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When the leader of the free world touched down in Ohio last month for a headline-making jaunt, the Buckeye State’s Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown was nowhere to be seen. And Florida Sen. Bill Nelson said he couldn’t break his plans to join President Barack Obama for some fun at Walt Disney World a few weeks ago. Then there’s Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill. While other swing-state Democrats on the November ballot flee from the vulnerable president, McCaskill has unabashedly hitched herself to Obama — for better or worse, in political sickness or health. Resigned to the reality that her Republican opponents...

Grammy-award winning rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station. AP Image Lil' Kim Although many rappers have served time in prison, Lil' Kim is the first big-name female artist to do so. Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, could have faced up to 20 years -- five years each on three counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy -- at her sentencing before U.S. District Judge Gerard...

Carolyn Parrish was accorded a free ride for her anti-American tirades--until the Drudge Report checked in. Drudge prominently displayed the infamous picture of Parrish’s expensively booted foot crushing a George W. Bush doll over the story of her upcoming Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) foot-stomping stunt. Today the Liberal MP’s debut on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes foot-stomping antics takes the backseat as a marginalized Parrish rendered her swan song from the abysmal ranks of the Canadian independent. Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin finally got around to firing his mean-mouthed backbencher yesterday–and that story is up on Drudge too. The...

"When you take a multimillion-dollar endorsement from a company, you must also take some responsibility for the company's practices." So wrote Pamela Anderson, rapping NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. for his sponsorship of KFC. The busty "Baywatch" and "Stripperella" star -- whose Web site declares her "the millennium's most recognizable icon" -- complains that the food chain's suppliers are scalding chickens alive. And she has put her celebrity to work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which features her on billboards now going up as part of the anti-KFC campaign. We can understand why the artificially augmented star might...

May 25, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - If the war and the presidential election aren't generating enough headlines, Washington finally has the ultimate attention getter: a good, old-fashioned sex scandal. Thank Jessica Cutler. Her Internet diary, which graphically recorded what she claims are steamy sexploits with powerful D.C. lawyers and Bush administration honchos, has exploded like a grenade in the nation's capital. "They couldn't run me out of town. If they could I would already be gone," said Cutler, 24. Not that they didn't try. When staffers in the office of Mike DeWine, the conservative GOP senator from Ohio for whom...

The notorious former Hollywood Madam says prostitution laws suit men, not women Nadya Labi Saturday September 13, 2003 The Guardian Why did I become a madam?... One day I just realised that I could run a sex business better than anyone else I knew. My first client was a Swiss businessman who was in Los Angeles with six acquaintances. I set the men up with some girls I knew and all of them were very happy. The word spread and demand snowballed after that. I tried to stay in college and run the business at the same time, but it...