Sledder hurt in accident may be arrested (Seattle/KC bans snowballs)
Someone better tell these guys! As the snow blanketing the region turned to slush, police were considering arresting a sledding scofflaw on suspicion of reckless endangerment, and school officials...
View ArticleUI cancels game over nickname
Adhering to a policy instituted 10 years ago, but not always followed, the UI athletics department recently canceled a baseball game with Bradley University of Peoria, Ill., because of the school's...
View Article49ers' personal foul
Team's in-house training video includes lesbian porn, racial slurs, barbs at Newsom. It was meant to be funny -- but no one is laughing now in the San Francisco 49ers' front office over an in-house...
View ArticleNot enough blacks at Geldof's Live 8 concert for Africa
LONDON (AFP) - A bold plan by Irish rocker-turned-activist Bob Geldof for multi-city concerts to combat poverty in Africa ran into flak when it became clear how few black artists are involved. With the...
View ArticleMilitary Commands Drop Indian Terms from Exercise Titles
The U.S.-Canadian military commands responsible for protecting North America from terrorists have changed the names of key readiness exercises to more politically correct words that do not offend...
View ArticleRed Scare
European intellectuals have long complained of excessive moralism in American foreign policy, politics and attitudes toward sex--the lingering effect, as they see it, of our Puritan heritage. But if...
View ArticleProf. Thomas Klocek free speech battle at DePaul began one year ago today.
One year ago today, DePaul Professor Thomas Klocek had a discussion with some Muslim students... ....and was suspended because his ideas didn't match the PC groupthink found on almost all college...
View ArticleA fatwa on football
The legal opinions proclaimed by Islamic scholars, known as fatwas, have proliferated in the Muslim world since the 1980s. The growth in fatwas - some of them contradictory - has led to debate over who...
View ArticlePolitical correctness rule reviewed
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has moved to end pointless and costly investigations into commentators who voice politically incorrect opinions on radio and television. Sir Ian launched...
View ArticleState reinstates Elmwood Park district after immigration fight
CHICAGO -- The Illinois State Board of Education has reinstated a suburban Chicago school district today -- one day after the board used its harshest available sanction against it. The board voted...
View ArticleKing County (Seattle, Wash.) to change logo to honor MLK
Twenty years after the King County Council renamed the county for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the council voted today to change the county logo from a crown to a likeness of the slain civil...
View ArticleFox fires Lyons for racially insensitive comment
DETROIT -- Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American...
View ArticleUK: Now council bans the use of 'political correctness' at work...
Now council bans the use of 'political correctness' at workBy CHRIS BROOKE Last updated at 10:41am on 1st November 2006 Cllr Robert Light: Kirklees council leader blamed his political opponents and...
View ArticleSanta Claus Deemed Too 'Religious' For Fundraiser
A Christmas-themed event to raise money at a public elementary school in Warwick, N.Y., has been altered to accommodate a parent's complaints that the program would illegally spotlight a "religious"...
View Article'Stone Age' called insult (PC Alert)
Attention Fred Flintstone and the Geico cave guys: "Stone Age" is no longer acceptable, joining the list of other words and terms deemed offensive in polite society.
View ArticleHypocrisy of Free Speech in Schools
Earlier this week I wrote about a Federal Judge which upheld censorship in a public school. The decision came in response to a student who wished to protest the Day of Silence which encourages...
View ArticleProtests Come Early to Disney's 'Princess'
Almost two years before its hoped-for release of its first hand-drawn animated film produced under the supervision of Pixar's John Lasseter, Disney has already drawn fire for alleged racial and ethnic...
View ArticleThe Offensive Truth: Relativism and Our Kids
I was dismayed a while back when I learned that a Barna survey found that less than one out of every ten churched teenagers has a biblical worldview. But a survey is just that, a survey. Things...
View ArticleChannel 4 vindicated over Undercover Mosque (Orwell Alert)
Channel 4 has been vindicated by the media watchdog Ofcom after police complained about an investigative programme that exposed extremism in British mosques. West Midland's police had faced criticism...
View ArticleKatherine Kersten: Normandale's 'meditation room' is home to a...
Last week, I visited a Muslim place of worship. A schedule for Islam's five daily prayers was posted at the entrance, near a sign requesting that shoes be removed. Inside, a barrier divided men's and...
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