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CHICAGO (WLS) - Former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trials and tribulations have inspired one airlines to seize the opportunity to make a quick buck. An e-mail ad from Spirit Airlines debuted on Tuesday and features a man with a Blagojevich-like hairstyle behind bars with the tag line, "We got these fares and they're f-ing golden." "We've got these fares and they are f-ing golden starting from just $17 each way, based on roundtrip purchase. We are guilty of selling seats but don't expect this sale to serve much time. Get booked now," the ad says.

Why is WYSP morning man Danny Bonaduce drinking again? Not a reaction to his recent ratings, which were up. (September was his best month among men 18-49.) As a panelist on Joy Behar's show on HLN (formerly Headline News), Bonaduce blamed remarks by syndicated talker Glenn Beck's on the Fox News vs. White House feud for making him fall off the wagon.

Jeffrey Birnbaum - If he chooses to, Sen. Kerry can become one of the Democratic Party’s main spokesmen. He also could position himself to be the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination next time around. This won’t be easy, but if he works hard, keeps his fundraising base focused and is careful to make well-considered policy pronouncements, it is possible. Then again, Hillary Clinton may have other ideas. Bob Novak - John Kerry was an unobtrusive liberal senator never mentioned in the same breath with Senate leadership before he ran for president. He should and surely will return to that...

John F. Kerry returns to the Senate today basking in his national profile, but once again laboring in the long shadow cast by fellow Bay State Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Political insiders will be scrutinizing the delicate post-election political dance unfolding between Kennedy and Kerry with great interest. The pair are friendly rivals, but their staffers have clashed in the past as their divergent ambitions collided. Kennedy was miffed when Kerry profusely thanked his campaign staffers but failed to mention him during the Faneuil Hall concession speech, sources said. Some Kerry insiders, meanwhile, have privately grumbled about Kennedy's failure to...

CBS reports eFing has a cold and has lost his voice. Yet, with CBS's track record, inquiring minds want to know what the real reason is...

Eddie Adams: Photojournalist won Pulitzer for Vietnam execution picture 08:34 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004 - Associated Press NEW YORK – Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame – a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War – died Sunday. He was 71. [Adam's] ...fame resulted from a single photo taken Feb. 1, 1968, the second day of the communists' Tet Offensive, in the embattled streets of Cholon, Saigon's Chinese quarter. Drawn by gunfire, Mr. Adams and an...

Eric Allie, of The Pioneer Press, has done many wonderful political cartoons supporting the President and the Swift Boat Vet for Truth. Here are a few of his best from the All Thing Republican website and some others that hammer the point home. So enjoy... Laugh... Then donate to the Swift Boat Vets for Truth! Other of Eric Allie's cartoons HERE. You may e-mail Eric Allie at eallie_2000@yahoo.com

YOU MIGHT BE A DEMOCRAT... * You own something that says, "Dukakis for President, " and still display it. * You've tried to argue in favor of anything based on, "Well, they're gonna do it anyway so..." * You've ever said, "We really should call the ACLU about this." * You believe that a few hundred loggers can find another career, but the defenseless spotted owl must live in its preferred tree. * You ever based an argument on the phrase, "But they can afford a tax hike because..." * You've ever argued that with just one more year of...

The Sun-Times has put this article into their archives to be viewed for a fee. So to recap: in his last Friday article, Thomas Lipscomb said: "In the midst of the controversy between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Kerry campaign representatives about Kerry's service in Vietnam, new questions have arisen. "The Kerry campaign has repeatedly stated that the official naval records prove the truth of Kerry's assertions about his service. "But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com,...

Q(Peter Keating) - What's your favorite Sports Movie? Kerry: """Boy, oh Boy, I've seen so many. I loved Knute Rockne All American. That's old school. Adam Sandler, what was that, The Waterboy? I've covered some territory. The Longest Yard. What was the one, oh, Slapshot - Paul Newman, the Hanson Brothers. (Laughs) That F---ing scene where they're trying to get a Coke, did you ever see the movie? (Laughs) They....they get the ...they go out on the ice...oh, it's just funny."""

As another thread has posted, the Drudge is Reporting that Kerry is boasting that he has shattered Bush's campaign-finance record of 2000. Actually, that shouldn't be hard since Bush's "record" was simply the first time a nominee had rejected the fund-raising caps that make a candidate eligible to receive federal funding. A look at the 5/31/04 FEC reports is quite revealing (see link.) Bush shows that he has spent $150 million. And much of that has been spent paying now for fruits that will be yielded later, such as ground organization, research, etc. But President Bush still had over $110...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI MARCH 19, 2004 16:02:35 ET XXXXX KERRY CALLED SECRET SERVICE AGENT 'SON OF A B*TCH' AFTER SLOPE SPILL Dem presidential candidate John Kerry called his secret service agent a "son of a bitch" after the agent inadvertently moved into his path during a ski mishap in Idaho, sending Kerry falling into the snow. When asked a moment later about the incident by a reporter on the ski run, Kerry said sharply, "I don't fall down," the "son of a b*itch knocked me over." The Secret Service agent in question has complained about Kerry's treatment, top...

Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, from Massachusetts, has talked about the foreign leaders who support him as President of the United States, instead of your current president George W. Bush. John Kerry doesn't want to tell you who these "leaders" are, so we'll do it for him. We, the leaders pictured below, want John Kerry to be the next president of your country. We each have our own reasons (if you click on our pictures, you can see those reasons), and we all might not get along, but we do know this: Our lives will be easier without George...