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The coronavirus pandemic has brought New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo into the national spotlight — and turned him into a heartthrob. Women say they are gushing over the way the 62-year-old Democratic leader is handling the crisis. “It’s nice to know that someone is governing, that someone is keeping track of the hospital beds and the ventilators and the masks, and keeping the pressure on the federal government,” one woman wrote for Vogue. She says the governor had an obnoxious tone and made an offhand #MeToo joke that didn’t sit well with her. But the pandemic brought out the governor’s...

More than a few people have connected Donald Trump's decision to tear apart families seeking asylum at our southern border to the history of American slave-owners separating parents and children for whatever reason they saw fit. It's not the most perfect analogy -- at least not in this state. Because slave-holding Louisiana, believe it or not, had a law against separating enslaved mothers and their young children. "And be it further enacted," Section 9 of Louisiana's 1806 Code Noir (Black Code) reads, "That every person is expressly prohibited from selling separately from their mothers, the children who shall not have...

US Airways plane grounded by sick crew, passengers The Philadelphia-bound flight from Israel made an emergency landing in Rome after all 14 crew members, including four pilots, were affected by a mysterious smell. Vomiting crew members and passengers forced a Philadelphia-bound flight to make an emergency landing in Rome, airline officials said. The US Airways Flight US797 was en route from Israel when an odor in the cabin began to sicken the people aboard, NBC News reported. All 14 crew members, including the four pilots, were affected, and the mysterious smell made two passengers ill as well, an airline spokeswoman...

Rep. Steve Stockman, an outspoken Texas conservative who recently announced a bid for the Senate, wants supporters to chip in $10 for his campaign in exchange for an “Obama barf bag.” The Republican’s pale-green bag, unveiled Tuesday, has President Obama’s smiling likeness on it. “Obama’s socialism makes me sick! And I have the barf bag to prove it!” Mr. Stockman wrote in an open letter to people who visit his campaign website. Mr. Stockman this month launched a last-minute primary challenge to Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, Texas Republican, by portraying him as a “liberal Republican” who needs to be...

Update:A 30-year-old Pasadena woman charged with raping her son's 12-year-old friend was arrested Wednesday, according to the Galveston County Sheriff's Office.Brandi Fuller is being held at the Galveston County jail on a $35,000 bond for an out-of-county warrant from Harris County. Previous reporting:Police are searching for a 30-year-old Pasadena woman charged with raping her son's 12-year-old friend. Officials said the victim's mother arrived at the Pasadena Police Department on May 10, saying she believed her son, now 14, fathered a child with the suspect, Brandi Fuller. The boy's mother said she had been friends with Fuller for three years....

Reacting to press reports that retiring GOP Rep. Ray LaHood is the likely nominee for Transportation secretary, John McCain today commended Obama "for once again reaching across the aisle." McCain called LaHood "one of our country's finest public servants." In a written statement, he said LaHood "has always fought for the best interests of our nation -- recognizing that bipartisan compromises often provide the best solutions to the problems facing our country."

The controversy over Jimmy Carter's book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is set to be reignited by an upcoming screening of a documentary centered on his book tour. The film, directed by Jonathan Demme, has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classic for distribution in North America by Participant Productions, the socially-conscious company that backed Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. According to Variety, the documentary will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival later this month and has been titled Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains. It is also rumored to be among the films to...

A newly appointed parks commissioner in Kansas City, Mo., is being condemned by the city council for being part of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps – which wants to secure the American border against unauthorized individuals, military and contraband. "This is one step from the KKK," city council member Beth Gottstein told the Kansas City Star. "My world is totally rocked by this. We fight this every day. I am grieving for my friends in the Hispanic community." Frances Semler, 73, was appointed to the city position just recently. This week she attended her first meeting of the group assigned...

Hillary is doing a live chat now via her website.

When U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the "man from Independence" surely did so with the best interests of the American people in mind. But the feisty thirty-third President of the U.S. could not have imagined the potential impact of that act 60 years later. The bill signed by President Truman revised the order for succession to the presidency. Under the revised law, the U.S. Speaker of the House is in line for succession to the presidency, after the vice president. No one anticipates that either George Bush or Dick Cheney will die...

Mocking 9/11 victims again, according to a documentarian's report: On the July 4th weekend at Baltimore’s Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair, University of Colorado-Boulder’s Professor of Ethnic Studies, Ward Churchill, spoke to a semi-filled theater of left-wing activists from around the country. Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company focusing on free speech, academic freedom, and American Indian issues, filmed the speech in its entirety. After some polite applause and soft laughter, Churchill blurted out a joke regarding what he perceived as the hilarity over how passengers on the 9/11 flights were "easily" hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World...

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, left, and White House Counselor Dan Barlett, ride in a military helicopter wearing helmets and flak jackets for a trip from Baghdad International Airport to U.S. Embassy in the Greenzone.

It seems our government has decided to take down the SPP Website in recent days. Is it a coincidence that it was taken down around the time Jerome Corsi published this article titled North American Union to Replace USA? on the Human Events Online website??

They tore up the terrazzo dancing salsa at South Beach's Pearl. They jammed to electronica and played make-believe news anchors and firefighters at the Miami Children's Museum. They did the Dirty-South grind, chains of them in bikinis and surfer shorts, around the pool at the Surfcomber on Collins Avenue. More than 7,000 lesbians, from South Florida, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, even Canada, France and South America, came together over the weekend for the blowout fundraiser Aqua Girl. They didn't stop dancing until well into Sunday evening. They also didn't stop surprising themselves with their ease in blending together. In...

Killer Sound Posted by Kevin Sites on Mon, Apr 24 2006, 1:58 PM ET Colombian musicians turn guns into guitars to make music - as well as a point. BOGOTA, Colombia - It's not long after you enter the world of Cesar Lopez that you realize he doesn't color inside the lines. He is a classically-trained musician and composer who studied at Colombia's best conservatory. But instead of concert hall performances he chooses to play his music on the streets of Bogota. He writes all of his songs on air-sickness bags he collects during his travels. "It's appropriate," he says,...

The Democrat party, which has come under fire from within and without recently for its lack of a cohesive message or platform just eight months out from a national election, will soon unveil a plan intended to emulate the success of the Republicans' 1994 'Contract with America,' according to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. "We took a good concept that offered bad policies, and brought our progressive ideals to it," said Rep. Pelosi. "We wanted a name that capitalized on the success of the previous plan, but made it clear that our goals are quite different." The Democrat 'Contract on...

Monica Lewinsky Hosts Fox Channel Show Summary: Fox has given Monica Lewinsky her own TV show called "Mr. Personality," which aired for the first time on April 21st. Monica Lewinsky, the young White House intern whose main claim to fame is that she engaged in unnatural sex acts with former President Bill Clinton, has been awarded her own TV show on Fox. The show, "Mr. Personality," features men in colored masks who compete for the attention of a beautiful young woman. Howard Rosenberg, the entertainment columnist for the Los Angeles Times recently wrote an editorial on Lewinsky. In "Memo to...

Think About It John David Rose After Bush's successful War Resolution vote in Congress, this November's congressional election has become a matter of life or death. If Republicans win the Senate or gain seats in the House, the Bush administration will consider it a mandate to attack Iraq. If the Democrats retain control of the Senate and either stay even or gain strength in the House, the Bush administration will be forced to slow or stop its rush to send Americans into battle. There will be time to think things through. Thus, voting Republican means death. Not just the death...