Nidal Hasan's Silent Partner

" And when the guy’s on the table firing wildly and screaming “Allahu akbar!”, the PC enforcers won’t be there for you."     ~Blogger  A Canadian Blogger argues  -  as have...

American Character: Ingenious vs Paranoid

The character of Charlie Chaplin and the character of J. Edgar Hoover offers an insightful glimpse into the forces that were formative to American character of 20th century. With Charlie Chaplin, one sees...

Religious Manifesto warns of coming civil disobedience

RE-IGNITING THE CULTURE WARS :  Human Rights Campaign feels the declaration is pre-emptive,  and implies that equality and liberty cannot co-exist  In a 4,700 word treatise they have entitled,...

Politically Correct Protocol, What a Concept?

I was reading a NowPublic post, “Hasan Had Disturbing History of Islamic Extremist Views,” based on ABC News reports and flagged by Roy C, Vancouver. In it, the article wondered if politically correct protocol...

Hasan had disturbing history of Islamic extremist views

Did a Politically Correct protocol toward Muslim identity preclude responsible action?A disturbing portrait emerges,  of a US Military Major who was veering ever more into a radical Islamic stance,  while...

"Anti Gay" Number Plates Withdrawn from Sale

The DVLA's number plate auctions often attract publicity when controversial numbers come up for sale - but red-faced officials found themselves being accused of allowing "homophobic" number plates to reach sale. Gay rights association Stonewall drew attention to an auction...

THIS is why I detest local councils!

I was having a chat with a friend of mine – she always takes the proverbial because of my political stance – and she has never understood why I detest local councils so much. I her view I should love them, stroke them, and play ball once a day to keep them fit. But this...

Blah, blah, blah – scuffle, waffle – cry, Sanford is a Republican

I really don’t know what Republicans expect, but – Sanford is a Republican – remember those family values? Some vague thoughts come to me about how he sid something in the past about those…now what was it? "(CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told the woman...

Political Correctness?

Janet Napolitano’s recent rejection of the term terrorism in favor of “man caused disaster” drew some attention in the media. The Obama administrations removal of the term “enemy combatant” and the newly coined term “Overseas Contingency Operation” to replace...

Mrs? Or is that Ms, Miss? (Or does it matter?)

"In recent days the European Parliament has again caused "outrage" in the British press after publishing a pamphlet asking staff to refrain from using the titles Miss or Mrs. "Ludicrous", one Tory MEP told the Daily Mail. "Political correctness gone mad", he continued....

Old Words, New Meanings

As the new year starts, its time for all good citizens to update and revise their vocabulary to reflect the new, improved, politically-correct definitions of certain words and phrases.Propelled by the exciting notion that words that mean nothing can often mean anything,...

Air Traffic Controller Job App Offered in Braille

Should you be concerned about traveling to St. Mary’s airport on the U.K. Isles of Scilly? Only if the airport hires one of the candidates who used a Braille application form to apply for an air traffic...

Time to burn the family photo album

Perhaps its time for parents to prove what fine, morally righteous citizens they are by burning the family photo album. In Australia, a number of sports clubs have banned parents from taking photos of their own kids at sporting events, implying that selfish, trouble-making...

JOKES that would make the Universe laugh!

I believe that the Intelligence which is the universe has a sense of humour – otherwise we would not have one! The sign of a healthy body is easy to assess with all the equipment now available and the sign...

Fear of messing up may undermine interracial contact

"Now a provocative new study from Northwestern University suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction...

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