It's come to this
Not even your kindergarten children are safe.
In Bainbridge Island, Wash., kindergarten teacher Karen Keller decided to make her stand for gender equity by not allowing boys in her class to play with Legos.
"I always tell the boys, 'You're going to have a turn,'" she told the Bainbridge Island Review. "And I'm like, 'Yeah, when hell freezes over,' in my head."
Keller said her ban occurred because she saw boys gravitating toward Legos and girls, who she said may not have felt comfortable getting into them, usually playing with dolls and crayons. By giving girls access to the building toys, she said she hoped to improve their spacial and math skills.
Dori Monson, a conservative host on Seattle's KIRO Radio, applauded the teacher's desire to improve the girls' math skills but thought the plan to keep them from boys was misguided.
"Why do we have to change things like that?" wondered the father of three daughters. "If girls want to play with dolls - and my girls were never into dolls - but if girls want to play with dolls and boys want to play with Legos, why do we have adults in the public schools who feel like they have to make a social statement about gender equality?"
Monson said the action is an example of today's damaging politically correct society.
"If I was a parent of a boy in that class," he said, "I'd get them out of there we've gone insane in our public schools.No laughing matter
No laughing matter
Hillary Clinton's handlers apparently don't have much of a sense of humor. They're demanding, according to a Judicial Watch blog, that a brief video of jokes about the Democratic presidential front-runner be removed from the Laugh Factory website and that they be given the phone numbers of the comedians who told them.
Jamie Masada, who opened the comedy club chain more than 30 years ago, was not amused and hung up on the prominent staffer he would not identify.
"They threatened me," he told Judicial Watch. "I have received complaints before but never a call like this, threatening to put me out of business if I don't cut the video."
Masada, no right-winger and a blogger for the liberal Huffington Post, insists the stage is a sanctuary for freedom of speech no matter who is offended.
"Just last night we had [Emmy-award winner] Dana Carvey doing Donald Trump," he said, "and it was hilarious."
The video features five fairly unknown comedians making fairly standard gags mocking Clinton's wardrobe, Monica Lewinsky and her age.
Reaping the whirlwind
Democratic presidential icon Woodrow Wilson is now in the sights of Princeton's Black Justice League, which has demanded his "racist legacy" be acknowledged and his name be removed from Princeton campus buildings.
Wilson, who was known as a progressive in his two terms as the 28th president of the United States, 1913-1921, apparently now is despised by some who call themselves "progressive" a century later. In the same way former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Democrat Andrew Jackson have been demonized because they owned slaves, Wilson has been called out for his segregationist views and because some believe he supported ideas of the Ku Klux Klan.
The group wants his name off a residential college, off the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, and off other buildings, and that his mural be extracted from the dining hall.
Princeton's president, Christopher Eisgruber, following in the spineless example of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, who resigned amid protests at the school, offered only "platitudes," according to Breitbart News, in defense of the former Princeton president.
"I appreciate where those demands are coming from," he said. "I agree with you, Woodrow Wilson was a racist In some people, you have good in great measure and evil in great measure."
So, today, more than a century after Wilson in his book "New Freedom" talked of how ridiculous the Founding Fathers' notions of limited government and "checks and balances" were, his reputation is reaping the whirlwind of those ideas.
The usual two-way street
Imagine for a moment if conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh had made the following statement, and imagine the outrage that would follow:
Recently on the daytime television gabfest "The View," the hosts were discussing the fact some Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a 2016 presidential candidate, had called for only Christian refugees to be allowed into the United States.
Brilliant panelist Joy Behar opined that it's "not very Christian" to say that, according to Mediaite, but then unfiltered liberal Whoopi Goldberg, who rarely has a good word to say about the Christian faith, let loose.
"There are a lot of monster Christians," she said. "Hitler was a Christian."
People have been removed from the television posts for less. Goldberg, no doubt, will continue her slanted rants.