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I don't know about you, but i feel like I've had a boatload of blaming whites for everything's that's wrong with the world. A fraternity brother mine wrote the following paragraphs to a bunch of us. It was prompted by one of those nostalgic slide shows from the 1950's. My response follows: At the risk of seeming like Debby Downer, I feel a need to write something in response to the video. So here goes… I guess it’s OK to look back with nostalgia at images from the 50s; the video certainly reminded me of my childhood and youth. In...

From a friend of mine: I HAVE THE RIGHT TO MY OPINIONS AND THIS IS HOW I SEE IT. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING TOLD WHAT I AM ALLOWED TO SAY, FEEL OR THINK. FaceBook jail here I come! Let me break it down for you... 1. Joe Biden isn’t winning just like Hillary wasn't winning. 2. Bubba Wallace is NOT a victim. 3. Black lives do matter, along with Everyone else’s. 4. All cops definitely are NOT bad, nor are they ALL racist. 5. Trump is the President and doing a great job!! (Blame your Governor for...

It seems that for a growing number of leftists, literally everything is racist. On Friday, the Daily Caller reported that child care centers in a Melbourne, Australia, suburb, are changing the lyrics of the centuries-old children's song "Baa Baa Black Sheep" because the word "black" has racist connotations. Additionally, one line is said to be sexist. "Staff at childcare centres in the south-eastern suburbs told the Herald Sun the lyric was being changed because of concerns over the racial connotations of 'black,' and to reflect a multicultural community,” the Australian Herald Sun reported. Teachers also told the publication that one...

<p>The name of a certain pro football team in Washington, D.C., has inspired protests, hearings, editorials, lawsuits, letters from Congress, even a presidential nudge. Yet behind the headlines, it's unclear how many Native Americans think "Redskins" is a racial slur.</p>

From the shootings at Fort Hood to the civil war battlegrounds of Somalia, 2009 revealed more jihadist activities involving Americans than almost any year since the 9/11 attacks, say experts. There were at least 12 incidents in total, not including the recent arrests of five Virginia men in Pakistan on suspicion of trying to join jihadist militants. With the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq fueling anger among some Muslim Americans, experts say jihadist propaganda is gaining a foothold in the United States, with hundreds of English-language Web sites. Radical English-speaking clerics such as Anwar al-Awlaki, who corresponded with Major...

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - What's in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu. At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the "H1N1 virus." "This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that's not what this is about," Vilsack said. Israel has already rejected the name swine...

A 70-year-old man working as Santa Claus says he was sacked from a Cairns department store for saying "ho, ho, ho" and singing Christmas carols. In a case of political correctness seemingly gone mad, retired entertainer John Oakes says he was fired from his job at Myer for his rendition of Santa’s famous laugh. His employer, Westaff, last month sparked national outrage when it ordered its Santas to say "ha, ha, ha" instead of "ho, ho, ho" because it could be derogatory to women but denied the words were a factor in Mr Oakes’s case. The word "ho" is also...

IN A move that spells trouble for half of Europe’s national anthems, Austria’s Minister for Women’s Affairs has demanded wholesale changes to her country’s paean to purge it of sexist references. Mentions of the “fatherland”, “great sons” and “brotherly choruses” should be replaced by gender-neutral terms such as “homeland” and “joyful chorus”, said Maria Rauch-Kallat, whose quest stands a fair chance of success. No matter that Austria apparently has the only national anthem in Europe written by a woman. “Our national anthem is discriminatory,” Frau Rauch-Kallat, of the centre-right People’s Party, said. “The federal hymn should be part of every...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivia's entrant in next week's Miss Universe (news - web sites) contest faced calls to quit on Friday after she described herself as being a tall, white woman and not a short Indian peasant. Miss Universe (news - web sites) candidate Gabriela Oviedo of Bolivia poses in swimsuit on her first round presentation show in Quito, May 27, 2004. The 2004 competition is being held in Ecuador and show will broadcast live from Quito on June 1. REUTERS/Diego Granja Reuters Photo The remarks by Gabriela Oviedo, 21, caused furor in Bolivia, one of the Western...

Scientists studying the DNA of 52 human groups from around the world have concluded that people belong to five principal groups corresponding to the major geographical regions of the world: Africa, Europe, Asia, Melanesia and the Americas. The study, based on scans of the whole human genome, is the most thorough to look for patterns corresponding to major geographical regions. These regions broadly correspond with popular notions of race, the researchers said in interviews. The researchers did not analyze genes but rather short segments of DNA known as markers, similar to those used in DNA fingerprinting tests, that have no...

In response to criticism from writers and publishers, the New York State education commissioner said yesterday that literary passages in state-administered tests would no longer be altered to delete unwanted words or phrases. "It is important that we use literature on the tests without changes in the passages," said the commissioner, Richard P. Mills. "I have looked carefully at the Education Department's current practices and the concerns of the writers and have directed that these changes be made." In recent weeks, Mr. Mills has received letters from prominent figures in literature, including the novelists Annie Dillard and Frank Conroy and...

Brian Dennehy says quot;nobody can imitate Bobby Knight,quot; so he does quot;an interpretationquot; of Knight in ESPN's quot;Season on the Brink.quot; An Interview on the Brink By Bill Simmons Page 2 columnist Three weeks ago, ESPN sent me to Winnipeg to spend one day on the set of the upcoming Bobby Knight biopic, quot;Season on the Brink.quot; After the requisite number of therapy sessions to deal with after-effects of spending 24 hours in Winnipeg in December, I was finally able to transcribe my interview with actor Brian Dennehy, who plays Knight in quot;Brinkquot; (my column about my day on the...