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American TV News pretty much decided to sit out the Iranian election but there’s been no shortage of incredible reportage — from both MSM and new media. What struck me most was the role played by people like Andrew Sulivan and Nico Pitney at Huffington Post. They were not doing original reporting themselves — they…

Last night, I was trying to find out information about the horrifying situation and in Iran. I turned to CNN which had Larry King interviewing bikers. MSNBC had a documentary about prisons. FoxNews had the Huckabee show, talking about credit cards. Then I went to HuffingtonPost, TalkingPointsmemo.com and AndrewSullivan, all of whom had real-time YouTube…

John Zimmerman of NYU explains that the term “Hispanic” is: ..a recent invention, dating to the 1970s and ’80s. Before then, when Sotomayor was growing up with her Puerto Rican family in New York City, she was not Hispanic…. How did Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Panamanians, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans all become Hispanic? Amid…

“Occasionally i’ll ask myself “What would Jesus do?” It seems he eats and naps a lot.” –Comedian Jim Gaffigan

What an infuriating story. The Chicago Tribune (aka MSM) reports: The unmarried mother’s story about giving birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb hit a major nerve on the Internet. Every night for the past two months, thousands of pro-life moms across the nation logged on to a blog run by…

“The responsible white separatist community condemns this. It makes us look bad.” –John de Nugent, an acquaintance of James W. von Brunn, who opened fire at the Holocaust Museum. (From The Washington Post, aka MSM)

I always thought conservatives were being unfair in calling Jeremiah Wright a racist just because he was a black nationalist. Guess I was wrong: Apparently he says he hasn’t spoken to Obama recently since “them Jews” wont let him near the President.

After the George Tiller shooting I suggested that the Department of Homeland Security report about “right wing extremism” — villified by conservatives — may deserve some newfound respect. (I also questioned why on earth mainstream conservatives felt aggrieved in the first place). Early reports are that the man who opened fire at the Holocaust Museum,…

Religious conservatives have been attacking Obama for referring to the Islamic sacred text as the “Holy Koran.” Robert Knight of Corald Ridge Ministries says Obama’s speech in Cairo proved he has a “low view of Christianity” because, “If you’re a Christian, you don’t regard the Koran as a holy book of any sort. You regard…

There’s been a recent wave of blog posts by people who had late term abortions because the baby was dying or would die soon after the birth. (See Andrew Sullivan, Hilzoy and others) This comes after years of assertion from pro-life forces that most late term abortions are not to protect the life of the…
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