If you’ve been hooking up your internet modem to rip off basic cable, those days are over. Federal regulators are letting cable companies scramble all their TV signals, closing a loophole that lets many households watch basic cable channels for free. The Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to lift a ban on encryption of basic cable signals, saying it will …

Despite an online ballot-stuffing campaign by teabaggers such as Kevin DuJan, last night Bristol Palin finally got the hook on Dancing With The Stars.  Via CBS News: The Bristol effect, the surge of fan votes that kept Bristol Palin afloat and sank better performers, faltered in Week 4 as the 21-year-old Alaskan was sent packin’. Her ouster ends the specter …

As New Yorkers well know, it’s illegal for cab drivers to refuse fares to the outer boroughs. But we also know that it happens all the time. One such refusal has just lost a longtime driver his hack license after surveillance video showed him physically ejecting his Queens-bound passenger onto the street. Somehow the driver hasn’t been charged with assault.

Last week Peter LaBarbera hosted anti-gay crackpot Judith Reisman on his radio show, where the two of them agreed that gay activists are demonizing Christians “just like the Nazis used to do to the Jews.” The Jewish Anti-Defamation League has responded with a press release denouncing the comparison. No matter how strong one’s objections to any cultural, religious, or ethnic …

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“Christians don’t need to cower in fear of the demonic realm and all its mischief, nor be overly pre-occupied, but neither are we to mock and scoff and cavalierly enter Satan’s territory dismissing the danger. We are especially not to enable our children to do so. Another reason for skipping Halloween is its growing influence. It’s now the second most …

From YouTube’s song-a-day man. (Tipped by JMG reader David)

Andrew Sullivan points us to the true story: What actually happened was that in 2002 — prior to the election, not even knowing yet whether it would be a Republican or Democratic administration — a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. There were more …

An en banc panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling by three of its own judges, declaring that the Westboro Baptist Church can be banned from protesting military funerals from an hour before until an hour after the funerals take place. Westboro was represented by the ACLU. The case arose from an ordinance enacted by …

According to Forbes Magazine, the Upper East Side’s 10065 zip code is the most expensive place to live in the United States, with a median home price of over $6.5M.  All of the top ten are in New York or California, with the exception of Alpine, northern New Jersey’s hip-hop studded home to Sean Combs, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Russell Simmons, and …

The kids are her niece and nephew. She’s selling this on iTunes! The rapper isn’t identified.

This billboard near West Palm Beach, Florida is in the district of war criminal Rep. Allen West. Details: The group behind the “Stop Obama!” billboard is American Principles SuperPAC. At the group’s website, you can find all manner of anti-Obama ads, ranging from the standard attack on “you didn’t build that” to a billboard blaming Obama for gas prices that …

From a press release posted by GOProud: “This administration simply can’t be taken seriously when it talks about debt and deficit reduction when it chooses to spend money researching ‘gaydar’,” said Christopher R. Barron, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist for GOProud – a national organization of gay and straight Americans seeking to promote freedom by supporting freemarkets, limited government, and a …

NOM’s blogger Thomas Peters is promoting this clip over on his secondary site, Catholic Vote 2012.

Very cool, should it ever become available.

If you’ve heard of Dinesh D’Souza, it’s likely due to his lie-filled “documentary” Obama: 2016, which has grossed over $30M already.  Yesterday the evangelical magazine World exposed D’Souza as an adulterer in a recounting of a recent appearance he gave. D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has …