Tag Archive 'Political correctness'
Bookworm on Jan 10 2013 | Filed under: Abortion, Iran, Political correctness
Tweet It’s hard to imagine a more politically incorrect belief system than Islam. The seriously Muslim world stands for women without legal rights or physical freedoms, wife beating, honor killings, child brides, capital punishment for female adultery, and capital punishment for homosexuality. President Barack Obama, however, feels that Turkey’s Erdogan, a hardline Muslim, is his [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2012 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Military, Political correctness
Tweet The rule of war used to be that you hated your enemy. That made it easy to fight your enemy. Then, starting with the first Gulf War, the new rule was that you felt sorry for your enemy. By the Iraq War, the rule had become, you’ve got to like and respect your enemy. [...]
Bookworm on Dec 10 2012 | Filed under: Europe, Lefties on Parade, Political correctness, Race
Tweet My father, alev ha-shalom, had forgotten more about English — his third language — than most people will ever know. In addition to reading novels and non-fiction for pleasure, he would amuse himself reading dictionaries, grammar books, and stories about the English language. (In that last genre, my favorite was one called Word Origins and [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iraq, Military, Political correctness
Tweet One of the most iconic British World War I recruiting posters had as its goal shaming slackers into enlisting by reminding them that, at some future time, their children would want to look up to them for their war service: The Obama administration has just added a whole new twist to the concept of [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2012 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
Tweet One of the many blessings of our American military is that it’s a Constitutional military that has as its Commander in Chief a civilian elected by the American public. (Although history has shown, fairly recently in fact, that the American public sometimes elects bad CinCs.) Because the elected CinC is frequently someone without military [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2011 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Tweet Back in 1987, when he was campaigning for President, one of George H. W. Bush’s advisers suggested that he back off from spouting minutiae to the electorate and spend some time focusing on the big picture, So that he could better sell himself to Americans. According to contemporaneous reports, Bush, Sr., was not impressed: [...]
Bookworm on May 05 2010 | Filed under: Political correctness
Tweet With the publication of Jonathan Alter’s new book on the first year of the Obama administration, a lot of unsavory details are leaking out about No Drama Obama (Mr. Calm and Collected) and his crew. We already know now that Obama refers to those Americans who oppose him as Tea Baggers, a sexually unsavory [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2010 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet In the early television era, one of the most innovative and imaginative shows around was Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Certain episodes were so compelling that they entered the popular imagination, and are familiar to anyone over 30. One of the most brilliant episodes, shown in 1961, was It’s a Good Life, based upon [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Political correctness
Tweet Michael Yon, Joan Rivers and a little boy clutching the Play-Doh his grandparents gave him. That looks like a peculiarly disparate list of people but, in fact, all three people are bound together by one thing: the TSA Department of Homeland Security. As you already know, on Monday, the TSA Customs detained and handcuffed [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, Elections, England, Political correctness
Tweet When parents think about what a school should do for their children, they think in terms of the three “Rs,” plus a lovely layering of science, history, and other subjects that maketh a full (and employable) man. The politically correct Nanny State, however, cares little for education and a great deal for ideology. It [...]
Bookworm on Dec 02 2009 | Filed under: Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet Pierre LeGrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar has a disturbing post. In it, he reprints part of a message from someone who claims to have been on a recent flight that was disrupted by a large group of obviously Muslim men aggressively flouting airplane safety rules. As you may recall, in the wake of 9/11, Anne [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Islam, Political correctness, Socialism
Tweet American Thinker is a site I check regularly, at least twice a day. It’s not just that the editors are kind enough to publish my work occasionally. It’s because the articles that appear there routinely range from really good to out-of-the-park stupendous. Today, there are two that fall in the latter category. These are [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Education, Political correctness, Race
Tweet I remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal. If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off. Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from our academic institutions. That’s [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Jihad, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times. In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil. In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians. And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges. Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior. As my cousin, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Military, Political correctness
Tweet Do I think all American Muslims are terrorists? No. Do I think the American military should bar Muslims? No. Do I think the American military should stop actively recruiting them and providing them with radical Imams? Oh, yes (emphasis mine). The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an “anomaly,” an “aberration,” a “lone [...]
Bookworm on Oct 29 2009 | Filed under: Education, England, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet Horrible story of what happens when political correctness and fear of a violent minority group culminate in a school that saw the administration look the other way for fear of offending those violent minority sensibilities. This, by the way, is how that paralyzing political correctness, a sensiblity that saps courage and morality, begins.
Bookworm on Sep 20 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Identity politics, Islam, Political correctness
Tweet We’re getting near the tail-end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that requires dawn to dusk fasting. Now, I’m a gal who enjoys noshing during the day, so I’m not thrilled about abstaining from food and drink for 10 hours. I’d be especially unhappy if it was a hot day, ’cause any type of [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet In an earlier post, I directed your attention to the incredibly disturbing footage of Pakistani village authorities brutally whipping a teenage girl before a throng of men, because she violated Sharia norms by being seen in public with her father in law. The footage is disturbing on many levels, not the least of which [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence, Political correctness
Tweet A young British woman, raised in the North of England, escaped her abusive Muslim father and converted to Christianity, a fact that saw her father lead an axe wielding mob clamoring for her death. She wrote a book about her experience. When the Times interviewer asked why she didn’t seek help from the authorities, [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England, GBLT, Political correctness
Tweet In the world of presidential elections, we’re watching the fascinating spectacle of clashing identity politics. Neither Hillary nor Obama has a strong resume (or even a medium resume). Each is distinguished from the other, and from others in the field (remember Silky Pony?) solely because of gender or race. He’s black (sort of); she’s [...]
