could have made a good movie. The “Bees from Brazil,” anyone?

Widow Says Husband Driven to Heart Attack after False Accusation of Pedophilia

We’ve all heard about false accusations of sexual criminality, incidents such as the 2006 Duke University rape frame-up case. They are a form of psychological molestation and can destroy a person’s life just as being physically molested can. Well, now such an accusation might have ended a man’s life.

The hapless victim, 63-year-old British citizen Bryan Davies, died of a massive heart attack last Friday after months of community harassment resulting from a false accusation of pedophilia. And what was the reason for the accusation?

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