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Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Senator Alex Padilla is crying on live television after his arrest. These are not serious people. From Collin Rugg

A Miami police officer has been cleared of all criminal charges after allegedly attacking a date who turned out to be a man posing as a woman. The officer denies all allegations, but officials claim the 54-year-old became enraged after realizing the “woman” he brought home from a nightclub was, in fact, a full-blown man. WSVN: According to the arrest report, Chala met the woman at E11EVEN Miami Nightclub and brought her to his apartment on the 26th floor later that night. After kissing her, he was accused of wrapping his arm tightly around her neck for three minutes, choking...

It’s moronic exchanges like this one between White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and rambling Indian magazine editor Shoma Chaudhury — who slobbers all over President Obama for his “womanly” leadership — that should make every rational woman cringe. First, there’s the nauseating gender identity politics pandering. Second, there’s the snort-worthy detachment from reality (the Chicago thug-in-chief is “bringing the temperature down”?). Third, there’s the embarrassing non-question question of a “journalist” unabashedly engaging in the obscene ego stroke of a government official. This is the danger of thinking with your ovaries instead of your brain:

On Sunday's NBC Today: "Blagojevich, talking about the day of his arrest: 'The day unfolded and I had a whole bunch of of thoughts. Of course my children, and my wife. And then I thought about Mandela, Dr. King, Ghandi, and tried to put some perspective in all this.'" Video crap here:

Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton has disappointed the New York gay community by specifically leaving out any pledges on gay marriage in her call for equality for gay people.

AN Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil. The 26-year-old groom-to-be, Tamer Shehata, was notified by a female guest attending his wedding that his would-be wife was a man in women's clothing. When Mr Shehata confronted his fiancee, he broke down and revealed that he was actually an 18-year-old man called Ahmed Abo Zeid. Mr Abo Zeid confessed that he had tried several times to undergo a sex change but had failed to secure doctors' approval. Mr Abo Zeid, whose face was...

I have read many messages which object to same-sex marriage but I am still waiting to learn what specific adverse consequences opponents of gay marriage anticipate to result from its legalization. In other words, suppose same-sex marriage becomes law during 2005. By 2010 or 2015 what specific indisputable adverse consequences to society do opponents predict to occur? With respect to those critics of same-sex marriage who refer to "God's law" and "procreation" --- do they believe that heterosexual couples who cannot have children, or who do not wish to have children, should also NOT be allowed to marry? The essence...