Friday's lead story celebrated the social media outcry among "the growing number of people online, mostly women, who decried what they view as the politicization of women's health care," which would later that day force Komen to capitulate to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Full Story..

More Texas liberalism in the "news" section: "The hypothesis here - and an election is a fast way to test it - is that even conservatives want government to function. Maybe they don't like the state's cuts in education and health and human services, or sitting in crowded traffic on underbuilt highway systems, or watching grass wilt in the face of a record drought in a state whose government won't finance its water plan."  Full Story..

Suddenly it's not courageous to disagree with the leaders of your religion: "Romney's Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church." Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein even showed respect for Mormon theology: "...it identifies with the immigrant experience, having fled persecution before settling in Utah; and it places a strong premium on keeping families intact, in this life and the next."  Full Story..

Jennifer Medina sympathetically covers the plight of California immigrants who were fired for failing to come up with proof of legal residence, but fails to ask the obvious question: Were they in the United States illegally or not?  Full Story..

Reporters Gardiner Harris and Pam Belluck claim that "Only a small percentage of Planned Parenthood's expenditures go toward abortion services." Yet the Times also admitted PP was "the nation's largest abortion provider." The reporters also decried the group "being the target of partisan investigations....So Komen's new rule effectively ended their long partnership and seemed to the health services provider an unacceptable betrayal of their common mission to save women's lives."  Full Story..

Well, it's slightly better than "greedy titan," which is the insult Times reporters relayed in January.  Full Story..

The Times online has "Room for Debate" to mock some religions, including Mormonism: "I wouldn't buy the underwear just yet....[the Mormon Church] has used its mobilizing genius to pursue political goals, and individual Mormons have obeyed like sheep." Would the Times mock the rituals of devout Muslims or compare them to sheep?  Full Story..

The Times sees in Romney "a willingness to descend into the muck and run a relentlessly negative campaign....Mr. Romney has never been especially squeamish about negative campaigning. As jarring as his tone has seemed over the past 10 days, he has a long history of resorting to such tactics."  Full Story..

Did the Times learn nothing about rushing to judgement from its Duke lacrosse "rape" hoax debacle? Even as the case fell apart, the Times issued a now-notorious, error-riddled 5,000-word story concluding there was enough evidence for the soon-to-be-disgraced local prosecutor to bring the case to trial. Now, the Times has another college sports expose from another bastion of privilege, Yale University. Richard Perez-Pena's bombshell, based on anonymous sources, involves an informal campus accusation of sexual assault against Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who turned down the chance to becoming a Rhodes scholar to play against arch-rival Harvard.  Full Story..

Breaking with standard Times practice when liberal activists challenge conservative rule changes, reporter Denise Grady gave far more news space to supporters of the change wrought by Obama, beginning and ending with a Fordham University birth control activist.  Full Story..