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CHRISTIE EX'S 'ILLEGAL' TEEN-SEX FILMS Supermodel Christie Brinkley's cheating hubby may have committed a felony and could face prison time if the amorous architect turns out to be the person who secretly videoed himself having sex with his teen mistress..... The Post reported the existence of still photos from a raunchy home video....showing Bianchi - who was 18 when the 2-year affair started in 2005 - performing a striptease as Cook holds his crotch......Cook revealed that he had a $3,000-a-month Internet-porn habit and posted revealing videos of himself on the Web. Bianchi is furious with Cook but he refused to...

ABC News has learned that on a conference call with his national finance team this afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, asked his top contributors to help Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, retire her more than $10 million in outstanding vendor debt. He did not specify an amount. Clinton's debt has been a major point of contention as the two former rivals attempt to reconcile. Clinton will appear at an Obama fundraiser Thursday night in Washington, D.C., and the two will campaign together in Unity, NH, on Friday.

Dear FRiends It really pains me to see some of those vicious anti-Mormons attacks we see on Free Republic disguised under the “freedom of speech. Attacking people based on their Mormon faith is really disgusting and it is an insult to this great forum. People who do not like Governor Mitt Romney based on his positions are free to express their opinion as such, but people who attack him because he is a Mormom should be ashamed of themselves and must not be allowed to do so. I greatly hope that Free Republic members and moderators will get together and...

WASHINGTON -- Only in the arcane world of the U.S. Senate could a quirky gambit known as a "clay pigeon" make the difference between passage of an important immigration measure and its death at the hands of opponents. Democratic leaders hope the complex maneuver _ which makes use of the Senate's labyrinthine rules to insist on votes on amendments _ will frustrate conservatives' attempts to derail the embattled immigration bill, instead putting it on a fast track to passage next week. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would revive the bill to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful...

It's indicative of how very badly President Bush needs a victory — any victory — that he plans to make a rare trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon to attend a weekly Republican luncheon. There, he will make a personal appeal to senators on behalf of his bipartisan immigration reform bill, the progress of which came to a sudden and surprising halt late Thursday night after a failed attempt to bring the legislation to a vote. While Bush has previously leaned on Vice President Cheney to make these kinds of congressional entreaties (the President last sat in on a Senate...

10 Days as a Linux User: A GNU Perspective on things Posted by Gsurface on 18 Aug 2005 - 14:18 Introduction I know what you’re saying, and I agree. The idea of spending 10 days in someone else’s shoes certainly isn’t new but do you really think you will ever see Mr. Spurlock record a show depicting a similar situation or setup? You’d fall asleep during the opening credits. Now, it might not be a life or death adventure but at least it’s one that I’ve never heard of or read before and if I could just offer a small...

Urge your representative and senators to oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, in any shape or form.   The Bush administration will continue to push for some form of amnesty. A statement posted on the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/immigration/) in a report covering President Bush’s January 7th White House meeting during which he discussed his immigration policy, stated:   “On January 7, 2004 President Bush proposed a new temporary worker prrogram to match willing foreign workers with willing U.S. employers when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs. The program would be open to new foreign workers, and to...

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 15, 2004 (Zenit.org).- What happens to the souls of children who die before birth, or shortly after birth, or are aborted? Questions of this nature are ever more frequent, to the point that John Paul II himself, on Oct. 7, asked the International Theological Commission to study the matter more profoundly. To better understand the matter at stake, ZENIT interviewed Father Peter Gumpel, a theologian and historian who has studied the matter since the 1950s. "The fate in the hereafter of souls that have not been baptized seems to be a marginal problem, but in reality it...

6/7/04: AWB renewal now on Senate calendar. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has once again introduced legislation to renew the so-called "assault weapons" ban. S.2498 was introduced last week, and, by using a "nuclear option" referred to as Rule XIV, has gotten the bill placed on the Senate calendar. As a Senate educational article on the subject puts it, "Most bills are routinely referred to the committee with appropriate jurisdiction as soon as they are introduced. But if a Senator plans to introduce a bill and believes that the committee to which it would be referred will be unsympathetic, Rule XIV...