Category: Political Correctness Run Amok

As a lad growing up in the Midwest, I always considered the Star Spangled Banner to be a non-partisan, non-political, non-religious, non-racial expression of appreciation for the travails that our forefathers endured in order to win the freedoms and liberties …

The popular phrase used to describe John McCain’s presidential aspirations has been the “Straight Talk Express”. According to the popular myth, John McCain “tells it like it is” and lets you know exactly where he stands. Those that …

Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe has done it again. Now, usually Z is one of those columnists that is sure every white American is a racist and many of his columns are based on that assumption, but it …

What kind of spineless candy asses has the American public become they allow men like McCain and Obama dictate what they can and can’t do with their own lives? The presidential candidates are supposed to be listening to “WE to …

This country is coming very close to emulating Canada where a person can pay a heavy price for practicing his / her right to speak freely. Recently a man in Canada was convicted and heavily fined for writing adversely …

On Sunday, an article from the Associated Press stated that, less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species, “the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in pursuit of oil and …

Today’s US Supreme Court ruling advising the country and the world that foreign terrorists now essentially are afforded the same rights to have their cases tried in the US federal court system and pounds another nail into the coffin of …

There’s an axiom in Recovery (as in from addiction) circles which asserts that addictions are but symptoms of deeper emotional or psychological problems. Leaving aside the debate as to whether this holds water, I submit that the tremendous success of …

Only in the west can one see a school that hosts a day when school children are encouraged to dress like, act like, and “learn about” those trying to kill them and all in a day that the country is …

Just recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their …

Although my formal education in theology is negligible (zero), I am spiritually enlightened enough to know that the Almighty uses “signs” to warn his flocks of impending doom. Examples from the beginning of time include earthquakes, and rumors of …

She claims that her students violated her civil rights. She says student’s “anti-intellectualism” made her life a living hell. So, this ex-Dartmouth professor is threatening to sue her students for the temerity to have doubted her hairbrained theories on “ecofeminism” …

We can all painfully recall when back in 1998 New Yorker columnist Toni Morrison obsequiously called Bill Clinton our “first black president,” can’t we? I suppose it isn’t surprising that Morrison is now supporting Barack Obama since she …

Oak Lawn, Illinois, school kids are going to have to do without Halloween, Christmas and Easter activities thanks to the sensitive bureaucrats who fear offending Muslims. The schools’ administrators claim they’ve received a number complaints that the activities are offensive, …

Dee Dee Myers has just come out with her amusing tale, Why Women Should Rule the World. You may recall Mrs. Myers was the first female White House press secretary, appointed during the first two tumultuous years of the Clinton …