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The paper's education reporter Sam Dillon again worries about the "hodgepodge" that results when states, as opposed to the federal government, control what's taught in schools: "The United States is one of the few developed countries that lacks national standards for its public schools."

Media also skip history of terror attacks on U.S., call knife-wielding activists 'foreign aid workers.'

Article on Huffington Post Religion blog argues college students lack the ability to love, but have plenty of sex.

The Washington Post has omitted crucial details in 60 percent of D.C. murder case coverage.

Weigel's 'Right Now' piece latest example of his attacks on conservatives.

Newspaper promotes expensive expansion of 'free' distribution effort

Contributer John Blake criticizes athletes who praise God during sporting events

Actress Cynthia Nixon appears on 'Today Show' to discuss new film, but ends up talking about same-sex marriage in New York

Jim Wallis, who believes the Gospels are redistributionist, calls out Glenn Beck for questioning Obama's faith-based initiative act to merge EPA with churches.

The front page of Saturday's New York Times screamed how "Arizona Law Reveals Split Within GOP." Fair enough. But the Democrats are ostensibly in worse shape, having publicly and visibly denounced (with the President of Mexico) a popular law that nearly two-thirds of Americans support.

Michael Brick's update from Austin on the ideological fight over Texas textbooks follows the paper's usual pattern of pretending the only ideologues in the fight are "conservative," failing to identify protesters as left-wing or liberal.

After writing up a pro-amnesty protest involving a grand total of four student marchers in January, reporter Julia Preston followed up with "an escalation of protest tactics" at Sen. John McCain's office in Arizona. By "escalation," Preston evidently means "from four protesters to five."