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Limbaugh's Deal: Talk Radio Thriving

By Selwyn Duke

The big news in the broadcast industry is Rush Limbaugh's record-breaking, $400 million radio deal.  It promises to keep him on the air through 2016, a prospect that should please liberals to no end.

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.

JBS Piece: Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

By Selwyn Duke

I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

By Selwyn Duke

One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn't mean you're wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else insists it's 5, you'll be labeled a radical.  The same is true if you assert that a certain society of men is full of wolves when everyone else believes they're sheep.

Demographic Winter

By Selwyn Duke

If you're a frequent visitor to this site, you might have noticed a recent change, the lefthand-side banner advertisement for a documentary titled "Demographic Winter."  It's the first ad ever to appear at SelwynDuke.com, and for good reason.

Regulating Us to Death

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps I should be chagrinned to admit it, but I failed my first road test. I was about 18 years old, and I still remember the sinking feeling of sitting in the vehicle and coldly being informed that I missed a stop sign. Curious, I subsequently drove the route with my mother and found the octagonal red menace, barely visible amidst a sea of leaves, with just a few splotches of color showing through. My first thought was, "Are they kidding? Am I supposed to be watching the road or scouring the sidewalk, performing something akin to a 'What’s wrong with this picture' exercise?"

Hate Speech Phonies

By Selwyn Duke

There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis -- I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I'm not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws -- something I've treated thoroughly -- part of me just wants to roll my eyes.  Yet an article in the International Herald Tribune titled "Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S." really raised my ire.

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:    

Prescribing Ritalin for Toddlers

By Selwyn Duke

While we commonly see bumpers bearing the message "Hugs are better than drugs," you'd never know we believe it from our legalized-drug culture. Recently I cited statistics indicating that 20 million Americans, 40 percent of college students, and 1 out of 9 schoolchildren are on psychoactive medication.

Reader Email: Choosing Obama Based on Race is Fine

By Selwyn Duke

Today I'm responding to a reader who is quite dismissive about the truth regarding race and Barack Obama.  He is A.F. and writes: