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Baywatch babe says TSA agent picked her out of line to see her naked on full body scan. Former Baywatch actress Donna D’Errico is venting and outraged for what she says was a purposeful selection of her out of a line at a Los Angeles airport by a TSA agent, just so she could be seen naked. She’s also angry that no one told her that she had a right to opt out and choose the more friendly pat-down screening method instead. Making this, she says, traumatic episode all the worse was that she was actually traveling with her son...

One in a new occasional series of portraits of celebrities with vocal political views. Maybe it would be easier to take Janine Turner and her new Constituting America campaign seriously if almost every page of the campaign's official Web site didn't carry the same photo of the "Friday Night Lights"/"Northern Exposure" actress doing her best Loni Anderson impression. As reported in last week's Reliable Source, the jarringly blond Turner recently launched the non-profit Constituting America to "educate and inform America's youth and her citizens about the importance of the U.S. Constitution" (the actress/activist has a 12-year-old daughter). Turner is coming...

She may have been nominated for Best Actress at this year's Oscars ceremony for her breakthrough role in An Education, but off-screen, Carey Mulligan has also been garnering rave reviews for her gorgeous, quirky looks and inspired red-carpet choices. The 24-year-old British actress can do floor-hitting, traffic-stopping gowns - in vampish red Lanvin at the SAG Awards, and strapless midnight-blue Nina Ricci at the Globes, for instance - like the best of them, but excels when she plays up her image of the ingénue. Coquettish LBDs and sweet, long-sleeved dresses with a Sixties' vibe pay homage to Audrey Hepburn, an...

An Iowa congressman says an Army general was not out of line when he addressed Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) as "ma'am" during a recent Senate hearing. Brigadier General Michael Walsh, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was testifying last week before Boxer's Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about the progress of the Louisiana restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boxer: "Well, why has it been delayed? Walsh: "Ma'am, at the L-A-C-P-R is..." Boxer: "You know, do me a favor. Could say 'Senator' instead of 'ma'am?'" Walsh: "Yes." Boxer: "It's just a thing; I worked so...

Joe's Babe of the Week: Debbie Stabenow

Joe's Babe of the Week: Sarah Jessica Parker

Joe's Babe of the Week: Cynthia McKinney

Yes, it's that time of the week again when Dr. Joe comes out of hiding and decides to enlighten the world with one of his patented babes. This week he's picked only the hottest, babiest babe.

[photo gallery] Courtney Friel of Fox News was interviewed recently by SoupCans. The anchor goddess answered the following question: Soup: How did the gig with Fox News come about? Friel: Well…I went on a date with Roger Ailes....

No article just a video for those who didn't see it and might want to watch. If California wants a nice steady stream of income, they'd be smart to LEGALIZE POT. The efforts to eradicate not only aren't working but wasting a lot of money and time when our cops could be fighting REAL CRIME.

A high school science teacher in Florida has been booted from class, a decision she claims administrators made not based on poor job performance but on her moonlighting gig as a bikini mate aboard a local charter fishing boat.

April 15, 2008 Berlusconi injects glamour into Cabinet, but fears raised over anti-immigrant party Richard Owen, Rome Silvio Berlusconi began building his new Government today after a sweeping victory in the Italian general election, but there were early concerns that his new administration will be beholden to the populist and stridently anti-immigrant Northern League. The League, which doubled its vote to more than 8 per cent, opposes Muslim immigration to defend the "Christian identity" of Italy and detests the European Union, whose officials were once called "filthy pigs" by the party’s unpredictable leader Umberto Bossi. Mr Berlusconi’s People of Liberty...

The 18-year-old beauty contestant who mesmerized the nation with her verbal "brilliance" at the Miss Teen USA pageant over the weekend actually entered beauty pageants to improve her personal communication skills, WND can reveal.

May 1, 2007 -- FOXY Philadelphia TV reporter Alycia Lane is in hot water after a series of private e-mails and saucy snapshots she sent to handsome NFL Network anchorman Rich Eisen were intercepted by his wife. Suzy Shuster, a sideline reporter for ABC's college football broadcasts, hit the roof when she discovered seven e-mails and several bikini photos sent by Lane - who works for CBS affiliate WKYW-TV and is recently divorced - to an account she and her husband, Eisen, share. That had Shuster firing off to Lane a scathing letter, a copy of which was obtained by...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Jordan's Queen Rania on Sunday said Muslims must recognise that much of the terror in recent years has been committed in the name of Islam if they want to be taken seriously by the West. table> "We are right to deplore Islamophobia and the branding of Muslims as terrorists," she told an annual economic forum in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah. "But we must face up to the horrible truth that many of the worst terrorist attacks in recent years have been committed by people who claim to be acting in the name...

Julie Banderas is filling in for John Gibson today. Is anybody watching her? She is visibally upset about the comments made about President Bush by Chavez and The Iranian pipsqueek. I appreciate the fact that she kept ferering to president Bush as "Our Commander in Chief" and was angered that thse desopts can speak so freely in "our country" as she put it. It is good to see the there are some in the media with a sense of patriotism.

I remember seein this gal on TV a couple years back. And I didn't remember her name until I saw a recent article by her, and followed the bio info to her website. From her website, a biography: Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and commentator based near Los Angeles. She has provided analysis and commentary on national television for PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and has appeared locally on the Orange County News Channel and Cox Cable. In addition, Carol serves as a substitute host for KABC radio in Southern California and for the...

.....Separating the men from the boysPosted: August 25, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern It was a shocking moment for me, and it took a few seconds for me to be sure I had heard him correctly. Had MSNBC's Tucker Carlson really belittled the argument that Islamic terrorists posed a growing threat to Western civilization as being "reprehensibly dumb"? I was on Carlson's bottom-ranked cable news show, and the once bow-tied anchor was lecturing me that my justifications for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq was nothing more than "administration talking points." It was yet another in an incalculably...

Iranian of the day - Iranian wins Houston bikini contest ...couple of the more socially conservative photos here...

Perhaps because I am in the Pacific Time Zone - but I have not seen Laurie Dhue on Fox in a dog's age?Is she MIA or getting her lips re-glossed?

EMIDJI, Minn., March 14 (UPI) -- Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue ox companion, a concrete statue built in 1937 by the Bemidji, Minn., Rotary Club, will be getting $100,000 worth of repairs. Bunyan and Babe have been featured twice in Life magazine. Kodak has said they're the second-most-photographed statues in the United States, right behind Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Babe developed a one-inch-wide crack from the neck to the hindquarters that city officials have annually fixed with caulking and blue paint, but the crack continued to widen, reported the Grand Forks Herald. The Rotary Club raised more than $53,000 and...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Miss USA, Chelsea Cooley, wore a Marine desert cover, shared personal stories and laughed with wounded warriors to show her support for Marines at the Injured Support Barracks Monday. Cooley, who is from Charlotte, N.C., said she has always wanted to come back to North Carolina and visit with the troops. Although it is not part of Miss USA obligations, Cooley volunteers regularly with the United Service Organizations and speaks with service members all over the world. Photo by: Lance Cpl. Ryan M. Blaich

Meet Osama's niece She's not the model niece Osama bin Laden's looking for - but she is modelling.This is how Wafah Dufour, the al Qaeda leader's niece, will appear in the January 2006 issue of GQ magazine.Dufour, who took her mother's maiden name after the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, is an aspiring musician struggling to make a name for herself.She says she has never met Osama bin Laden."Everyone relates me to that man, and I have nothing to do with him," she said in the article."There are 400 other people related to him, but they...

NOVEMBER 22--In a sweetheart plea deal, a former Florida middle school teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old male student escaped a jail term today. Debra Lafave, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and was sentenced to three years of community control, or house arrest, and ordered to register as a sex offender. Lafave's plea came on the eve of trial and was approved by the teen victim and his family (in a court affidavit filed today, the boy's mother wrote that a trial would "negatively affect my son's emotional and psychological well-being"). Lafave, who...

Munich makes merry as Oktoberfest kicks off 19 September 2005MUNICH, GERMANY - Munich's Oktoberfest, billed as the biggest beer party in the world, got underway to cheers and flying froth Saturday. More than 6 million visitors from around the world are expected for the festivities, forking out up to EUR 7.10 for a one-litre mug of beer in one of 14 huge tents. Festival organizers promise a 16-day 'gaudi' - southern German for plenty of fun - until October 3, during which about 6 million litres of beer will be consumed.

MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former physical education teacher charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy who attended the school where she worked agreed to a nine-month jail sentence in a plea deal Thursday and was immediately locked up. Pamela Rogers Turner, 28, entered a no contest plea that allowed her to avoid a scheduled November trial on multiple charges of having sexual intercourse and oral sex with the teenager during a three-month relationship that started in November. A court clerk said the nine months in jail is part of an eight-year sentence for the former homecoming queen previously...

Teacher Claims Insanity in Sex Case Monday, July 18, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A teacher will claim she was insane due to emotional stress and did not know right from wrong when she had sex numerous times with a 14-year-old student, her attorney said Monday. "What teacher in her right mind would do something like this?" attorney John Fitzgibbons said after a brief hearing for his client, Debra Lafave (search), a middle-school reading teacher....

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It's absurd when smart, talented people want to be victims more than victors. The most obvious example comes from this past academic year, when feminist hysterics followed Harvard president Larry Summers hypothesizing about "innate differences" between men and women and how these differences might explain the lower number of women in science. One Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, Nancy Hopkins, walked out of his lecture — she couldn't even listen. She would have "either blacked out or thrown up" had she stayed. So professional. There will be no smelling salts needed on the racetrack, however. Danica Patrick is no Nancy...

Ann Coulter is one Drudge right now.

Why does Jennifer Eccleston (CNN Middle East) always look pissed off? When she worked for FOX she looked like a woman with a 'ttude. Now, it's an out right "huffy" look. You don't think it's working for CNN what done it?

Until recently, Wafah Dufour was known as Wafah bin Ladin, a monumental handicap for this aspiring singer. Her lyrics are in English and the sentiments expressed are clearly Western. But this 25-year-old cosmopolitan woman is a product of several cultures. Dufour's passport is American, her education European, her heritage Saudi Arabian. She is also the niece of Osama bin Laden. Dufour told Barbara Walters she has "never met him" but still can't escape the name. "No, I can't. Unfortunately," said Dufour. She has adopted her mother's maiden name, Dufour, and is now looking to develop a singing career after spending...

Ann Coulter to appear on CSPAN WASHINGTON Journal, Friday Morning at 8 AM, and again later on Hannity and Colmes at 9PM

KIEV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Radical reformer Yulia Tymoshenko won overwhelming approval as Ukraine's prime minister Friday and pledged to make her government so clean it would "sparkle like a diamond." Tymoshenko, who charmed crowds alongside the new president at protests which helped put him in power, told parliament she would make government accountable and uphold ties with Russia. But she also vowed to move "quickly and honorably" in propelling the ex-Soviet state toward Europe. Deputies in the 450-seat chamber endorsed her by 379 votes to zero. She immediately read out the list of Yushchenko's cabinet nominees, all prominent reformers committed...

In the column, Ms. Ager claims that while First Lady Laura Bush seems friendly and well-read, it disturbs her that Mrs. Bush is such a popular figure throughout the country in spite of public ignorance as to her feelings on the latest federal highway project or her stance on Supreme Court appointments.

A man was ordered by his doctor to lose 75 lbs. due to very serious health risks. As he wondered how in the heck he would ever do it, he ran across an ad in the newspaper for a GUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM. "Guaranteed. Yeah right!" he thought to himself. But desperate,he calls them up and subscribes to the 3-day/10 pound weight loss program. The next day there's a knock at his door, and when he answers,there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19-year-old young lady dressed in nothing but Air Nike running shoes with a sign around her neck....

Sharapova denied change of balls in Los Angeles 2004-11-10 06:01:33 GMT (Reuters) By Matthew Cronin LOS ANGELES, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova has complained that the official WTA Tour balls are too heavy and caused her recent chest and shoulder injuries. Due to her discomfort, the 17-year-old Russian asked the Tour not to use its official Tretorn edition balls at this week's season-ending WTA Championships, but her request fell on deaf ears. "They are heavy on my arm," Sharapova said on Tuesday, two days ahead of her opening match at the eight-women round robin event against compatriot...

Some conservative pundits take a shotgun approach in firing away at liberals. Ann Coulter uses an Uzi. Only hours before President George W. Bush was to speak this morning in Saginaw, the right-wing author took aim Wednesday night at liberal superstars and laid down some suppressing fire for Bush. Judging by the thunderous applause in the nearly packed Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw, each bullet hit its target. Former President Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy all came within her cross-hairs as she poked holes in Democrats' criticism of the war in Iraq. And God help you if your...

John Hawkins: Why do you think USA Today hired you to write a column on the Democratic Convention and then killed your column? Ann Coulter: I refused to include pie charts. John Hawkins: What do you think of the claim made by people like Eric Alterman that the mainstream media is actually conservative? Ann Coulter: Eric, they're called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and they're going to change your life. Ask your doctor if an S.S.R.I. is right for you. John Hawkins: Has anyone approached you about doing a syndicated radio show or getting your own show on one of the...

Game Time: 8:05 pm EDT TV: FOX Pitching Matchup: C. Schilling vs. M. Mussina Aaron Boone ended the Boston Red Sox's season last year with a walk-off home run for the New York Yankees in the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7 of the American League championship series. An intriguing and eventful offseason and 19 more heated and sometimes bloody meetings have brought the Red Sox and Yankees together yet again, with another World Series trip on the line. The highly anticipated rematch for the American League title begins Tuesday, with every indication that baseball's most bitter rivalry...

This is the kind of September we are supposed to have with the Yankees and the Red Sox. This is the way it is supposed to be, a series like this at the Stadium this weekend, then another one next weekend at Fenway Park. It wasn't supposed to be as easy as the Red Sox made it look in April. It wasn't supposed to be the kind of knockout punch the Yankees threw at Boston at the end of June, that three-game series when Derek Jeter, in addition to everything else, seemed to have taught himself how to fly. It...

The Virginia Conservative PAC will host a banquet in Richmond, VA featuring guest speaker Ann Coulter on Friday, Nov. 5. Tickets are $100 for singles and $175 for couples, with sponsorship levels available. For more information, see: http://www.vcap.org/events.htm

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida woman who offered up a Yorkshire pig as bait to entice an escaped tiger back home will face charges of animal cruelty, local newspapers reported on Thursday. Linda Meredith, of Loxahatchee where "Bobo" the tiger was killed by wildlife officers on Tuesday in a shooting his owner labeled a "murder," is being punished for putting the piglet in a car trunk, an official told the Palm Beach Post. "I was appalled," said Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control Director Diane Sauve. "Carrying an animal in a trunk in 90-degree (32 degrees Celsius) heat, where...

Vittorio Luzzati/National Portrait Gallery, London Hedy Lamarr, the movie star who is less well known as an inventor. n 1933, at age 19, she swam in the nude in the notorious Czech film "Ecstasy." Often called the most beautiful woman in the world, she married badly — to a domineering Austrian munitions manufacturer — and escaped by drugging the maid and climbing out a window. She made her way to Hollywood, where she starred in movies with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart. Then there is the less known chapter of her life. In World War II, she...

She still hasn’t said she’s running, but Katherine Harris may get drafted into the race for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Bob Graham is vacating. According to a recent St. Petersburg/Miami Herald poll, 29 percent of Floridian Republicans back Harris, putting her ahead of both Bill McCollum, with 16 percent, and former HUD Secretary Mel Martinez, who pulled 11 percent. However, 38 percent were still undecided, leaving the Republican side of the race anyone’s to win. Martinez recently shared a stage with his potential rival and George W. Bush when the president signed the American Dream Down Payment Act, which...

Cyber women test what's real By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like. Rene Morel's 3D model has a very human face Virtual cyberbabes are used in advertising campaigns, hit shoot-em-up games, and the pop industry, from Lara Croft to virtual pop idols, T-Babe and Diki or DK-96. Some of the best 3D models around are currently on show at an exhibition which has just opened in London called Perfectly Real: Women in Bits and Bytes. But they raise questions about what people...

Janice Rule, an actress in film and onstage who became a psychoanalyst late in her career, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 72. Born in Norwood, Ohio, Ms. Rule studied ballet and began dancing in Chicago nightclubs in her teens. She soon attracted attention in Hollywood and made her film debut in 1951 in "Goodbye, My Fancy," with Joan Crawford and Robert Young. She was pictured on the cover of Life magazine on Jan. 8, 1951, as a rising young actress. Her films in the 1950's included "Starlift," "Holiday for Sinners," "A Woman's Devotion" and "Bell,...

<p>GRADY LITTLE'S future is not the only big decision looming for the owners of the Boston Red Sox. What will they do about Fenway Park? After the soul-crushing loss to the New York Yankees, the game of baseball -- and the second-guessing of Little -- take priority in Red Sox Nation. But the business of baseball can never be far behind. Long after fans learn whether Little will be judged for a season of decisions or one decision to leave Pedro Martinez on the mound in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, the owners will be grappling with a decision about Fenway's future.</p>