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A bill that would criminalize "revenge porn" — nude or sexual photos, generally of former wives or girlfriends, posted online by an angry ex — could pave the way for other states to adopt similar laws, putting perpetrators in jail for six months if convicted a first time, and up to a year for repeat violations. The bill, already approved by the California Senate, is expected to go to the state Assembly as soon as this week, despite concerns from some lawmakers and experts who fear it could curtail First Amendment rights. "It's traumatized real victims; it's a growing problem,"...

The days when companies respect their customers and avoid abusing their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders are apparently over... (Video/Selfie)

<p>On a drizzly evening in Tampa in 2006, 23-year-old Holly Jacobs was enjoying a typical date night with Ryan Seay, her boyfriend of a few short months. As the time to head home approached, he walked her to her car and reluctantly kissed her goodbye. She clung dreamily to the sweater Mr. Seay had given her earlier in the evening, when she’d said she was cold. As her car pulled out of Mr. Seay’s driveway, she noticed it: a little heart that he had traced in the raindrops collected on her rear windshield.</p>

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, - An elderly couple have been charged with harassment for playing Iron Maiden songs at top volume toward their neighbors' home, Swedish police said. The couple was taking revenge on their new neighbors in the Stockholm area, who they said were too loud, Aftonbladet Daily reported Sunday. The 71-year-old woman, whose name was not reported, said the new neighbors were so loud, she had to take sleeping pills in order to sleep. "We wanted to give a taste of their own medicine," her 81-year-old husband said. The couple set up a music system on their balcony facing their...

I wrote recently how teachers unions, parent-teacher associations and school bureaucrats form an education "Blob" that makes it hard to improve schools. They also take revenge on those who work around the Blob. Here's one more sad example: Ben Chavis, founder and principal of the American Indian Public Charter Schools, got permission to compete with the Blob in Oakland, Calif. Chavis vowed, "We'll outperform the other schools in five years." He did. Kids at the three schools he runs now have some of the highest test scores in California. His schools excel even though the government spends less on...

A 25-year-old woman had a burning desire to torch her ex-boyfriend's Lauderhill home after the couple apparently lost their spark, police said. Nancy Brewer, of Miami, was charged with first-degree arson and was ordered held on $50,000 bail during her first-appearance court hearing Friday. She is accused of setting fire to the Northwest 14th Court home of Travis Lindsey, a road patrol sergeant for the Miami Police Department.

The never-ending Obama campaign announced this week that it was raising funds from big donors — only a relative handful — to put together a $50 million fund for an army of grass-roots activists in swing states to go after Republican Congressmen and Senators who dare to vote against the president’s wishes. Over the next two years, they will be spreading their tentacles all over the nation, invading currently-Republican districts but might be turned to blue in 2014, in pursuit of a House majority and of a sixty-vote Democratic Senate. This “purge” of Republicans is reminiscent of 1938 when FDR...

During World War II, a group known as the Monuments Men, "attempted to minimize [Nazi] damage to European monuments and architecture and then track down stolen works of art. In the end Allied Forces located more than 1,000 repositories of art, sculpture, and furniture stolen by the Nazis," a search which continues to this day. In his book entitled Rescuing Da Vinci, author Robert M. Edsel, quotes William Shirer who described Hitler thusly: I observed his face. It was grave, solemn, yet brimming with revenge. There was also in it, as in his springy step, a note of the triumphant...

My Nov 28th video calling out Disney for causing millions of children and families to view homosexual activity by catching them completely off guard - has caught the attention of some militants who are on an acrimonious campaign against me. This video is my first response to some profane feedback I received: (Video)

In a disgraceful breach of fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, Disney Execs allowed their television network to willfully and premeditatedly expose millions of children and families to two men performing homosexual acts with one another. This was in the middle of the afternoon's highly rated college football game coverage on Thanksgiving Weekend. This is a clear example of incompetent executives abusing shareholder assets, undermining the reputation of the brand and the trust that the word Disney used to convey. This was all committed for the selfish desire of advancing their own lascivious agenda...(video)

In 2008, Wall Streeters invested millions in Barack Obama’s campaign. Many of these big donors were thus a little miffed when Obama, as President, derided Wall Streeters as “fat cats” and, to add injury to insult, threw his support behind the Dodd-Frank bill, much hated in the financial sector it was designed to reform. This time around, Wall Streeters turned against Obama, sending an even bigger torrent of cash Mitt Romney‘s way. That didn’t quite work out as planned. “It’s a zero-percent return,” one Republican donor complained to New York magazine on the cold Wednesday after Obama’s victory. Having turned...

Islamization isn't only happening in Europe. If these are our "allies", I'd sure hate to hear what our enemies have to say about us. According to Rabbi Baruch Efrati, "Jews should 'rejoice at the fact that Europe is paying for what it did to us for hundreds of years by losing its identity.' " "With the help of God, the gentiles there will adopt a healthier life with a lot of modesty and integrity, and not like the hypocritical Christianity which appears pure but is fundamentally corrupt," he explained." "even if we are in a major war with the region's...

America was not built on revenge. America as an idea was thought up in the burning embers of the revolutionary war and built by a successive line of patriots who achieved their joy in giving back, not taking. Sacrifice, character, patriotism, family and the faith of successive generations built this great land. Through the blood of our soldiers overseas and the tireless work of our industry and inventors at home we forged a new reality and created a shining beacon that the entire world looked to in envy. We are a people who have never had to ask permission from...

If anyone has the right to avenge these past 4 years it is us. We are the ones whose livelihood, freedoms, and rights have been raided and ravished. We are the ones who have seen our property values decline and costs of food and gas rise. We are the ones beset by regulation after regulation. We are the ones voting simply to revenge the insanity, lies, and demagoguery of the Obama reign of terror. I am voting to avenge this nation’s sense of entitlement and politically correct culture. I stand today to restore my children’s rights to a debt free...

Mitt Romney was very wise to pivot on Barack Obama's impromptu statement that "voting is the best revenge" and frame the campaign in the final days as a choice between that negative message and Romney's "love of country." I wouldn't say that if I thought Obama's statement was merely a slip of the tongue. Rather, I believe that in another unscripted moment, he once again revealed who he really is and the essence of his mindset. When his soul mate and spouse said that her husband's ascendancy was the first time she'd been proud of America in her adult life,...

Obama reveals his true feelings when the teleprompter is off. He describes what this election means to himself, his Marxist cabal in DC and useful idiots Hollywood. Affirmative action presidency? No. O.J. Presidency? Yes. Here's Why:

He did it again. He went off script. He showed us his heart. On Friday Obama said "Voting's the best revenge." Yahoo, an unofficial arm of the Obama campaign, then had to scramble to try to explain the remark: Chris Moody: MENTOR, Ohio—A campaign aide moved to explain President Barack Obama's comment in which he referred to voting as "the best revenge," saying that Obama was referring in part to a television ad Mitt Romney's campaign released that suggested Chrysler was planning to ship manufacturing jobs out of Ohio to China. Problem is, Obama never mentioned the ad. Aides to...

Obama says something about revenge, Romney hammers him on it, ergo it’s Romney who’s made revenge his message. Of all the golden Orwellian moments Team O has given us this year, this one will be hard to beat: Jim Messina ✔ @Messina2012 The Romney campaign's message today is revenge, ours is the President's plan for the middle class. I'll take that contrast any day.

Obama wants 'revenge' and Biden's not a proud VP: Gaffes under pressure Obama Revenge November 3, 2012 By: Roz Zurko Obama vs. Romney is down to the wire and the pressure might be causing the odd gaffes coming from the President and the Vice President in the last few days. President Obama is asking the voters to go for “revenge” and Biden’s never been proud to be Obama’s Vice President, according to the Mail Online Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.

About midway through Mitt Romney’s speech to a crowd of as many as 30,000 who had gathered for a chilly, outdoor, red-white-and-blue Friday night rally in this suburb of Cincinnati, close Romney aide Stuart Stevens wandered through the throng by himself, getting a feel for how the audience was reacting to Romney’s words.  Stevens does that sometimes, listening to the thoughts of people who have no idea they’re talking to someone who has Romney’s ear and probably wrote the very phrases they’re hearing.  On Friday, he stepped into the largest gathering that Romney has drawn in the entire campaign. I...