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<p>She was only 14, a butcher’s daughter and a student at Perry High School on Pittsburgh’s North Side.</p> <p>He was 36, a handsome Hollywood leading man with a beautiful blonde movie-star wife and a $1 million contract with Warner Bros.</p>

Hollywood star stands up for decency Patricia Heaton walks out of music awards because of lewd tone For "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Patricia Heaton, the last straw came when a performer at the 30th annual American Music Awards made graphic references to three-way sex. That, and, perhaps, Sharon Osbourne's joke about what she called Mariah Carey's "fake" endowments. Patricia Heaton Though the actress was at the awards show to introduce a pre-recorded retrospective of executive producer Dick Clark's annual music show, enough was enough. She walked out of the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, disgusted by what she called "an...

(CNSNews.com) - Whether it's a genuine attempt to 'give back' to the community or a chance to put a positive spin on the pornography industry, charitable organizations are increasingly finding themselves at the receiving end of donations from sexually-oriented businesses. With efforts ranging from a charity telethon for a suicide prevention hotline hosted by porn stars to a little league baseball team sponsored by exotic dancers, the sex industry is paying more attention to charity. "Whether you're in the ball-bearing business or the adult entertainment club business, you've got a responsibility to give back to the community that tolerates your...

<p>Those were some of the kinder things said of the president. Not "this" president. I'm talking president Ronald Reagan.</p> <p>He was also dismissed as an intellectual lightweight.</p> <p>He was also lampooned as a puffed up idiot.</p> <p>He was also crazy like a fox.</p>

I've detected way too much gloating up in here. It makes me uncomfortable and I wonder if it bothers anybody else. I thank God the GOP did as well as it did, but I harbor no hatred for the opposition. For one thing, well, I just don't. I find it hard to hate somebody just because he'd pull a different lever in a voting booth. For another, if we did that, we'd be just like the worst, creepiest people we've seen in the Democrat party--the ones that held the Wellstone funerally or who passed out Oreo cookies to attack a...

(On October 22 Mike Taylor announced that he would reenter the race for the US Senate. In a moving and powerful speech he declared that he would join the Montana Republican Party to champion the cause of clean campaign activities in an effort to help stem the tide of sleazy, shameful campaign tactics that are eroding the great American political process. The full text of his speech follows.) Mike Taylor begins the "Countdown to Decency" On October 10th I suspended my campaign, facing continued damage to my family, the destruction of my reputation, and possible negative repercussions for my party...

Fox news has just reported Condit has supplied his Republican opponent a list of his major donors, as well as commentary on when and who to contact.

The naked women stopped me cold. It wasn't simply that their grins were lascivious or their tongues touching. Not even the fact that they seemed to have an inordinate amount of interest in one another's surgically augmented breasts. No, what stopped me is the fact that I was in an airport at the time. An airport newsstand in Baltimore, to be exact. Had a few minutes to kill and was scanning the magazine rack when I came upon these women, part of several shelves stocked with similar literature. No screen shielded you from it. You simply turned the corner and...