President Bush said Friday the national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — in a blunt rejection of a new Spanish-language version. However he was quiet on whether or not it could be sung in Ebonics (lyrics below).
National Anthem
(”otay buh-weet”)
Yo, say can ya see,
By da sun’s f’early lightin’,
What up proudly we’s be […]
NCAA declines 3 appeals on Indian mascots
Using its strong arm tactics to applease even its most politically correct critics, the NCAA has rejected appeals from North Dakota, Illinois, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
“The NCAA has a responsibility to make sure its events are treated with respect for all and making sure that the environment […]
“Radical academics do not, of course, burn down buildings, at least not since the 1970s. Instead they introduce motions of no confidence and demand resignations of those who offend their sensibilities (while insisting on complete freedom of speech for those with whom they agree — free speech for me but not for thee!).”
- Harvard’s Alan […]
We already know that San Francisco doesn’t want the battleship Iowa as a waterfront museum (see our posts here, here, and here). To that city, the Iowa represents the military and war, which are by their definition bad things. But when Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval went on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes last week to talk about […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Rosenblog shows us how you can get from
1) the website for a Berkeley conference on reparations to black Americans for slavery
to …
2) information on the UC Berkeley Black Graduate Student Association SKI TRIP (!)
in just one click! (click on ‘blog’ on struggle4reparations.com)
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A sidebar in the L. A. Times’ Current section this morning summarizes, without comment, the lefty bias of college faculites today. For instance:
Academics who identified themselves as left or liberal
• in 1984 39%
• in 1999 72%
Academics who identified themselves as right or conservative
• in 1984 34%
• in 1999 15%
The sidebar is paired with editorials covering […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A 17-year old student wants to stand out and be noticed. He does this by sitting while others stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. Other students tease him–no doubt for being a grandstanding idiot–and he is lectured by his teacher for being ungrateful and unpatriotic. He is now suing the school district for damages in […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)While shopping at Target today, Independent Sources was asked by four members of Code Pink to not purchase any “war” toys.
Here was our response…
If power swords and zap guns are leading to the moral decline of this country, so be it. Unfortunately, the protesters were gone before my son could try out his new […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Did Bill Cosby, Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Louis Louis Farrakhan, and Whoopi Goldberg team up to shut down David Chappelle? Defamer points us to a web site that makes compelling reading on the subject.
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I just came across a book (albeit from 2001 so I’m kind of slow to the mark on this one) called Will They Fly a Plane in our House? It is about teaching kids about terrorism. As you can imagine, it alternates between inane and ridiculous. Every family is different but we are going to […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Story update:
Child-killing Lionel Tate is back in court having heard voices that told him which Florida statute to cite to get a court-order psychiatric evaluation. We’ve posted a lengthy update to the original story here. One thing the voices forgot to tell him was that he was eating Twinkies the day he beat Tiffany Eunick […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)We all make mistakes but somehow the politically correct ones seem funnier. Michelle Malkin has posted this:
CNN anchor Carol Lin referring to the two French teenagers of Tunisian descent whose death sparked the Paris riots as “African-American.”
It turns out that this isn’t the first time this type of mislabeling has happened. In a review of […]
What would happen if someone made a Hollywood blockbuster film, starring A-list celebrity Julia Roberts, about an activist who later turns out to be a fraud? If you are the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), you honor her.
We are of course talking about Erin Brockovich who convinced her firm to bring action against […]
National Post
A Toronto District School Board memo sent to principals and teachers this week say that teachers should forgo traditional classroom Halloween celebrations because they are disrespectful of Wiccans and may cause some children to feel excluded .”
“Halloween is a religious day of significance for Wiccans and therefore should be treated respectfully.”
Uh oh, witches […]
Evidently no one bothered asking Muslim women in Australia what they think of the new police policy but presumably someone can beat it into them. They also need to be told that “equal protection under the law” no longer applies to them now that a far-too-politically-correct “diversity” handbook instructs officers to treat Muslims, Aboriginal, […]
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