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David Letterman was having an affair with his former personal assistant way more recently than David's rep had us believing -- according to documents filed by the alleged extortionist's lawyer. According to legal papers filed today by the defense, Robert Halderman confronted Stephanie Birkitt in December 2008 with evidence of the affair and she promised to end it. But Gerald Shargel, Halderman's lawyer, claims the relationship continued "unabated" into this past summer. Letterman's rep has said the affair ended before Letterman's marriage in March. Dave blew the whistle on the alleged extortion plot in early September.

The crowded, bustling streets of Cairo can be an intimidating environment for women who venture out alone or even in groups. It is well known that sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in Egypt, from touching to lewd and abusive cat calls. But it seems there is another phenomenon that goes largely unreported, phone stalking. With the advance of modern technology a large number of women complain they receive the unwelcome and relentless attention of men they have never met. One of our colleagues in the BBC office has had a number of phone stalkers, who call repeatedly through the...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Somerset Police arrested a 16-year-old girl on charges of online harassment. She was arrested under a new law that took effect September 1. The new Texas law criminalizes online harassment on social networking sites and through e-mail or text messaging. H.B. 2003 states a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person. (Emphasis added)

Following in David Letterman's footsteps, Jimmy Kimmel confirmed this weekend that he is involved in a relationship with one Molly McNearney, a long time staffer and the current co-head writer on his show. In the version given to People, a source close to the show (i.e. probably Kimmel's publicist) says they've been dating for several months now after Kimmel broke up with Sarah Silverman and McNearney broke up with an unnamed boyfriend. Also, says this insider (flack), the situation is nothing like Letterman's situation because "during work hours, they keep things professional." The news will come as no surprise to...

Famed attorney Gloria Allred has written an open letter to David Letterman in wake of the sex scandal that continues to dog him. Her letter appears exclusively here on RadarOnline.com. Dear Dave, Last week you admitted that you had sex with women on your staff. Many in your audience laughed when you said it. I for one was not laughing Let's call it what it really was - sexual favoritism in the workplace and since you suggested that you had sex with more than one woman on your staff some of your employees may believe that sexual favoritism in your...

Elizabeth Ann Thrasher is being prosecuted under the Missouri felony harassment statute passed in the wake of the Lori Drew case. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Elizabeth A. Thrasher, 40, [was involved in] online [bickering] with the 17-year-old daughter of a woman Thrasher's ex-husband was dating.... The teen [then] sent a MySpace message to Thrasher, telling her to grow up. Thrasher ... then created a listing on Craigslist's Casual Encounters section, investigators said. The listing included the teen's picture, employer, e-mail address and cell phone number. Banas said the posting's language would lead people to believe it was an invitation...

Related: ACORN Using Police To Silence Joker Care Protesters - With Video I want to know if this Police Chief was acting out of political passions, or political pressures (the mayor and other city political thugs were there), or if that night he was on the ACORN/Obama payroll. Civil court discovery motions and a thorough Federal law enforcement investigation of his civil rights violations will allow for a probe into his personal finances, as well as depositions and sworn testimony from all officers on duty as to the Chief’s orders and actions, both that night and during any other occasions...

A friend from a long time ago--just before the turn of the century--came up here to the Sandhills of Nebraska today, and we spent a long time reminiscencing about the Good Old Days of Reagan, Bush, Gingrich, and Bush, and speculating about when the 0bamareich's going to come crashing down. He reminded me of something I long ago had forgotten, and having been reminded of it, an old question recrudesces to the surface. Where did I go wrong? Back then, just before the turn of the century, I was records supervisor for a private contractor to Immigration & Naturalization, in...

Town Hall discussions have been on the news lately about Obama's Health Care Reform. Obama's ACORN Thugs have teamed up with Local Police outside of Town Hall meetings to silence discussions among the people about the proposed Socialized Health Care plan that The Obama Administration is hell bent in passing into law. Your very freedom is at stake here!

A family in Saudi Arabia is taking a "genie" to court, accusing it of theft and harassment, reports say. They accuse the spirit of threatening them, throwing stones and stealing mobile phones, Al Watan newspaper said. The family have lived in the same house near the city of Medina for 15 years but say they only recently became aware of the spirit. They have now moved out. A local court is investigating. In Islamic theology, genies are spirits that can harass or possess humans.

Sarah Palin resigned more than a week ago but a state watchdog agency and the courts are still sorting out issues left over from her time as governor. In one lingering issue, the Alaska Public Offices Commission has refused Palin's request to keep secret the discounts that come from her husband's Arctic Cat sponsorship. APOC also said Palin needs to disclose all the gifts she received last year, rejecting her interpretation that she doesn't need to until after she gets around to actually opening the gifts.

CAMBRIDGE, Minn. (AP) — A 21-year-old woman faces felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her. The woman faces five felony counts including harassment. A criminal complaint said she told police she was "bored" and "wanted to have some fun." The woman and a 20-year-old friend, also facing charges, allegedly called the older woman on Feb. 5 and said "I'm gonna kill you," "You're going to die" and "I'm watching you."

CNSNews.com) – Standing alongside Pope Benedict XVI in Bethlehem this week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for the emigration of Palestinian Christians, but researchers say the reasons for the declining numbers of Christians in the place of Jesus’ birth are considerably more complex.

A bar owner and two employees who were detained, handcuffed and thrown in jail for filming state alcohol enforcement agents outside the Distillery in Downtown Albuquerque have filed a federal lawsuit against the officers. Jacob Traub, David Garcia and Lance Gomez were charged with a felony count of obstructing the administration of the Liquor Control Act, but the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office never pursued charges stemming from the May 2006 incident.~~ snip ~~ According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court earlier this month Traub had hired Garcia, a professional videographer, to tape police near his establishment —...

Most kids are exposed to images of the union-busting and strike-breaking measures undertaken by auto-manufacturers and other industries during the early 20th century. You've probably been exposed to photographs and video of corporate thugs beating up workers trying to organize to improve their lives. You've probably seen pictures of "company towns." Kids don't get to see the "busting" and "breaking" measures being taken by union thugs. And the mainstream media is ignoring the stories of union abuses going on right now. Card Check Process Used by Union Organizers Ignites Fury at Indiana Plant: Union organizers are going to great lengths...

Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential run last year certainly inflamed her critics. Since the end of the campaign, Palin, who, in case you didn’t know, is the governor of Alaska, has fought back against at least 11 ethics complaints. The most recent complaint accuses Palin of a conflict of interest for wearing a jacket made by the brand that sponsors her husband’s snowmobile career. The complaint was filed by a local blogger who wrote, "[Palin] improperly used her position and state resources to serve her personal financial interests by being a walking billboard for Arctic Cat, a private for-profit company and family...

Gay twins who worked as servers at a Los Feliz restaurant were sexually harassed by the homosexual men who owned the eatery, a jury determined today in awarding each plaintiff $1,000. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for a little more than a half day before finding that the 32-year-old twins were forced to work in a hostile work environment. However, the panel rejected Jed and Wyatt Lorenzen's other claims, including retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

SAN DIEGO – A jury found four San Diego firefighters who sued the city were sexually harassed after being ordered to participate in a gay pride parade. ---snip--- The firemen said they were subjected to sexually charged conduct and lewd comments while riding a fire engine in the July 2007 parade. ---snip--- The firemen said they were subjected to cat-calls and saw barely clothed men simulate sex acts along the route on University Avenue in Hillcrest.

A dissident Democrat who sought to block the legalization of gay marriage says he's being threatened by gay advocates. Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. of the Bronx, a minister, says the gay community is jamming his office phone and making threats to him and his staff

A FEW YEARS AGO my daughters and I were searching for sand crabs on a white-sand beach near Monterey. A group of sixth graders descended on us, clad in the blue trousers and pressed white shirts of their parochial school. Once lost in the sounds of the surf, away from their teacher’s gaze, they called one another by nicknames and mocked the way one laughed, another walked. Noogies and rib pokes, headlocks and bear hugs caught the unsuspecting off guard. Two boys dangled a girl over the waves. Three girls tugged a boy’s sagging pants down. Dog piles broke out....

PEARL, Miss. -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi said Friday that it had received numerous reports from throughout the state from parents and students regarding alleged violations of students’ free speech following Tuesday’s election, Jackson television news station WAPT reported. On Thursday, the Pearl Schools superintendent said that a school bus driver and a coach were disciplined for allegedly telling students not to say President-elect Barack Obama’s name. Reporters with 16 WAPT News received several calls from upset parents that said a school bus driver told the children on a Pearl school bus that if they said Obama’s...

Just wanted to say hi and how excited i am to have found this site!! This is my first time eligable to vote and i've been so worried especialy as everyone keeps saying obama is going to win now :( all the polls and tv keeps saying and sites like this http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ have me so scared it was great to find out about this place. I'm really excited to finaly be voting, even though im in minnesota so, it seems like we'll be voting for obama no matter what i do :( Well, anyways just wanted to say hi to...

It turns out that al-Jazeera requested a similar interview from the Democratic mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Mayor Larry Langford. He refused because of the network’s ties to terrorists. But what was not reported is that they offered the same strange invitation, to be picked up and brought by them to some untold location. To be clear, I have no doubt that the harassment of elective candidates was not a network decision. As I stated in my last column, my cause for concern was that al-Jazeera hires many interns directly from the Middle East with little known about their background.

San Francisco -- A sexual-harassment suit against former state Senate leader John Burton by the executive director of his charitable foundation for homeless children has been settled on confidential terms, the plaintiff's lawyer said today. Attorney Kelly Armstrong said she could not say anything about the nature or timing of the settlement or describe her client's reaction to it. Burton and his lawyer were unavailable for comment.In the suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court in January, Kathleen Driscoll accused Burton of making lewd and suggestive comments to her on an almost daily basis after hiring her as executive director...

<p>College girls who turned the tables on builders by wolf-whistling at them have been warned their behaviour is ‘harassment’.</p> <p>The students singled out contractors working on an extension to West Kent College for amorous comments and cheeky remarks.</p> <p>But the joke has become so persistent that the pupils have been threatened with disciplinary action.</p>

On Tuesday, April 8, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a “permit-to-purchase” before buying handgun ammunition. Introduced by State Assembly Member Kevin De Leon (D-45), Assembly Bill 2062 puts ammunition sales in the crosshairs. AB2062 would require that law-abiding gun owners obtain a permit to buy handgun ammunition and would impose severe restrictions on the private transfers of handgun ammunition. Applicants for a “permit-to-purchase” would be required to submit to a background check, pay a $35 fee, and wait as long as 30 days to receive the permit. Under AB2062, it...

A pro-family activist and former presidential candidate says it is outrageous that military personnel in uniform, who use public transportation while traveling to the Pentagon, are being publically harassed by anti-war leftists. The Air Force recently issued a security advisory, relating several incidents where military personnel have been approached by individuals expressing themselves as anti-government and shouting anti-war sentiments. Gary Bauer, Chairman of American Values, says in one case a woman in uniform was followed as she exited a Washington, D.C., subway train and a left wing thug continued to berate her as she exited the metro station. Bauer believes...

Detroit City Council Votes to Begin Removal Process of Mayor Kilpatrick. In a 5 to 4 vote, however one Council Women thinks the Mayor may be making overtures in regards to resigning

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is expected to announce his resignation later today, The Plain Dealer has learned. He planned to break the news to his senior staff this afternoon. The decision came as Dann faced intense pressure both from fellow Democrats and Republican critics who said he was not fit to continue as the state's top lawyer. It also followed action targeting Dann in the Ohio General Assembly today by lawmakers from both parties. House Democrats this morning filed articles of impeachment against Dann, accusing him of misconduct and malfeasance in office. And House Republicans began plans to fast-track...

Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- House Democrats filed articles of impeachment Tuesday against scandal-scarred Attorney General Marc Dann, a fellow Democrat who could become the first official impeached and convicted in Ohio in two centuries. The lawmakers' resolution outlines nine counts alleging that Dann should be impeached for gross neglect of duty, gross immorality and obstruction of his office's investigation that found an employee was sexually harassed by a top aide. On May 2, Dann admitted an extramarital affair with an employee that he said contributed to an atmosphere leading to the sexual harassment claims. Three aides were forced out in...

Cindy Stankoski, the attorney general's office employee who has accused her boss of sexual harassment, filed a criminal complaint against him yesterday with Columbus police. A spokeswoman for attorney Mark L. Collins confirmed that Collins and Stankoski met briefly yesterday morning with Columbus Sgt. David D. Pelphrey. A written report will not be available until next week, police said. The development means that criminal conduct now has been officially alleged to have occurred where Ohio's top law-enforcement officer lived. The complaint by Stankoski, 26, an employee in the telecommunications section, focuses on the night of Sept. 10, 2007, when her...

On an episode of her Mob Logic.TV called "Hybrid Hullabaloo" the lovely Lindsay Campbell (pictured right) had the opportunity to ask an owner of the iconic super-sized Tonka toy something she has been wanting to ask for a long time. While interviewing random people in the parking lot of a "big box" store about hybrids and why they aren't driving them, she spots a man returning to his king-sized ride and runs to confront him. With mic in hand and cameraman in tow she starts, "Tell me seriously, I've always wanted to talk with a Hummer owner and find out...

6-Year Old Boy Accused of Sexual HarassmentKindergarten student's father fears his son will be stereotyped as a "pervert" Friday, Apr 04, 2008 - 08:05 AM The father says his son brought home a discipline referral that says the child told his teacher that one of his classmates liked looking at her behind. A six-year old boy is accused of sexually harassing a teacher in Greer. The kindergarten student is now facing possible discipline. Malory Pinkney, Sr. says his son came home Tuesday in tears from Skyland Elementary. His father is a minister and says his child has been accused of...

Governor Blunt this week announced the creation of the Governor’s Internet Harassment Task Force and charged the group with carefully reviewing state law and making recommendations for changes to better protect Missourians from Internet harassment. The task force was created to specifically review Missouri laws that relate to stalking, harassment and child endangerment. He expects the Task Force to make recommendations within 30 days. The tight timeframe will ensure that the group’s recommended proposals or legislative changes may be considered during the next legislative session. The governor has taken the lead to protect Missourians from Internet threats. Legislation he signed...

A large Maryland county near Washington, DC, will soon decide whether to declare transgender people a "protected class" under law and become the latest in a growing list of jurisdictions nationally to ban discrimination on the basis of "gender identity and expression." The Montgomery County Council is scheduled to vote next Tuesday (November 13) on a bill that would add "gender identity" to the county's existing non-discrimination policy. The measure (Bill 23-07) is being pushed by the homosexual activist group Equality Maryland and by three Council members, including one who has a transgendered male staff member. Two conservatives groups --...

Slowly but self-righteously America continues its descent into becoming a land debilitated by political correctness. Today there are more parameters for what constitutes acceptable speech than ever before while the trendy troika of race, class, and sex trump truth on a daily basis. Isms, more than knowledge, fuel our university curriculums and public policy decisions. One of PC’s most essential precepts is that women are morally, vocationally, and intellectually superior to men. The spheres of government have internalized this outlook and their belief in women being an oppressed group colors numerous laws. The bias against men in criminal and civil...

KSTP.com - 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Posted at: 09/28/2007 05:19:24 PM Updated at: 09/28/2007 10:24:53 PM By: Nicole Muehlhausen, Web Producer Stillwater blogger creates safety concerns   A school referendum has Stillwater worrying about public safety.Voters will go to the polls in November to vote on more money for the schools. But the debate has been overshadowed by an Internet blogger.What he’s been writing has left many people upset. The blogger goes by the name of ‘The Stillwater Infidel.’He supports a new school levy referendum and for those who don’t, he has named names and released personal information about them in...

In court, the man admitted to filming the women but he denied that he did it so that he could watch the films. Instead, he argued that the filming challenge itself was exciting. Nevertheless, reported Upsala Nya Tidningen, he conceded that he had been 'an idiot'.

Another example of liberal hypocrisy Why is it ok for Democrats to sexually harass employees in the workplace? Here we have an example of Chris Matthews sexually harassing co-worker Erin Burnett of CNBC on national television. They are indeed co-workers as they both work for the same parent company. http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKBDOLdU-Ug&mode=related&search= Granted, Mathews’ speech is slurred and his face is quite red so we could give him the benefit of the doubt and postulate that he had a few too many cocktails at lunch time; however, being inebriated on the job wouldn’t exactly mitigate the circumstance. Most workplace sexual harassment cases...

Ex-Gay Ministry Harassed by Homosexual Activists at Fair Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) got an earful of "tolerance" at the Arlington County Fair in Virginia last week. They were faced with a barrage of verbal abuse, and one man was reportedly assaulted by a gay activist. “They accused this young man of hiding his feelings," PFOX Executive Director Regina Griggs explained. "They walked by him and hit him in the back — attacked him.” PFOX set up a display to offer hope to people dealing with unwanted same-sex attractions, but two gay activists objected to the message...

Toronto Catholic School Board Pro-Gay Harassment Policy Threatens Priests One of the largest school boards in Canada could penalize what would normally be considered remaining faithful to Catholic moral teaching By Elizabeth O'Brien TORONTO, August 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The new "Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace" policy, recently released by the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), bans discrimination due to "same-sex partner status" and "sexual orientation". The document, a copy of which has been obtained by LifeSiteNews.com, also indicates that teachers and even parish priests could potentially be penalized for what would normally be considered remaining faithful to...

A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis. Earlier this month, local MP Paul Muite urged the Kenyan Wildlife Service to help contain their aggressive behaviour. But Mr Muite caused laughter when he told parliament that the monkeys had taken to harassing and mocking women in a village. But this is exactly what the women in the village of Nachu, just south-west of Kikuyu, are complaining about.

Pro-Abortion Protestors Arrested for Harassing "40 Days for Life" Witnesses By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, Illinois, August 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two pro-abortion protestors were arrested on misdemeanor battery charges, for harassing a group of pro-life witnesses outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility during a prayer vigil on Sunday. The Chicago Tribune, normally silent on pro-life events, reports that 24-year old Shawn R. Pawlak and 27 year old Kelly L. Maha, shouted obscenities at pro-life witnesses who were peacefully participating in the 24-hour, 40-day prayer rally to prevent the newly-constructed abortion facilities from opening near Chicago this fall. Joseph Williams, from...

Is Congress wasting too much time harassing the Bush administration? Yes. It has more important things to do. No. It's just politics as usual. No. The Bush administration needs to be watched closely.

A disabled single mother from Beaverton has filed a federal lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America, claiming that she is the victim of abusive legal tactics, threats and illegal spying as part of an overzealous campaign to crack down on music pirating. The recording industry sued Tanya J. Andersen, 44, in 2005, accusing her of violating copyright laws by illegally downloading music onto her computer. Andersen claims in a suit she filed last week in U.S. District Court in Oregon that the recording industry refused to drop its case after its own expert supported her claims of innocence....

District pays ex-employee $550,000 after she alleges sexual assault, harassment by firefightersThe Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District is paying $550,000 in public money to a former employee to settle a dispute in which she accused more than a dozen firefighters -- including five supervisors -- of sexual harassment and alleged she was sexually assaulted by two of them.The two men accused of assaulting the woman denied her allegations. No charges were filed against any district employees, and no criminal investigation ever took place.However, several of the firefighters accused of sexual harassment and misconduct admitted to an internal investigator that they had...

CINCINNATI (AP) - Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms - wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support. The idea came to Cynthia Brown, executive director of the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency, while she was ordering pizza. "It suddenly dawned on me that most people running from the law don't eat out, they order pizza," said Brown, whose county is north of Cincinnati. Enforcement agencies across the country use a variety of methods to locate support scofflaws and collect past-due payments. Virginia has issued subpoenas to cellular...

The DVDs contain intimate moments between 33-year-old David H. Feltmeyer and his former girlfriend. He made numerous copies of the sex-play on his home computer, then randomly distributed them on cars, police said. Even worse, the DVDs included the former girlfriend's name, address and phone number. That prompted men to begin calling the woman or showing up at her house, police say.

I married 14 years ago and just had my firstborn, a son, this past September. I met my wife in medical school. She was originally from Lithuania and when I met her she was on a H1-B visa working as an adjunct professor of internal medicine. She had made significant contributions to medical science and had been asked to lecture at med school for the year. That was 16 years ago in the afterglow of the world of Ronald Reagan. She became a naturalized US citizen in 1996. We've had a real love affair ever since but children did not...

A former aide to Judith Regan, the recently fired editor of O.J. Simpson's unpublished memoir "If I Did It," has come forward to defend the maverick publisher from charges of anti-Semitism, Regan's lawyer said on Friday. Publishing house HarperCollins fired Regan last week and has quoted her as having complained in an argument with a company lawyer that she was the victim of a "Jewish cabal" after her book deal with Simpson, and a related Fox network TV interview, were scrapped by corporate parent News Corp. Carmen del Toro, who worked as Regan's temporary assistant for one week, has voluntarily...