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Deep in the wretched bowels of the 1980s, only arrogance was king. And nowhere was that more evident than in the entertainment industry. This is the true story of one actor and the four letter word he created to guide his career. The word however had plans of its own. And yes, it is a true story.VIDEO

when Hiller launched into a deadly rage after she was suspended on Thursday - allegedly killing two co-workers and injuring a third - police said Ciarlante acted with a level of courage most people will never know. Police said he followed Hiller as she marched through the plant, using a radio to inform colleagues of Hiller's whereabouts and the best way to escape. "I just followed her until the boys in blue came up," Ciarlante said humbly. When the cops arrived, he gave them a step-by-step description of the plant, down to the number of phones inside offices where Hiller...

President Obama's new chairman of the Council of Economic Affairs (CEA) said Sunday that the national unemployment rate will not decrease significantly anytime soon. Austan Goolsbee, who Obama announced on Friday will replace Christina Romer as head of the CEA, told "Fox News Sunday" that the president is doing all he can to help the economy, but the recession was so deep, it will take some time for employment numbers to recover. "I don't think the unemployment rate will be coming down significantly at any time in the near future," Goolsbee said. Unemployment for the nation reached 9.6 percent in...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who may have presidential aspirations, is apparently really frustrated with the president. The respected politician has taken criticism to a new level of insult, describing Mr. Obama as a "con" man who is "authentically dishonest." Gingrich said, "This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president."

Barring intervention from the governor or Supreme Court, the state of Virginia plans to execute a woman later this month for the first time in nearly a century. Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old grandmother with such a low IQ that she's classified as borderline mentally retarded, is set to die by lethal injection on Sept. 23. She'll be the state's first female prisoner put to death in 98 years. Lewis pleaded guilty to hiring two men to murder her husband and stepson in their trailer in Virginia's rural Pittsylvania county in 2002, in order to collect life insurance money. She took...

Chicago loses an estimated $120 million a year — and the U.S. billions — on uncollected taxes on cigarettes. But that could change with the Sept. 2 sale of a little-known Illinois company that produces cigarette tax stamps that are used throughout the country. States have struggled for more than a half-century to control rampant cigarette tax evasion, the result of stamp counterfeiting, cross-border smuggling, sales of unstamped products and other illegal activity.

wow. what an absurd joke. But that's the National Fraud League for ya. Basically, professional wrestling with some legitimacy.

The scenic village green of Litchfield has long symbolized the charms of Connecticut small-town life. Settled in 1721, it hosts tourists drawn by its Revolutionary War history: Litchfield served as a "safe town" for Continental forces seeking refuge while the British occupied New York City. But this fall, the celebrated tourist town of about 8,500 will receive publicity for quite a different reason: charges of religious discrimination. This summer, a federal judge ruled that sufficient evidence of "discrimination against Jewish people" may exist, warranting a trial over the Borough of Litchfield's denial of a Hasidic group's application to build a...

If he had it to do over again, the Imam behind the "Ground Zero mosque" would have ditched the plan. "I would never have done it," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, when asked if he would have proposed it knowing the controversy it would spark. "I'm a man of peace," he said. "The whole objective of peace work is not to do something that would provoke controversy."

With a xenophobic political party knocking on the door of the Riksdag, Swedish journalist Lars Åberg examines why, despite good intentions, many Swedes still view immigrants like household pets. Much has been written and said about the Sweden Democrats and their relationship to immigration. Similarly interesting are the established parties’ views on migration and on people who move to Sweden. By expressing horror at the Sweden Democrats, someone can still come across as well-intentioned even when expressing other forms of prejudice and actively reproducing constructed group characteristics. The exotification of immigrants has become a political edifice of ideas which divides...

Why questions about Obama’s faith, background refuse to dieBy Glenn Gilbert Published: Friday, September 10, 2010 Why do questions persist about President Obama’s faith and birth certificate? A national survey by the Pew Research Center found that nearly one-in-five Americans, 18 percent, now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. Only about one-third of adults, 34 percent, say Obama is a Christian, down sharply from 48 percent in 2009. The president was finally prompted to address the issue recently. “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” Obama...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Islamic cleric behind plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York warned Sunday that retreating on the project would only strengthen the hand of the Muslim extremists. But imam Feisal Abdul Rauf did not commit to keeping the Islamic cultural center at its current site, two blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center. "The decisions that I will make -- that we will make -- will be predicated on what is best for everybody," he told ABC's "This Week" program. Thousands marched through New York on Saturday's ninth...

New York's Kirsten Gillibrand doesn't appear on lists of endangered Democratic Senate incumbents. But as an appointed Senator who has never faced a statewide electorate, she still has reason to look over her shoulder. Despite having held office for 18 months, the latest Quinnipiac Poll gives her no more than 45% of the vote against any of three possible GOP opponents. She holds a comfortable lead only because many New Yorkers have heard little or nothing about the GOP candidates. Nonetheless, a full 39% of New York voters haven't heard enough about Ms. Gillibrand to form an opinion about her...

Neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. Last week's long-delayed report by the World Bank suggests that purchases in developing countries rose to 45m hectares in 2009, a ten-fold jump from levels of the last decade. Two thirds have been in Africa, where institutions offer weak defence. As is by now well-known, sovereign wealth funds from the Mid-East, as well as state-entities from China, the Pacific Rim, and even India are trying to lock up chunks of the world's future food supply. Western agribusiness is trying to beat them to it. Western funds...

I believe that there is a large body of factual information available, such that, if any reasonable person were to be made aware of just those facts alone, they would conclude several things: 1. The 9/11 terrorists were aided and protected by corrupt elements within this country. 2. It is far more likely, than commonly thought, that Sadaam Hussein had an active role in the 9/11 attack. I would like find a web page which already assembles those facts in a concise, and readable format. I would like to find a book which does the same. A movie should be...

If Governor Sarah Palin decides to run for president next year, she can count on at least one unequivocal "yea" vote in her family -- her oldest daughter Bristol. When asked about a potential Palin presidential run on EdgyConservative Radio yesterday, Bristol, a mom herself, gushed about the possibility, even as she acknowledged her own hestitancy to ever run for elected office. "Yes, I really truly would (support her decision to run)," Bristol says. "I think it would be so great for our country. I know that my mom has it in her to lead our country in the right...

A “campaign of resistance not seen for decades” Delegates to Monday’s annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress will be asked to support joint union industrial action as well as other forms of protest. They will be asked to vote on a motion urging the TUC to “support and co-ordinate campaigning and joint union industrial action, nationally and locally, in opposition to attacks on jobs, pensions, pay or public services”. The motion, titled “Defending public services”, is signed by most of the country’s biggest unions including Unison, Unite, GMB, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, the Fire Brigades’ Union...

Another famous skit had Carolla and Kimmel, dressed as hunters, tie an animatronic deer to the roof of a car, parked at a truck stop, as well as using the animatronic deer to prank several pedestrians at a truck stop.

Street clashes mar voting at polling stations in areas with large Kurdish populations, as Kurdish party urges boycottTurks approved sweeping changes to their military-era constitution Sunday — a referendum hailed by the government as a leap toward full democracy in line with its troubled bid to join the European Union. With 99 per cent of the vote counted, 58 per cent had cast ballots in favor of the constitutional amendments, state-run TRT television said. About 42 per cent voted “no,” heeding opposition claims that the reforms would shackle the independence of the courts. The referendum on 26 amendments to...