It's been weeks since the last one, so on Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured yet another cheery, upbeat article on single mothers. As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless -- even brave, says Ann Coulter. CfD notes*

These single motherhood advertisements include lots of conclusory statements to the effect that this is simply the way things are -- so get used to it, bourgeois America! "(A)n increasing number of unmarried mothers," the article explained, "look a lot more like Fran McElhill and Nancy Clark -- they are college-educated, and they are in their 30s, 40s and 50s."

Why isn't the number of smokers treated as a fait accompli that the rest of us just have to accept? Smoking causes a lot less damage and the harm befalls the person who chooses to smoke, not innocent children. Read On

It was the late hotel magnate Leona Helmsley who uttered the immortal words, "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes."

Helmsley apparently has been reincarnated in the persons of now Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle.

Geithner "forgot" to pay "only" $43,000 in back taxes and penalties. He paid the IRS shortly before his confirmation hearings when the "oversight" was brought to his attention.

Daschle stiffed the IRS for $128,000 (plus $12,000 interest and penalties), paying up just six days before his first Senate confirmation hearing. (He agreed to a Senate Finance Committee request to pay an additional $6,000 Read On

Falling Asleep after watching a traditional old movie on Turner Classics -- I woke up in the middle of the night to an in progress--never before seen movie of a young Jack Nicholson in "Carnal Knowledge" filmed at Amherst College in the late 1940s, with freshmen roommates Jonathan and Sandy developing an unnatural rivalry over their attempts at "scoring" on their dates with female students.

After decades of lovers, Jonathan played by Nicholson invites Sandy over - twenty years since their college days, the now jaded middle-aged friends are still far from understanding love in a committed relationship. Wealthy Jonathan complains about his alimony payments to his now ex-wife Bobbie and their child, while Sandy, desperate to recapture his youth, dates demure

When it comes to the selection of the President’s new assistant Attorney General nominee, David Ogden, pornographers and other smut peddlers will have no problem expressing their glee by reciting the quote made famous by Mr. Obama himself, a "change we can believe in." And how! Obama’s recent selection of David Ogden, as assistant Attorney General paints a dismal picture for pro-family and pro-life advocates around the country if he is selected. Former DOJ prosecutor Patrick Truman says that  Ogden, "while in private practice filed a brief before the US Supreme Court in support of child pornographer Stephen Knox." Essentially the brief, according to Truman, "asserted that … sexual exploitation of children (as expressed in child pornography) was protected by the First Amendment." Truman remembers the case well, his department he worked for once convicted Knox. Instead Ogden and the ACLU decided to challenge the conviction. Even skeptical reporters, said Truman, (who later reviewed the material in question), understood that Knox’s videos were indeed child porn. Read On

BLUECIFER  Rearing 32 feet high, the metallic blue mustang sculpture demands the attention of every traveler through Denver International Airport. But the wild look of "Mustang" is prompting some to wonder if the sculpture installed just a year ago should be moved somewhere less prominent. Alternate monikers suggested for the horse with the glowering eyes include "Bluecifer," "Satan's Steed" and "Blue Devil Horse.""What exactly was the deal with that horse?" said Rachel Hultin, a Denver real estate agent who's behind a Facebook site that derides the sculpture. About 28 million travelers last year passed by the rearing blue horse, located south of the main terminal. "It's not the image you want in your head as you're about to board a plane," said Christie Carlson of the Denver suburb of Thornton. "My daughter asked me 'Is that the devil's horse?'" Stan Ryland, a business development manager from Huntington Beach, California, isn't bothered by the horse's look. "That's what horses in the wild look like," he said as he waited to board a plane Saturday. "They survived the wilderness and the mean ones led the pack." Read On

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