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MTV tries it's hand at damage control, but fails miserablyMTV has rather deftly changed it's text on it's Super Bowl page from the text originally up there (and touted by news programs and websites everywhere:Janet Jackson Got Nasty at the MTV-Produced Super Bowl Halftime Show Jaws across the country hit the carpet at exactly the same time. You know what we're talking about...Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and a kinky finale that rocked the Super Bowl to its core. P. Diddy, Kid Rock, & Nelly rounded out the halftime show in the midst of the greatest game on earth. MTV was...

"I am sorry that anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance of the Super Bowl," Timberlake said in a statement. "It was not intentional and is regrettable." Developing...

Sarandon Tired of Being Called Anti-American Just Because She Hates America 2/5/2003 - William Grim Hollywood - Susan Sarandon, left-wing activist and B-list actress best known for having children out of wedlock with Tim Robbins, says she is tired of being called an anti-American just because she hates America, all Americans and everything associated with America.Speaking from the headquarters of the charity organization she runs, Adopt-A-Suicide- Bomber, the too-old-to-get-the-good-roles-but-not-having-enough-acting-chops-to-get-Katherine-Hepburn-parts Sarandon said that criticism of her is being organized by "wealthy elitists who don't care about social justice and income redistribution and are only interested in making money off the...

Voluntary Alternatives to Taxation Stuart K. Hayashi Most Americans believe paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Yet this very nation was founded upon people evading taxes in 1776. When individuals don’t pay taxes, the government goes after them with guns, even though they haven’t used force on anyone else. Thus, taxation is an initiation of physical force against the individual’s right to life, liberty and property. Because taxation is forcible extortion, it violates your right to property. If you don’t pay taxes, you can be jailed, hence depriving you the right to liberty. And if tax “evaders” fight tax...

The media were squawking aplenty today about a court's revelation that the FBI botched more than 75 cases in seeking espionage and terrorism warrants. But they conveniently buried this fun fact: The blunders happened during the Clinton administration, under the non-watch of the bumbling Janet Reno. That tidbit appeared in paragraph eight of an Associated Press story today and in paragraph 10 of a 12-paragraph article by the New York Times. "The missteps included former FBI Director Louis Freeh's erroneous statement to judges that the target of a wiretap request wasn't also under criminal investigation," AP noted. Both stories mentioned...

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, who wants to become Florida's next governor, wears a star-spangled jacket as she speaks to members of the Democratic Lesbian and Gay Caucus of Miami-Dade County, Tuesday, July 9, 2002, in Miami. Reno is opposed by Bill McBride, a Tampa lawyer, in the race for the state's Democratic gubernatorial nomination. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)