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From this morning’s Opie & Anthony show, your viral video of the day. The little guy is comedian Jim Norton. The big guy is a bully who used to wrestle in a feather boa, likes to throw around the chickenhawk smear when discussing foreign policy, and, oh yes, is a full-blown mouthbreathing 9/11 conspiracy theorist who retreats into the “just asking questions” cop-out when challenged. In four-plus minutes here, I don’t think he engages a single point Norton makes, choosing instead to insult him, walk out, and then stare him down as if promising an imminent ass-kicking. Behold America’s highest...

June 4, 2006 Perfecting the Art of Self Indulgence By Carol Turoff Basking in the anguish he caused his children and two former wives pays off nicely for ex-Governor James McGreevy. Remember former Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey? He's the boyish looking top-of-the-ticket, twice married, husband and father of two who resigned his office in 2004. Employing the strategic defensive maneuver of deflecting disclosure by his lover, he preemptively declared himself a "gay American," and walked off the political stage. With his bewildered wife standing beside him, he announced his "consensual affair" with another man. Golan Cipel, was...

<p>For a man who helped launch the Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign with such gusto and is serving as his co-chairman, former Gov. Pete Wilson certainly has made himself scarce of late.</p> <p>Wilson, who shared his campaign brain trust and many of his policy positions with Schwarzenegger, came out of the box strong in the days following the film star's candidacy announcement seven weeks ago. He happily appeared on national talk shows on Schwarzenegger's behalf.</p>