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The story: Gov. Spitzer begs forgiveness after getting caught having a sex romp with a prostitute named Kristen in a fancy Washington hotel. Says the soon-to-be-ex gov, "I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, who I promised better." In other words: Also, I apologize to Kristen, who was really a very sweet and smart kid. Kristen, I didn't mean for you to get caught up in all this. And, seriously, I didn't realize my hands were THAT cold. The story: You, too, can own the fancy duds worn by the famous Queen of...

The high-class hooker whose tryst with Eliot Spitzer brought down the governor has been given immunity to testify in the investigation of a worldwide prostitution ring. Word that Manhattan federal prosecutors have given Ashley Alexandra Dupré immunity came as members of the Spitzer administration were feeling high heat in the expanding probe. Workers for Spitzer's election campaign have hired lawyers, preparing to meet with probers looking into whether Spitzer illegally used campaign donations to get to and from his trysts with hookers. This week, Kristie Stiles, a Spitzer campaign consultant, retained criminal defense lawyer Charles Clayman, who declined to comment....

The prostitute who brought down New York governor Eliot Spitzer once dressed as a cheerleader for a romp with Charlie Sheen, says her old pimp. Ashley Dupre was 19 when she took part in £10,000-a-night threesomes with the Platoon actor. Pimp Jason Itzler, 41, said: "Sheen got the girls to dress up as cheerleaders and chant his name while performing sex acts. They loved Charlie. "Ashley was a real workaholic. I wasn't amazed to hear she was doodling Spitzer. Advertisement "Boy that guy was a hypocrite. A self-righteous white knight enjoying his own dark nights." Ashley, 22, joined escort agency...

BISBEE — A manager at a company in Sierra Vista was arrested Friday as a result of a workplace enforcement investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol officials. Robert Rubio, 25, of Sierra Vista, is charged with knowingly hiring illegal workers and intentionally harboring and/or concealing illegal workers, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Officials declined to disclose the company’s name because the company is not a defendant in the case. Companies must maintain Form I-9s for each employee. Immigration agents conducted a Form I-9 inspection at the company in Sierra Vista...

Reports by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the earth is experiencing unprecedented global warming are flawed and cannot be supported, investigators now report. In a study reported in the Washington Times, a panel of statisticians, chaired by Edward J. Wegman of George Mason University, found significant problems with the methods of analysis used by the researchers and with the IPCC's peer review process. According to the Times, "IPCC reports have predicted average world temperatures will increase dramatically, leading to the spread of tropical diseases, severe drought, the rapid melting of the world's glaciers and ice caps,...

The Senate rejected calls from both parties' presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush. John McCain, the GOP nominee-to-be, couldn't attract even a majority of Senate Republicans to vote with him Thursday night behind the earmark moratorium touted by party conservatives as a way to restore the GOP's credibility with voters. It failed on a 71-29 vote. Only three Democrats joined with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in voting for it. The underlying House...

Barack Obama has already had a tough week, and it’s just about to get worse. With his campaign reeling from the videos of his pastor spewing race-baiting rhetoric, the Tony Rezko trial just produced a new nugget that makes Obama look more dishonest. For the second time, the amount of money Rezko raised for Obama has been significantly increased from Obama’s prior admissions: Indicted Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for presidential candidate Barack Obama’s earlier political campaigns than previously known. Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for the first three offices Obama sought, the senator...

An indicted Chicago businessman and political operator played a much bigger fundraising role in Barack Obama's political career than the White House hopeful had previously disclosed, the candidate tells the Chicago Tribune for an exclusive story late Friday afternoon. Antoin "Tony" Rezko, on trial for corruption, raised roughly $250,000 for Obama -- more than $100,000 more than had been previously discovered by enterprising reporters. Obama also admitted that he made repeated lapses in judgement by involving Rezko in a complex house purchase, the paper reports. The candidate insisted that despite Rezko's efforts to help him, the politically savvy businessman expected...

Barack Obama, Victor Davis Hanson, and a few others on his response.

Barack Obama said Friday that he won't leave his Chicago church because of incendiary remarks by the pastor, but he condemned the man's controversial statements, which are igniting a firestorm of TV and Internet coverage. Obama laid out a detailed self-defense of his long, close relationship with the retiring Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in a written statement to the Huffington Post, a liberal Web site. Obama also planned a blitz of TV network appearances to counter recent broadcasts of Wright saying "God damn America" and making other inflammatory remarks. Wright...

You remember when bonnie lass "Kristen," the girl who brought down a governor, was profiled this morning in the New York Times? They reported her age at 22, which seems about right. She's a lovely young thing, and, well, when you're paying you might as well buy the ripest fruit. (Oh God, ew, we hate ourselves for coming up with that metaphor.) But we've done some sleuthing, and we've discovered that two separate public identification records reveal that the only Ashley Youmans (the real name of "Kristen," a.k.a Ashley Alexandra Dupré) from the Jersey Shore (or anywhere in New Jersey)...

DELAND, Fla. — Three middle school students were charged Friday with plotting to kill their classmates and themselves, police said. Two boys and a girl, all 13, were taken into custody shortly after the plan was discovered on March 5. Their mental health was evaluated before they were transferred Friday to a juvenile detention center, said Volusia County sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson. Investigators said in a news release the ringleader had exchanged instant messages with a DeLand Middle School classmate, saying "I will kill every person I see. ... Everyone will pay for what they did to me." The student,...

As the media revel in all the lurid details of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, ask yourself this question: How is it that we know any of this stuff ? The short answer: U.S. federal prosecutors leaked it. The court documents referred only to a mysterious "Client Number Nine" -- reflecting the usual rule that individuals who are not accused of a crime should not be publicly embarrassed. Having shared these documents with the media, prosecutors then verbally disclosed that Client Number Nine was the Governor of the State of New York. This was really a shocking and wrong thing to...

U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu is speaking out about her first cousin who police say murdered his wife and killed himself. She says Stephen Landrieu killed his wife Brenda Burke out of compassion. "My cousin did shoot his wife. And although it's been described as murder, and technically is, it was a mercy killing. She had been suffering a great deal physically for years and years. They were very close. It was not a situation of violence, domestic violence in the traditional sense," Landrieu told WWL Radio.She says not only was 50-year-old Brenda Burke in a lot of pain for chronic...

A priest has been attacked in the grounds of his church, in what police described as a "faith-hate" crime. Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was injured by two Asian youths at the church, in Tower Hamlets, east London. Canon Ainsworth said a third youth watched as he suffered cuts, bruises and black eyes in the assault at the church of St George-in-the-East. The youths also jeered at the priest for being a churchman in the attack on Wednesday night, the Met Police said. An appeal for witnesses has been made

BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier stationed in southern Germany was shot dead by police after threatening an ex-girlfriend and then going on the run armed with an assault rifle, authorities said on Friday. The 30-year old, who was serving in the 2nd, "Dagger," brigade of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, broke into the woman's house late on Thursday, threatened her and tied her up, police in the Bavarian region of Unterfranken said. She was able to free herself and alerted the police, who began a search using a commando unit and a helicopter equipped with thermal imaging equipment. Officers...

It is the internet site that contains dark family secrets, unspeakable truths and appalling injustice. The French log on to it in trepidation and in private. Les Guillotinés offers the most complete online list yet established of the French Revolution’s victims and invites users to discover the answer to a terrible question: “Do you have an ancestor who was decapitated?” Hundreds of thousands of people have consulted the death base, created by Raymond Combes, a computer programmer and amateur genealogist. Many more are likely to follow suit. According to one estimate, up to five million French people are descended from...

Editor’s note: This article includes language some readers may consider inappropriate. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., condemned racially charged sermons by his former pastor Friday and urged Americans not to reject his presidential campaign because of “guilt by association.” Obama’s campaign announced that the minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., had left its spiritual advisory committee after videotapes of his sermons again ignited fierce debate in news accounts and political blogs. Obama did not clarify whether Wright volunteered to leave his African American Religious Leadership Committee, a loose group of supporters associated with the campaign, or whether the campaign asked him...

Prosecutors are homing in on the disgraced former New York state governor Eliot Spitzer, by investigating whether he used money raised for political campaigns to pay for travel and other expenses relating to his meetings with prostitutes. The New York Times, which broke the story of his involvement with a prostitution ring that led to his resignation on Wednesday, said the inquiry into his actions was focusing on three trips in which he employed the services of women supplied by the Emperors Club VIP, a New Jersey-based operation. One of those meetings was the February 13 liaison at a Washington...

A Gardena city councilman who resigned earlier this week has been charged with child molestation, authorities said. Oscar Medrano Jr. was charged with eight counts of lewd act upon a child under 14, one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and three counts of lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 years old, Deputy District Attorney Beatriz Dieringer said in a statement. Prosecutors alleged the victim was molested on a regular basis beginning when she was in elementary school up until age 14. The last count relates to an incident when the victim was 15...

BERKELEY _ He called himself Fresh, but a group called Students Against Hippies in Trees said his routine for protesting various university policies was getting stale. Seventeen days after protester Michael Schuck _ aka Fresh _ climbed into an oak just north of Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus, tree-sit opponents mobbed the tree Friday calling for Schuck to follow the rules for public discourse and get out of the tree. The 23-year-old Schuck finally did come down and was cited by police for illegally lodging and trespassing and released, a university spokesman said Friday. He said...

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As the political eulogies for Eliot Spitzer are written, a lot will be said about the alleged contradiction between his "righteous," "crusading" public persona and his tawdry personal life. For example, in a remarkably insipid column today, Gail Collins of the New York Times professes utter amazement at the revelation about Spitzer, as if it came out of nowhere, like space_aliens_landing in the middle of Central Park. "You never know," sighs this middle-aged naïf. The New York Post's man in Albany, Fredric Dicker, is having none of it. "I Knew He Was a Fraud & a Hypocrite from the Day...

If David Paterson as governor displays the opposition to eminent domain that he showed as a state senator, several high-profile development projects in New York City could be derailed or delayed, including a Columbia University expansion, the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, and the transformation of Willets Point in Queens. As a state Senate leader, Mr. Paterson in 2005 held a rally with Council Member Letitia James and state Senator William Perkins on the steps of City Hall during which he called for a statewide moratorium on the use of eminent domain. Mr. Paterson said a decision handed down by...

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has released a list of $740 million in earmark requests he made in the past three years, and it includes $1 million for the hospital where his wife Michelle is a vice president. The request for $1 million for the University of Chicago Medical Center was to help pay for construction of a new pavilion. “I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that Michelle Obama was not part of our lobbying over the request, not in any way,” Kelly Sullivan, another vice president at the medical center, told the New York Times. In any case,...

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 13 --A plan to conduct "consent searches" for guns in District of Columbia residences is "an outrageous exercise of police state demagoguery," the Second Amendment Foundation said today. SAF founder Alan Gottlieb condemned the plan as "a public relations effort designed to influence, through crass dramatics, Tuesday's scheduled oral arguments on the constitutionality of the District's handgun ban before the Supreme Court." "Launching this effort," he stated, "on the eve of Supreme Court arguments over the city's horribly failed handgun ban underscores the Draconian mentality that lies at the root of gun laws like the District handgun...

A 25-year-old Sierra Vista man is in federal custody, charged with knowingly hiring and intentionally harboring illegal immigrants.

By STEPHEN MANNING Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON -- On Sept. 24, 1976, one of the toughest gun laws in the nation took effect in the District of Columbia, essentially outlawing the private ownership of new handguns in a city struggling with violence. Over the next few weeks, a man with a .32-caliber pistol held up workers at a downtown federal office at midday, a cab driver was shot in the head, and a senator was mugged by three youths, one carrying a revolver, near the U.S. Capitol. Since the ban was passed, more than 8,400 people have been murdered in...

No Child Left Ahead by Neal McCluskey This article appeared in the American Spectator (Online) on March 13, 2008. Shame on you, South Carolina! You have high academic standards compared to other states, and it's making you look bad under the No Child Left Behind Act. It's time to get on the ball, dumb-down "proficiency," and join everyone else in the race to save face! Indeed, your House of Representatives already got the message, passing recent legislation to let you keep down with the Joneses. H.R. 4662 -- the legislative hero coming to rescue you from relatively meaningful standards --...

A Democratic senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, introduced a bill late last night that would strike the Tiahrt amendment, a piece of gun legislation staunchly opposed by Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun coalition. The introduction of the bill, called the Firearms Information Use Act of 2008, is prompting lobbyists for the gun industry to once again fight to protect the amendment. "Of course the NRA opposes the bill. We feel like the Tiahrt amendment is there for a reason and Congress intended that trace information be available for law enforcement in bonafide criminal investigations," a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association,...

PONTIAC, Mich. — Normally, 1,500 cigars seized in a drug bust would be incinerated. The Oakland County sheriff wants Michigan troops serving in Iraq to do it for him. The county's Narcotics Enforcement Team seized the stogies during a traffic stop of a convicted drug felon in January. Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Thursday the cigars were thought to be illegal Cuban cigars but they turned out to be high-quality Dominicans.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- An officer has been arrested after inmates were found with cell phones in a Prince George's County correctional facility. The officer, Pierre Sailsman-Currie, 22, is a member of the Bloods street gang, according to court documents, and he allegedly gave phones to members of the gang. Police and corrections officials began an investigation after cell phones and chargers were found inside the secure facility on Dille Drive in Upper Marlboro. A cell phone was found in the waistband of one inmate who is a documented member of the Bloods, according to court records. Court documents said...

DAKAR, Senegal - The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots. Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in this western Africa capital. The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations like Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to...

Concealed weapons on college campuses gets House approvalBy TIM TALLEY, Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Legislation that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses in Oklahoma was approved by the state House Thursday despite opponents who said putting more guns on campus makes no sense following recent massacres at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University. “This has to be the craziest thing I have ever seen,” said Rep. Ray McCarter, D-Marlow, one of several lawmakers who said the measure is opposed by college administrators and most Oklahomans but is supported by the National Rifle Association. “How silly can...

Will it ever stop? Now there has been a video released with alleged Eliot Spitzer call girl Ashley Dupre that was taken with a cell phone camera and it shows America's favorite new vixen dancing around with another woman in the online video. It is your typical beauty queen type quasi-lesbian stuff but as bandwidth is being burned up for the former call girl, it is now the latest video. There's more on the woman formerly known as Kristen as well. Ashley Alexandra Dupré has left the building. At least she has bailed on the one that she formerly live...

RUSH: I find something very interesting. We've had two calls today, and I am certain we will get more, from people who say that they don't hear anything wrong with what we have played from the sermons of the pastor of Obama's church in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright. Let's listen to this one again. This is a sermon from 2001 shortly after the 9/11 attacks. WRIGHT: We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and...

Ace notes that it keeps getting better with the nutcase that Obama so looked up to and admired for 20 years: Concluding, Mr. Wright said: “We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .” And Mona Charen believes Obama has pulled the greatest con seen in a long time: His entire campaign has been about “coming together,” a post-racial consensus, etc. Any mention of his middle name was immediately condemned as ignorant fear-mongering. He has played the...

Leftist icon David Mamet, annoying liberals Nothing annoys a liberal (http://PatriotShop.US/index.php?cPath=42) more than when one of their celebrated intelligentsia defects toward the Right. This week, yet another Leftist icon, David Mamet, announced he is coming to his senses. Mamet is a Tony- and Oscar-nominated playwright, screenwriter and film director. His notable plays include Glengarry Glen Ross, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, and Speed-the-Plow. His films include The Verdict, Wag the Dog, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Ronin (a personal favorite). He currently writes for and produces the television show “The Unit.” As an author and essayist,...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A driver backed a car into the studio at Newsradio 750 KXL and then drove away Friday afternoon. The crash happened at about 1 p.m. at the KXL building on Bancroft Street. The car involved is described as a white Toyota Corolla with a license plate of 683-RYU. Portland police are investigating the incident as a hit-and-run. KPTV.com will update this story as more information becomes available.

The president believes leaders of free countries should support morality and calls it a "sad day" when a leader such as New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is found to have been patronizing prostitutes, possibly in violation of federal law. But he won't get into what other people think of Spitzer's activities. White House assistant press secretary Tony Fratto responded to questions from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, on the New York situation that has dominated headlines for days. "Would it be accurate to say that our president realizes the great importance of any leader of a free...

My bill, HF 498, known as the Castle Doctrine, is needed to clarify what law-abiding citizens can do to protect themselves and others in life-threatening situations. Contrary to what its critics say, it's a common-sense bill. Citizens have a right to protect themselves from criminals and to use deadly force when necessary. I'm concerned the current paranoia about guns has given law-breakers an edge. A few days ago, Don Samuels, a Minneapolis City Council member

Barack Obama's campaign has sent The Brody File here at CBN News a statement regarding the controversy swirling around his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Read it below: The pastor of my church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who recently preached his last sermon and is in the process of retiring, has touched off a firestorm over the last few days. He's drawn attention as the result of some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents. Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the...

Had New York Governor Eliot Spitzer reached out for the Gideon Bible in his fancy Washington, D.C., hotel room instead of, allegedly, a high-priced prostitute, he might have been forewarned of the dangers in such liaisons. Such as: "A prostitute is a deep pit; an adulterous woman is treacherous. She hides and waits like a robber, looking for another victim who will be unfaithful to his wife." (Proverbs 23:27-28) And: "For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword....

The Obama campaign says they have no plans to ask the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to step down from a campaign spiritual advisory committee. They're stressing that this committee -- the African American Religious Leadership Committee -- was a laundry list of people associated with the campaign and didn't really do anything. The group never actually met. They say Wright has no formal role on the campaign (unlike some others on this committe who do have a formal role in faith-based outreach). They say he was included mostly out of respect to his long relationship with Obama. Aides say he was...

While call girl "Kristen" is getting a lot of attention, the thoughts and feelings of Governor Spitzer's wife Silda Wall Spitzer are still the object of much curiosity. The Post spoke to a friend of hers who said Wall Spitzer is most upset about Ashley Alexandra Dupre's age (22). According to the Post, "The fact that Dupre is only four years older than the Spitzers' eldest daughter, Elyssa, is not lost on Silda." Still, the friend says she is Spitzer's "rock," and the couple, who met at Harvard Law School, have been attending meetings with his lawyers. Another fascinating detail:...

<p>Brenda Biesterfeld has become the talk of Lindsay. People are saying she deserves a pat on the back, maybe an award, for telling police that a man was viewing child pornography in the city's library.</p>

A man who says he posed as an illegal immigrant for years to dodge criminal charges was back at home with his family in Central Texas. Saul Espinoza, 36, was detained for nearly two months in San Antonio before being released last night. He was allowed to join his family in Boerne pending a final decision in his case. Immigration officials still haven't recognized him as a U.S. citizen. Espinoza said he duped authorities for years and avoided criminal charges by telling officials he was Joel Garza, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. But Espinoza's attorney said the father of 5...

Fox News's Chris Wallace was once again Steve Malzberg's guest on WOR radio Thursday, and the host of "Fox News Sunday" made some comments about Eliot Spitzer, Geraldine Ferraro, and the current Democrat campaign for president that are guaranteed to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle. In an interview that covered many subjects, Wallace said of Spitzer, "Gosh, what an idiot," while strongly disagreeing with Geraldine Ferraro's recent statements about Barack Obama, and concluded by saying that the "identity politics" the Democrats have been playing for years "is now coming back to bite them, big time" in such...

Shortly after her son killed his wife with a .22-caliber pistol Wednesday night in their Tangipahoa Parish apartment, New Orleans School Board member Phyllis Landrieu called police and told them her son was poised to take his own life, authorities said. Stephen J. Landrieu, a member of the politically powerful Landrieu family of New Orleans, was standing outside his apartment in the town of Independence when officers arrived, but he went inside and locked the door, then committed suicide with a rifle, police said. The body of Landrieu, 52, the cousin of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and Lt. Gov. Mitch...