Jordon Cooper is named in the top 100 informative blogs  in a student study at Carnegie Melon University. Congrats JC.  There are a couple of faith blogs on the list, and a couple of none US blogs. A couple are portals, and various specific styles of blogs are well represented such as law, entertainment, meta, political and tech.

The family of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder has won it’s court case against Westboro Baptist Church (a self described Primitive Baptist branch by the Phelps family hate group) in the US. The Phelps have been banned from Sweden, Canada and laws have been passed in 22 states limiting funeral protests.
The Snyder family won $2.9 million for compensatory damages and $8 million for punitive damages. Religion News Blog

A&E has immediately suspended production of Dog the Bounty Hunter, the reality show starring Duane Chapman’s bounty business and family. NYT:

A&E responded swiftly, saying in a statement last night that it “has just learned of the story released by The National Enquirer concerning Duane Dog Chapman.”

“We take this matter very seriously,” the channel said. “Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded, we will take appropriate action.”

Chapman family publicists immediately went into spin mode, quoting the minister that married Chapman and his common law wife in a lavish TV ceremony. TMZ:

Pastor Tim Storey, an African-American, told us that he spoke with Dog, who cried for 30 minutes, saying, “I’m shocked, I’m wrong I repent. Can you believe, Tim, that I’m going to be put in the same category as Imus.”

Pastor Storey, whom USA Today has referred to as “Pastor to the stars,” told TMZ, “I was shocked, because I don’t know that to be Duane.” He went on, “I felt that he had to be accountable to what he said. When I asked him what took place, why he said it, he said that he was angry with his son about many things.”

The pastor, who performed Dog and Beth’s wedding ceremony continued, “The subject of his son’s girlfriend came up, and in his anger he then attacked that relationship and then therefore challenged the girl by saying she wasn’t good enough.”

Pastor Story said, “What shocked me was that he used the N word. I know he’s not a racist. He’s been to black churches with me to help inner-city kids.”

The pastor said he talked to Dog three times today and he apologized, saying he wasn’t angry at the girl, it was anger toward his son.

Chapman also contacted Al Sharpton as part of damage control. The audio tapes are raw, racist, inflammatory and self-centred and self-serving, as he talks about his son’s Tucker girlfriend.
No word on who Chapman was talking to, who released the tapes to media or the date this conversation occurred.

Dog the Bounty Hunter - wiki
A & E - In Dog We Trust