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Defenders of politically correct language claim that such speech reduces offensive behavior and encourages conscious thinking about individual merits. On the contrary, the drive for politically correct language relegates more and more terms to the exclusive domain of bullies, while requiring unthinking, reflexive adherence to the latest stupid language fashions. [PDF file at source]

The definition of who's a suitable friend, lover or lifelong mate has changed over the years. As racial prejudice has done a slow fade from the bad old days -- it's still with us, but it's no longer respectable anywhere -- the new, respectable prejudice is political. In the 1967 movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," white liberal middle-class parents were shocked and unhappy when their lovely daughter invited a black man home to meet the folks, and worse, she announced that she was marrying him. It didn't matter that he was an ethical do-good doctor at the United...

Irish authorities are investigating if a former member of the Defence Forces (Army) has been arrested in Syria for alleged membership of Islamic State. The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that an Irish citizen is being detained in Syria. RTÉ News has learned that the person being detained is a woman, but her identity has not been confirmed. The Government, gardaí and the Defence Forces are aware that a former female member of the Defence Forces travelled to Syria around three years ago. The woman, who held the rank of private, left the Defence Forces around eight years ago...

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (FOX 13) - A pregnant woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend for looking at a photo of another woman on his roommate’s cell phone, deputies said. Pasco County deputies said they responded to the reported stabbing at a Zephyrhills home, and later arrested 25-year-old Julitza Emily Gonzalez. According to her arrest report, the roommate, who was not identified, said he showed a photo of a woman he wanted to date to his friend. The friend looked at the photo while his pregnant girlfriend, Gonzalez, was in the room. The moment sparked an argument between the couple, officials...

Mo’Nique and her husband/manager Sidney Hicks, as they say on the street, certainly have a “hard on” for Oprah Winfrey. Yep, in a podcast/video posted to YouTube, they came for Oprah … again because they didn’t approve of her interviewing Michael Jackson‘s accusers. They went in on Oprah regarding her interview with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both claim Jackson touched them inappropriately when they were young boys they appeared in the HBO documentary, “Leaving Neverland“ that aired this week. “Here’s a man that was found not guilty in the eyes of the law,” Mo’nique said, referring to the...

A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time." The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is in Arizona , the other is in Colorado. When we...

Catholics protest bishop’s removal of priest who complained about another priest’s sex harassment MICHIGAN, March 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Lay Catholics are demanding that Bishop Steven Raica of Gaylord, Michigan, reinstate a young traditionally-minded priest who was put on leave and who had his priestly faculties suspended shortly after he filed a sexual harassment complaint with the diocese against the highest official in the diocese, Vicar General Fr. Dennis Stilwell. In a press release from the newly-formed Gaylord Diocesan Watch, the leader of the lay group, Dr. Richard Brenz declared: "A grave injustice has been inflicted by Bishop Raica against...

3 cardinals, top Catholic leaders to address 2019 Rome Life Forum: Register now ROME, March 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The highly anticipated 2019 Rome Life Forum is just two months away. This year’s conference, hosted in Rome at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), will be held on May 16-17. It will be followed by the annual Rome March for Life on Saturday, May 18. The theme for this year’s conference is: “City of God vs. City of Man – Global One World Order vs. Christendom.” 2019 marks the fifth anniversary of the event, which is hosted...

It’s hard to believe that the Democratic Party has managed to shred itself so quickly after so many years of unwavering support from media and culture outlets. The Clintons - perhaps the shadiest political dynasty of our modern age - enjoyed nearly absolute cover when it came to news of their misdeeds; news that should have made anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty even just slightly curious. Look at what Bill Clinton has survived even in the era of #MeToo. Even if you don’t believe the rape charges against him, the Lewinsky fiasco and the Clinton’s ensuing, merciless take-down...

Finland’s entire government resigned Friday after the governing coalition failed to agree on the welfare state reform, just one month before elections were due to be held. Juha Sipila has been the country’s prime minister since 2015 after forming a three-party governing coalition with two other right-leaning parties, including the small populist Blue Reform Party, a group that was once part of the eurosceptic True Finns but split up amid divisions over immigration policies. “I take the responsibility for the failure. It has been a huge disappointment to me,” Sipila said during a news conference, adding that the reform in...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Cook County grand jury has returned a 16-count indictment against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, according to court records. The Cook county State's Attorney's Office confirmed the indictment, which they said was returned by a grand jury on Thursday. Smollett was originally charged with one felony count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office on Feb. 20...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Jussie Smollett is now facing deeper legal troubles after a grand jury returned 16 federal counts against the actor for falsely reporting a hate crime attack against him in January. The grand jury returned the disorderly conduct indictment on Thursday. “Jussie Smollett knew that at the time … there was no reasonable ground for believing that such offenses had been committed,” according to the indictment.

The Vladster has done a Marianne Faithful song called "Broken English". What's it about is anyone's guess. He told me he really did it because he liked singing the title with his Transylvanian accept. Maybe that is good enough... If you like it please visit his channel and subscribe.

Rookie Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, fresh off igniting an intra-party uproar with comments widely viewed as anti-Semitic, took a swipe at former President Barack Obama, saying in an explosive interview the 44th president's message of "hope and change" was a "mirage" and blasting his administration's drone and border detention policies. Omar, D-Minn., took aim at the president's famed slogan, while further criticizing the Democratic Party for “perpetuating the status quo,” in the interview with Politico.“Recalling the ‘caging of kids’ at the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘droning of countries around the world’ on Obama’s watch," Omar charged that Obama "operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as...

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for President Trump, told House investigators this week that staff for Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., traveled to New York at least four times to meet with him for over 10 hours immediately before last month’s high-profile public testimony, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Fox News — as Republicans question whether the meetings amounted to coaching a witness. The sources told Fox News that the sessions covered a slew of topics addressed during the public hearing before the oversight committee — including the National Enquirer’s “Catch and...

On the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism, Hungary Today had the opportunity to interview producer Tamás Lajos about his film Eternal Winter, which commemorates the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians deported to the Gulag and Gupvi forced-labor camps. Since its debut a year ago, the film has won several prestigious awards at various international film festivals. Q: Could this be an interesting topic for foreigners as well? Do you think viewing the movie would get them interested in this part of Hungary’s history? A: I think this topic is also a novelty abroad. I feel like, in the...

Trump Calls Dying Supporter at Request of Man’s Sister, a Democrat Councilwoman “It sounds like you have a great sister,” President Donald Trump told Jay W. Barrett, a New Haven, Connecticut man doctors have given six months to live. Barrett’s sister, Democrat city council member Bridgette Hoskie, had arranged for Trump to call her dying younger brother, a staunch Trump supporter. “I can’t believe that he called — I’m ecstatic about it,” 44 year-old Barrett, who is living out the last stages of cystic fibrosis in home hospice care at his sister’s house, told The New Haven Register. A portion...

The Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)-Brahms The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil a new Vincent van Gogh exhibition this Sunday, offering a rare—perhaps once-in-a-lifetime—opportunity to see the iconic Dutch painters’ masterpieces up close and in person. The exhibition runs through June 27. Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art showcases 56 Van Gogh paintings and drawings, most of which rarely travel from their homes in the two largest repositories of his work: the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, in the Netherlands. About a dozen additional works by the artist on loan from other...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. - A school bus assistant yelled at a student to remove a red Make America Great Again hat, then grabbed it off the teen’s head, video shows. Gunnar Johansson, 14, wore the hat as part of a March of Dimes fundraiser that allowed students to wear a hat of their choice for making a donation, WPTV reported. The school bus aide, who has not been identified, tells Johansson to put the hat in his backpack and repeatedly tells him to remove it. “Boy, if you don’t take that hat off this bus… take it off. Take that...

Cathryn Nagler PhD, a food allergy professor at the University of Chicago discusses her research on the cause of food allergies and states: Environmental stimuli such as antibiotic overuse, high fat diets, caesarean birth, removal of common pathogens and even formula feeding have affected the microbiota with which we’ve co-evolved. Our results suggest this could contribute to the increasing susceptibility to food allergies. Interestingly, current research on the cause of food allergies does not consider vaccination as a contributing factor. However, in the past, there have been studies demonstrating an association between vaccine ingredients and development of food allergies. This...