Ralph Blumenthal on Communist teachers dismissed from NYC schools: "It was the height of the Red Scare, and the nation was gripped by hysteria over loyalty and subversion....The Board of Education's purges came to be widely condemned as the city's own witch hunt..."

'Obama folks have gotten to the mainstream media,' according to gay activist.

NBC guest, ignoring evidence, suggests divorce is sometimes better for children.

Showtimes' series gins up controversy with unethical, immoral nurses.

ABC gives you all you ever wanted to know about contestant's sexuality -- and more.

Obama biographer and former Newsweek columnist claims politician used church attendance for votes and was 'lucky' Wright details didn't surface before Iowa.

Other panelists think governor went too far in the defense of her daughter.

Reports defend hook ups, barely examine larger issues of casual sex.

Host Matt Lauer grills Palin on her response to sexual joke about daughter.

Book editor Barry Gewen lavishes the highest praise on an ambitious new book: "The patriotism on display in 'The American Future' is hardly the narrow and cramped sentiment that in recent years has come to define love of country; it is not belligerent and defensive chauvinism, neither Dick Cheney's scowl nor Gov. Sarah Palin's ostentatious flag lapel pin."

Hosts eschew political correctness and talk biological fact.

Anderson Cooper gives abortionist Carhart an unopposed megaphone.

In a post on U.S. News & World Report blog Erbe ignores history, complains about a low-level nomination.