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Naturally, the U.S. media is following the terrorist crimes in Mumbai, India, as well they should. But, the attacks seem to be the Old Media's only interest where it concerns India and Pakistan, of late, for they've completely ignored the several mistakes that Barack Obama has already made with his attempts at foreign policy with the two embattled nations. Back on November 11, I noted that…

Kids spend more time with media than they do anything else, except sleep. Why are we surprised it impacts their behavior?

Did you know that the election of Barack Obama is the most historic moment in American history?You didn't?Well, it is according to "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher, who during a discussion about her butt -- what is it about liberals and gluteus maximi? -- actually told David Letterman so (video embedded below the fold, those disinterested in hearing her talk about her rearend should…

Here's something to be thankful for: Rosie O'Donnell's variety show flopped BIG TIME Wednesday night.All together now: Awwwwwww! As James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter wrote Thursday morning, "Rosie O'Donnell gave NBC a real turkey."According to the numbers, that's an understatement:

I'm shocked this is a CBS report. Nevertheless, I hope it touches you as it did me, and makes your day as it did mine:

In the interview for Wednesday’s Barbara Walters Special on ABC with Barack and Michelle Obama, excerpts of which were also shown on Wednesday’s World News with Charles Gibson, there was an obvious contrast with Walters’s interview with then-President-elect Bush in January 2001. After having pressed Bush with complaints from liberals about his choice of John Ashcroft as Attorney General, as she…

Marriage is not sexy.  That's the conclusion that readers might make after examining Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Sexiest Movies Ever."  Of the 50 movies on the list, 42 center on unmarried adult relationships.  Three of the relationships featured on the list occur between two women ("Kissing Jessica Stein," "Bound," and "Mulholland Drive"), one occurs between two men ("Yossi &…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Should we actually celebrate Thanksgiving in June? Long before the Pilgrims sailed in 1620, another group of dissident Christians sought a haven in which to worship freely. These French Calvinists, or Huguenots, hoped to escape the sectarian fighting between Catholics and Protestants that had bloodied France since 1560.Landing in balmy…

Joe Conason's column should be as chilling to conservatives as it is meant to be comforting to liberals.  His message: don't be distracted by the centrist-seeming appointments Pres.-elect Obama has made to his economic team.  He remains as committed as ever to his radical agenda.Conason's commentary appears this morning at Rasmussen Reports.  Key lines [emphasis added]:[W]hen liberals point to…

Barbara Walters invites Great Leader to "give" Thanksgiving message to "the people."  Great Leader obliges: be inspired by . . . me. Check out the clip of Barbara Walters's interview of the Obamas, aired on GMA today, and tell me whether you find something off-putting in the way Walters poses what is, after all, a very banal question. And then there's the President-elect's self-centered answer…

When it comes to environmental wackiness, how far gone is the New York Times?  Perhaps all we need to know is that in its editorial of today the Times calls the Kyoto Protocol [emphasis added]:a modest first effort to control global greenhouse gas emissions. Modest?  In terms of benefits, yes. According to Junk Science, it's widely acknowledged that the complete implementation of Kyoto would lead…