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Over the last 18 hours or so, this video has been widely shared. If you haven’t already seen it, it opens another window onto Joe Biden’s Many have seen this as another instance of Biden’s weird obsession with little girls. Yes, but I think the truth is worse than that. Biden’s handlers have undoubtedly warned him many times not to act inappropriately toward little girls, but when he goes off-script, as here, he can’t help himself. As indicated, too, by the manner in which he speaks, I think Biden is well into his dotage. Like many elderly people suffering from...

October 27, 2006George Allen: You Have Not Earned the Right to Question Jim Webb’s Recollections of War – So Just Shut UpAnd to Chris LaCivita, Who Did Serve, You Should Know Better – Shame on You To: George Allen and his campaign From: Steve Jarding Re: Shame on both of you George Allen and his campaign hit men this week chose to again attack Jim Webb and his military experiences, this time by taking passages from Webb’s novels to try to suggest that the explicit war time experiences Webb writes about are demeaning and repugnant. On their attacks, I would...

Plymout selectman nabbed in major sex sting By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer KINGSTON — In one of the largest stings targeting online predators in the area, 11 men — including a newly elected Plymouth selectman — were nabbed trying to meet what they thought was a 13-year-old girl. Sean Dodgson, 45, of Plymouth, elected to the Plymouth board this year, was among the 11 men arrested Friday night and Saturday in “Operation Trenchcoat,” a two-month, undercover investigation involving state, local and federal authorities posing as children online. Dodgson, a West Point graduate, beat the incumbent this year by more...

Wonder Rips Eminem, Preps Album Mon Dec 6,12:25 PM ET By Charlie Amter So much for that "Ebony and Ivory" stuff. At least as far as Stevie Wonder and Eminem (news - web sites) go. Speaking to Billboard magazine, Wonder comes to the defense of old Motown roster mate Michael Jackson (news), saying he was "disappointed" Em mocked Jackson's child-molestation allegations in the rapper's video for "Just Lose It." "Kicking someone when he's down is not a good thing," Wonder tells Billboard. "I have much respect for his work...[b]ut I was disappointed that he would let himself go to such...

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Focus is on photographer with an eye for cheerleaders BY STU POSPISIL LINCOLN - Metro Conference athletic directors and the Nebraska School Activities Association will be watching their high school basketball sidelines more closely after Omaha police detained a 74-year-old man for training a camera on high school cheerleaders. Omaha Marian Athletic Director Jim Miller said Wednesday that cheerleaders from his school became uncomfortable because of the man's apparent picture-taking at a Jan. 30 girls basketball game at Omaha South. Miller said the girls alerted Marian's dean of students, who told South administrators. School officials called police, who interviewed the...