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What three people do you think have had the worst influence on American culture? I don't mean by public figures who successfully passed legislation that hurt our country, but those who's public lives dragged our culture down by normalizing or advocating a negative behavior.

CBS Offering Katie Couric $60 Million CBS is offering Katie Couric $60 million over five years to anchor the network’s "Evening News,” according to a report – LESS than the $15 million a year she is currently paid as host of NBC’s "Today.” CBS apparently felt justified in making the lower offer because Couric would be on the air for only 30 minutes a night, compared to three hours on "Today,” the New York Post reports. But Couric’s salary at "Evening News” – which has been stuck in third place for a decade – would be "only a portion of...

Earlier this month, the Drudge Report revealed that the official 'Kerry For President' website was riddled with obscenities. A top campaign spokeman offered the outrageous explanation that a "virus" had caused the profanity to be peppered over hundreds of pages. But it was quite interesting that the "virus" just happened to sprinkle the offenses into the website's content in a grammatically-correct way. The campaign stated that the website would be cleaned up, and the offending words were replaced with asterisks. Now, a Google search of Democrats.org, the official website of the Democratic National Committee reveals that Kerry's site is not...