Politisch Korrekt

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Germans loved to refer to themselves as das Volk der Dichter und Denker (the people of poets and thinkers). Indeed, my home ...

4+3 Be What?

First came that menstrually segregated "€œmosqueteria."€ Then their Che Guevara lesson plan. Has the always entertaining Toronto District School Board outdone itself with its ...

What’s So Bad About Discrimination?

About two months ago I mentioned my disappointment that Raleigh, NC lacked Southern culture, only to be informed in the comment section that true sweet-tea-drinking Southerners ...

When High Heels Come to Boot Camp

Two female soldiers are suing the US military for "€œviolating the rights of servicewomen by excluding them from certain military positions and from ground combat units because ...

It’s in Their Culture

We are endlessly told that white people are racist and that white men are sexist. But in my experience people of a different color are much more racist and men of a different ...

The PC Gods Must Be Crazy

Every time a human sacrifice is made to appease the gods of political correctness, the Sane Community yells questions such as, "€œWait! What exactly did the person do that was ...

A Confederacy of Censors

I"€™m living in North Carolina right now. When I first moved here, I thought I"€™d see people hanging out on their front porches, drinking whiskey with a splash of sweet tea, ...

Rosa Parks (center)

Throwing People Under the Bus to Stop a Runaway Vehicle

The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of making tactless remarks about race recalled a question that's been bothering me for decades. Why ...

Martha Plimpton

Thank You for Offending Me

Lee Aronsohn co-created Two and a Half Men. Lee Aronsohn executive-produced The Big Bang Theory. Last week, Lee Aronsohn pissed off the feminist community. Taking the third point ...

Mick Jagger

Who Breaks a Cockroach on a Wheel?

A scandal has raged this past week in England involving racially insensitive Tweets that landed the racially insensitive Tweeter behind bars. Liam Stacey was targeted and caged ...

Indian Wells, California

Thought Police on the Tennis Court

Here we go again, sports fans! During a recent tennis match between two professionals in Indian Wells, California, a racial comment uttered by one of the players has the usual ...

Tom Cruise in Magnolia

Turning Cads Into Klansmen

I spoke too soon when I reported back in January that women no longer have any problems. The armchair Freedom Riders at the weirdly named Southern Poverty Law Center (or ...

Ingrid Bergman

Rush and the New Blacklist

The original “Hollywood blacklist” dates back to 1947, when 10 members of the Communist Party, present or former, invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House ...

Forgetting the Alamo

"€œRacial incident mars high school game,"€ San Antonio's KSAT reported March 5. "€œSchool district, students apologize."€ What now, you ask wearily? Another (fake) ...

This Week in Atonement

Who says American manufacturing is dead? The nation has cornered the international market on making amends. Apologizing is a thriving industry. Call it Big Sorry. It wasn"€™t ...

Girl Scout Kooky

At my first and last Brownie meeting, I hid in the community-center bathroom for two hours while the other girls played jumpsies, screeched like pterodactyls, and did other scary ...


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