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Last spring, I told you that Jenna Lyons, J. Crew’s president and creative director, wasn’t just having a little, harmless fun with her son Beckett when she published a photograph of herself painting his toenails hot pink in a J. Crew catalogue—a catalogue distributed to millions of people. The quote accompanying the image of Beckett read, “Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon.” I said Lyons was making a cultural statement about masculinity no longer being important to boys—that she was, essentially, uncomfortable with his...

Gender-bending chemicals are largely exempt from new EU regulations, warns Geoffrey Lean. Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream. The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution...

Only nine months ago, the Pentagon pronounced itself reassured by the early steps of a new commander in chief. President Obama was moving slowly on an American withdrawal from Iraq, had retained former President George W. Bush’s defense secretary and, in a gesture much noticed, had executed his first military salute with crisp precision. But now, after nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise within the military. A number of active duty and retired senior officers say there is concern that the president...

The reason why Paris Hilton ditched Cristiano Ronaldo after two nights of passion is apparently that the soccer ace is a “real cissy”. The hotel heiress had reportedly told her pals that she could never seriously romance the Real Madrid winker, because she likes her men to be macho, reports The Daily Star. Paris enjoyed a sizzling romp with the Portuguese ace in Los Angeles nightspot MyHouse as he celebrated his transfer from Manchester United. A Hollywood source said: “She likes her guys to be macho and as far as she’s concerned Ronaldo turned out to be a real cissy....

The Times says the "pacifist" Obama will be the "First Woman President." When the Left is rolling over their own guy, sometimes you just have to get out of the way.

Twenty years ago, between September 28 and October 4, 1987, millions of people in the United States tuned in to a new show called Star Trek: The Next Generation. This event was eagerly welcomed by fans even though the show was treading on sacred ground as the first Star Trek spin-off. (This is partly why there were some skeptics out there too.) The new Star Trek was also a bold experiment on the part of Paramount in that it was an hour-long sci-fi drama airing in first-run syndication, not the perceived safe haven of network television. During this week in...

Why are so many pundits enamored of the Republican candidates' manliness -- and so eager to equate "presidential" with "masculine"? How do you decide who gets your vote in the presidential elections? Is it determined by the candidates' physical appearance, by the charisma they radiate or by the emotional strings they manage to tug deep inside you, conjuring childhood yearnings for security and a night-light after dark? And if you do cast your vote on these grounds rather than on the candidates' policies, do you want political pundits to tell you what they think about the looks, smells, and aura...

All the polling and analysis of the 2008 presidential primaries neatly bifurcate their consideration into partisan categories. In the Democratic primary, Clinton, Obama and Edwards face off, while in the Republican contest, the polls take measure of Giuliani, McCain, Romney and, depending on their assumptions, Gingrich and Fred Thompson. But this analysis fundamentally ignores one of the most important elements in the looming contest of 2008: the likelihood that independents and even Republicans may enter the Democratic primary to support or oppose Hillary Clinton. So polarizing is her candidacy that the migration into the Democratic primary could be enormous, even...

Quad-City barbers put down their shears and sputtered words like “preposterous” and “impossible” Wednesday when they heard of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spending $400 for a haircut. In the Quad-Cities, $10 or $12 is about average. “If I charged $400 for a haircut, they’d come after me with white coats,” said Leo Fier, who has been cutting hair for 49 years at his shop in DeWitt, Iowa. Edwards’ campaign committee filed a financial report with the Federal Election Commission noting that the White House hopeful paid $400 for haircuts in California and New Hampshire, and $248 for salon services...

Proving they're not just for women anymore, we have created a list of facials, basic & clean, for men. Each facial is a relaxing sixty minute treatment. These treatments include cleansing, facial steaming, manual extraction of impacted debris, a hydrating, calming, or instant glow mask, facial massage, and an application of moisturizer.

Ann Coulter fired back at critics who demanded the conservative columnist apologize for comments she made during a speech in which she referred to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards as a "faggot." "'Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it has nothing to do with gays," Coulter said on "Hannity and Colmes" Monday night. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person."

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — When they called her name, she could not move. Sgt. Leana Nishimura intended to walk up proudly, shake the dignitaries' hands and accept their honors for her service in Iraq — a special coin, a lapel pin, a glass-encased U.S. flag. But her son clung to her leg. He cried and held tight...T.J. was 9, her oldest child, and although eight months had passed since she had returned from the war zone, he was still upset by anything that reminded him of her deployment... The faraway move to live with his grandmother. The months that...

Pop star Moby, known for his political statements as well as his music, says he'd do everything he could to make his future child homosexual should the singer ever have a family. He's also blasting conservatives Tom DeLay, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich as "amoral/immoral" right wingers. In an interview with Planet Out, a publication geared toward homosexuals, the musician, who is not "gay," was lamenting so-called homophobia in society when he suggested his future child should be raised to be a homosexual. "As a matter of fact, I was talking to my friend Laura, who sings on...

Feminization of Americans and Immigration - THE LINK When I was young, I played with things and ideas. My favorite was earth moving equipment. I built entire communities in the yard with tunnels, bridges, lakes, dams. During school I dreamed about what I would build. I also pretended a stick was a gun, etc. My sisters played with (manipulated) dolls. Real boys just had bigger toys when they grew up. They manipulated things and ideas. Only giggolos and pimps manipulated people. Girls, on the other hand, grew up to be real women who manipulated other people into cooperating. As has...

Uh-Oh! It's another episode in the continuing crisis of watering masculinity down. Respected jewelers, like Tiffany & Co., and mass retailers, like Kay Jewelers, are trying to push a new trend--JEWELRY FOR MEN. Yup, today's Wall Street Journal reports on a Brad Pitt effect. Influenced by girlie-men celebs like Pitt, singer Lenny Kravitz, and actor Orlando Bloom, the Journal claims that, "Once considered a fringe market for rockers, rappers, gay men, and gangsters, men's jewelry is inching toward the mainstream." Say it ain't so. We're not just talking fancy watches, either. Tiffany's now carries "sporty" men's jewelry, including rings, pendants...

I have signed up I used free email When will I be banned? I have logged in With my new screename When will I be banned? Ever since two thousand It’s been the same old thing If you don’t kiss George Bush butt You are history! I am new here I have posted When will I be banned? Nazi mods are watching They’ve nothing better to do If you don’t kiss George Bush butt That’s the end of you! I have signed up I have posted When will I be banned? When will I be banned Tell me, when will...

Apparently Senator Edwards had a close brush with the truth some months back, though like the proverbial "broken clock" that shows the correct time twice each day, he didn't linger for long on the cusps of reality. According to Edwards, we live in a split society, which he described as the "two Americas." Edwards attempted to portray this nation as being divided between the "haves" and the "have nots," by which he delineated between those who are financially well-off, as opposed to others who struggle to make ends meet. However, another far more insidious divide exists across the nation, as...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Greeted by an enthusiastic crowd, John Edwards kicked off a farewell tour as U.S. senator Monday but left little doubt he wasn't saying goodbye to politics. "One thing you can count on is that this fight is not over," the former vice presidential candidate told supporters. The visit to western North Carolina's largest city was the first of six stops Edwards plans across the state over three days. "It's just good to be home," Edwards said after arriving more than an hour late for the rally. "My blood pressure goes down when I cross the line...

O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit Female Fox coworker details lewd behavior of cable TV star OCTOBER 13--Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you'll find a copy of Andrea Mackris's complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O'Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based...

There may be all of two people in America that believe John Kerry has a coherent strategy in Iraq. There are 25 million people in Iraq who know George Bush does. But when John Kerry begins to attack the leader of one of our infant allies you have to wonder if he may not change the minds of those who still support him. Yesterday in one of the strangest turns in foreign relations, Kerry went on the attack against the newly democratically chosen leader of Iraq - Iyad Allawi. And what was the reason for this scurrilous verbal drilling? Simply...

O'Reilly just said no WMDs in Iraq is the same situation as CBS coming up with forged memos. And that Michael Moore's reaction to WMDs is the same as the right-wings reaction forged memos. Time to out this creep for what he is. A self-indulgant phoney. I've never been so outraged in my entire life. You expect crap from the mainstream press, but the guy "looking out for you" is only looking out for Bill O'Reilly and how he can get elected to public office. What a disgrace.

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Summary: An Indiana three-year-old boy who died of a heart attack last November may have died as a result of being sodomized. An Indiana coroner has determined that rectal injuries to a three-year-old boy may have contributed to his death from a heart attack in November. A report in the Northwest Indiana News(March 13, 2004) quotes coroner Jeff Wells: "His heart was unstable to begin with and yes, this could have thrown it over the edge. There is a possibility that he could have had a heart attack while being sodomized." Read and distribute TVC's report on the high rate...

Monday, February 2, 2004 Luken makes call for tolerance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He backs repeal of city's Article XII By Gregory Korte The Cincinnati EnquirerDOWNTOWN - Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken will use his State of the City Address today to urge voters to repeal a decade-old charter amendment forbidding a gay rights ordinance. Cincinnati mayor Charlie Luken speaks with a Cincinnati resident Saturday at the Neighborhood Summit in the Cintas Center. (Meggan Booker photo) Luken will say the charter amendment gives Cincinnati a national image as an intolerant city and hurts the city's ability to be competitive among global businesses that increasingly...

Workers in the Shadows By DAVID BROOKS Imagine a person 10 times as determined as you are. Picture a guy who will wade across rivers, brave 120-degree boxcars and face vicious smugglers and murderous vigilantes — all to get a job picking fruit for 10 hours a day. That person is the illegal immigrant. Let's call him Sam. This whole immigration debate is about him, the choices he faces and the way he responds. One thing we know about Sam: he will get here. Between 1986 and 1998, Congress increased the Border Patrol's budget sixfold. Over that time the...

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Going Native for 2004 By DAVID BROOKS To: Tom DeLay From: A Concerned Conservative Dear Tom, This week I read that you have abandoned plans to house Republicans safely on a cruise ship off the island of Manhattan during the G.O.P. convention in New York this summer. Have you paused to consider what this will mean? It will mean that instead of spending time in a secure environment offshore, kind, decent Republicans will be wandering innocently among packs of inflamed New York liberals. They'll be subjected to long harangues that rely heavily on the words "multilateral," "Kyoto" and "John...

The latest Michael Jackson controversy perfectly mirrors the shallowness and exploitation at the center of the entertainment business. Jackson now seems to have become the three-dimensional picture of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, the man who looked forever young but kept a picture hidden that recorded his layers of crime and sickness. Jackson's reputation carries the foulings so emblematic of our time, revealing themselves in spiritual pustules. It is a strange tale. Jackson evolves from cute little exploited boy and lead singer in a bubble gum group of brothers all the way to a progressively eccentric and repulsive tabloid favorite. In...

Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003 REVENGE PLOT ON JACKO? By JOHN F. MORRISON morrisj@phillynews.com COULD IT have been a "scorned woman" who did Michael Jackson in? A TV reporter said yesterday that when Jackson tried to end financial support for the family of the 12-year-old boy who has accused the singer of molestation, the boy's mother "ran to a lawyer." Jackson's legal team is expected to argue that the boy's mother became "scorned" when Jackson stopped supporting her and the boy, and decided to get revenge. "She's very screwed up," a source told Fox News reporter Roger Friedman. "There's...

Hummers to Harleys By DAVID BROOKS f I had any brains I'd make a big investment in Mack Trucks, because Mack now has an opportunity to extend its brand into all sorts of hugely profitable product lines. I foresee a chain of Mack Trucks tapas restaurants, Mack Trucks brand tub tea and Mack Trucks exfoliating sponges for men. There may even be growth possibilities for the trucks themselves, for what else are people going to buy when they start feeling cramped in their Hummers? I had this insight when I realized that we now have this huge population of...

The Daredevil star is following in the footsteps of girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, scooping a lucrative contract as the face of cosmetics firm L'Oreal 27 MAY 2003 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are inseparable both on an off-screen, having teamed up for J Lo's sexy Jenny From The Block video as well as two upcoming films. And now, Ben has signed a lucrative contract as the new face of L'Oreal, five years after his famous fiancée did the same. The clean-cut Daredevil actor has scored a £1 million-plus to deal promote men's grooming products for the firm. "Ben embodies a...

Just a reminder, for all you AL GORE fans here on FR - Al Gore is the host tonight, on SNL.

I cannot help but giggle at the neverending stream of "No War At All Costs" articles that keep popping up in the media from within the US and around the World. As a Christian I am rooted in the belief that this World is dominated by evil [anything apart from God] so I have always been warry of a World that seemingly gets together and speaks with one voice. Hollywood, Berkeley, The UN, a million Universities, Libertarians, Liberals, Communists, Socialists, Earth Firsters, South Africa [like they matter], The Euroweenies, Canadians, Russians, Chinese etc, etc. The list of Nations and organizations...