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No Rest in Peace for Gay Rights: Times Mars Memory of Cracker Barrel Founder

Pushing gay rights in the obituaries: "Danny Evins, who created Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a restaurant heavy on grits and nostalgia, expanded it into a $2 billion chain and then fought a ...

Bruni Forwards Supermarket Scanner Urban Legend About George H.W. Bush

Frank Bruni: "But he walks a tightrope, wanting to broadcast his success without seeming out of touch. A wealthy candidate's aides guard against tone-deaf admissions of privilege while opponents ...

ABC's Karl Despairs GOP Has 'Lost Only Candidate...Concerned About Climate Change'

"With Huntsman gone," ABC's Jonathan Karl despaired Monday night, "the field of Republican candidates has lost the only candidate who favored civil unions for gay couples and said he was concerned ...

Another Hollywood Actress Flacks for Planned Parenthood

Gyllenhaal echoes abortion shop's boilerplate in trashy women's magazine.

Networks Excoriate the 'Nasty,' 'Dirty,' 'Notorious' Politics of South Carolina

In the days leading up to the GOP primary in South Carolina, all three networks have aggressively attacked the state and its supposedly "dirty," "nasty," "notorious" politics. Echoing many other ...

Wisdom From Rosenthal's Sunday Review: 'Romney's Meticulously Cultivated Whiteness'

Contributor Lee Siegel: "Mitt Romney is the whitest white man to run for president in recent memory....He knows that he offers to these people the white solution to the problem of a black president."

Araton Says 'Sideshow' Tim Tebow Shouldn't Have Met Brain-Damaged QB After Loss

Hypocritical Times columnist Harvey Araton deigns to give a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback advice on both religious practice and athletic leadership, mocks him: "...the scene was a ...

NBC's 'Today' Touts Colbert Spoof Calling Mitt Romney a Serial Killer

At the top of the 8 a.m. ET hour of NBC's Today on Monday, fill-in news anchor Tamron Hall promoted a fake campaign attack ad created by comedian Stephen Colbert which argues that if Mitt Romney ...

Schieffer Warns Viewers DeMint is 'South Carolina's Very Conservative Senator'

CBS's Bob Schieffer decided his viewers needed a special warning about how far out of the mainstream an upcoming guest dwells, plugging at the top of Sunday's Face the Nation how he'd have as ...

NYT Public Editor Responds to Koch Industries, Laments Paper's One-Sided Liberal Opinion Slant

Writing on the hostility to Koch Industries that dominates the paper's opinion and critical writing, Public Editor Arthur Brisbane admitted he "would be happier if The Times had a more diverse ...