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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — A man savagely killed a dog, ran naked through a tennis club and poured hot coffee on his head before he was finally arrested early Wednesday, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. Bayron Reyes Lopez, 26, of San Clemente, was hospitalized after being captured at the tennis club where he worked as a maintenance man, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.

After introducing Lopez on her CNN Headline News program last night, Behar played a clip of Lopez's HBO special in which he said, "There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She's got all the signs. She works and her husband don't." Later in the segment, after commenting about Palin's lack of experience, Lopez stated, "I mean, the concept of Todd Palin being a stay-at-home dad-listen Joy, when I was a kid, those guys were called bums." "Uh-huh. They're still called bums," agreed Behar. Funny that...

I'm not kidding. B.O. did a commercial for the George Lopez show right in the middle of the play-offs. The EGO has landed again.

Did I just see Presidentg Obama doing a commercial for George Lopez' new night time comedy show? Yes, I did. Ran the DVR back and checked. I thought, "When does the President of the United States of America pimp for ANY TV show????"Then, I thought, how could anyone accuse a black, pimping for a hispanic,of ANYTHING improper. Oh well, new TV season coming up and Obama has debts to pay. Wonder if he'll pimp shows on ther channels? Wonder how much he charges?

I know HBO probably isn't really looked upon to highly around here (love trueblood, enterouge) But if anybody saw last night's stand up. As a conservative I have never felt more attacked in my life. As usual we were all accused of being racist for opposing Sotomayor....i mean forget the fact that she actually uses race as motivation for her rulings and basically ignores the constitution....it has to be racist why we oppose her... i mean lets all forget how the left treated Gonzelez under the Bush administration....that couldn't be racist... As a half latin person i'm amazed at how...

GEORGE Lopez says he's not out to "reinvent" the talk show when he enters the highly competitive arena in November on TBS. "It's going to be different because I'm different," Lopez, 47, told The Post yesterday. "I'm a Latino. I'm not a white male, and if you just look at the statistics of late night, there's a disconnect from that audience.

After pursuit in Santa Rosa, 7 men arrested on weapons charges, 1 held for drugs Seven men carrying an illegal arsenal of assault weapons and an eighth man suspected of selling marijuana were arrested in Santa Rosa early Tuesday. Officials said the arrests were made just in time. "We believe they were going to commit a crime out of the county," said Lt. Tim Duke with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department. "A crime was stopped." Deputies received an anonymous tip just after midnight Monday that a Chevy Tahoe SUV and a pickup with multiple passengers who had illegal assault weapons...

Arnold Palmer, who won five of his 62 PGA TOUR titles at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, will host the 50th anniversary of the 90-hole event next January, tournament officials have announced. "I enjoyed some of my greatest success in the Hope in the early years and have loved the Palm Springs area ever since I first went there," Palmer said in a statement. "I consider it a great honor to follow in the footsteps of Bob Hope as host of this wonderful tournament, which has been a mainstay on the PGA TOUR for so many years." ~snip~ Bob Hope...

Hundreds of people waited in line for hours at UTEP Wednesday to see comedian and actor George Lopez. Lopez is traveling the country campaigning for Barack Obama. Lopez said he has been voting in presidential elections since he was 18, but never got behind a candidate he can believe in until now. This is the first presidential campaign Lopez has volunteered for. He said El Paso voters are particularly important because they live so close to the border. Lopez said he's upset about those who want to send all the illegal immigrants to Mexico. Lopez is also encouraging the Hispanic...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming poses a "serious threat to America's national security" and the U.S. likely will be dragged into fights over water and other shortages, top retired military leaders warn in a new report. The report says that in the next 30 to 40 years there will be wars over water, increased hunger instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels and global warming-induced refugees. "The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism," the 35-page report predicts. "Climate change exacerbates already unstable situations," former U.S. Army chief of staff...

Washington - On paper, Gov. Bill Richardson (D) of New Mexico has the résumé of a top-tier presidential candidate: a two-term governor, 14 years as a member of Congress, secretary of Energy under President Clinton, and former United Nations ambassador. As the son of a Mexican mother and half-Mexican father, Governor Richardson also has the potential to win a significant portion of the Hispanic vote, one of the fastest-growing segments of the US electorate. So far, in the early going of the 2008 presidential nomination battle, Richardson has remained mired in low single digits in national polls of Democratic voters....

George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing. "TV just became really, really white again," he said. Georgelopeztp ABC, he said, has "unceremoniously" canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant. "The George Lopez Show" will live on in syndication, but that's not making Lopez feel better about not getting the chance to tell one final season of stories. Lopez said Steve McPherson, ABC president of prime-time entertainment, called him over the weekend to explain...

We've got a movie review of "Monster-in-Law", starring that famous anti-war kook who's at it again…Jane Fonda. As for Jennifer Lopez, that girl needs to stick to singing. And the tale of four generations of pointy chins with pics to compare.

Former Massachusetts Superior Court judge Maria Lopez has a message for her detractors -- especially the local politicians and attorneys who criticized her outspoken behavior on the bench and the sentence of parole she handed down to Charles ``Ebony" Horton for kidnapping and assaulting a child in 2000. Thank you. If there had been no public outcry over Lopez barking at prosecutors, there is a good chance that the judge would have missed the opportunity to become what she calls ``the poster child for the post-menopausal woman" as the star of ``Judge Maria Lopez," a nationally syndicated daytime court show...

The violence ended in a Vista motel room after Lopez snapped two vertebrae in her neck, leaving the woman a quadriplegic. After initially refusing to get help for her, Lopez summoned the motel's clerk, who called an ambulance. Pressman said he took note of the callous and brutal nature of the attacks in imposing the lengthy prison sentence. Defense attorney Mary Ellen Attridge, who said her client was high on methamphetamine at the time of the crime, asked Pressman to impose one life sentence. “There is only one life to give to the penal system,” Attridge said.

El movimiento que apoya a la coalición Por el Bien de Todos amenaza con tomar este viernes los puentes internacionales de Reynosa y Matamoros. THE MOVEMENT THAT SUPPORTS THE COALITION FOR THE WELFARE OF ALL THREATENS TO CLOSE AND TAKE THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES AT REYNOSA AND MATAMOROS

January 12, 2006 -- Of all the honors accumulated by Mayor Bloomberg, it's probably safe to say the one bestowed on him yesterday by former City Councilwoman Margarita Lopez was a first: honorary lesbian. "He has become part of the group of people that I am part — the gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual community," Lopez said during a ceremony at 66 E. 4th St., one of six city-owned buildings being transferred for $1 each to 10 cultural institutions that are part of the Fourth Arts Block.

Here's what you should understand about the claim that Judge Sam Alito "favors legal machine guns": It's a lie. It is also a sound bite from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence that has been picked up by a host of pundits who would rather caricature a legal opinion than understand it. " 'Machine Gun Sammy,' a perfect Halloween pick," is how the Brady Campaign headlined President Bush's latest Supreme Court nominee. But what the Brady activists failed to acknowledge is that Alito's dissent in the 1996 case United States v. Rybar had nothing to do with a desire...

Lopez, 52, the embattled former Massachusetts Superior Court judge who resigned from the bench in 2003, will preside over a makeshift courtroom next fall in her own syndicated show. Lopez's state career ended after she sparked a public outcry for ordering probation -- which critics considered a lenient sentence -- for a transgendered man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy. She was also accused of scolding the prosecutor in the case. In 2003, a hearing officer ruled that Lopez had lied under oath and abused her office, and ordered a six-month suspension and a public apology.

MIAMI - Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame catcher and manager who led the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox to American League pennants in the 1950s, died Sunday at 97. Lopez had been hospitalized in Tampa since Friday, when he suffered a heart attack at his son's home, Al Lopez Jr. said. Lopez was the oldest living Hall of Fame member, said Jeff Idelson, spokesman for the Hall. Lopez hit .261 with 51 homers and 652 RBIs during a 19-year career in which he was one of baseball's most durable catchers and set the record for most games caught...

 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS THE authority to stop Oregon physicians from using prescription drugs to implement that state's unique program of physician-assisted suicide. But the administration's effort to use an ambiguous federal drug statute to undermine Oregon's assisted suicide law is a betrayal of conservative legal principles. Gonzales v. Oregon, argued before the Supreme Court earlier this month, may give an early signal about the commitment of the emerging Roberts Court to those principles. And the Court's decision could have unexpected implications for a range of other issues, including future policies about abortion.Like the administration, I believe that the people...

...[I]t was William Rehnquist who was most personally responsible for what is now called "the New Federalism" -- the revival of the ideas that judiciary should protect the role of the states within the federal system and enforce the textual limits on the powers of Congress. Establishing the New Federalism took enormous effort and leadership by Rehnquist over many years. Now that legacy is in jeopardy. At the founding, and for some 150 years thereafter, the limits on congressional power provided by the Constitution... as modified by the Fourteenth Amendment-- were enforced by the Supreme Court. According to the textual...

San Rafael, Mexico, Aug 7 (EFE).- Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, said early Sunday he would like to form an alliance with grassroots organizations and launch "another campaign" to take on the traditional political parties at the national level, including leftist parties. The proposal came after Marcos appeared in public for the first time in five years on Saturday and accused leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of "treason." Wearing a ski mask and escorted by five people, Marcos appeared at a rally in the village of San Rafael, in the southern state of Chiapas, to...

A states'-rights challenge to enforcement of the Endangered Species Act...failed Monday when the justices, without comment, refused to hear it.The appeal had attracted widespread attention as the most potent of several efforts around the country to make the case that Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce did not extend to protecting animal or plant species that lack commercial value and that live in only one state....[T]he justices' action on Monday provided the latest evidence that the Rehnquist Court's federalism revolution is on the wane....[The case] concerned six endangered species of small insects that live only in caves and sinkholes in...

Andres Mauel Lopez Obrador: Yes. I know that you haven't heard from me in quite a while. After all, it is hard to keep in touch with my loyal, working class supporters when the filthy, plutocratic scum who have usurped power and are intent on keeping the "PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION" down bring their weight to bear against a proletarian hero such as myself. Many of you may have heard of Interior Minister Santiago Creel, the lackey of Coca-Cola-slurping, American stooge Vincente Fox, and his persistent attempts to suppress the "THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION"; the case broguht against me is nothing more than...

TRUE LIES - "Rick Lopez and his Colorado Hoopsters" By Eric Adelson Jan. 31 2005 ESPN.COM He called himself the god of basketball, and they believed. He shouted and stomped on the sideline, then smiled when his team's lead hit 40, 50, 60 points. His girls weaved like Ferraris on a road course and bit back smirks as boys on opposing teams cried or stewed or simply sighed. He drew plays in the air with his fingers, and the girls learned them so well they could win games without any coach at all. His sport's biggest icons - Geno Auriemma,...

Report: Lopez, Affleck to marry next weekTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS     Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are shown together in a scene from Revolution Studios' romantic comedy "Gigli," one of the summer movie season's biggest flops. The expected domestic grosses from this season is up 2 percent over the summer 2002's record. However, with an estimated 4 percent rise in admission prices, ticket sales will be down about 2 percent from last year, the first decline in three years. (AP Photo /Phillip Caruso, Columbia Pictures, File) NEW YORK -- Supercouple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are planning to marry next...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rest easy, J.Lo. She says it never happened. Antonella Santini, the exotic dancer featured in salacious National Enquirer stories that purported to detail a sexual encounter she had with actress Jennifer Lopez' fiance, Ben Affleck, has sued the tabloid, saying she never had sex with the "Gigli" actor. But the Enquirer, which published two articles about Affleck's visit to Brandi's all-nude club in Vancouver, British Columbia, and his alleged encounter with Santini, says it is standing by its story. The articles prompted reports in mainstream media that Affleck's engagement to Lopez -- one of America's...

Gigli is a movie that everybody knows about but no one has seen, which speaks volumes about the power of celebrity at the box office. Starring Jennifer Lopez (ranked fifth on the Forbes Celebrity 100) and Ben Affleck (number seven), the movie took in just $3.8 million in its opening weekend at the box office. If, as seems likely, it winds up grossing about $10 million, it would be the most resounding box-office failure in recent years. Gigli is such a massive failure that it could make Hollywood rethink its fascination with stars--for a minute or two, at least. Just...

It's Halle Berry's lucky weekend. She's not in Gigli. The Oscar winner dropped out of the mobster comedy/drama just before production began in late 2001, leaving Jennifer Lopez to sign up for leading-lady duty opposite Ben Affleck. The rest is movie history. Or, bad movie history, as nation's movie critics might say. "Nearly as unwatchable as [its title] is unpronounceable."--Los Angeles Times "Hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship."--New York Times "The rare movie that never seems to take off, but also never seems to end."--USA Today Bad buzz about the movie is so prevalent, and widespread, that even India's Hindustan...

<p>"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing," is the oft-quoted remark of philosopher Edmund Burke. Well, a lot of men and women did nothing for an awfully long time as a troubling agenda triumphed in the Santa Ana school district. The thrust of it was revealed in a Register article on Jan. 30 detailing how "conflict, confusion and miscalculation unhinge the crowded district's plans to build or fix schools."</p>

From: lopeztoto@yahoo.com To: ViceSecretary@TiptonGOP.org August 18, 2002 To my fellow Republicans: The campaign to become the next representative from the 81st District, Tennessee House of Representatives, continues. This past week saw more movement towards that end. A headquarters has now been established!! Located at the intersection of Main Street in Atoka and Highway 51 South, a very new prefabricated model home has been donated to the Republican Party of Tipton County for use as a campaign headquarters until the November 5 General Election. The headquarters will be used by the Party and by the two Republican candidates for the State...

Quite a number of us have been following the U.S. v. Emerson case pertaining to the Second Amendment. Therein, the federal trial court judge wrote one of the finest decisions ever to come out of a federal criminal court -- which tracked perfectly with the original intent of all of the Founding Fathers when they approved the Constitution and later the Bill of Rights. However, the decision was appealed. Alas, although the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that the Second Amendment protects an individual right of the people to keep and bear arms, they reversed...

<p>LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A woman tossed a 9-month-old boy from a third-floor window of a burning apartment building and the boy was caught by neighbors and passers-by holding a blanket.</p> <p>Jennifer Lopez, 18, tossed her nephew, Victor Castaner, from the window Sunday afternoon, while other residents escaped by jumping from second-floor windows.</p>