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The magic number is 16. Just last night, on Sean Hannity's Fox Show, ABC's George Stephanopoulos said in defense of the liberal media's non-coverage of Kevin Jennings, that a person's entire career should be taken into consideration before they are sent packing from public service. Fair enough. So let's talk what Democrats call "sex crimes," shall we? What the media, Nancy Pelosi were about on this issue back in the fall of 2006. And what Kevin Jennings considers to be a real "threat to children." Let's talk about gays, gay bashing, anti-gay bigotry, sexual predators, Kevin Jennings, Harry Hay, Nancy...

Gag, watching the Kennedy funeral I think I just saw Mark Foley in the audience. Anyone else notice? I think I've seen enough.

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd has another Republican challenger: Former ambassador Tom Foley is entering the race. Foley is a businessman who served as U.S. ambassador to Ireland for about two years. In 2003 and 2004, he served as a U.S. government official in Iraq, overseeing businesses and developing a plan for reviving the private sector economy. For his efforts, he earned the Department of Defense distinguished public service award. Foley established a website, www.tomfoley2010.com .........

As Obama passes his first 100 days in office, I find myself sad that we liberals have less and less to complain about. Guantanamo Bay is closing, good health care policy is in the works, and I no longer have nightmares about McCain invading my living room on top of an elephant as if he were a Carthaginian emperor. Nonetheless, liberals in 2009 still have more things to complain about than Holden Caulfield would, holding a broken Miley Cyrus record. One such complaint is homosexuality in America. This week's "gay controversy" surrounded Miss California and her Twitter-quarrel with Perez Hilton....

A Jordanian court has sentenced eight Islamic militants to death for the murder of a United States diplomat in the capital Amman 18 months ago. Jordanian authorities say the men are linked to the Al Qaeda terror network. Laurence Foley, a diplomat with the US Agency for International Development, was shot dead outside his Amman home in October of 2002. The Jordanian court also sentenced two other men to 15 years in jail in connection with the killing. Jordanian authorities say at least one of the men sentenced to die - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - has connections with Al Qaeda....

Al Qaida members arrested for killing of US diplomat Police have arrested a Libyan and a Jordanian with links to top al Qaida operative for the killing of an American diplomat in October, confirms the Jordanian government. Laurence Foley was shot at close range on October 28 in front of his home in Amman. Information Minister Mohammed Affash Adwan says the two men, Salem Saad bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Fatih Ibrahim, a Jordanian, both acknowledged belonging to al Qaida. He says the Libyan trained in al Qaida camps in Afghanistan and entered Jordan on a fake Tunisian passport....

Supposed assassins of the American diplomat Al-Qaïda members (official) Saturday December 14, 2002 - 15h09 GMT AMMAN, 14 déc (AFP) - a Libyan and Jordanian were stopped Saturday in Amman for the assassination in October in Amman of the American diplomat Laurence Foley and acknowledged to be members of network Al-Qaïda of Oussama Ben Laden, declared with the AFP the Jordanian Minister for Information Mohammad Adwan. "the two men are Al-Qaïda members and were in contact with one of the high persons in charge for this network, Fadel Nazzal Al-Khalayleh, alias Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui, a criminal who had fled...

NEW YORK (AP) - Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence. "I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006. Foley insists...

NEW YORK (Nov. 12) -- Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

Two years ago, ABC’s Brian Ross broke wide open the scandal of Republican Rep. Mark Foley sending sexual Internet messages to Congressional pages. Foley resigned quickly, but that didn’t dampen the story. We reported "On the ABC, CBS, and NBC morning and evening news programs, from the story’s emergence on Friday night, September 29, through Wednesday morning, October 11, the Big Three networks have aired 152 stories." On October 11's Good Morning America, news anchor Christopher Cuomo spoke insistently: "Less than a month before the elections and the Mark Foley scandal just keeps growing." Reporter Jake Tapper added: "This is...

West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved Mahoney and his campaign committee. Mahoney, who is married, also promised the woman, Patricia Allen, a $50,000 a year job for two years at the agency that handles his campaign advertising, the staffers said. A Mahoney spokesperson would not answer questions about the alleged affair...

Now there's news of a sex scandal... Apparently, Rep. Mahoney is caught up in his own sex scandal: The discrepancies in where Mahoney claims his primary residence and the address listed on his voter I.D. card (a barn) are supposedly due to the fact that Mahoney and his wife no longer share the same address. Apparently, Tim Mahoney, through one of his consultants, has paid a former staffer, Trish Allen, $250,000 in hush money to keep a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Mrs. Allen against Congressman Mahoney from the public view. This is the reason for the conflicting addresses. Mrs....

Nearly two years after a Florida congressman abruptly resigned over sexually explicit messages he sent to a teenage House page, law enforcement authorities here have concluded there is “insufficient evidence” to charge him with breaking Florida laws. Commissioner Gerald Bailey of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who was asked in September 2006 to look into the conduct of the congressman, Representative Mark Foley, Republican of West Palm Beach, said Friday that investigators were hampered by Mr. Foley’s refusal and that of Congress to grant them access to Congressional computer files. The department was investigating whether Mr. Foley violated Florida’s...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ― Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said the results of a state investigation would be announced Friday. They said neither state nor federal charges were expected, although an FBI investigation has not been closed yet. Foley resigned in 2006 after being confronted with the e-mails and instant messages he sent...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two federal officials have told The Associated Press that no charges are expected against former Congressman Mark Foley after a lengthy investigation into his lurid computer messages to underage pages. They also told AP results of the state investigation will be announced Friday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

People of Philly... at long last... IT HAPPENED! After 24 years of waiting, at 11.37 Rome time Philadelphia's own John Cardinal Foley received the red hat and, as reported here the other day, the deaconry of St Sebastian on the Palatine Hill. Blessed be God... and John Cardinal Krol. And congrats, H-Town -- he didn't want to know his titular church until the Pope told him... and so, as Daniel Cardinal DiNardo received his biretta, he learned that the church of Sant'Eusebio on the Equiline Hill would be his. The gift of the 4th century church -- one of...

WASHINGTON — Justice Department investigators have absolved former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe of wrongdoing in his relationships with House pages, Kolbe says. In a statement Wednesday, Kolbe and his Washington lawyers said they received notice Tuesday that investigators had completed their work on the preliminary inquiry opened by federal prosecutors last fall, and saw no reason to pursue it further. Prosecutors began looking into Kolbe's relationships with House pages after hearing reports that he took a Fourth of July camping trip to the Grand Canyon with two former pages and others in 1996. The inquiry was launched amid a separate...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men whose faces were shrouded by scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. “Allah-u akbar,” the men shouted in praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall. The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda. He has...

The Mark Foley scandal, which last fall threatened to kill the congressional page program, has had the opposite effect: Interest from teenagers in the program is on the upswing. Congressional officials attribute the increase to the old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Whatever the reason, it is now clear that the national uproar over Foley's sexually explicit e-mails -- which led to the Florida congressman's resignation and contributed to the GOP majority's rout in 2006 -- has hardly chilled the ambitions of young people who want to work on Capitol Hill. Some members, including Rep....

What Did Rahm Emanuel Know about Foley Emails? The Times Doesn't Care Jeff Zeleny, former Chicago Tribune reporter, shows no interest in Chicago-based Rep. Rahm Emanuel's possible knowledge of the notorious Marc Foley emails to a page a year before they were made public. Posted by: Clay Waters 12/11/2006 2:57:03 PM New Times reporter Jeff Zeleny apparently left all his curiosity about Illinois politicians behind when he left the Chicago Tribune this fall for the Times. His Saturday story on the Foley report, "Ethics Inquiry Faults Republicans, but Cites No Rule Violations," begins: "The House ethics committee said Friday that...

Imagine for a moment that a sex scandal involving pages had forced a Democrat Congressman holding a safe seat to resign in disgrace weeks before crucial midterm elections, while also reflecting badly on other members of his Party in tight races across the country. A month after the votes had been tallied, and the Democrats had surrendered control of both chambers of Congress in a stunning defeat, a House ethics panel released a report on the subject containing the following information: * The leaks to the press concerning this matter had come from the communications director for the House Republican...

 Imagine for a moment that a sex scandal involving pages had forced a Democrat Congressman holding a safe seat to resign in disgrace weeks before crucial midterm elections, while also reflecting badly on other members of his Party in tight races across the country. A month after the votes had been tallied, and the Democrats had surrendered control of both chambers of Congress in a stunning defeat, a House ethics panel released a report on the subject containing the following information: The leaks to the press concerning this matter had come from the communications director for the House Republican Caucus ...

A new report raises questions about Rahm Emanuel’s assertion that he and his staff knew nothing about disgraced Rep. Mark Foley’s e-mails to former House pages. In an October 8 interview with ABC News, the Illinois Democrat said "no – never saw them” when asked if he knew about the e-mails or instant messages between Foley and former pages before news of the messages broke. Asked if he was "aware” of them, Emanuel repeated, "We never saw them.” But the new House Ethics Committee report on the scandal, released on December 8, discloses that a senior member of Emanuel’s staff...

What the Foley incident has taught us: First, no law was broken and under age pages were not subjected to Foley's buggering. Second, all deviates in congress must be ferreted out to preclude their hitting on our children. And not blowing the whistle on this threat could be used against a politician in a future election -- a threat right up their with bribery (although William Jefferson's (D-LA) case is an exception). The threat of a stealth gay congressman is so great that it can contribute to a lost election. While Foley has not been accused of having sex with...

FROM THE CLINTONS' TERRORISM FAILURE TO THE FOLEY HIT:connecting the dots

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN. Foley, a Republican, resigned after the scandal broke. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans have suggested repeatedly that some Democrats knew about the e-mails earlier than they have acknowledged, but waited till midterm elections approached to bring up the issue. Emanuel's campaign committee aide said Friday that the Illinois Democrat was informed in 2005, but never saw the correspondence...

In testimony to the House ethics committee investigating the Mark Foley page scandal, the House's former administrator described outgoing Rep. Jim Kolbe as a "nuisance" who "spent far too much time socially interacting with the pages," according to the committee's report released Friday. The comments from former Clerk of the House Jeff Trandahl, who oversaw the Congressional Page Program, were only part of an investigative report that found no evidence any current lawmakers or aides violated any rules, and recommended no sanctions. In its findings and recommendations, however, the panel went on to say there were a "significant number of...

HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE FINDINGS: RAHM EMANUEL LIED [FOLEY A LIKELY CLINTON HIT JOB] by Mia T, 12.09.06 SEE RAHM DANCE THE CLINTON-FOLEY NEXUS: A THEORY part 2   by Mia T, 10.14.06 ahm Emanuel, ballet dancer, "operations researcher," "pit bull," 1 clinton operator still 2 -- Chicago pol 3 in tights meets the clinton jackboot 28 -- appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos last Sunday. While it was not the stagily self-conscious performance of bill clinton on Fox two weeks earlier, 4 like clinton's performance, it was embarrassingly amateurish by today's standards. 5 The pirouette and grand jeté...

WASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers and aides left male pages vulnerable to Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s improper sexual advances even though the first concerns surfaced more than a decade ago, the ethics committee said Friday in its report into an election-year scandal that convulsed the House. The committee said one witness testified he warned the head of the page board, Illinois Rep. John Shimkus (news, bio, voting record), a year ago that Foley was a "ticking time bomb" who had been confronted repeatedly. Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., likely was told about inappropriate e-mails written by Foley last spring,...

WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee has concluded that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling ex-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s improper advances to former male pages but were negligent in protecting the teenagers, a congressional aide said Friday. The committee was releasing its findings Friday. The aide, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, was made aware of the committee's findings. "The Republicans did not break rules but were negligent in protecting the pages," the aide said.

Some Political Tidbits and there's some good ones. Poor Foley, hasn't he suffered enough? Now he's being investigated. John Kerry banished from the picture and John Edwards bashes Walmart one day than begs from them the next. You'll never believe this video. A plot to kill the Supreme court and Gay Penguins?

Seems like just yesterday Republicans were warning Democrats not to count their hicks before they were catched. Democrats said they had a plan to get the guys with the Confederate flags, but Republicans said you can’t con those folks into loving federal overreach. Democrats said they could draw pro-life votes, but Republicans scoffed: “We’re the pros. Get a life!” Democrats said they could attract budget-balancers and Republicans countered: “That is our constituency and you can’t budge it.” Well, bite your tongues, all you RNC guys and gals with the starched collars. Them there rubes done drug you out the door....

From President Bush's post-Election November 8th Press Conference:Amid this time of change, I have a message for those on the front lines. To our enemies: Do not be joyful. Do not confuse the workings of our democracy with a lack of will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice. Liberty and democracy are the source of America's strength, and liberty and democracy will lift up the hopes and desires of those you are trying to destroy.Read the entire speech. It's worth the listen. Now, I don't think our enemies should dictate the will of our people one way...

NEW YORK - A musician who wrote the 1970s pop tunes "Still the One" and "Dance with Me" toppled a longtime Republican lawmaker after a campaign that merged his minor-league celebrity with anti- Iraq war momentum and YouTube. John Hall, who founded the band Orleans and produced albums for Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt, ousted Rep. Sue Kelly, who swept into office as part of the 1994 GOP revolution. "When I make a record, it's 110 percent, when I run for office, it's 110 percent," Hall said. On his nightly Comedy Central show, TV faux-news anchor Stephen Colbert...

The Democrats seem to have taken over the House. That means that, regardless how the cliff-hanger races in the Senate turn out, the key question is whether the Republican leaders will shed their arrogance and understand that they need to listen to the American people. Even if recounts and razor-thin margins deliver the Senate into Republican hands by the narrowest of margins, 2006 is a major defeat for the GOP and only a fool would deny it. In Iraq, obviously, America is delivering a message that if we keep shedding blood to battle for democracy in Iraq, the GOP will...

THEY'RE PUNCHING FOLEY FOR JOE [Byron York] Just talked to Todd Harris, spokesman for the Joe Negron campaign, trying to win the old Mark Foley seat in the 16th District of Florida. No reports of people having trouble with the concept of voting for Foley in order to vote for Negron, Harris says. He attributes that to heavy media coverage and discussion about the ballot in recent weeks. "At this stage, you would have had to been living under a rock or coming down from a four-week bender to not know how the ballot works in this district," Harris tells...

Love to get up in the morning and tune in to DNN and see them lie, and this morning was no different. They were showing cameras they have around the country and one was in the distric in Florida which Foley represented. MIles O'Brien said that the race was surprising close, and that the people who wanted to vote for the Republican candidate, Negron (whom he did not name), had to write in the candidates (again did not use Negron's name) name. This is a blatant lie, the actual procedure in Florida is to "Punch Foley' to "Vote for Negron'....

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...

Oh No, Massa! N.Y. Democrat Candidate Faced with Foley-Style Problem Posted by Tim Graham on November 4, 2006 - 11:39. Via the Sixers blog on NRO, we learn that the George Stephanopoulos pledge that the Mark Foley scandal would resonate in every congressional race sometimes comes true. Consider that in upstate New York, the shoe is on other foot, the Democratic foot, embarrassing the challenger to first-term Congressman Randy Kuhl. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports: (November 2, 2006) — CORNING — Democratic congressional candidate Eric Massa fired his campaign manager in June and has accused him of providing alcohol to...

In connection with media coverage of the Mark Foley sex scandal, the pro-homosexual media enforcers have been attempting to refute the idea that there is any connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. Yet Foley targeted young boys. This is something you are not supposed to write or talk about because it undermines the cause of homosexual rights. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth says, "isn't it telling most of the tiny number of homosexual male U.S. Congressmen have been caught in sex scandals-remember Barney Frank, who let his male lover, a hustler, run a prostitution ring out of his D.C. apartment?...

NYT: Mark Foley's congressional seat now 'a tossup' between Tim Mahoney, the Democrat, and state Rep. Joe Negron, the last-minute Republican replacement... Developing...

Mark Foley and James Webb -- A Study in Hypocrisy and Media Bias Written by Doc Farmer Tuesday, October 31, 2006 ChronWatch.com I'm sure all of you know the name Mark Foley by now. He is -- or, more accurately, was -- the Congressman for the 16th district in Florida, who sent some very sexual Instant Messages (NOT e-Mails, okay?) to a congressional Page. There's been some question as to whether the Page was 16 or 18 when those IMs were being sent, but it doesn't matter to me quite frankly. Foley was wrong, he violated the trust of his...

TALLAHASSEE - Elections supervisors in eight counties can post signs at polling places that say a vote for the disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is really a vote for his Republican replacement, as long as they name the Democrat, too, the 1st District Court of Appeal said Friday. Despite Foley's resignation nearly a month ago amid accusations that he sent lurid e-mails to congressional pages, his name is stuck on the ballot. While more than 11,000 voters in the 16th Congressional District have already cast votes without signs during early voting, the signs will go up and stay up,...

My area of Florida has a wonderful early voting system in place, and I was able to vote the other day. I had to present my driver’s license, thus preventing voter fraud so prevalent in some areas, and I voted using a touch-screen computerized machine. The early voting system meant no lines, and the whole process took about 5-10 minutes – even with several lengthy amendments to consider. I was very pleased that Florida has a constitutional amendment on the ballot that should end using eminent domain to take private property to turn over to other private owners – a...

Negron Signs Going Up The First District Court of Appeal ruled that signs can go up saying a vote for Foley is a vote for Negron, if they also say a vote for Mahoney is a vote for Mahoney. The appellate court both upheld and reversed parts of the lower court which granted an injunction stopping signs from being posted in polling places in counties in the 16th Congressional district. The order prohibits the Secretary of State from posting its signs, which only mention Negron for Foley. The Judges said those signs "suggest favoritism on behalf of the Republican candidate."...

Ex-Dem staffer behind get-Foley nysterious blog? John Cook of Radar has put a name on the mysterious person who seems to have set up the bogus Stopsexpredators blog that was instrumental in outing Mark Foley in a premature October Surprise op. The Human Rights Campaign was quick to disavow and fire the (at the time) unnamed worker for it. But through research, Cook discovered that the only person who fit the description offered by HRC (incidentally, a Soros-funded operation) was Lane Hudson. There is no firm confirmation, but only one person meets the description.And Lane Hudson turns out to...

A bit of good news for the GOP in Florida-16: The First District Court of Appeal ruled that signs can go up saying a vote for Foley is a vote for Negron, if they also say a vote for Mahoney is a vote for Mahoney. The appellate court both upheld and reversed parts of the lower court which granted an injunction stopping signs from being posted in polling places in counties in the 16th Congressional district. The order prohibits the Secretary of State from posting its signs, which only mention Negron for Foley. The Judges said those signs "suggest favoritism...

I'm GLAD this came out. Anyone who thinks their life is not an open book should not run for political office. I think the potential, fair or not (and I think that it is fair), is for a political "Perfect Storm" to come out of this for Republicans. Democrats, such as Chris Dodd from Connecticut, have ALREADY come out defending Jim Webb. He was on Imus this morning. To me, Imus represents the left of center Independent vote. Imus was talking about this being sick and how uncomfortable he was with it. He then asked Dodd if he wanted to...

Radar has learned that the anony-blogger behind StopSexPredators—the bogus blog that first posted the Mark Foley e-mails and got the ball rolling on PageGate—is a former Democratic Senate staffer named Lane Hudson.