Somebody's inventing Jesus
Brittney Cooper, a woman and gender studies and Africana studies professor at Rutgers University, said religious conservatives must have a different God than she does.
Already in hot water for her Holy Week essay "The right's made-up God: How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus," the self-proclaimed next generation black intellectual said religious freedom laws like the one recently passed (and amended) in Indiana are "driven by conservative Christian men and women who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class Jew, doesn't even meet all the qualifications."
The hate didn't stop there.
Cooper, as reported by The Blaze, also wondered if she worships "the same God of white religious conservatives," noting that the "white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy.
"This God isn't the God that I serve. There is nothing holy, loving, righteous, inclusive, liberatory or theologically sound about him," she added. "He might be 'biblical' but he's also an a------."
She described the Jesus she knows as a "radical," a "feminist healer" and "potentially queer."
Crossing the line
Dylan Gwinn, in his new book "Bias in the Booth: An Insider Exposes How Sports Media Distort News," reveals by mixing the silly and serious how left-wing media bias has crossed the line into sports.
He writes, according to Brietbart reviewer Daniel J. Flynn, how while liberal HBO host Bill Maher owning a piece of the Mets is hardly noticed, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh even thinking about buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams created a media firestorm. Similarly, he mentions how sports writers openly root for gay NFL player Michael Sam but deride conservative Christian Tim Tebow.
And, he said, while the same people knock Tebow's stance on abortion, they cheer running back Adrian Peterson's on-the-field exploits but don't call him out for fathering seven children out of wedlock. They also choose to ignore American Indians who speak out in favor of the Washington Redskins' nickname but give a platform to those who don't like it.
Gwinn also touches on the Duke lacrosse rape fabrication case, naming ESPN reporters Lester Munson and Bomani Jones, who kept their jobs after mangling the coverage, and Selena Roberts, who "completely [messed] up this story for the New York Times" but went on to a "multiple six-figure job writing for Sports Illustrated."
Oh, there's also that we-have-to-get-rid-of-football-because-of-its-violence story. In his reporting, the author says he came across a federal study showing that NFL players outlive, and commit suicide far less frequently, than their peers outside the league.
Are women ready for Hillary?
Things can change, but the record of the president for whom Hillary Clinton worked, Barack Obama, may not be the one she wants to take on the campaign trail -- especially where it concerns women.
As Clinton prepares to announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, the number of women leaving the workforce is at an all-time high, according to Brietbart News. And the labor force participation for the past month was 56.6 percent, a 27-year low, according to CNS News.
The official female unemployment rate for women is 4.9 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the unemployment rate for women at the same point during the George W. Bush administration was 4.5 percent.
Carly Fiorina, a former chief executive officer at Hewlett Packard and a potential 2016 GOP candidate, noted recently that 3 million women have fallen into poverty in the last six years and 1 million fewer women are working.
Obama's policies have "strangled community banks that provide most of the loans to families and women-owned businesses," she said. "They crush the small businesses that create most of our new jobs with taxes and regulations until only the big, the powerful and the wealthy can survive."
Still fibbing
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is on his way out, but he couldn't even admit in a televised interview last week to telling one of the biggest fibs told during the 2012 presidential campaign -- that Republican nominee Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes.
Instead of fessing up, he admitted "of course he paid taxes" but lied again when he said the former Massachusetts governor didn't "let us see" them.
However, not only did Romney release his tax returns but he released two decades of returns, showing not only that he paid every dime owed but that he was incredibly charitable with his money.
Unfortunately, interviewer Jorge Ramos didn't know the facts and didn't call out Reid on the second lie. But he ended the interview by asking Reid, again, if he had an apology for Romney.
"Oh, none whatsoever," he said. "None. Zero."
Classy.