Charlotte Paper: Stop Being Afraid of Transgenders!

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First it was the boogie monster, followed by the Sandman and Dracula. And now, the latest to join the list of irrational fears people have: the Transgender. The Charlotte Observer has decided it knows why people are opposed to those with male genitalia sharing the bathroom with their daughters: they’re just scared of the idea, but they don’t need to be. 

ABC Books Real O’Neals For Second Season Despite Bad Ratings

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ABC decided yesterday that anti-Catholic shows are worth keeping afloat a little longer even when ratings continue to drag. Despite pushback from conservative and Catholic groups, ABC renewed its new sitcom The Real O’Neals for a second season, Deadline reports.

‘Hulk’ Actor Tells Grads to Spread Lefty Agenda

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Mark Ruffalo makes a better Hulk than a commencement speaker. The Oscar nominee best known for his role in The Avengers, Shutter Island, and Spotlight, addressed this year’s graduates from Ringling College of Art and Design yesterday.

It’s Not Easy Being Cancelled: ABC Mercifully Shutters Muppets Show

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After only one season, ABC has cancelled the reboot of The Muppets. The show was supposed to be an instant success (who doesn’t love Kermit and Miss Piggy?), but the reboot took on a dark and edgy flair that didn’t resonate with fans of the original Muppets. Instead of sticking to what made the original Muppets a classic, this new batch used their TV platform to push a social agenda. One episode…

WashPost Sneers: Finally ‘Christian Movies for the Rest of Us’

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Matt Philbin
Someone really should come up with a typesetter’s font for when our liberal betters to use when forced to write about things they disdain. We could call it “Helvetica Sneer,” and it would save busy cosmopolitan authors a lot of time and trouble.
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'Scandal' Character: I'm a Republican, I Don't Believe in Education

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Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes took a really lame swipe at Republicans tonight. I realize I could say that every week, but tonight's episode "That's My Girl" was especially pathetic. She had former RNC head and campaign manager Elizabeth North ramble to Attorney General David Rosen that because she's a Republican, she doesn't believe in college and that education is worthless. 
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Conan Makes Fun of Evangelical Christians for ‘Hating’ Gays

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Torn between fighting both Donald Trump and gays, evangelical Christians are “depressed” and out of “energy,” according to one comedian.

NYT Op-Ed: Supremacy Of Western Philosophy 'Hard to Justify'

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Western civilization and its philosophical underpinning are overrated, according to leftist university students and faculty and many members of the media. Each year they try their best to take Western philosophy courses down more than a few pegs in academic importance and sometimes even replace them. The New York Times’ opinion page featured a column Wednesday undermining the value of Western…

Media: Gay Cartoon Characters Needed to Fight Bigotry of Parents

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Straight Disney characters are so 2015! Elsa should just let it go and embrace her inner lesbian princess. That’s what LGBT supporters are demanding of Frozen and other Disney films. And now Washington Post writer Jessica Contrera has noticed the absence of gay characters in Disney as well. There have been some ambiguous relationships between minor characters, such as the two male antelope…

Salon: Orcas and Caribou Have ‘Normal’ Abortions Just Like Humans!

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Abortion is just a part of nature, according to one liberal writer. Earlier this month, Salon published a story with the subhead, “What do whales, caribou and humans have in common? Abortion as a response to ill health and resource scarcity.” For the liberal site, writer Valerie Tarico, who describes herself as “pro-abortion,” insisted that human abortion is an “ordinary but important part of…

NBC’s ‘Chicago PD’ Flips the Phony Narrative of #BLM

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In Wednesday's episode of NBC’s Chicago PD, “Justice,” the honesty of one of that network’s Chicago-centric shows was in full display. Instead of spiraling down into justifications for the Black Lives Matter social justice warriors and their completely discredited lie of “hands up, don’t shoot” chants and riots, the other side was shown – that of the cops involved. 

Latest Lefty Complaint: Bud Using the Word ‘America’ (Yes, Really)

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Well, we can all thank Anheuser Busch for coming up big in the left’s perpetual hunt for something – anything! – to be offended by. In a recent Fusion article titled “Budweiser’s marketing department is out of control and needs to be stopped,” Jason O. Gilbert goes off against the decision by Budweiser to temporarily rebrand its label to say “America.” Although Donald Trump has jokingly already…

ESPN the Leader in Push for Lefty Sports Media Change

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Matt Philbin
Yep. It’s not your imagination: Sports journalism – long a bastion of reflexive liberalism – is only getting worse. Last summer MRC Culture presented 10 Reasons ESPN is MSNBC with Better Video. We can add dozens to the list. And it isn’t just ESPN. 
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Samantha Bee Show: Pro-Lifers Are ‘A**holes,’ ‘D*ckheads’

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Many abortion supporters are in favor of one choice: abortion. Or at least that's what comedian Samantha Bee’s show seems to claim. On Monday night, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee dedicated a segment to bashing crisis pregnancy centers. Together with comedian Patton Oswalt, Bee tried to label the centers as “bullsh*t,” “dickheads” and “assholes.” Instead of dutifully exploring both sides, the…