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WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer to the party's woes isn't a revamped Web site (GOP.com) offering — wowser! — really cool social networking platforms. The answer won't be found in the sudden realization that 83 percent of young people 18 to 24 have an online profile — or other late-breaking revelations that merely reinforce the perception of the GOP as woefully behind the curve. The answer is … drum roll, please … women. If the GOP is really serious...

While we love the sound of Paris Hilton for president... It doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. Especially not if Paz's recent political drama is anything to go by. According to People, a campaign from US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain likening rival Barack Obama to Paris and Britney Spears has not gone down well with the heiress. Her rep issued a statement to People, which reads: "Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment." The ad campaign shows images of Brit,...

TO HOLLYWOOD it smacked of desperation. That's why the reaction to a new John McCain ad attempting to portray Barack Obama as a kind of mindless celebrity -- likening him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears -- drew collective yawns and shrugs of irritation from politically active members of the entertainment industry. "I didn't think McCain could look silly," mused Norman Lear. "But that ad diminishes him and makes him look silly." Just for a start, industry types say the ad is wrong: In the Hollywood lexicon, Obama is not a celebrity. He's a rock star. (Note to McCain strategists:...

U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses. "They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident. "People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children,'" Parker said during an interview on the network's "Rule of Law Show." About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event...

I don`t choose which news program to watch based on the attractiveness of the news anchor. But it`s fun to contemplate who are the most attractive female anchors, here`s my take on the matter: AMY ROBACH Amy is an anchor and correspondent at NBC. Amy may be my favorite because we both suffer from Coulrophobia, an irrational fear of clowns. MIKA BRZEZINSKI Mika is a television news journalist at MSNBE Mika has an impeccable pedigree (daughter of former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and sculptor Emilie Anna Benes) and beauty queen looks. Mika is beautiful and intelligent, she always interviews...

Some leftwingers are committed activists. Others are that way because, well, it's sorta the kewl thing to do and lots and lots of my friends are leftwing idiots so I just had to go along with the crowd and spout nonsense that I heard second-hand. Such was the case with the airhead liberal chick in the video above. Asked a semi-tough question as happened here and her circuits overload to the point she can only sputter some recycled idiocy about the REPUBLICANS! You have to wonder about our education system when folks like this airhead liberal chick can regurgitate...

RUSH: Now, as you people know, I have been prescient on many things. That's what being on the cutting edge of societal evolution is, prescience. I have been sounding warning bells on a series of things for the 18 plus years that I've been behind the Golden EIB Microphone. One of those is feminism, what its ultimate aims were, how much success it's had, and how it's now started to crumble in certain ways; but there are legacies that remain that have caused damage that still survive. One of the things I always said about feminism was that the biggest...

FLASH!!! Dixie Chicks Natalie Manes just now blamed the Free Republic for their downfall on "Hardball." She claims the FR had an organized effort to bring them down.

Mrs. Clinton is not a sympathetic figure. Although there may still be a residue of public empathy because of her husband’s bad behavior, many people view her as an enabler, aware of his philandering from the start. As the song goes, she knew he was a snake before she took him in. There must be, however, a modicum of compassion for her now. With the sudden emergence of Barack – make that Barack! – Obama as a likely candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she’s gone from Hillary the inevitable to Hillary the unenviable. Senator Obama says he’s thinking...

As the news director of WTTG-Fox5, Katherine Green gets stacks of tapes and résumés from reporters and anchors who want to work in her newsroom. Some applicants are young and green, some older and seasoned. But the most common characteristic is: Most are women. By Green's estimate, women applicants outnumber men about 3 to 1. Bill Lord, Green's counterpart at WJLA (Channel 7), sees much the same ratio, and he says the percentage of women has increased year by year. "It's actually more difficult now to find a strong male anchor than a strong female," Green says. "Why? I'm not...

Dressing like your daughter doesn’t make you look hotter—just stupider. Creepy futurist/author Douglas Coupland once wrote that in the 1960s, everyone dressed as if they were 35 years old—but that by the ’90s, that age had dipped to 25. Alarmingly, it didn’t stop there, and one wonders if Coupland—were he not currently embroiled in increasingly weird artistic pursuits—might not notice that in the few years since he made his point, masses of adults have taken to dressing like 15-year-olds: a trend that, if it continues, should by the 2010s center on sippy cups and purple overalls. Men get partial credit...

Michele Naar-Obed knows she will not stop the war in Iraq by walking the streets of Baghdad, unarmed and unguarded, calling for an end to the violence, but she considers it her duty to try. She is 49 years old, a mother, a wife, a pacifist who can't stand to be passive. Soldiers put their lives on the line for their country; she will risk hers too, in pursuit of peace. Four of her colleagues in the pacifist movement were kidnapped in Baghdad late last month. The men — fellow members of Christian Peacemaker Teams — have been threatened with...

MIDI - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH There's something happening here Get the pretzels and nice frosty beer Grab your keyboard, get ready to post Let us have a DemocRAT roast (HA-HA-HA-HA-HA) Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Today they take to the street First some speeches, oh boy, what a treat C-SPAN shows these fools to everyone Spewing beer through our nose is fun (HA-HA-HA-HA-HA) Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Look, moonbats everywhere...between both their ears is only air Ramsey, come kiss my behind Stuck on stupid is being too kind What...

BRIDGEPORT -- Like many young women before them, three Norwalk teenagers thought a modeling agent could help them make it to the big time. They put their trust in a Bridgeport agent who told them they wouldn't even have to pay to learn the trade. He convinced them that he cared about them and their fledgling careers, said Vanessa Liles, a mentor who knew the girls from working at a community center. "He gained their confidence and then he used it against them," Liles said. Police said agent Michael Britt, 42, sexually abusing the teens, raping one under the guise...

Here is their fantasy. Of course, we did not see this as Clinton was destroying the infrastructure of the Serbs and destroying the environment with depleted uranium and massive pollution of the Danube after hitting a chemical plant. Defendants in the dock at the Ango-American War Crimes Trial of 2010, held at The Hague under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Of the 20 defendants shown here -- the so-called "Republican Guard" -- only one (Alan Greenspan, second row, second from right) was found not guilty, on the grounds that the destruction of the American economy and the global...

Now that the launch of Arianna Huffington's new group blog is barely a week away, it seems like a good time to pose that oh so important intellectual question that has lingered, unspoken, for an entire generation: does anyone really want to know what goes on in Warren Beatty's mind? Personally, I'd have to answer in the negative. There was, to be fair, a certain amount of pop psychology appeal to trying to deduce how or why Warren might have developed into the narcissistic ego-maniac at the center of singer Carly Simon's 1973 hit "You're So Vain".....

Remember when Hollywood liberals claimed to care about the world's poor? Man, those were the days. Now the richest people in Southern California, who sit on top of a booming $35-billion industry, are using their impressive political clout to punish the struggling citizens of South Africa, Mexico and Romania for having the nerve to think that their tiny domestic film industries could so much as bite Hollywood's ankles. And our politicians are falling all over each other to service Hollywood's poor and huddled masses, doling out heaps of protectionist corporate welfare that our government cannot begin to afford. In Los...

His name is Screech, but he doesn't utter a sound, at least not yet. He was hatched yesterday at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, emerging from a giant egg a few yards behind second base shortly before the Washington Nationals took the field against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

ITHACA NY--The names of those killed in Iraq echoed through the City of Ithaca as anti-war protesters paraded through the streets. "The theme of this rally today is that the war should be over, and a better world is possible," said protester Katherine Halton. As nearly 300 people slowly made their way through the city, a dozen more were planted for hours at a busy intersection holding signs calling for peace. "I would like them to recognize, if they are people who are opposed to the war and to the policies of the nation that keep getting us into war,...

MIDI - DANCING IN THE DARK They get stoned every evening...who would listen to what they say? A hangover come morning...it is just like this each and every day From their words we grow weary...they're flapping their gums to hear themselves Lives so dreary...they need pills and some mental helpTheir minds run on empty...they say foolish things just for a lark Why should we listen?...they are just clueless lefties in the dark They're getting more outrageous...they pretend that we aren't at war Among them it's contagious...they're acting like they're Osama's whore From their words we grow weary...they're flapping their...

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Hollywood Airheads Have a Gas in Beantown A lot of people have requested a list of which Hollywood airheads are at the Democrat convention this week. Apparently these readers plan to snub the celebs’ movies, TV shows and music. We did a search of the wires and found that the lineup ranges from A-listers such as pop star Bono and pro-murderer activist Susan Sarandon to Z-listers such as William Baldwin and Chevy Chase. The most visible of the bunch is poor Ben Affleck, still limping from a disastrous year that nearly bumped him from Premiere magazine’s...

Speech to Liberals pro Bono work OTTAWA -- Paul Martin's Liberals may have found just what they're looking for. Pop superstar Bono is expected to be a marquee attraction at the party's convention next week, adding glitter to what has been a lacklustre leadership race. The U2 frontman is expected to make a guest speech at an evening party at which Liberals will celebrate the coronation of Martin as the federal party leader. The Irish rocker was wooed by the Martin campaign in an attempt to spice up the victory celebration his organizers expect to hold a week from Friday....

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<p>SPARTA -- The mother of a 2-year-old boy who was swatted by a black bear said she used to leave food outside for bears, but she halted the practice last year after her daughter encountered a large bruin in the backyard.</p>

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A GENIUS TO RECOGNIZE A MORON-- The Oscar Follies by Rita Kramer You don't have to be a genius to recognize a moron. And Sunday night's Hollywood demonstration of self-love and mutual congratulation provided plenty of opportunity. Perfect bodies in gorgeous gowns under artful coiffures -- with nothing under all that hair. They are ignorant, uneducated, innocent of the least idea of history, but they know one thing -- how to read lines. Unlike real actors, they have no acquaintance with form or tradition in dramatic literature, but they have a lot of experience in...

As a part of the interview that I had last week with Mike Prager of the Boston Globe, I was chosen to have my picture taken along with one of the local Peace Activists, commies, in a Point Counter Point type of thing. Now you have to keep in mind that Boston is a strange kinda place and unless you know it well some of this stuff will seem out of place. I drive down from my place in NH fighting traffic and finally get to the gates of Pravda on Morressy Bvd. At the gate protecting these people from...

DFU REPORT FROM L.A. From the above thread in which I described the anti-war protestors as being smelly, FReeper whoknowswhatevil had a great idea. We need to pass out hygiene products to these people. So here is the idea if anyone is up for it. On Sept. 14 at noon at the Federal Building, the smelly, naive fools are going to be demonstrating. We need to procure small samples of toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo, and soap to pass out to them. We should come dressed nicely, perhaps the men can be in ties, and work the crowd. Does anyone have...

PipeBombNews Editorial ~ What Halle Should Have Said ~ By William A. Mayer - Editor & Publisher March 27, 2002 Ladies, Gentlemen and oppressors of Black folk. I stand before you tonight - a half white woman and testament to plastic surgery - acting as a person of color, because it makes me feel good and makes Hollywood feel good - and feeling good is after all what this town is all about - we certainly don't care about anyone else but us. Omigod! Yes I have little apparent talent but do have the inestimable luck to have come along...

Network News Anchors: Dynamos Or Dying Breed? March 19, 2002 By KEVIN CANFIELD, Courant Staff Writer These are boom times for TV news. About 30 million people tune in to one of the networks' flagship 6:30 broadcasts each night, almost four million more than were watching before Sept. 11. Yet every big-time pundit in the land is lining up to eulogize the big three newscasts. "I think this moment is the last glorious hurrah for the traditional network news anchors," Kurt Andersen, co-founder of the defunct online media magazine Inside.com, said in an interview late last year with iwantmedia.com, "because...