“If you’re by yourself or you’re not from around here or you don’t know anybody around here, you’re a target. Automatically.”
“If you’re by yourself or you’re not from around here or you don’t know anybody around here, you’re a target. Automatically.”
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” — Through the Looking Glass (1872) Evidently, the SPJ agrees with Humpty: The Society of Professional Journalists voted this week to impose even more political correctness when they passed a resolution to urge…
— and some people aren’t at all happy about it: Australia is to remove the birth of Jesus as a reference point for dates in school history books. Under the new politically correct curriculum, the terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) will be replaced with BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era). The Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, yesterday condemned the move as an ‘intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history.’ He described the phrase ‘common era’ as ‘meaningless,’…
This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will dedicate the massive, $600 million National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. What Americans have not been told is that this “memorial” will remake Ground Zero so that it does not acknowledge 9/11. Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction it caused and…
By Mike Gray Political correctness can lead to some amazingly warped situations: Los Angeles Police Department officers manning sobriety checkpoints will no longer, as a matter of department policy, impound cars driven by unlicensed drivers. That is unless the unlicensed driver is a United States citizen or lawful resident, in which case he can say adios to his car for 30 days, as authorized by California law. I can see you out there shaking your heads and saying, “Wait a minute . . . .” …
by Mike Gray Darrell Ankarlo lives in Arizona, but thanks to federal incompetence he’s finding it harder to enjoy it there: . . . may I ask bleeding hearts what they don’t understand about the word “Illegal”? If you have six people in your family and I barge into your home and demand to be the seventh none of you would tolerate it. Currently, millions of people from 52 nations have barged into our American family and demanded to stay with the majority of them stealing…
by Mike Gray Justice is no longer blind in America — it is politically correct imbroglio. — Larrey Anderson Anderson was an eyewitness to court proceedings that revealed just how screwed up the legal system has become thanks to entrenched attitudes about illegal “immigration”: Our continued tolerance of illegal immigration is as unconscionable as America’s former acceptance of slavery. While the ethical implications of the treatment of illegal immigrants are quite complex, the solution to the problem of illegal immigration is simple. Anderson’s “simple” solution:…
The Good Guys won this round. Prof. Kenneth Howell, who was fired from the University of Illinois for teaching Catholic dogma in an “Introduction to Catholicism” course, has been reinstated … for now.
By Daniel Crandall Here’s yet another case of reality intruding where only the satirical newspaper, The Onion, once trod. An adjunct professor at the University of Illinois was fired for explaining Catholic beliefs concerning Natural Law to students enrolled in a class about Catholicism. [Professor Ken] Howell, who taught Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought, says he was fired at the end of the spring semester after sending an e-mail explaining some Catholic beliefs to his students preparing for an exam. What bit of…
Guest writer Malcolm Kline notes that U.S. academia routinely ignores the enormity of the crimes of Communists while harping on the faults of the United States. Storied Soviet dictator Josef Stalin once famously said that one man’s death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic. He and his successors compiled so many human statistics that the unfortunately few academics and intellectuals who are trying to ascertain the true number are still working on it. “One cannot discuss the past, present, or future while they…
Last Wednesday’s installment of Criminal Minds, “A Right of Passage,” is a perfect example of Hollywood’s unending infatuation with liberal-progressive causes strained through a politically correct filter and served up just in time for the present administration’s anticipated new push for amnesty for illegal aliens. A series of decapitations along the volatile border with Marxico prompts the Behavioral Analysis Unit to board their cool Gulfstream execujet and chase after this malefactor. Santa Muerte (The Saint of Death), a legendary figure among the locals, is reputed…
Catholic writer George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center takes Notre Dame to task for failing to acknowledge adequately the recent death of Ralph McInerny, arguably one of the greatest men of letters to spend his professional career in the shadow of that school’s “Touchdown Jesus.” Notre Dame did publish a respectful obituary at the Jacques Maritain Center webpage, but that’s the only obituary I could locate at the university’s extensive website. I stumbled upon it through Google, searching specifically for “Notre Dame…
It’s gotta be, right? Just look at all that bling on Tracey Jordan. Almost as fun as watching 30 Rock is watching liberals laugh and then think (out loud on their blogs): “Does laughing at the antics of Tracy Morgan make me racist? This might be, at best, a guilty pleasure, and perhaps I shouldn’t be enjoying it. Because, well, real racists might enjoy these jokes, too.” That’s not a direct quote of Philly-based blogger Isaiah Thompson, but close enough. He raises the question of…
ABC’s Life on Mars police drama-fantasy stumbled badly tonight in pursuit of a political agenda.
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