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Every week, it seems the Obama administration is granting another favor to the "LGBT" community, but the D.C. gay magazine Metro Weekly is especially thankful this November for obscure HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan for becoming the Cabinet's most pronounced gay-marriage advocate. Chris Geidner reported "U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan became the first sitting cabinet…

Via Fox Nation, we learn that The New York Times can find a liberal sermon in just about any holiday. At the Opinionator blog, philosopher Justin Erik Halldor Smith found pain and angst in the "dark parody" of the presidential pardoning of a turkey, since it reminds him too tenderly of the fate of death-row prisoners: He wrote, "In just a few days, we will once again endure the annual…

This is a good time to bring up something that’s been bothering me for a couple of years now. As someone who has made his way in the world all on my own and without the help of rich parents or family connections, do I resent the fact that Tim Russert’s son Luke has been shot by the cannon of nepotism into a job men twice his age and with ten times his experience only dream of? Actually, no.…

On Tuesday night, ABC's World News pulled out another story that sounded like a fan letter to the Obama campaign. ESPN's Rachel Nichols, who just happens to be married to Diane Sawyer's stepson Max Nichols, paid tribute to Obama "body man" Reggie Love, now leaving the White House. Love has been there for the small moments and the "landmark" moments, like passing the so-called "stimulus" bill…

I admit that I haven't kept up with trends in establishment press local crime coverage. But an item at Toledo-area blogger Maggie Thurber's place about a robbery-related story in Monday's Toledo Blade caught my attention. I hope the perspective Maggie saw on display is an outlier. I'm concerned that it may not be. You see, someone robbing a convenience store in the Glass City was killed…

A much-trumpeted "innovation" from Occupy footstompers is the so-called "human mic" whereby people in a crowd parrot the words of a designated non-leader to amplify his or her message. Examples of this creepy phenomenon abound, including this one helpfully provided by Occupy cultist Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show last night (video clip after page break) --

CBS's Early Show on Wednesday boosted a claim by Democrats that a recent Mitt Romney ad takes a line from a 2008 speech by then-candidate Barack Obama out of context. However, CBS noted at that time that Obama was using that line to counter a McCain campaign ad which played up the Democrat's association with left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers. Anchor Erica Hill raised the controversy over the…

On Tuesday's Early Show, CBS reporter Bill Plante explained the Obama strategy in the wake of the "super committee" failure: "He came out and put the finger on Congress. He's trying to use public disgust over the gridlock as a lever." Obama's line was exactly CBS's line on Tuesday's Evening News. Scott Pelley began the show by asking: "Tonight, did Congress kill the recovery? Stores worry…

Former poet laureate Robert Hass participated in the "Occupy Cal" campout at the University of California at Berkeley a couple of weeks ago – and in the latest example of knee-jerk left-wing Reagan-bashing in the Times Sunday Review: “Poet-Bashing Police.” The former poet laureate and his wife come off rather naive about life, pompously lecturing their unlettered fellow humans (who are nearly…

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann demanded an apology from NBC Wednesday for the disgraceful song that was played while she was walking on stage to be a guest on that network's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Monday. "This wouldn't be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama," Bachmann told Fox News's Bill Klemmer. "It shouldn't be tolerated if it's a conservative woman, either" (video follows with…

CNN's Gloria Borger has been covering Newt Gingrich for decades. (I still recall her in 1989 calling him a "frisky chipmunk," as in he "resembles a frisky chipmunk scurrying from idea to idea and storing too many bad ones.") But Borger on Tuesday night concluded he had a good debate. He was 'the good Newt, the smart Newt" and not the "negative nasty anti-media...Newt." It's true that Gingrich…

Jimmy Kimmel and company on Tuesday presented a fabulous video of "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" with the voices of Republican presidential candidates dubbed in. Take your conservative hat off for a minute and laugh along with the Peanuts gang:

The media are treating Thanksgiving like Halloween by whipping up one of their favorite bogeymen. ABC and NBC are now targeting canned food as potentially harmful to humans, because it contains a chemical that the media has long crusaded against: BPA, otherwise known as bisphenol-A, found in many plastics and packaging products. A study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that levels…

Melanie Hunter at CNSNews.com reports former Sen. Arlen Specter -- last seen switching from liberal Republican to Democrat to keep his Senate seat -- will serve as moderator and host of a new Sunday morning television program that is being developed as a pilot for government-funded public broadcasting. “The Whole Truth” is scheduled to be filmed for Maryland Public Television on November 29…