The most obvious one was the cancellation earlier this year of NASA's Constellation program, which was intended to provide a "man-rated" expendable rocket to replace the shuttle as America's means of putting humans into space.
For example, VH-1's highly rated Flavor of Love show features a black man in a clownish hat, a big clock hanging around his neck, spewing the N-word while demeaning black women.
Based on a feature-length documentary Kavanaugh bought in 2010, about a man who falls in love online with a woman who proves to be a fake, the show is the highest-rated program on MTV.