This writer has always been one to cheer on the efforts of legitimate news organizations, from top to the little weeklies at the bottom of the heap. But in the case of Rupert Murdoch’s empire

The United Church of Christ (the UCC) has done it again. The mainstream Protestant denomination of some 1.2 million in the U.S., the modern incarnation of its Plymouth Rock and abolitionist

Last weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” anchor David Gregory repeatedly ignored the comments by Virginia’s U.S. Senator Jim Webb about an “Munich moment” in the

With the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office calling the outlook for the U.S. economy “daunting,” Washington is rapidly approaching an ideological paralysis promising to make

Mediocre comedian Tracy Morgan’s angry outburst last week, an out of control tirade against gays, was most troubling for his claim that if his son turned out to be gay, he’d kill him. A

The story of the suicide of a young man at age 38 has brought to light the destructive “aversion therapy” to which he’d been subjected as a youth, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper