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Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy

By Selwyn Duke

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 most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller proposing a unique solution: allow priests to have concubines. This prompted the host to chime in and opine that perhaps the discipline of celibacy should be revisited. After all, said he, it’s only the Catholic Church that has “these problems.” It’s the kind of shallow analysis that passes for social commentary today.

First, the notion that only the Catholic Church “has these problems” is a media-generated fiction. In fact, a recent AP investigation found that sexual misconduct — and cover-ups to avoid scandal — are rampant in the government school system. It discovered 1,801 educators who were found guilty of sexual misconduct with youths between 2001 and 2005 alone. Moreover, reports the AP, this is the tip of the iceberg, as most cases go unreported.

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Ann Coulter, Hate Speech and Human Rights Commissions

The conservative firebrand tries to hoist the speech-stifling left on its own human-rights petards.

By Selwyn Duke

Most of us probably remember that standard elementary-school threat, “I’m gonna tell!” which meant that an appeal to authority for redress was in the offing. The one issuing it was sometimes a tattletale, but, regardless, since children aren’t fully-formed beings, their lives often have to be micromanaged. They don’t enjoy the freedom of adulthood.

Our Problem is a Lack of Health Care — the Moral Variety

By Selwyn Duke

There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s health-care vote.  It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby.  It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization they needed to cast aside a position that was never really a principle.  That it came in the form of an executive order with the credibility of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is of little consequence.  It was also predictable that the Monday after would bring talk about the extinguishment of liberty and the republic, and heads hanging so low that good Americans could look up and see their shoelaces.

Bart Stupak Was for the Health Bill All Along

In this video from last fall, it is apparent that Bart Stupak planned to vote for Obamacare all along, regardless of its provisions relating to abortion. Watch it and you'll see how he had already conjured up a convenient rationalization to justify his support. He is nothing but a complete and utter phony.

People of Michigan take note — and, in November, take action.

Hat tip: James Simpson at American Thinker

And That’s All He Has to Say about That: Tom Hanks and Twisted History

By Selwyn Duke

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does.  And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate — in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking — from moron to imbecile.

Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World

By Selwyn Duke

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, this evolution (devolution?) has brought us sex-neutral housing, where male and female students can share the same room.

Already allowed in approximately 50 colleges nationwide, including some Ivy League schools, it’s a trend of which many parents are unaware. And they won’t always be consulted, either. Many schools, such as Harvey Mudd College, don’t allow parents to veto their child’s decision on housing. The thinking, I suppose, is that the students are over 18 years of age.

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Revolutionary Nanotech Energy Source Discovered

By Selwyn Duke

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 matter, think about environmental sensors that could be scattered into the air like dust and collect data. While the last thing might not exactly be what you want for Christmas, a breakthrough in energy production made by MIT researchers could make such technology a reality during the next few years.

The process, dubbed “thermopower waves” by its discoverer, MIT’s Dr. Michael Strano, does nothing less than open up “a new area of energy research, which is rare,” says the scientist. MSNBC’s Michelle Bryner describes the phenomenon and its applications in brief, writing:

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Texas Board of Education Tries to Correct History

After years of education’s leftward drift, Texas says remember the Alamo, remember America and remember the West.

By Selwyn Duke

In this age of new math and Newspeak, the term “revised standards” is usually a euphemism for lowered or, worse still, deformed ones. But not so in Texas 2010, where the State Board of Education (SBOE) has just voted to resurrect a more traditional curriculum for schools statewide.

Along a strict 10 to 5 party-line vote, the board’s Republican majority decided to institute standards that, among other things, question the constitutionality of the “separation of church and state” principle, mention the Christian nature of the Founding Fathers, emphasize the superiority of free-enterprise systems, and point out the unintended consequences of leftist legislation such as the Great Society programs and Title IX. In fact, writes James McKinley, Jr. of The New York Times, “Since January, Republicans on the board have passed more than 100 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school.”

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Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls' Bathrooms

By Selwyn Duke

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 this passé with a proposal to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.

No, this isn’t the plot of a decadent B movie.

The story comes out of Maine, with a state proposal that would grant boys claiming to be female the right to use the aforementioned girls’ facilities. It may even give such boys the right to compete on girls’ sports teams.

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Latest Savage Nation Radio Appearance: Protecting Our Freedoms and Wallets

Protecting Our Freedoms and Wallets — 03/05/10