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An actress and former international beauty pageant queen had a heated run-in with actor Sean Penn at Los Angeles International Airport recently, in which she says he called her a pig and she responded by calling him a communist. Maria Conchita Alonso, who is known for her role in the movies "The Running Man" and "Predator 2," was picking up her wheelchair-bound mother at LAX when she noticed fellow actor Sean Penn standing by the same luggage carousel. Alonso had not interacted with Penn since she wrote an open letter to him in March 2010 criticizing him for supporting socialist...

This is the winter of Sarah Palin’s discontent. Her “don’t retreat, reload” rhetoric blew up on her when Americans started fretting about heated political talk after an Arizona gunman shot a congresswoman and killed a federal judge. Then she added insult to injury by trying to claim she was the real victim, of a “blood libel.” Her poll numbers now are lower than at any time since she came on the national scene, and when New Hampshire Republicans voted in a presidential straw poll at their annual meeting, only 7 percent picked Palin. A new Public Policy Polling survey suggests...

The myth in the California Senate race is that Tom Campbell has corralled the moderate/left votes, and Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore are splitting the conservative vote between them. In this myth, DeVore, as the lower-polling candidate, functions as a “spoiler” for Fiorina — who would otherwise win with a united conservative base behind her. As with all myths, this one is wholly false. Of the major polls taken on CA-Sen in the past 90 days, only five of them explicitly polled on ideological identification: Rasmussen, two SurveyUSA polls, LAT/USC, and Field. A survey of those five polls reveals the...

Dear Patriots, Dr. Orly Taitz has planned to hit the streets to get the word out about the pressing concerns regarding Obama's/Soetoro citizenship. We need volunteers to help spread the word, gather protesters and travel to Studio City. Studio City, California, is home to many major local news outlets such as ABC and CBS, if you help us, Orly can be interviewed by these media networks and will be able to reach thousands of citizens. TEA PARTY AND PROTEST STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA Date: April 11, 2009 (Saturday) Where: Studio City on the corner of Laurel Canyon Avenue and Ventura Blvd....

KTVA reports: Governor Sarah Palin announced that she is proposing a bill that will allow the state to accept only 55-percent of federal recovery funds. Palin gave several examples that underlined her reasoning for wanting to reject the funds. In total, if the bill were passed, $515-million of the almost $1-billion would be rejected by the state. Please keep in mind the language in the "stimulus" bill that allows the state legislature to go around the governor in accepting "stimulus" funds.

Southern California attorney Orly Taitz has emerged as a constitutional heroine in the fight to establish – albeit late – whether Barack Obama is even legally eligible to serve as president of the United States. On Friday, she took the bold step of presenting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts with a WND petition of some 330,000 names calling on all controlling legal authorities to do just that. And she did it before 800 people at the University of Idaho where he was speaking. I have to tell you, this lady is rapidly becoming one of my heroes. This question...

It's not uncommon to hear stories of people defending their homes and themselves from intruders-- but when it's a 70-year-old woman, that story is a bit more uncommon. It's exactly what happened in St. Joseph County on Sunday night, after an intruder broke into an elderly woman's home on Portage Road. The woman held the man at gunpoint until police arrived. That man is 28-year-old Cyrus Brown. Brown is being held in jail on a number of charges, including burglary and intimidation. The woman who defended herself is Sandra. She asked us not to use her last name. Newscenter 16...

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say.

Short Streaming Video of VP Sarah Palin recently supporting an independent Third Party (conservative) in Alaska, welcoming the Party and sharing their ideas, also supporting independent parties' to challenge the two established parties.The Party welcomed here on this video did in fact go on to have a successful convention, as Mrs. Palin urged them, and ultimately officially endorsed and affiliated with conservative CHUCK BALDWIN (on the national ticket for Constitution Party) for President of the United States in 2008.

MEDIA ADVISORY, Jan. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- American RTL Action president Steve Curtis is challenging the wisdom and pro-life leadership of Ann Coulter for her endorsement of pro-abortion Mitt Romney for president. The group's ARTLaction.com site documents Romney's recent promotion of child killing with links to official government websites, Romney's own campaign, mainstream sources, and audio and video clips of the candidate himself: Mitt Romney claims, "On every piece of legislation, I came down on the side of life." "That is a lie," said Curtis, former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. In April 2006 Romney signed the Massachusetts Health...

AFTER SECRET GROOM, 2 DIVORCES, RUDY WIFE SETS SIGHTS ON WHITE HOUSE IN 'HIDING': Jeffrey Ross, the first husband of Judith Giuliani, sneers at our fotog in a Tampa, Fla., parking lot. Judith Giuliani's "hidden husband" tried to go incognito as The Post caught up with him outside his girlfriend's Tampa home, refusing even to acknowledge his name....multiple sources, including former neighbors and a law-enforcement officer, confirmed his identity. Ross, 56, a bushy-mustached car lover, wore his hat backward and dark sunglasses when spotted leaving the Tampa home of his girlfriend in a convertible Mercedes with the license plate "N0...

Rape victim kills attacker. Threat to also go after daughter, 6, spurs bloody struggle: He came to her house wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun. He beat the woman, police say, and raped her. But when the woman's attacker — an old high school friend she had spurned — threatened to rape her 6-year-old daughter, the woman went for a butcher knife. That prompted a violent back-and-forth struggle. She stabbed him. He stabbed her. They fought for perhaps as long as 20 minutes, rolling around on the kitchen floor of the woman's Cherokee County home. When it was...

Here's the deal with pictures: I'm trying to hook up a DVD player to my little t.v. That's it. I followed the directions and nothing is happening. There are yellow, white and red cords and I put them in the holes and nothing happens. Two hours and I still get nothing. FReeper help needed...please.

Women more likely to be perpetrators of abuse as well as victims Filed under Research, Education, Family, Law, Gender on Thursday, July 13, 2006. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners, according to a University of Florida study that finds college women have a new view of the dating scene. “We’re seeing women in relationships acting differently nowadays than we have in the past,” said Angela Gover, a UF criminologist who led the research. “The nature of criminality has been changing for females, and this change is reflected in intimate...

Born to British parents in Japan, raised in California and discovered by Max Reinhardt, Olivia de Havilland signed with Warner Bros. before her 20th birthday and quickly built a solid reputation as an endearing leading lady in a series of Michael Curtiz swashbucklers starring Errol Flynn. Her demure sweetness played well against Flynn's cocky machismo, and Warners paired them eight times (seven directed by Curtiz) in romantic adventure films and Westerns like "Captain Blood" (1935), "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) and Raoul Walsh's "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941). With the release of "Gone With the Wind" (1939),...

A 14-year-old central Toledo girl told police she was abducted at gunpoint yesterday by a man seeking sex, but escaped after she hit him in the groin area with a hammer she found under his car seat. The junior high student later told police she had previously learned in school that, if something like this were to happen, to search for a weapon. So the teen told the abductor she had dropped her ring in the suspect’s car and was searching for it. She felt the hammer under the front passenger seat, then put her ring back on, she told...

For a long time, Margaret Hurst lived in fear. Gangs control turf just a few blocks from her Mission District apartment in San Francisco, and she's sure a neighbor across the street deals drugs. Her building was broken into four times in one year. She saw teenagers on her street display a gun. And while she was stopped at a red light one day, a man tried to punch in her car window in a case of road rage. So she bought a handgun. Now Hurst is no longer scared. "I'll tell you one thing. If I'm going down, I'm...

NBC10.com Tape Shows Clerk Shooting Alleged Robber POSTED: 3:40 pm EST December 6, 2004UPDATED: 4:05 pm EST December 6, 2004Police in Columbus, Ohio released surveillance tape Sunday of an alleged convenience store robbery where the clerk shot a robbery suspect.The alleged robbery occurred earlier in the morning at a Sunoco station in the 3300 block of Cleveland Avenue.Slideshow: Surveillance Video Of Shooting FeedRoom Clerk Shoots Alleged Robber The tape showed a man identified as Desmond Thompson leaning over the counter and demanding money. His hand was hidden in his coat.Police said that Thompson, 26, implied that he had a...

NEW YORK (AP) - Tell us, Barbara Bush, just what is ``Sex and the City''? ``I don't know, what is 'Sex in the City'? the 79-year-old grandmother replies.``I'm too old,'' says her husband, former President George H.W. Bush.Barbara Bush then adds, ``Same as in the country, isn't it?''Their twin granddaughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, teased their grandmother about not being hip Tuesday night when they spoke at the Republican convention. ``She thinks 'Sex and the City' is something married people do but never talk about,'' Jenna told delegates.Barbara Bush may have been joking about whether she was familiar with the...

It's been two-and-a-half weeks since the first "Terror in the Skies, Again?" article was posted on WomensWallStreet.com and subsequently set off an international debate.  From the cockpit to the coffee shop, from the water coolers to the halls of Congress, countless numbers of people have been talking -- and shouting -- about this article.  It seems that anyone who reads the article develops a strong opinion, which in turn creates more questions.  Flight #327 has opened Pandora's box.Last week, when the name of the band was revealed (Syrian singer Nour Mehana) one side shouted: See, we told you so!  Then,...