This month about 35 million children will arrive at 98,000 public elementary schools nationwide, and James A. Garfield Elementary is one of them. Parents want Garfield to be a happy place, and by and large it is. The principal calls…
How could an elitist anachronism be so popular in today’s egalitarian society? How could someone who almost gamed Western civilization itself be so enthusiastically endorsed by a multitude of viewers? How can there exist a man without any limitations? Ask…
It would be hard to come up with a more extreme example of San Francisco political correctness run amok than The Lamplighters’ — the city’s venerable Gilbert & Sullivan company — recent production of The Mikado, which, under duress, switched…
It’s the start of new school year, so it’s time to hear bizarre stories from the nation’s universities — those politically correct hothouses where seemingly intelligent people enforce rules that appear to have been designed in an insane asylum. After…
We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents and other academic “leaders” caving in to so many outrageous demands from little gangs of bullying students that it is a long overdue surprise to see a sign that at least…
The thesaurus, the much-maligned tool of dimwit strivers, enjoys a resurgence at Princeton of all places. The Ivy League school’s human resources department issued guidelines that exclude words relating, even obtusely, to males from job postings aimed to “reflect the…
Saturday’s ESPN Broadcast of Football’s Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremonies marked a symbolic end of an era for the once proud network. First came the announcement that longtime analyst Tom Jackson was retiring, followed by a rare public appearance by…
Boulder, Colorado has plenty of city parks with boring names. Foothills Community Park, Bluff Park, and Pineview Park come to mind. So when the Boulder Human Relations Commission — itself a caricature of Boulder’s PC culture — decided to rename…
Over the past four years, climate change activists have been working to find ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They’ve developed a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) against those…
Over at Mediaite, Rachel Stockman tells people to get off their high horse regarding Katie Couric’s lies regarding her gun control documentary: Really? For an 8 second editing issue, that wasn’t even her doing? For something, that during the screening,…
