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Keith Olbermann, who is still smarting from his departure at MSNBC, used a recent interview with Cenk Uygur to criticize the cable network’s hiring Al Sharpton. “For Olbermann, however, who has an uncanny knack for avoiding the facts,” writes the media watchdog Accuracy in Media, “it was just another opportunity to take a potshot at his former employer…

by Ash Greyson Beliefnet Managing Editor Move over Lady Gaga! Sorry, Justin Bieber! Nice try, Harry Potter! According to Allfacebook.com, a website that tracks Facebook traffic and interactions, six of the top 20 most engaging Facebook pages are related to faith. The new Harry Potter film just set the all-time record for weekend ticket sales,…

Even though he calls himself an “unapologetic social conservative,” Texas Governor Rick Perry and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, says he’s so dedicated to states’ rights that the state of New York’s approval of gay marriage is fine by him. Perry opposes same-sex marriage, but said that the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which…

Fox News topped the list while America On Line’s Huffington Post scored dead last in a just-released American Customer Satisfaction Index ranking the public’s trust of Internet news and information sites. If there was a surprise, it was that for the second consecutive year FoxNews.com finished at number one. Among journalists, Fox News often elicits a…

Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed he carried out Friday’s bombing and murder spree at a youth camp — and published a 1,500-page “manifesto” on the internet before launching the bloodbath — faces a maximum prison sentence of 21 years. The death toll now stands at 77 for the explosion in downtown Oslo and the shootings at a summer camp…

In a landmark legal brief that reads more like one from the ACLU or a gay legal group, the U.S. Justice Department argues that homosexuals exhibit immutable characteristics, have suffered a history of discrimination and that the federal government’s marriage law is driven by prejudice. The legal brief — called a watershed moment by gay…

Consumers in the U.S. are increasingly using credit cards to pay for basic necessities as income gains fail to keep pace with rising food and fuel prices, according to the Bloomberg Letter. The dollar volume of purchases charged grew 10.7 percent in June from a year ago, while the number of transactions rose 6.8 percent,…

Beliefnet’s Robert Mims observes: “The horrific terror attacks in Norway Friday — and that’s what they were, whether perpetrated by Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, or home-grown extremists as it appears to be in this case — led to a lot of initial knee-jerk bigotry.” Blame in on the Christians . . . Muslims, Republicans, Democrats, etc. In…

Singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in Camden, north London, at the age of 27. Winehouse joins a long list of rock singers who met their demise at age 27, including Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. The London Ambulance Service was called to her apartment just after…

Officials have a suspect in custody in Friday’s bomb attack in Oslo, Norway, and a murderous youth camp rampage 50 miles away. Seven have been confirmed killed in the Oslo blast, and reports are unconfirmed of as many as 80 killed in the summer camp shooting. Both the bombing and the shootings may have been…
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