Archive for the 'Political Correctness' Category

Provincetown SelectWoman Offended by Historic Painting

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

Selectwoman Sarah Peake of Provincetown wants to rewrite history: To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed. Mind [...]

Hastert Wants to Call Capital Tree “Christmas Tree”

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Yet another battle in the war against Political Correctness has been joined: If it’s a spruce tree adorned with 10,000 lights and 5,000 ornaments displayed on the Capitol grounds in December, it’s a Christmas tree and that’s what it should be called, says House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert, R-Ill., in a letter to the Architect [...]

Top Ten Politically Incorrect Words for 2005

Friday, November 18th, 2005

The Global Language Monitor, an organization which, according to its web site, ” analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English,” released it’s Top Ten Politically inCorrect Words for 2005: Misguided Criminals for Terrorist: The BBC attempts to strip away all emotion by using what it considers [...]

Wal-Mart Learns A Lesson

Friday, November 11th, 2005

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I generally support Wal-Mart based upon their anti-union stance. Well, this week the retail giant did something stupid and got called on it by the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: A Catholic advocacy group has launched a national [...]

“Freshmen” Banned at High School

Monday, October 31st, 2005

A high school in Amherst, New Hampshire has banned the use of the term “freshmen” as possibly being misogynistic, oppressive or non-inclusive language: Amherst Regional High School has banished the term “freshman”- a move the principal calls overdue, but some students say oozes political correctness. Beginning this year, students in ninth grade are now referred [...]

USA: Land of the Humorless?

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The Fox News website has a section called Tongue-Tied, where they post about incidents concerning political correctness. The latest edition just makes my head spin: AFP reports that the Subway sandwich shop chain has apologized for an ad campaign poking fun at French cowardice after some Francophiles in America complained that it was disrespectful. The [...]

PETA Out to Scare Your Children

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The moonbats over at PETA have unveiled a new campaign to get people to stop fishing. It uses the below comic book-like flyer, which will be handed out to children. Some of you may remember a while back that PETA used the same tactic, only they targeted mothers. Of course, when someone calls them on [...]

Flight 93 Memorial: Who Does It Honor?

Friday, September 9th, 2005

A design for the Flight 93 Memorial has been chosen, and you won’t be happy about it: It will serve as a living tribute. With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to [...]

Punishing Those Who Excel

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

If you want know why kids today will never be prepared for life in the real world, you need look no farther than this: A baseball team of 11- and 12-year-olds has been kicked out of a recreational youth baseball team in this Columbus suburb — not because they misbehaved or broke any rules, but [...]

Is This Really Why He was Elected?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

State Assemblyman Craig Stanley is tackling the big issues in New Jersey: State Assemblyman Craig Stanley is taking issue with a satanic symbol representing the state’s National Hockey League team, which has won three Stanley Cup championships. “This is an age where symbolism is very important,” said Stanley, a Baptist deacon whose resolution to rename [...]

These People Have No Life

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

It seems not everyone believes that Pope John Paul II deserves the respect that is being shown to him after his death. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. doesn’t believe that flags over government buildings should be lowered to half-mast to honor the Pontiff. The FFRF think that this action constitutes government endorsement of the [...]

Here We Go Again

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

First it was Christmas, now it appears that secularists have Easter in their sites: Customers at local area malls are being taken by surprised to find that the Easter Bunny they’ve come to know and love now has a new name. In fact, some local malls now refer to the Easter icon as the “Spring [...]