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But, in recent years things have gone badly off the tracks at Fox News. Fox News is no longer a truthful center-right news network. The channel (especially the leading prime-time opinion programming) has contributed substantially and directly to: - the unnecessary deaths of many Americans by disparaging the wearing of life-saving COVID masks; - divisions in our society by stoking racial animus and fueling the totally false impression that Black Lives Matter and Antifa are engaged in nightly, life-threatening riots across the country; - the unnecessary deaths of many Americans by fueling hesitation and doubt about the efficacy and safety...

The play-by-play announcer said Westbrook was 'out of his cotton-picking mind' The Oklahoma City Thunder suspended play-by-play announcer Brian Davis for one game following his racially insensitive comment about Thunder star Russell Westbrook. During the Thunder's final regular-season game on Wednesday night, Davis said that Westbrook was "out of his cotton-picking mind" following a nifty assist by the guard.

GOT SCREWED, USA -- Complaining about officiating is a time-honored sports tradition. It's much easier to believe your team got screwed than it got whupped because anger is more manageable than sadness. It's sour grapes, plain and simple. But, America, please forgive Seahawks fans if they sound a little bitter and paranoid after the rest of the country got its sweet, little fairy tale with Jerome Bettis winning Super Bowl XL in his hometown of Detroit. It just seems a bit too tidy, considering how things went down. Here's the rub: No intelligent person, and that includes Pittsburgh fans, watched...

Accustomed as I am to being called names — "twit," "liberal weenie" and "pinko commie hack" being the regulars — there was something unsettling about the calls and e-mails that flowed in response to Saturday's piece on Garrison Keillor's startlingly vitriolic shots at U.S. Sen.-elect Norm Coleman. Call me whatever you want, but when the tone among 65 messages is about evenly "split" between those accusing me of being "another media stooge of the Republican Party" or (even scarier) "a welcome antidote to the liberal bias of the Pioneer Press," something more needs to be said. Supporters of Keillor's columns...