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In the background of the instrumental ‘The Stripper’ you can pick up a sinister sound: It’s the howling of unleashed demons and wolves David Rose’s 1958 instrumental ‘The Stripper’ is the theme song for our times. Get ready for it to reverberate over and over again in your aching head between now and November. But there’s no escaping that this is one theme song owned by the progressive left. While dozens of Republicans send word that they won’t be seeking re-election, porn star Stormy Daniels is holding public attention by doing the Blue Wave Strip Tease.

A candidate for the Libertarian Party’s chairman position stripped off his clothes and strutted his stuff on stage at the party’s national convention Sunday, instead of simply making a speech. He did not win the position. The lumberjack-looking candidate tried a laissez-faire approach to campaigning at the Orlando event: He cued a dance song, clapped, and then slowly removed his tie, shirt and suspenders, all for the live C-Span cameras.

The Howell man whose impromptu strip tease last month at the Libertarian Party's national convention made headlines across the U.S. has been suspended from the party. James Weeks II announced Sunday evening that Libertarian Executive Committee officials approved his suspension earlier in the day because of his actions. Weeks, chairman of the party's Livingston County branch and an announced party candidate for county sheriff, said "the reasoning behind this suspension is their disapproval of my use of free expression in lieu of a speech during my run for Libertarian Party chair at the national convention." Weeks has maintained his dance...

A 28-year-old yeshiva student was arrested late Sunday for the second time after undressing completely in a Tel Aviv supermarket with only a sock to cover his genitals, to protest the store's sale of chametz during Passover. The same student was arrested for pulling the same stunt last year in a Bat Yam store, after the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court passed a controversial ruling which permitted the sale of chametz (foods Jewish law prohibits on Passover) in some businesses. The court ruled then that the matzot law, which prohibits the display of chametz, in public places during the holiday, does not...

Life imitates art. How our "stimulus package" was sold to the American People.

<p>The "polemania" that overtook Hollywood, Australia and Japan a decade ago has grabbed France, where pole-dancing schools say they turn away clients eager to learn routines once the preserve of strip clubs and girlie bars.</p> <p>"It's sensual, not sexy, we leave eroticism in the changing room", said Violetta Carpentier, 31.</p>

A decade before accusing three Duke University lacrosse players of rape, a North Carolina woman claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a trio of men when she was a teenager

SYDNEY - A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered. Rebecca Gale, who led the team of dancers from Miss Kitka‘s House of Burlesque, said the performance was in reasonably good taste and she didn‘t understand what the fuss was about. "The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings," Gale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "It‘s not like we were doing full nudity and simulating sexual acts or anything like that." But some in the audience...

SYDNEY, Australia -- Some Australian strippers are now wearing the union label. The country's Industrial Relations Commission has given the strippers' union new rights. Striptease Artists Australia has won overtime pay, meal breaks and maternity leave for its members.

As it happened, my youngest son, Rudy, was in New Orleans as the storm approached the Gulf Coast, so I was acutely focused on what actions were being taken to evacuate the city. On Aug. 27, with the hurricane gaining force in the Gulf, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin called for a voluntary evacuation of the city....

A decently dressed man decided to perform an act of extreme striptease in front of hundreds of amazed passersby in the center of Ukraine's capital, Kiev. An unidentified man of about 30 years of age was at first walking along the sidewalk and the traffic area of Leo Tolstoy Square. A little bit later, the man decided to sunbathe on the pavement naked. The man was standing in the middle of the square in the beginning of the outrageous performance. He was spreading his arms as if he was trying to hug the world. The nude man entered the building...

Only the brass pole was missing. A woman tried to lay down the law yesterday morning by performing a spontaneous striptease in family court. She was protesting the judge's decision not to grant her motion for an adjournment. The woman, who can't be named, claimed the judge was biased. She did not have a lawyer. "I am not going to allow this to happen and as a form of non-violent protest, I am going to, at this point, start taking off my clothing," said the woman, who is in her early 30s. The woman was in court for a hearing...