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A group of RINOs connected to the Bushs and Mitt Romney filed a brief in Florida requesting the judge to deny President Trump’s request to look into the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. FOX News reported this morning that a group of seven former prosecutors filed an amicus brief asking the Federal judge in Florida to deny President Trump’s request to look into the FBI’s illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago. Ahead of the Department of Justice’s filing Tuesday night that opposed President Trump’s call for a “special master” to review White House documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seven former...

A Kurdish general revealed Monday that an informant stole the underwear of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to prove to his credibility U.S. intelligence. Speaking to NBC News, Gen. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said his intelligence unit had a source who was privy to the layout of al-Baghdadi’s secret compound near the Turkish border. According to Abdi, the source passed along such details to U.S. Special Ops, who used it to formulate their plans to strike the terror chief’s hideout over the weekend. “The source, whom Abdi described as one of al-Baghdadi’s security advisers, proved to U.S....

Appearance aside, boxers may be the optimal underwear for men aiming to be fathers. Men who wear looser-fit boxer shorts have higher sperm concentration than men squeezed into tight underwear, a new study published Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction found. Sperm concentration, which is the number of sperm per milliliter of semen, is one of a few standard metrics of male fertility. However, men who preferred “bikinis,” better known as briefs, and other tight-fitting underwear had higher levels of follicle-stimulating hormone compared to the men in boxers. Because this hormone stimulates sperm production, the researchers speculate these higher levels,...

Heavy hitters in U.S. media joined prominent First Amendment scholars to file two amicus briefs challenging last summer’s jury verdict that favored former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in his defamation trial in St. Paul. The friend-of-the-court media brief, filed with the 8th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals, characterizes the $1.3 million jury award to Ventura as unprecedented, with no basis in common law. The scholars’ filing faults U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle’s instructions to the jury. The briefs support Taya Kyle, widow of Chris Kyle, author of the best-selling memoir “American Sniper.” Ventura’s lawyers convinced the jury in a 10-2...

Rep. Michele Bachmann went On the Record on Monday to discuss the the ISIS crisis with Greta Van Susteren. Bachmann told Greta that the White House has been receiving security briefs for two years on the growing threat of ISIS in Iraq-Syria. Greta Van Susteren: How long has that been know? Because Obama was quite flip and we keep hitting him over the head with this jayvee thing but there are huge consequences. We saw Fallujah fall and he still thought this was jayvee. Rep. Michele Bachmann: The (House) committee has known about ISIS for well over two years. We...

So I took the kids out to the mall to shop for Mom two days before Christmas. I want them to know that Christmas is not just about receiving but giving as well. Now let me ask a weird hypothetical. If I showed up at the Mall wearing only briefs and say my wife showed up in a minuscule bra and panties we'd likely be dragged from the premises and arrested. And rightly so, especially if you've seen me in briefs. But no matter what, it's bad, right? So why is it OK for some of these stores to have...

ABC has the pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla's underwear: And you can see for yourself none of the present day security at our airports would of protected us against that, except the technology our Congress is attempting to ban: Privacy advocates, for example, have tried to stop or at least slow the introduction of advanced checkpoint screening devices that use so-called millimeter waves to create an image of a passenger’s body, so officers can see under clothing to determine if a weapon or explosive has been hidden. Security officers, in a private area, review the images, which are not stored....

In the new issue of Us Weekly, presidential candidate Barack Obama invited news director Lara Cohen to join his campaign for a day. He described some of his best Just Like Us moments, and took our Presidential Pop Quiz (where he revealed that his daughters think Britney and Paris are "yuck"). Some excerpts from the Us interview: How familiar are you with Us Weekly? My wife reads it. --snip-- So, boxers or briefs? Bill Clinton said he wore boxers in a 1992 interview with MTV. I don't answer those humiliating questions. But whichever one it is, I look good in...

TOKYO, March 21, 2007 – The Baghdad security plan is buying the Iraqi government the chance it needs to prove to its citizens that it can lead, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses questions during a news conference in Tokyo, March 21. Photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, USAF  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Marine Gen. Peter Pace told Japanese reporters that the plan, which calls for a 21,500-man increase in U.S. combat troops in Iraq and three Iraqi brigades,...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, October 12, 2005) – “Our two armies stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the war on terror.” This was one of the messages given by one of the United Kingdom’s most senior military officers in a presentation titled “A Coalition Perspective on Current Operations.” Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt, the commander-in-chief, Land Command, British Army, presented the first of four 2005 Kermit Roosevelt Lectures in the United States to a large Pentagon audience Oct. 11. His lecture tour continues with talks at the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College....

Last week, The Sun, a British tabloid, published a front-page photo of imprisoned former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his underwear. Predictably, this became news and just as predictably, there were howls of protest that Saddam’s rights were violated and that the photos would further inflame anti-U.S. sentiment in the Middle East. A USA Today report on the incident suggested that the release of the photos “… were certain to offend Arab sensibilities and heap more scorn on an American image already tarnished. . . .” By contrast, a Fox News report indicated that The Sun said that the unidentified...

A Montgomery County judge yesterday returned to prison a Derwood man who many think should never have been released into the home of his teen victim. Circuit Court Judge Durke H. Thompson reinstated the 81/2 years remaining in Sidney Ray Richardson's sentence for raping his 9-year-old stepdaughter from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, Judge Thompson sentenced Richardson, 53, to 10 years, suspending all but 18 months. Judge Thompson then allowed Richardson back into the child's home at the request of the mother, Cynthia Richardson, in 2001. The child gave birth to a baby girl in November of that year, and...

CANNES, France (AFP) - Alexandra Kerry, 30-year-old daughter of US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), walked up Cannes' celebrated red-carpet for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill 2" wearing an off-shoulder black number that turned transparent under the flashes. Kerry, who is showing a short film at the festival, was tailed by the press during her stay at Cannes but French newspapers reported that her staff had warned journalists off questions concerning her famous father. Her film entitled "The Last Full Measure" is being presented in the Short Film Corner section and describes the ravage...

It looks like NippleGate2, folks. Drudge has this photo of Kerry's daughter from the Cannes Film Festival.

THE dishy daughter of US Presidential candidate John Kerry certainly gets our vote. Brunette Alexandra Kerry left movie fans gasping at the Cannes Film Festival in her daring see-through dress. Film director Alexandra, 30, showed at least two reasons why Americans should vote her dad into the White House in November. Democrat Mr Kerry is hoping for a good showing at the polls. His girl is content with just a good showing.

Florida Man Wades into Kobe Drama Lawyer asks judge to bar cameras from court to keep filth off television By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News August 20, 2003 The peanut gallery surrounding the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case keeps expanding and is making itself heard loud and clear. On Tuesday, one day after a Boulder couple associated with the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation filed papers in the Bryant case which one legal observer labeled a "legal version of junk mail," a Florida attorney with no previous connection to the Eagle County proceedings waded into the Bryant drama with a motion...

HILL OF BEANS New York Press By Christopher Caldwell January, 2003 - Volume 16, Issue 4 No Action Last week, President Bush submitted two amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court, regarding the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program. The controversial admissions program ranks applicants on a 150-point scale, and awards a 20-point "bonus" right off the bat to blacks and selected other minorities. The admissions regime once had two tracks–one for whites and one for targeted minorities–and it protected those minorities from direct competition with the wider pool. The Bush administration, quite correctly, held that this made it a...