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  • The Suffocating Neo-Puritanism of 'Progressive' America

    05/02/2014 1:01:23 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/02/2014 | Jack Cashill
    Alexandra Pelosi’s HBO documentary Fall to Grace tracks the evolution of New Jersey’s disgraced, self-dubbed “gay-American,” former governor, Jim McGreevey. In one passing scene, McGreevey enters a church ostensibly more welcoming than the judgmental Catholic Church of his childhood. The message board on the church front reads -- and this is a close paraphrase -- “Lord help us overcome the sins of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.” Had the message board been bigger, the good pastor might have added nativism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. In a postmodern world that prides itself on “non-judgmentalism,” these have emerged as the seven new deadly...
  • Ski Area Drops 'Nipple' From Mountain Name

    03/14/2003 9:24:06 PM PST · by gd124 · 5 replies · 332+ views
    The Denver Channel | MST March 12, 2003 | staff writer
    ALTA, Wyo. -- Pressure from uncomfortable skiers and other tourists prompted the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort to blank out the second half of the name of one of its ski mountains. Mary's Nipple is now just Mary's. "Nipple" has been covered with tape until new signs arrive in about two weeks. "If things offend our guests, we try to redeem that," marketing director Susie Barnett-Bushong said. "Management was never compelled to take it away until more and more people expressed they were uncomfortable with the signs." But the sanitized signs have rankled some local skiers, who feel a...