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Works tail off running with pack

(NEWSER) - One little Chinese dog will run for food—and run and run. In fact, the short-legged fluffy white stray ran 1,100 miles with a pack of bikers after one of the athletes shared some of his munchies with the pooch. The crew climbed 12 mountains in less than 25 days, and many dropped out before the trek was over. The little pup, nicknamed Xiaosa or Little Sa by the group, has become a national hero after fans followed the odyssey on a blog started by one of the cyclists, reports the BBC . "She was lying, tired, on the street" in a town in Sichuan province, one cyclist told the China Daily . "So we fed her, and then she followed our team" all the way to Tibet. "That dog showed very strong will power," he added. "I don't think we could have made it without that enthusiasm." The cyclist is adopting the dog—once they make it back home. More»

Dana Milbank thinks Obama's taking the pandering just a bit too far

(NEWSER) - Good news, Barack Obama. You may not be the first black president (that would be Bill Clinton), but you are the first gay one , and apparently the first woman, too. That's how Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is interpreting yesterday's schedule. Eager to exploit his advantage over Mitt Romney with the fairer sex, Obama made his fourth appearance on The View, then gave the commencement speech at the all-female Barnard College. "Heck, he even appeared in public wearing a gown," Milbank quips. More»

Her looks have absolutely no relevance: Erin Gloria Ryan

(NEWSER) - The world was aflutter this week over pictures of Hillary Clinton sans makeup, with Matt Drudge and Fox News acting particularly smug about the whole thing. “I guess we're all supposed to gasp and feel faint, to acknowledge that yes, Hillary Clinton is a real live human with monstrous, terrible flaws, and this is the pictorial proof of that,” writes Erin Gloria Ryan on Jezebel . It’s not just Clinton: Our society is obsessed with these au naturel moments, but both sides of the conversation are “unnecessary and dangerous,” Ryan writes. More»

He launches Facebook group for conservative women

(NEWSER) - Updates in the Rush Limbaugh chronicles:

• Rush Babes: He has created the National Organization for Rush Babes to tweak the National Organization for Women, which is continuing to encourage advertisers to bail on him in the wake of the Sandra Fluke story , reports Yahoo News . NORB is a Facebook page dedicated to "the millions of conservative women who know what they believe in: family, American values, and not being told by faux feminist groups how to think."

She's just too easy to mock: Joanna Weiss

(NEWSER) - The Obama campaign trotted out the online avatar "Julia" last week, to show how an ordinary American woman benefits from Democratic health care policies over her lifetime. Republicans gleefully pounced, calling it a perfect example of "cradle-to-grave government dependence," notes Joanna Weiss at the Boston Globe . Weiss, too, would like Julia to go away, but not for politically ideological reasons. It's because the Julia campaign is simplistic and patronizing. More»