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They called each other “darling,” “dear one” and “heart.” They told each other “je t’aime” and “j’adore,” and wrote more than 3,000 letters to one another. “All day I’ve thought of you . . . Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close,” the normally reserved Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in March 1933 to her beloved. No, not her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but a brilliant, bourbon-drinking, cigarette-smoking Associated Press reporter named Lorena Hickok, or Hick. Their romance is at the center of Susan Quinn’s engrossing double biography, “Eleanor and Hick: The Love...

Even though Gov. John Hickenlooper did most of the talking during Monday’s “lean in and listen” stop in Craig, the locals made it clear they’re tired of having their concerns brushed aside by lawmakers in Denver and Washington, D.C. Chief among the issues raised at the public forum were the federal crackdown on coal, the looming sage-grouse listing, and the state legislature’s doubling of the renewable-energy mandate and limiting access to firearms and ammunition. Brandy Meek, chair of the Moffat County Republican Party, drew loud applause when she said, “I would urge you, this next legislative session, please represent all...

According to The Politico, New York Post columnist and FOX News contributor Dick Morris has been secretly advising former client Mike Huckabee on his Presidential campaign. Morris claims he is acting in an entirely voluntary capacity by simply offering free advice. Keep in mind that nationally syndicated columnist George Will was pilloried by the media when it became public that he had secretly and voluntarily helped Ronald Reagan prepare for his Presidential debates in 1980. A prominent national GOP insider tells Politics1 that he believes Morris -- despite his claims to the contrary -- is paid for his services through...

The top 40 things you would NEVER hear a Redneck say, no matter how much they've had to drink, no matter how far from the South they've wandered and no matter how much the skunks are threatening: 40. Oh, I just couldn't. Hell, she's only sixteen. 39. I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex. 38. Duct tape won't fix that. 37. Honey, I think we should sell the pickup and buy a family sedan. 36. Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken. 35. We don't keep firearms in this house. 34. Has anybody seen the sideburns trimmer? 33. You...

Did you hear the one about the lady lawyer who had sex with the strapping male cop? She's suing the police force for performance issues. Really. The lawyer, Margita Dornay, is suing along with her cuckolded spouse who, it turns out, is a lawyer, too. The couple say the cop, Dave Hick, was violent, made threats against them and was a ticking time bomb. So, naturally, the suit, which was filed the other day, focuses on the party most responsible: the cop's bosses. Laughing yet? Hick's bosses at the King County Sheriff's Office should have known he was trouble. They...

TERRREEEEEEZZZA PREDICTS OSAMA "CAPTURE" I thought the Kerry campaign had Tereeeeza Heinz Kerry locked in a basement somewhere. After her disastrous (and boy do I mean disastrous) speech at the Democratic National Convention (did I mention her speech was terrible?,) The Poodle's people have done their best to muzzle his keeper. Well, here she goes again. Speaking at a Phoenix fund raiser yesterday, Her Highness raised $1 million for the Democrats and had some pretty interesting things to say. She criticized the Bush administration on tax cuts, the war on terror and the war in Iraq. But what is getting...

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Country comedy is currently a hot commodity, spawning strong-selling CDs and DVDs and receiving plenty of TV exposure. Among the genre's stars are Jeff Foxworthy (news), Bill Engvall (news), Rodney Carrington, Ron White, Larry the Cable Guy, Cledus T. Judd (news) and T. Bubba Bechtol. The burgeoning popularity of the country comedy genre is succinctly explained by J.P. Williams, head of Parallel Entertainment. The management company handles Foxworthy, Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy and White. "To a large degree, everything in comedy skews to hip-hop, urban and Hispanic," Williams says. "But between Los Angeles and New York...

 Old West vs. Big Retail as Horses Invade Wal-Mart April 11, 2002 8:55 am EST LITTLE ROCK (Reuters) - The Old West clashed with the world's largest retailer when two horsemen rode their mounts through a Wal-Mart in the southern Arkansas town of El Dorado, police say. The horses left a pile of droppings and a wake of startled shoppers but did no other damage despite getting well into the food section. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is based in the northern Arkansas town of Bentonville. "We get some weird stuff down here," Lt. Terry Ward of...