Political correctness is officially out of control in New York City. According to brand new rules that were just issued by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, you could potentially be fined $250,000 if you purposely offend someone that is transgender. This includes such offenses as calling a transgender woman “him” when she wants to be called “her”, or not allowing a transgender... 

Norway’s state broadcaster, NRK, has put in place a 5-year plan in order to chip away at its mostly Norwegian workforce and talent. “The aim is to reflect the population to a greater extent than we do today” said Director of Broadcasting, Thor Gjermund Eriksen. Currently about 4% of NRK’s permanent staff are from a “multicultural background.” About 13% of Norway’s total population are... 

An angry mob retaliating over attacks on firefighters and police has ransacked a Muslim prayer house in the French island of Corsica. The crowd set books, including several copies of the Koran on fire. Tensions mounted in Ajaccio, Corsica’s largest city of some 65,000 residents, after a night of violence in Jardins de L’Empereur. Two firefighters and a police officers were injured in what... 

The Islamic nation of Brunei is again banning the celebration of Christmas, as its sultan has reissued an edict first put into effect last year that prohibits any public display of Christmas decorations and even the wearing of Santa hats. Britain’s Independent reported that the tiny nation’s ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (shown), introduced the ban on Christmas in 2014. Back in October 2013,... 

The Israeli town named after the birthplace of Jesus Christ has banned signs celebrating the holidays at an intersection in the town that has become a local battleground for the War on Christmas. Officials from Bethlehem, New York had a “Happy Hanukkah” sign and a “Merry Christmas” sign removed from a busy intersection and have refused to put up any new holiday signs out of fear the signs... 

Donald Trump, judging by polls as of December 21, 2015, is the most likely candidate to be the next president of the US. Trump is popular not so much for his stance on issues as for the fact that he is not another Washington politican, and he is respected for not backing down and apologizing when he makes strong statements for which he is criticized. What people see in Trump is strength and leadership.... 

A shocking report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development (MoED) for the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation (PFRF) is warning that a newly passed secretive law signed by US President Barack Obama last week virtually ensures the total enslavement of the American people to the Muslim world—“forever”. According to this report, this secretive new law... 

Even though the EU tries to control the situation with refugees from the Middle East, the police and the Europeans themselves have to admit: a wave of robberies and rapes has swept across Europe. At the same time, journalists, police officers and even European female residents are shocked that their male friends, lovers and even husbands are afraid to protect them from rapists and thieves. The police... 

Thousands of people have joined demonstrations in cities across Poland to protest against the new government’s attempts to take control of the country’s Constitutional Court in a lingering political row. The rallies against the actions of the month-old government formed by the ruling Law and Justice party were staged in more than 20 cities in different regions of Poland as well as in several cities... 

Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, and really any information with private corporations “notwithstanding any other provision of law.” The most vocal complaint involved CISA’s... 

Eren Erdem, from Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was accused of treason after he revealed that Turkey knew about Islamic State-bound shipments of deadly sarin gas passing through its territory. Ankara’s top prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation against a Turkish lawmaker after he revealed that Turkey knew about Islamic State-bound shipments of deadly sarin... 

Loring Wirbel, board member of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Colorado chapter and co-chair of the ACLU’s Colorado Springs chapter, called for supporters of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be shot before they vote for the billionaire businessman. Comparing Trump to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, Wirbel wrote in his Facebook page: The thing is, we have to really reach out to... 

In an effort to create a more inclusive environment, the University of Mississippi renamed its annual campus event “A Grand Ole Christmas” to “Hotty Toddy Holiday.” For more than six years, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) has celebrated the start of the Christmas season with a festive event called “A Grand Ole Christmas.” This year, however, the event was renamed “Hotty Toddy... 

It came down to the addition of a single word for the a tree lighting ceremony, but that word carried enough significance for borough Roselle Park Councilwoman Charlene Storey to resign. Minutes after the council voted 4-2 Thursday night to change the name of the ceremony from A Tree Lighting to A Christmas Tree Lighting, the councilwoman-at-large, left the meeting. She later submitted her letter... 

Residents of a town in Florida may be fined for performing Christmas carols on public sidewalks if a proposed city ordinance passes, a citizen is warning. City commissioners in Winter Park, Florida, will vote later this month on whether to pass an ordinance regulating street performers and creating “designated public performance areas” around the town’s Central Business District. But a Winter...