June 18, 2013
Tony Katz Tonight tapes some of its test run episodes. Join Tony for a conversation about the economy, Jason Collins and what is considered a slur? On the show Tony welcomes satirist Evan Sayet, lawyer and author Kurt Schlichter and actress and blogger Kira Davis
June 14, 2013
“And all you Liberal leftists were complicit in these crimes against humanity, you could have stopped this years ago, but you deliberately chose not to. The BBC, the Guardian, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Child Protection Agency, the politically correct police service; I accuse you and the entire Liberal establishment of deliberately covering up the multiple rapes and ruined lives of countless vulnerable young girls because of your utterly immoral and obscene attitude towards your own people.” Paul Weston, Liberty GB Party
Posted in Europe, Islam, Political Correctness, Sex Crimes
June 7, 2013
Bowing to pressure from its Muslim host country, the Miss World beauty pageant has announced that it will cut its famous bikinis and replace them with the traditional Indonesian sarong.
In this year’s contest, the more than 130 contestants will be sporting the traditional longer sarongs worn in Bali instead of the revealing, sexy bikinis that have always been part of the competition, pageant officials have decided.
The contest will be held on Sept. 28 on the resort island of Bali and in Sentul, areas near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
“There will no bikini in this year’s Miss World pageant to respect our traditional customs and values,” Adjie S. Soeratmadjie of the RCTI, the official broadcaster and local organizer, told media outlets.
“This is a sensitive issue in Indonesia. We have discussed it since last year and they have agreed,” Soeratmadjie said.
The decision is a major departure for the Miss World competition. Even its first winner in 1950 wore a two-piece bathing suit during the show.
A few weeks ago the government had urged the Miss World staff to dump the bikinis and instead wear a kebaya or a batik, both of which are form-fitting, long dresses with a higher, open bodice situated above the cleavage.
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Posted in Islam, Political Correctness
June 2, 2013
One factor that usually goes into a discrimination claim is proof that the plaintiff is a member of a minority class. “Obviously, this element cannot be used in cases involving ‘reverse discrimination’ against a member of the majority class,” Lype says. “Therefore, several federal Circuit Courts have modified this requirement in ‘reverse discrimination’ cases so as to require that a ‘majority plaintiff’ instead submit proof of ‘background circumstances’ to show that the employer is atypical in that it discriminates against members of a majority class.”
A former ADA has filed suit against District Attorney Seth Williams, claiming he descriminated against her because she’ white.
A former Philadelphia assistant district attorney has filed a lawsuit against her old boss, claiming that District Attorney Seth Williams discriminated against her because she is white.
MK Feeney worked in the District Attorney’s office for 15 years, but claims the climate changed dramatically when Williams was elected to the top post in 2010.
Feeney claims she was fired after getting on the bad side of a favored black employee. According to the lawsuit, Williams instructed the office’s hiring committee to seek candidates who “look like Philadelphians” in the plurality black city.
“Defendants engaged in a policy, practice and custom to consider race in connection with employment decisions,” the suit alleges, “and treat non-white employees more favorable than similarly situated white employees, including . . . disciplining white employees more harshly than non-white employees . . . promoting non-white employees into open positions over qualified white employees . . . removing qualified white employees and replacing them with non-white employees . . . waiving job requirements for non-white employees but not for similarly situated white employees.”
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Indie bands like Madison Rising need the power of social media more than a Radiohead or Rolling Stones. So when the conservative rockers’ cover of The Star-Spangled Banner caught fire on sites like Facebook and Twitter last month it was very good news, indeed.
That social media love abruptly stopped, and it took weeks before the band’s manager Richard Mgrdechian found out why. The answer has Mgrdechian wondering if the band’s conservative bent made it a target.
Four weeks ago the band received a publicity push from a $10,000 gift from billionaire Bob Parson that coincided with its upcoming tour. The manager says the band’s online chatter spiked, as did the number of Facebook “likes” it received. People were sharing the band’s cover of The Star Spangled Banner in particular, he says.
On May 6, the band watched as those social media figures started to shrink. The following day the band received the first of hundreds of messages from fans saying their links to the The Star-Spangled Banner YouTube video had been deleted on Facebook. Soon, hundreds of fans were reporting the same thing, according to Mgrdechian. Fans who tried to repost the YouTube link found that no matter how many times they tried they couldn’t successfully get it online.
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June 1, 2013
The reality is as oppressive as it is instructive: If you want to know what life will be like when the left controls ALL of American society, simply look at how the left uses its power to suppress dissident thought on university campuses.
At California’s San Jose State University recently, a book critical of the global warming hoax was burned in public to show that no dissent is allowed from the global-warming- is-destroying-the-planet mantra – and the burning was done not by students but by two professors from the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science.
No one should be surprised that the two professors have not been disciplined for their action. In fact, they probably got high-fives from their colleagues in the faculty lounge.
Higher education in America is in crisis, but the crisis goes largely unreported – and it has nothing to do with escalating tuition costs. The crisis in higher education is the abandonment of standards resulting from the tyranny of political correctness.
Book burning is one manifestation of this tyranny, but other incidents of violence and intimidation area regular occurrence if you are paying attention.
The contemporary university claims the right to police itself in the name of academic freedom. The problem is that the people responsible for maintaining standards and overall governance, the trustees and regents, have largely abandoned traditional roles and standards in deference to the new orthodoxies that are defined by and enforced by political correctness.
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Posted in Education, Political Correctness, Radicals, Tom Tancredo
May 28, 2013
The arrests come at the behest of British Muslims, who fear a backlash against them following the murder of Royal Regiment drummer Lee Rigby.
British police are arresting people in the middle of the night if they have made racist or anti-Muslim comments on Twitter following the murder of a soldier by two Muslims in Woolwich, London.
Three men have so far been taken into custody for using Twitter and Facebook to criticize Muslims.
In the Woolwich attack, Lee Rigby, a drummer in the Royal Regiment of Fusliers, was run down in a car and then hacked and stabbed to death by two men with knives and a cleaver. They told a man video recording the scene that it was vengeance for the killings of Muslims by the British Army.
One man has been charged with “malicious communications” on Facebook, the Daily Mail reports.
Two others have been arrested under the Public Order Act on suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred. The police are now arresting people based on mere speech in social media, a detective said in a statement to the press:
‘The men were arrested under the Public Order Act on suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred. Our inquiries into these comments continue.
‘These comments were directed against a section of our community. Comments such as these are completely unacceptable and only cause more harm to our community in Bristol.
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Posted in Europe, Islam, Law & Courts, Murder, Political Correctness
May 27, 2013
State lawmakers in Texas have passed legislation that permits public schools to display nativity scenes, menorahs, or Christmas trees, and allows students and school district staff to use greetings such as, “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Hanukkah,” and “Happy Holidays.”
According to Fox News in Austin, the legislation (HB 308), introduced by Rep. Dwayne Bohac (R-Houston) and dubbed “The Merry Christmas Bill,” received overwhelming approval in the state house, by a margin of 145-2, and was passed unanimously in the state senate, 29-0. The bill will now be sent to Gov. Rick Perry (R) for his signature.
“I was a little flabbergasted and a little upset that we’ve become so politically correct that we can’t call a federal holiday by its name,” Bohac said. “Teachers have enough on their plate to worry about the school districts going to be sued or if they can call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree.”
Bohac said there are two pending lawsuits in Texas related to the use of traditional holiday greetings in schools. “Tales from Christmas Past” provides stories, posted on the bill’s website, submitted by citizens who write of oppression and threats of firings against teachers if they say, “Merry Christmas,” to students or exchange cards or gifts at school.
However, Linda Bridges, president of the Texas branch of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed the bill, questioned the importance of the legislation.
“I think we really have to say does this help education when we are caught up in discussions that have become pure partisan discussions that is not the way we should be looking at education,” Bridges said.
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Posted in Holidays, Law & Courts, Political Correctness
May 22, 2013
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender and other “studies” were among the price of academic peace. All too often, these “studies” are about propaganda rather than serious education. Academic campuses have become among the least free places in America. “Speech codes,” vaguely worded but zealously applied to those who dare to say anything that is not politically correct, have become the norm.
An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.
As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object.
Although there were professors and administrators in the room — including the college president — apparently nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm trooper tactics. Nor is it likely that there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires above the rights of others.
On the contrary, these students went on to demand mandatory campus “teach-ins,” and the administration caved on that demand. Among their other demands are that courses on ethnic studies, and on gender and sexuality, be made a requirement for graduation.
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Posted in Education, Political Correctness, Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2013
“Amun was threatened by other Somalis in Sweden for blowing the whistle on their jihadist activities. But she was also criticized by Swedish scribblers for blaspheming the belief that diversity is the highest good. As a result, she has given up on the West and is going back to Mogadishu.”
This refugee story is quite the opposite of what one usually sees. Instead of going straight to the welfare office for an array of free stuff, Somali woman Amun Abdullahi attempted to contribute to Swedish society by reporting as a journalist about the jihadist group Al-Shebaab, an al Qaeda spinoff, operating in a Swedish city.
Amun was ostracized and threatened by other Somalis residing in Sweden for blowing the whistle on their jihadist activities. But she was also criticized by Swedish scribblers for discussing an unpleasant topic that blasphemes the belief that diversity is the highest good. As a result, she has given up on the West and is going back to live in Mogadishu and work as a teacher.
It’s a shame that Swedish society couldn’t embrace a courageous woman willing to tell the truth about the largely hostile Muslim tribe which Sweden continues to import.
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Posted in Europe, Immigration, Islam, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness
Get off the Rubio bandwagon (Video)
Glenn continued, “listen to me. It is worse than universal health care. And in the coming days as we get closer, we will explain why it’s worse than universal health care. It is the death nail of the country. There’s no recovery from this one. None. No recovery."
Adam Carolla on Liberal Media Bias: You’re ‘Insane’ Not to Admit it Exists
Adam Carolla knows liberal media bias exists because he’s seen it up close and personal. So when he watches the mainstream press ignore President Barack Obama’s hypocrisy he simply chalks it up to more of the same.
Hollywood’s Hatred of American Culture
Find out how the negativity and self-loathing of modern Hollywood is just a small gear in the machine that brings down entire nations. What can we do about it? Well, we can walk right into the heart of Mordor and destroy the Ring of Power.
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