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A gig by comedian Roy “Chubby” Brown has been pulled by a local council which thought his politically incorrect humour was not “appropriate” for the venue. The comic was due to perform at the Festival Hall in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, which is

Oscars host Chris Rock came under fire from at least one prominent actress and some commentators and social media users for a joke involving Asian children during Sunday night’s telecast.

A schoolboy has been hauled out of class and interviewed by police after he accessed the UK Independence Party’s (UKIP’s) website on school premises, which teachers deemed to be “politically incorrect.” His father has reacted furiously, warning “they’re like the

Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

The University of Iowa (UI) has dedicated two rooms of the Iowa Memorial Union as a prayer space for its growing Muslim student population, which is required to pray five times per day.

German bathroom manufacturers are developing “multicultural toilets” to help ensure Middle Eastern migrants need not adapt to European sanitation norms. Multiple reports have emerged of recent arrivals finding themselves utterly “mystified” by Western loos. Some have resorted to doing their

Veteran British comedian and actor John Cleese is disturbed by modern society’s rampant hypersensitivity and thus avoids visiting college campuses due to political correctness, he said in a recent video.

This weekend brought the dramatic news that four of Twitter’s top executives were departing: product head Kevin Weil, media head Katie Stanton, human resources vice president Skip Schipper, and engineering chief Alex Roetter.

“Hand-wringing” by authorities and their focus on politically correct multiculturalism mean serious problems in ethnic minority communities have not been addressed, according to David Cameron’s ‘equalities tsar’. Louise Casey (pictured above with Mr. Cameron) heads up a Government review of opportunities and

Longtime members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are speaking out after the organizations’ Board of Governors voted unanimously Thursday to approve a dramatic overhaul of its voting rules and organizational structure in an effort to increase diversity at the Oscars and across the broader film industry.

“Family Guy” Creator Seth MacFarlane and HBO host Bill Maher argued that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “is largely a result of a backlash to political correctness” on Friday’s “Real Time.” Maher began the discussion by stating, “It used to

On Friday, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher suggested politically correct campus protesters are actually the same as the Oregon militia members who took over a federal building, and wondered, “if it is a microaggression, shouldn’t it just make you

The kind of political correctness that often infiltrates news stories in America is even more common in Germany where public broadcasting rarely criticizes the open-door immigration policies of the center-left government.

The new Wonder Woman movie, with actress Gal Gadot wearing the hero’s bullet-proof wristbands, has comic fans and super hero movie buffs excited, to say the least.

New Trier high school student Celia Buckman has written a passionate defense of her school’s mandatory day of “racial identity” education on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

New Trier High School student Celia Buckman has written a blog at the Huffington Post slamming the “haters” at Breitbart, as well as local parents, who criticized the school district’s plans for mandatory “racial identity” classes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama used the words of Pope Francis during his visit last fall to strengthen his call for further openness, specifically toward Muslims in the United States, and as a challenge, particularly to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

On Monday, January 10, Young America’s Foundation announced that it would be sending Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Ben Shapiro on a tour of college campuses around America to battle the resurgent campus radical left.

Since Obama bundler Chris Sacca led the board of directors coup to fire CEO Dick Costolo in June, Twitter has fallen from number 3 to number 7 in social media popularity, and the stock price has lost $12 billion in value.

Legendary television writer-producer Norman Lear believes today’s TV news networks are failing the American people by hewing too closely to political correctness.

Sunday, on New York’s AM 970 “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz ripped the culture of college campuses today in America. He called college students “humorless” over safe spaces, political correctness and the war against free speech. [Relevant portion begins at the 7:12 mark] “They

A musical act mocking Bruce Jenner in the annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade in Philadelphia is drawing the ire of the city’s mayor, LGBT groups, and others.

One of mathematician Alan Turing’s most famous achievements — the one most people associate with his name, although a recent movie did much to change that — was his formulation of a test for artificial intelligence.

The Church of England has vowed to fast-track black and ethnic minority clergy into positions of authority, accusing itself of institutional racism. The Church will identify a “talent pool” of ethnic minority clergy this year, who will be mentored with

Tina Fey’s Netflix series “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” has been accused of racism — but the series co-creator and former 30 Rock star doesn’t really care if viewers find the show offensive.

In efforts to turn their campuses into over-sanitised and politically correct “safe spaces”, British universities deny the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” leading academics have warned. Professor Richard Dawkins recently told students who cannot handle hearing anti-transgender views to “leave, go home, hug

The Telegraph is promoting an obscure petition calling for “right wing” comedian Andrew Lawrence to be banned from the BBC after he joked that feminists could kill themselves to achieve gender equality. Mr Lawrence, who is well-known for his politically

In an article published at Foreign Policy and widely circulated in mainstream media circles, i.e., Yahoo, GOP candidates are being pilloried for their opposition to jihad, sharia and ISIS infiltration here in the United States.

An all female feminist festival has come under fire from “a provocative transgender campaign” for insisting that attendees are not “physically men”. Campaigners have directed “bullying and violent language” at those associated with the festival, calling them “racist” and “bigoted… rich, white,

Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) reacted to reports that San Bernardino attacker Tashfeen Malik received a K-1 visa despite social media posts that indicated she had become radicalized by arguing, “you wonder if the existential threat is just ISIS…or is it also

A strong contender for dumbest “Star Wars” story is MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sobbing over the crypto-racist messages she distilled from the central character of the saga. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation,” she wailed. “Yeah, like, the part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones, who, and we were all, but while he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men’s hands, and didn’t, you know, actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white.”

A leading European art museum has expunged politically incorrect words such as “Negro”, “Indian”, “dwarf” and “Mohammedan” from its entire historical collection.  The cultural cleansing has occurred as the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, and is endorsed by the International Council of

The Texas Imam who publicly agreed with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s suggestion that America set-up a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” until further investigation can be done, has been forced to resign. The Imam also said that more than 100 Houston, Texas, area Imams have been asked to leave because of a “political agenda.”

Alabama’s senior and junior senators took Attorney General Loretta Lynch to task this week for saying her “greatest fear” following the San Bernardino Islamic terrorist attacks is of anti-Muslim backlash.

Parents at a Norwegian school were left astounded when the school asked permission for their children to take part in a Christmas ritual in which children dance around a tree singing carols. Some questioned just how much further schools will

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee argued gun control advocates wouldn’t accept restrictions on the First Amendment “imposed on them by people like me” and that people are afraid if they report suspicious activity “they’re going to