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Marie Osmond collapsed during the taping of Monday’s “Dancing With the Stars.” After she finished the samba with partner Jonathan Roberts, Marie was listening to judge Len Goodman’s critique when she passed out and hit the floor. The show immediately cut to commercial during its East Coast airing. After being attended to, Marie came to and told the crowd she fainted because she wasn’t breathing during her dance. “I forget to breathe. I’m fine thank you,” she said after getting back to her feet, drawing rousing applause from the audience.

Hundreds of joyful mourners formed an unconventional funeral procession in Detroit this week as the NAACP officially “buried” the “n word.” “Today, we’re not just burying the n word, we’re taking it out of our spirit,” announced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. “Die, n word, and we don’t want to see you ‘round here no more.” Michigan Democrat Governor Jennifer Granholm bade “[g]ood riddance to this vestige of slavery and racism and... hello to a new country that invests in all its people.” Ironically, while rejoicing over a symbolic casket, the NAACP continued to ignore the 1,452 real caskets of unborn...

Jill Tarter favors her flying-saucer/Martian salt-and-pepper set. But don't mistake her for one of those kookie types who live in desert trailers prepping for the aliens to arrive. Tarter, with a Ph.D. in astronomy, is director of the Center for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research, a northern California group of some 120 scientists and technicians who are listening for signs from outer space.

WoooooooooooHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! He's LIVE!!!!! Come out come out wherever you are!

The immigration rallies across America showed that restrictionists aren't the only ones with strong views. But beyond podium pounding, compelling arguments are also necessary. As the Senate goes back this week to the task of crafting an immigration bill, it is crucial to focus on the right reasons for creating a guest-worker program and legalizing 12 million illegal immigrants. The case for immigration doesn't have to do as much with the Latino vote or civil rights. It should center instead on America's growth, competitiveness and dynamism. This month's rallies of thousands of people in many major cities raised the importance...

More than Low Class? Claims that "Sacred" art in Catholic Churches is inspired by the Devil himself! A new documentary, "Rape of the Soul", claims to "explore the prevalent use of satanic, sexual, and occult and anti-Catholic images in historical and contemporary religious artwork. The film also discusses the acceptance of the artwork at the highest and most trusted levels of the Catholic Church... ..."Artists from DaVinci to Botticelli have imbedded subliminal images into their art for centuries, said Calace...In this case we found penises on crucifixes, anarchy symbols, swastikas, demonic faces and in modern works even the word 'sex'...

Assorted Press Report Saddam Hussein died today of an apparent heart attack. Hussein's death, while in prison awaiting trial, has created a firestorm of criticism of the Bush administration. Senator Clinton has declared that "the American people will not tolerate the McDougaling of Saddam Hussein." CBS News claims it has, in its possession, papers showing a direct connection between Saddam's death and the Bush administration. CBS apparently paid top dollar for the documents, with one insider saying "No pajama blogger will be able to prove these are forgeries." Perversely, some in the news industry are holding their fire. According to...

A Palestinian Authority security officer training in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. (Reuters)

A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon. The research is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all. They consulted 10 top chefs from...

I was lectured on Freerepublic that I was supposed to "feel safer" because we captured Saddam -- even though there's no evidence that he was behind 9-11. Osama is the guy that Bush promised to get "dead or alive" -- but four years later, he's still out there, free as a jail bird.Maybe it's time to refocus on the mastermind and culprits who were behind 9-11? Prediction: I'll get flamed as a "DU provacateur" for advocating that we go after somebody who killed 3000-plus people on American soil.

Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant (he of the annoying, "heh-heh-heh-heh" laugh) visited the Imus show this morning and lived up to his longstanding prefix, "Ignorant". And if you think I'm being cruel about his laugh, don't worry, it was openly mocked on the program by, if you can believe it, Camilla Parker-Bowles. Or maybe that was an impersonator, I'm not sure. In any event, his comments have defined a high-water mark for ignorance. Allow me to describe what kind of garbage he dispensed this morning...

Accept this Tuesday, Febuary 1,2005 This letter is in response to a Jan. 22 letter to the editor titled "Accept it" by Leah Nicole Hadley of Sumner. Ms. Hadley tells us in her letter that we should just accept that George Bush is our president. She claims that he was chosen by God to be our leader, that he leads a moral life and is a knowledgeable man who obtained a "high-class" education after high school. She also claims it is a fact that he is one of the best presidents our country ever had. Ms. Hadley needs to wise...

Ever hear of how republican's always call the liberal left "Whiner's"? Well, take a look at Wa. State, ...who are the Whiner's now? LOTS OF LAUGHS! Boy, the shoes on the other foot now! I think it's great, don't you? These people deserve it..! Has anyone seen the comedian on HBO, who gave a discription of a "Republican"? Wow was that great, and very very true.

The Paris fashions you WON'T be wearing down the supermarketIT may be the next bag thing in fashion...or proof that designers are not using their heads. As Paris fashion week drew to a close it seemed some were in a battle to create the most ludicrous outfit. HAT WALK: Model with her bag on The bag lady look, part of Dutch team Viktor and Rolf's ready-to-wear collection, took some beating - but it is perhaps more practical than others. It is the perfect solution, after all, for a bad hair day but it's difficult to see women wearing it down...

Putin: Ally or Terrorist? by William F. Jasper Counting Vladimir Putin as an ally against terrorism ignores his career in the murderous KGB/FSB and his ongoing support for terrorist regimes and organizations. ‘‘Lena Goncharuk, aged 38, said that she was the only one to survive out of a group of six who were ordered out of the cellar where they had been hiding and shot at point blank range. Resting in her hospital bed, her voice barely rising above a whisper, she said she had survived only by pretending to be dead." So reported Paul Wood from the Chechen border...

Some of you may be aware that I am a member of the SFWA, a poorly constructed acronym for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. As such, I tend to find the occasional foray into the mentality of the American liberal to be a fascinating exercise in alien thought. It is truly interesting to swim in the deep morass of a complete absence of logic, historical knowledge and consistency. Some might consider this to be an unfair overstatement, but it's pretty easy to prove that this is anything but the case. Take, for example, the notion of the...

The U.S. decision to employ nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War II was justified on two grounds: 1. It would save American lives. 2. It would shorten the war.

People don't write letters much anymore. Too bad. A personal letter from a friend is one of the good things in life. In the last few days I've received hundreds of letters that were not from friends and weren't so good. In response to a statement I read about Pat Robertson saying he'd heard from God, I said on "60 Minutes" that God had called me, too. According to Pat, God told him that President Bush was going to be re-elected "in a walk." I quoted what God had said to me about both Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson. For...

Annals of Sid Sidney Blumenthal, the Erich von Stroheim of the Clinton administration, has published a memoir of his White House days--to generally poor reviews, most of them from newspapers and magazines ordinarily sympathetic to the author's politics. Of course, no such book should be assumed useless simply because its notices are stinko. Very often, in fact, it's the "worst" first-person accounts of recent political history that provide the best sort of fun: unintentionally embarrassing anecdotes that the clueless writer imagines are worth boasting about. Alas, however, even on these ironic terms, "The Clinton Wars" turns out to be an...

About 30 naked women lay down in the snow in Central Park forming the words 'No Bush' in an event described as a 'nude political action photo shoot' in New York on February 7, 2003. The protesters are opposed to U.S. President George Bush's policies and possible U.S. led war against Iraq.