Howard Kurtz is a columnist for the Washington Post, but he fails to defend the integrity of a fellow reporter at his own newspaper. He recently posted a column about an ad by the McCain campaign that links Sen. Barack Obama with Franklin Raines, who allegedly committed “extensive financial fraud” while working at Fannie Mae, and Raines may have pocketed millions of dollars during its eventual collapse.

A former producer for the Playboy Radio show “Night Callas” has filed a hostile workplace lawsuit that alleges she was subjected to a sexual and racial hostile environment, the TMZ reports.

Fox News reports that, “Terri Hughes claims that during a live three-hour broadcast, she was repeatedly asked to enter the studio and wax the buttocks of co-host Christy Canyon.”

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has expelled two key Human Rights Watch activists from his country for a report that criticized Venezuela’s human rights record.

According to the BBC News, “the foreign ministry said Jose Miguel Vivanco, HRW’s America’s director, and his deputy Daniel Wilkinson had committed ‘serious violations.’”

A Democratic Tennessee state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, is the man being named on blogs and message boards in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account, a Nashville newspaper reported late yesterday.

The Dallas Blog has just received an email from an assistant of CEO Richard Allen of the Allen Group. Mr. Allen is a real estate developer, who is attempting to build industrial parks in the impoverished area of South Dallas County.

He recently ran into conflict with Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who wants to delay current development projects in the region for another 18 months so that a consultant could conduct an environmental impact study, which is called the ‘Interlocal Agreement.’ The Allen Group opposes the study.

The email states: “we just learned that the City of Wilmer will take up the Interlocal Agreement to address the Comprehensive Development Plan for South Dallas County this evening at 7:30 p.m. at Wilmer City Hall. Although he is not on the Agenda, we have been told that Commissioner Price will speak in favor of this issue … The Allen Group’s position has not changed.”

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The Los Angeles Times sounded blatantly sexist when posting an article about Sarah Palin’s future interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric.

The L.A. Times is quoted as writing, “oh, goodie. Maybe they can talk about shopping, the resale shops for those spiffy campaign suits, how to get the Palin beehive, what color lipstick looks best on pit bull leaders an what’s up with the tanning bed.”

Employees of the Dallas County Sheriff’s office were forced to attend a training session that promoted homosexuality and sexual diversity. As Dallas County voters already know, Lupe Valdez, is an outspoken lesbian, and she was elected into office in 2004, coming at a time when voters around the nation were rushing to ban gay marriage.

On Thursday, Senator John McCain said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that he believed the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission should be fired and the government should establish a new trust to help troubled institutions remain solvent.