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A Brooklyn teenager planning her Sweet 16 celebration unwittingly gave her songwriter dad the line that became singer Lesley Gore's musical catchphrase.

IT'S MY PARTY Hillary Clinton Nobody knows where my campaign has gone But my Dems left the same time Why were they holding his hand When they're supposed to be mine It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to Cry if I want to, cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you Reviewin' my record, keep dancin' all night Leave me alone for a while 'Till Dems are dancin' with me I've got no reason to smile It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to Cry if I want to,...

Wanted to get fellow FReeper's opinions on what I saw at our local B&N... We all know Barnes & Noble and Borders tend to lean to the left, and we saw this especially in regards to Unfit For Command last year. I could never have imagined, however, one of these bookstores would be as blatant about their politics as our local Barnes & Noble was. They have a small shelf of recommended books called "Our Staff Recommends." They usually have some popular and some not-so-popular books up there. They've had liberal and conservative books up there occasionally as well, no...

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. -- After a spirited discussion over a photo of a girl wearing a tuxedo at Thursday's Clay County School Board meeting, the principal's decision to ban the picture from the Fleming Island High School yearbook stands. The banned photo of Kelli Davis. Kelli Davis, 18, had her senior class photo taken in a tuxedo top and bow-tie outfit provided for boys rather than the gown-like drape and pearls provided for girls. The school's principal decided it could not appear in the yearbook because she didn't follow the dress code. Kelli, a straight-A student with no discipline...

She released a book entitled It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party... And Bringing the Country Together Again in which she criticizes the policies of the Bush administration and its electoral strategy which she views as divisive. It has been suggested that this may be a prelude to a candidacy for president in 2008 as a moderate Republican. She's been going around several talk shows including Hannity & Colmes criticizing the President Bush. This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," Jan. 27, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST:  Our next guest thinks...

STARVED for attention after a dismal stint as President Bush's Envi ronmental Protection Administrator — which itself followed a mediocre six years as governor of New Jersey — Christine Todd Whitman has penned a manifesto to radically remake the Republican Party and send it hurtling leftward. Predictably, the national press can't get enough of it: Newsweek featured a lengthy excerpt from the still-unpublished book, presumptiously titled, "It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America." Just as predictably, conservative Republicans — who don't think the future of their country, let alone their...