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The February ratings are out and it shows a nasty picture for Fox with O'Reilly leading the nose dive. CNN is not in the top slot for the entire day with a 4% increase in viewership over the last year. FOX is in second, down 13% and MSNBC is in third with an increase of 47%. Don't forget also that MSNBC is the top rated news site on the internet so they also have that market cornered now.

During the 8pm slot (when O'Reilly and Olbermann are on), Paula Zahn is number 1 (down 3%), O'Reilly is number 2 (down 21%) and Olbermann is number 3 (up 55%). This has to really piss O'Reilly off.

You can view the entire ratings here. KingOneEye at DailyKos has more.

A judge has ruled that intelligent design can not be taught in Pennsylvania
classrooms:

HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology
classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said
Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since
the 1925 Scopes trial.

Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they
ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on
Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge
John E. Jones III said. Several members repeatedly lied to cover their
motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.

The school board policy, adopted in October 2004, was believed to have
been the first of its kind in the nation.

"The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the
Board who voted for the ID Policy," Jones wrote.

The board's attorneys had said members were seeking to improve science
education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin's theory
that evolution develops through natural selection. Intelligent-design
proponents argue that the theory cannot fully explain the existence of
complex life forms.

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I can imagine that a war will be waged against this judge and he will soon be
coined as an "activist judge" by the right wing radicals. This is a victory for
America and keeping it as a secular nation. The judge also had a strong message
to send to the individuals pushing for ID to be taught:

O'Reilly spoke out yesterday trying to defend himself and his comments about
San Francisco

I mean, look, everybody knows what?s going on there. What I said isn?t
controversial. What I said needed to be said. I?m sitting here and I?m
looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None.
You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you
would not have voted against military recruiting. Yet the left-wing,
selfish, Land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have
embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace.

Poor Bill. Everyone in this country does wrong except him. He feels he is
perfect and soon will get hit by the truth.

Think
Progress has much more on this story.

Back in August, when Camp Casey was in full swing outside of Bush's Crawford
Ranch, the right wingers found some information they loved. That information was
about Cindy Sheehan having past tax troubles. She had acquired some liens
against her property over the years for a problem that many Americans face. It
was a great talking point for the right. I even remember O'Reilly and Limbaugh
trying to discredit her because she did not do her patriotic duty of paying her
taxes.

Now lets see what the right will say about Supreme Court Nominee Harriett
Miers.

Washington -- The year Harriet Miers began work as a senior presidential
aide in the White House, the city of Dallas slapped three liens in three
months on a property she controls in a low-income minority Dallas
neighborhood, records show.

The city placed the liens in 2001 to force her to reimburse it for
clearing the vacant lot of tall grass, weeds and debris after Miers failed
to have the work done herself, as required by city law, and after she did
not respond to city notices to maintain the property.

It was not the first time the city had to take action. Records show that
since Miers assumed power of attorney for her ailing mother in 1995, the
city has issued seven other liens on vacant lots that Miers controls in the
same neighborhood around Tipton Park.

All 10 liens, totaling less than $2,000, have been paid, a city spokesman
said.

But the failure of Miers, a former Dallas City Council member, to comply
with city law, and her slow response in reimbursing the city, run counter to
her image as a meticulous, detail-oriented attorney who is always well
prepared.

Full article

here.