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  • The New Americans Part 2 - Mexican Laborer (PBS Indoctrination), On Now

    03/30/2004 6:20:35 PM PST · by NewRomeTacitus · 9 replies · 110+ views
    PBS ^ | March 30, 2003 | PBS
    The Flores Family Pedro Flores spends a lot of time on buses and even more time away from his family. He has been separated from his wife, Ventura, and their six children for the past 13 years, seeing them only twice a year for short visits. Pedro works as a meatpacker in Garden City, Kansas. The Flores's six children, five girls and one boy, live with Ventura on an impoverished ranch near Guanajuato, Mexico—1,200 miles and a hostile border away from Garden City. "I want to see my family. Sometimes when I come home [to Mexico], I don’t feel like...
  • Zero Tolerance (Fort Wayne schools go overboard)

    03/15/2004 1:49:37 PM PST · by looscnnn · 22 replies · 186+ views
    Fox New/Tongue Tied Website ^ | 3/15/04 | Scott Norvell
    A high school sophomore is suing a school district in Indiana after he was suspended for wearing a T-shirt bearing the likeness of an M-16 rifle and the text of the Marine Corps creed, reports the News Sentinel. Nathan Griggs, 16, was suspended from Fort Wayne Community Schools in March because the tee shirt violated the school's policy on offensive and violent clothing. The offensive text, written by a Marine Corps general after the attack on Pearl Harbor, focuses on the relationship between a Marine and his or her rifle, and is also known as "My Rifle."
  • Opera, 'Pro-Life', not 'Anti-Abortion'

    03/05/2004 6:27:26 AM PST · by Maigret · 13 replies · 474+ views
    Reuters ^ | 03/05/04 | Dan Whitcomb
    Opera 'Pro-Life', Not 'Anti-Abortion' Dan Whitcomb A Los Angeles Times music critic who wrote that a Richard Strauss opera was "pro-life" -- meaning a celebration of life -- was stunned to pick up the paper and find his review changed by a literal-minded copy editor to read "anti-abortion." Music critic Mark Swed said the copy editor was adhering to a strict Times policy banning the phrase "pro-life" as offensive to people who support abortion, and didn't seem to realize that the epic Strauss opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" had nothing to do with that politically charged issue. "Its about children...
  • Political Correctness for Teens (HUMOR)

    03/03/2004 5:52:02 AM PST · by MaryFromMichigan · 7 replies · 123+ views
    JokesAndHumor.com ^ | March 3, 2004 | JokesAndHumor.com
    No one fails a class anymore, he's merely "passing impaired." You don't have detention, you're just one of the"exit delayed." Your bedroom isn't cluttered, it's just "passage restrictive." These days, a student isn't lazy. He's "energetically declined." Your locker isn't overflowing with junk, it's just "closure prohibitive." Kids don't get grounded anymore. They merely hit "social speed bumps." Your homework isn't missing, its just having an "out-of-notebook experience." You're not sleeping in class, you're "rationing consciousness." You're not late, you just have a "rescheduled arrival time." You're not having a bad hair day, you're suffering from "rebellious follicle syndrome." You...
  • Support Roger Noriega - Call on Corrine Brown to resign!

    02/27/2004 3:47:18 PM PST · by j_accuse · 11 replies · 240+ views
    Instapundit.com and media sources ^ | February 26, 2004 09:17 AM | Glenn Reynolds
    February 26, 2004 MORE SHAMEFUL RACIST REMARKS FROM A MEMBER OF CONGRESS: U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President's policy on the beleaguered nation "racist" and his representatives "a bunch of white men." Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. Noriega, a Mexican-American, is the State Department's top official for Latin America. . . .Noriega later told Brown: "As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man," according...
  • Just Whose Neighborhood Is It Anyway?

    02/06/2004 7:35:59 AM PST · by Dr.Syn · 245+ views
    Intellectual Conservative ^ | 26 January 2004 | Dan Sargis
      Just Whose Neighborhood Is It Anyway?by Daniel Sargis26 January 2004Through a succession of CEO’s starting with Robert Crandall, American Airlines has demonstrated its grit to become a case study in mismanagement. Always beware of a company that tells you they want to be, “a good neighbor!”  If I learned one thing in my M.B.A. program...a company is in business to serve the long-term best interests of its owners.  All of this “good neighbor” tripe is...well, just tripe.  And American Airlines (AA.) keeps making that point. That “something special in the air” does “what they do best” by “fly(ing) naked”...
  • Report: Mother bakes baby in oven

    12/25/2003 11:10:08 PM PST · by familyop · 7 replies · 195+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 26DEC03 | WorldNetDaily.com
    CRIMENETDAILY Report: Mother bakes baby in oven 5-month-old suffers 2nd-degree burns, mom in custody Posted: December 25, 2003 11:13 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A five-month-old baby boy remains hospitalized after allegedly being placed inside a hot oven by his own mother who is now in custody. Agence France-Presse reports the child is in a Swedish hospital, suffering second-degree burns all over his body from the incident which took place last weekend. "It's a terrible story, but at least he's in stable condition for the time being," said Margreth Jonson of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenberg. The incident reportedly...
  • Banner year for Political Correctness

    12/24/2003 8:25:09 AM PST · by knighthawk · 3 replies · 133+ views
    National Post ^ | December 24 2003 | Gillian Cosgrove
    The advocates of Political Correctness enjoyed another great year in 2003. The spoilsports at the Canadian Passport office, for instance, decreed that there was to be no more smiling on passport photos. Then the Defence Department threatened to jail married soldiers in Afghanistan who dare to kiss their own spouses or even hold hands, let alone have sex. Not to be beaten to the PC punch, the federal Fisheries Department posted a $100,000 civil service job in B.C. open to non-whites only. In the eyes of Ottawa, some Canadians are a heck of a lot more equal than others. And...
  • Foiling those evil Grinches

    12/22/2003 5:58:13 AM PST · by chiller · 2 replies · 85+ views
    Townhall ^ | 12/22/03 | John Leo
    How goes the annual battle to delete Christmas from schools and the public square? News is mixed, but on the whole, things are not going well for the Grinches. In New Jersey, for example, the Hanover Township school district said it was considering a ban on Christmas carols and other religious songs at school concerts. Parents protested and threatened to sue, so the school board beat a hasty retreat. “If a school wants religious music, they can have it, the way they could before,” said the school board president. The key phrase here is “threatened to sue.” In the old...
  • Pilgrims' Progress? (PC vs. Thanksgiving)

    11/25/2003 1:44:21 AM PST · by Madstrider · 20 replies · 970+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | Nov. 25, 2003 | Robert Stacy McCain
    <p>The Pilgrims were brave Christians who risked everything to gain religious freedom in the New World. Or they were fanatical European interlopers, guilty of "genocide" against American Indians. Multiculturalism has taken its toll on the reputation of the small band of Protestant separatists who landed at Plymouth Rock in November 1620.</p>
  • Book on Genius Out.

    10/23/2003 8:24:25 AM PDT · by sbw123 · 79 replies · 403+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 23 Oct 03 | GARY ROSEN
    <p>The Best and Brightest Charles Murray tries to quantify "Human Achievement."</p> <p>BY GARY ROSEN Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>In our age of overused superlatives, none stands in greater need of rehabilitation than "genius," a title that Leonardo now shares with such eminences as Warren Buffett and Eminem. Charles Murray's rough-and-ready test is whether an individual's work makes us ask, in wonder, "How can a human being have done that?" But he doesn't stop there. Incorrigible social scientist that he is, Mr. Murray wants to prove that supreme excellence actually exists in the arts and sciences. The result is "Human Accomplishment," a systematic effort to rate and rank the likes of Aristotle, Mozart and Einstein and to describe the conditions that have allowed them to flourish. Much of this brick of a book is devoted to explaining, in tiresome detail, just how Mr. Murray goes about quantifying the seemingly unquantifiable. His trick is to consult the experts--or, rather, to distill usable numbers from their encyclopedias, anthologies, general histories and biographical dictionaries. An individual making an appearance in at least 50% of the selected sources for a given field wins the label "significant figure." By Mr. Murray's reckoning, there have been 4,002 such "people who matter" in the period 800 B.C. to 1950. Each member of this Pantheon gets an "index score" on a 100-point scale, based on how much attention--pages, column inches, etc.--he receives in the specialist literature.</p>
  • P.C. R.I.P. 2003 (The Death of Political Correctness)

    10/14/2003 3:34:49 PM PDT · by livesbygrace · 20 replies · 1,797+ views
    New York Press ^ | October 14, 2003 | Celia Farber
    For more than 20 years, identity politics have dominated thought, speech and sexuality, giving rise to what Celia Farber describes as an all-consuming beast eating anything and anyone in its sight. Did Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful campaign mark the beginning of the end for Political Correctness? If I call them the liberal elite you’ll think I’m a neo-con, and besides, I don’t think the root, Latin word liber (free), applies to most of them. For now, let’s call them "leftists," though they’re not really that either. Let’s call them the people whose nostrils automatically flared in horror upon learning that Arnold...
  • Kelly says radio host shouldn't be fired

    10/04/2003 3:22:46 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 43 replies · 221+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | October 4, 2003 | Sasha Talcott,
    <p>As 10 Boston city councilors rushed to condemn the racially charged on-air remark of a WEEI radio talk show host, South Boston Councilor James Kelly yesterday accused his colleagues of "censorship in the pursuit of political correctness."</p> <p>In a letter to WEEI, Kelly said, "I strongly disagree with their position" that host John Dennis should resign or be fired after comparing a gorilla that had escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo to a Metco student. Metco is a voluntary desegregation program that buses Boston students to schools in the suburbs.</p>
  • Traditions Endangered!

    09/02/2003 7:26:08 PM PDT · by Lando Lincoln · 136+ views
    Hour Eleven ^ | September 2, 2003 | Doug Hagin
    "Traditions Endangered!" Months of waiting have finally paid off for the millions of football fans across America and the world. Thursday, September 4th kicks off the 2003 season in the National Football League and college football enters its second week this weekend. For fanatical followers of this great American tradition there is no better time of year. Tradition is a great part of the football culture. The college game is so deeply entrenched with traditions it is impossible to imagine the games without them. Football and its traditions, however, are becoming targets of those who would reshape our society in...
  • AND THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA: IT TAKES MORE THAN A VILLAGE

    08/22/2003 2:28:42 PM PDT · by Dr.Syn · 14 replies · 256+ views
    dansargis.org ^ | 08/21/03 | Dan Sargis
    And thus spake ZarathustraAugust 21, 2003 When speaking of his family’s immigration experience to America, 1976 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Saul Bellow noted that, “The country took us over.  It was a country then, not a collection of ‘cultures’”.  Such candor...it’s surprising that our little friends in Stockholm didn’t send him to The Hague for prosecution. Whether you like to think of yourself as a liberal or conservative, there is only one truth; America is dismembering itself into a collection of disparate cultural cells and the politicians of both political parties are playing into this nonsense.  This isn’t a question of...
  • Is banning the Bible next?

    08/14/2003 9:24:25 PM PDT · by ahadams2 · 8 replies · 86+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 13 August 2003 | Mark Steyn
    Is banning the Bible next? By Mark Steyn Aug. 13, 2003 If you live pretty much anywhere in the Western world these days, you'll notice a certain kind of news item cropping up with quiet regularity. The Irish Times had one last week. As Liam Reid reported, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has warned Catholic bishops that distributing the Vatican's latest statement on homosexuality could lead to prosecution under the 1989 Incitement to Hatred Act, and a six-month jail term. "The document itself may not violate the Act, but if you were to use the document to say that...
  • The PCspeak of Diversity (or HOW THE LEFT PLANS TO SHUT YOU UP )

    07/10/2003 10:31:07 AM PDT · by longtermmemmory · 6 replies · 412+ views
    The PCspeak of Diversity July 8, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Wendy McElroy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Supreme Court recently ruled that universities could favor minority students for admission as long as no race was automatically favored. The ambiguous decision might seem to encourage open discussion but political correctness sometimes seems determined that debate will not occur. PCspeak, like Newspeak in George Orwell's (search) classic novel 1984, forms an effective barrier. In Orwell's dystopian world, Oceania, Newspeak (search) serves the ideological goals of Ingsoc -- English Socialism. It gradually replaces Oldspeak in defining politics and culture. Without the words necessary, complex thoughts simply cannot...
  • The Tyranny of Political Correctness

    06/08/2003 8:26:42 AM PDT · by TLBSHOW · 24 replies · 253+ views
    newsmax ^ | June 8, 2003 | Barry Farber
    The Tyranny of Political Correctness When we saw AIDS coming we all knew how bad it could get. And when we saw SARS coming we knew how bad it could get – and still might. Political Correctness, however, blind-sided us. We had no idea how bad PC could get. In fact, at first we thought it was rather cute, like some sort of parlor game. Who could be the first in the crowd to remember to call blacks "African-Americans" and NOT to call grown women "girls." The creep, then the trot, then the gallop, and now the icy tyranny of...
  • The Little Village That Shouldn't

    05/06/2003 7:13:09 AM PDT · by The Rant · 6 replies · 218+ views
    The Washington Dispatch ^ | May 6, 2003 | Frank Salvato
    It is with astonishment that I write about a situation that is so narcissistically absurd that one would think it could only happen in California under the watchful eye of the liberal-left. Yet, amazingly, it is happening right here in the Midwest, in Riverside, Illinois and could be happening wherever apathy condones political correctness. It would seem that there are some, I like to call them the vocal minority, who find the harmless yellow ribbons that are affixed to the trees of the neighborhoods in this established American community visually obnoxious. The ribbons “are unsightly and not in keeping with...
  • Radio Free Republic - The Shrew Interviews Robert Spencer author of Islam Unveiled

    03/25/2003 5:07:30 PM PST · by The Shrew · 137 replies · 468+ views
    Radio Free Republic ^ | March 25, 2003 | The Shrew
    Join us tonight as The Shrew interviews Robert Spencer author of "Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Religion" This should prove to be a fascinating and provocative interview about this highly timely topic. Additionally, The Shrew interviews Robert Nowacki of the Free Congress Foundation Judicial Review and we will discuss the filibuster of Miguel Estrada!