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Manuel Henriquez, who was also the top executive investment giant PIMCO until 2016, will be replaced as CEO and chairman of Hercules Capital in Palo Alto. Henriquez was arrested in New York City and released on $500,000 bail after a brief appearance in Manhattan federal court Tuesday. According to court documents obtained by KPIX 5, Henriquez and his wife, Elizabeth, paid a $25,000 bribe to get a [legal proctor] cooperating witness to sit “side-by-side with [their] daughter [Isabelle "Izzy" Henriquez] during the exam and provided her with answers to the exam questions, and after the exam, he “gloated”…about the fact...

Trigger warning! This story and video may be unsuitable viewing for the “safe space” crowd. Looking to understand just how controversial the debate over free speech on our college campuses really is, filmmaker and satirist Ami Horowitz recently traveled to Yale University, one of our nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, to speak directly to students. “I decided to take this campus free speech debate to its logical conclusion,” said Horowitz, who asked students if they’d sign a petition calling for an outright repeal of the First Amendment. “The result was this unbelievable display of total stupidity.” In fact,...

Trigger warning! This story and video may be unsuitable viewing for the "safe space" crowd. Looking to understand just how controversial the debate over free speech on our college campuses really is, filmmaker and satirist Ami Horowitz recently traveled to Yale University, one of our nation's most prestigious institutions of higher learning, to speak directly to students. "I decided to take this campus free speech debate to its logical conclusion," said Horowitz,...

Please vote for your pick as the Dumbest SpokesTwit at the State Dept. The finalists were selected based on their complete inability to grasp even the most simple issue and their special skill at being about as articulate as an orangutan. .. MARIE HARF ..JEN PSAKI

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Exclusive: Jane Chastain rips female supporters who 'will not think for themselves' Barack Obama is going to war with Mitt Romney. He isn’t fighting this war alone. He is fighting it with some women. Not just any women, he has a brigade of women who cannot or will not think for themselves. They pick their president the way a 7-year-old picks her Barbie Doll. They think Obama is cute and swoon over meaningless phrases like “hope and change.” They have bought into his class-warfare rhetoric, the old zero-sum game. I am poor (or not as comfortable as I’d like to...

As some of you watch the leftists, who tell us how to live our lives and save the planet, while they use 10 to 100 times the energy we use, perhaps this sing-along will bring you a smile on Oscar night. YOUTUBE = THEY SUCK IN HOLLYWOOD

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...