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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois officials have granted parole to an 80-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for the 1960 killings of three suburban Chicago women, whose brutalized bodies were found in a cave at a state park. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 9-4 Thursday to approve Chester Weger's 24th request for release.

Whoops, there it is: Sarah Palin’s fear of enslavement to the Chinese may actually be true. “Don’t wish for something, you just might get it” is a paraphrase of the often-cited Chinese proverb. The former GOP vice presidential nominee had called on MSNBC to cancel Martin Bashir’s talk show. Bashir was, at the time, serving as the conscience of the network, striking fear into those who defied political correctness. Not since King George has a Brit been so brash. Leaving aside Piers what’s-his-name, perhaps. To no one’s surprise, a few weeks ago. Marty found something Ms. Palin said to be...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews believes Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife may be "partly responsible" for his sexual misconduct because the Congressman said she was aware of his behavior before they were married. Transcript below: CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: "Yeah, but he says his wife knew. He laid it out on her." . . .snip . . . MATTHEWS: "Well, maybe she's partly responsible if she knew about it?"

Who is speaking for the American people today, Perez Hilton, the self-styled “queen of all media,” or beauty queen Carrie Prejean. Miss California? Some believe Prejean, the reigning Miss California, lost her bid for the Miss America crown because she affirmed male-female marriage, resulting in a score of zero from Miss USA judge Hilton. According to Hilton, Prejean “knew she had lost because it was a bad answer. Miss USA should be all-inclusive.” Hilton called her a “dumb b-tch” (admitting that he was thinking of an even more foul description) and claimed that...

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing." The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."

Joe, the guy behind the counter at the store in Canterbury Center, always has a way of sniffing out the Next Big Story. Maybe this is because Joe reads all the papers first thing every morning. Or maybe it's because as a conservative curmudgeon he is quick to tap into the zeitgeist of the largely conservative, largely curmudgeonly blogosphere, where small stories echo and bounce and expand until they evolve into Big Stories and wind up in the MSM ("mainstream media" in blogspeak). In any case, Joe is a goldmine of ideas for a columnist, especially one of a liberal...

UK women 'least likely to care what men think' By Lesley Thomas Last Updated: 9:27am BST 01/08/2007 Russian women are more worried about a man's seal of approval Frank Sinatra advised in the song Wives and Lovers: "Don't send him off, with your hair still in curlers. You may not see him again." However, it seems that British women couldn't care less after a survey showed they are the least likely to put effort into their appearance for the sake of men. They have the lowest levels of concern in the world for what husbands, boyfriends and other male observers...