Neetu Chandak A Mississippi high school’s band performed a depiction of a scene from the movie “John Q” in which characters are held at gunpoint for its halftime show. The performance occurred days after two police officers were shot and killed. The school’s band director was placed on leave. A high school band in Mississippi…
Can a society which welcomes diversity find room in its group hug to embrace truth? One would think that the answer should be yes. After all, if every person, idea, or viewpoint is allowed, then why not truth? Sadly, the answer seems to be no, at least according to the Alberta Department of Education. As…
Chuck Ross New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio was captured on camera telling a homeless woman that he could not speak to her about the city’s affordable housing crisis because he was in the middle of his workout. “I’m in the middle of doing my workout,” de Blasio told 72-year-old Nathylin Flowers Adesegun after she…
How did we arrive at a point in our history where gangs of hecklers chase politicians from restaurants, where senate hearings have lost all decorum, where family members and friends part ways over politics? Every day brings new examples of incivility and violence. In the last twenty-four hours, I have casually browsed several sites…
Neetu Chandak Kent State University in Ohio canceled its fall musical of West Side Story after complaints that non-Hispanics actors were picked over Hispanic students to play Puerto Rican roles. West Side Story is a version of Romeo and Juliet that takes place in the 1960s with Polish-American and Puerto Rican street gangs. Three of the leading Puerto…
Neetu Chandak More than 50 colleges are endorsing the inaugural International Pronouns Day on Oct. 17 to “make asking, sharing, and respecting personal pronouns commonplace.” “Just as it can be offensive or even harassing to make up a nickname for someone and call them that nickname against their will, it can be offensive or harassing…
Evie Fordham A 49-year-old German woman was trampled to death by an elephant while she tried to photograph the animal at a game reserve in northern Zimbabwe Wednesday. “The information we have is that the tourists encountered a herd of elephants when they were entering the park and they started taking pictures,” Zimbabwe parks and…
Nick Givas Double amputee Marine veteran Joey Jones mocked author Warren Blumenfeld, on “Fox & Friends” Monday, for wanting to change the definition of the word veteran to include diplomats and conflict resolution activists. “Can we as a nation begin now to consider expanding the category of ‘veteran’ to include the diplomats and the mediators,…
Nick Givas Political commentator Dan Bongino said Democrats are fearful of rapper Kanye West, because he is challenging their narrative about the Republican Party being evil. West delivered a pro-Trump speech during “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend and claimed producers pressured him to remove his MAGA hat before going out on stage. West remained defiant and…
On September 20th, four Dutch children, ages four to eight, were killed when a passenger train struck their electric cargo bike at a railroad crossing in the town of Oss. Two of the four dead were sisters, a third sister was badly hurt. The Dutch public reacted with shock and sorrow. People traveled from all…