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Not every Hollywood celebrity hates the military...plus, she is GORGEOUS!!!     Enjoy...AND GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!      

Not every Hollywood celebrity hates the military...plus, she is GORGEOUS!!!     Enjoy...AND GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!      

More bad news for Democrats. And this can’t be dismissed as one of those lying conservative polls, because it was conducted by none other than James Carville’s Democracy Corps-Third Way organization. A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.

NEW YORK (AFP) — Paul Newman, known for his piercing blue eyes, boyish good looks and stellar performances in scores of hit Hollywood movies, has died, his foundation said Saturday. He was 83. Newman, who had been battling cancer, passed away on Friday, Newman's Own Foundation said in a statement from Westport, Connecticut.

ABOUT that magazine cover, Sen. Obama . . . We got it. There are a lot of us, actually, even the bitter ones, clinging to our guns, married to our siblings, glued to our Bibles. You don't need a Harvard pedigree or a subscription to The New Yorker to understand what satire means. So please tell your staff and supporters to stop whining about how a group of liberal literary types depicted you as a Muslim and your wife as Angela Davis. (And you thought Republicans would be the first to play the race card.) Stop telling the world that...

This July, for the third straight year, The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute co-hosted the Aspen Ideas Festival. What follows are excerpts from this year’s discussions, including Colin Powell on his attempt to avoid war with Iraq, Richard Branson on the dawn of private spaceflight, Thomas Friedman on why the world isn’t really going green, and Bill Clinton on whether he did enough to prevent 9/11.

  They found some stock was a potential conflict or embarrassment for the presidential hopeful. WASHINGTON - Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign. The blind trust and a bank account valued in the same range place the Clintons' total wealth at from $10 million to $50 million.The Clintons had to disclose the contents of the blind trust in April under instructions from the Office of Government Ethics and...

Students wrapping up school in the southwestern Swedish town of Vänersborg were in for a surprise last week when two of their teachers stripped off their clothes and danced with balloons over their nether regions. The two male teachers, during an end-of-the-year celebration, performed what Swedes call the “Balloon Dance,” for 140 ninth grade students. “I was shocked when my daughter told me,” said a mother of a student to newspaper GT. The principle of the school has spoken with the teachers regarding the dance. Another teacher at the school said it would have been unsuitable for teachers to have...

With opposition to the annual "Running of the Bulls" and the ensuing killing of the bulls in bullfights mounting throughout Spain and around the world, PETA is pulling out all the stops to recruit nude runners for its humane alternative run, the "Human Race," and the group expects more than 1,000 runners in Pamplona—double the number of people who participated in last year’s event, which grabbed headlines around the world. Vendors are selling Running of the Nudes T-shirts, and Pamplona bars have snatched up special matchbooks that read, "Run FOR the Bulls!" on the outside and have a sketch...

Christina Aguilera topless? Not today...   May 30, 2006 Christina Aguilera has decided not to pose topless for a magazine because her husband has told her not to. According to reports, the singer had been considering a lucrative offer to bare her boobs for a photo shoot to prove she has not had a breast enlargement. However, Christina's husband, music executive Jordan Bratman, has now stopped her from going through with her plans because he doesn't want the world to see her assets. A source said: "Christina was thinking of doing something radical to end all the speculation but...

     Joseph Vento, whose grandparents came from Italy, insists that customers at Geno's Steaks order in English. "Why should I have to bend?" he says. How do you say cheesesteak with in Spanish?Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno's Steaks, doesn't know. And he doesn't care.Just read the laminated signs, festooned with American eagles, at his South Philadelphia cheesesteak emporium: This is America. When Ordering, Speak English.Vento's political statement - from a man whose Italian-born grandparents spoke only broken English - captures the anger and discontent felt by many Americans about illegal immigrants.With a battle looming between the House and...

Richard Hatch was convicted in January of failing to pay taxes on his 'Survivor' winnings. PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of "Survivor," was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.

Wade Zirkle is a combat veteran of the Iraq war and cofounder, with David Bellavia, of Vets for FreedomWhile many journalists were embedded with U.S. military units during the initial invasion of Iraq, today such deployments are few and far between. Today instead, what is often portrayed as reports from "on the ground" are more often what we veterans call "balcony reporting."The embed program allowed journalists to live, eat, sleep and patrol with a company- or platoon-size unit for an extended period of time. Reporters got to know the soldiers personally and learned to evaluate the battlefield from their perspective...

Deserving of federal funds, too This weekend's opening of the movie United 93, following this month's painful public airing of the cockpit recording from that 9/11 tragedy, will undoubtedly inspire more pilgrimages to Somerset County, Pa.Thousands of people already have traveled to remote Shanksville to pay their respects at the resting place of 40 heroes who died to prevent a fourth hijacked plane from destroying a Washington target on Sept. 11, 2001.Guided by volunteer ambassadors, visitors meditate at the tree-lined grassy crater where the Boeing 757 crashed. They place tokens of remembrance along a chain-link fence.It's all they can do...

 

I have seen many incredible sights living and flying in Iraq the last two months. Two things, the bravery of our soldiers and the importance of completing our mission and building a free Iraq, prompt me to write today.Let me first tell you about my visit to the hospital on the base at Balad, where all serious casualties, both American and Iraqi, are treated. An increasing number of the casualties are new Iraqi soldiers and policemen, as well as civilians. Viewing the wounded was very difficult and left me a bit shaken.We took some Tastykakes (thanks, Mom) for the...

Michael Meoli worked as a special operations medic in countries around the northern Persian Gulf and as a specialized security contractor in IraqI am not alone among Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) veterans who believe that the predominantly liberal media, in pounding home the notion that our country had no authority or cause to lead an attack on Sadaam Hussein's regime in Iraq, are bringing water to terrorists and helping to cement the foundation of al-Qaeda. Numerous articles, op-eds and "news" broadcasts are giving Osama bin Laden exactly what he needs to get Islamic fence-sitters to do their "duty"...

ISAW YOU ON TV recently. With all the venom and bile you could muster, you pronounced, "This is George Bush's war."I understand fully what you were saying. You were telling the country and - more import- antly - our enemies, that this is not your war, that you do not support it.More than that, you were saying that it is not your party's war. And, you were telling Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden and their jihadist allies that it is not America's war: "This is George Bush's war!"You are wrong, congressman. Dead wrong. You are wrong on three...

Well, it's no big deal to most people, but I'd like to hear how the rest of you feel about baseball on Opening Day...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Three familiar faces from Hollywood urged Connecticut legislators yesterday to help protect their images.Actors Paul Newman, Christopher Plummer and Charles Grodin, all state residents, said they worry that technology has made it possible to access their films, images and voices, and to use that material to produce another product they know nothing about."We are suddenly cloned into something we're not," Plummer said. "We are robbed of our individuality, and our life's work is tarnished."A bill before the legislature's Judiciary Committee would forbid use of another person's "right of publicity," such as their name, voice, signature, photo, image,...