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Newt Gingrich will stay in the Republican presidential nomination contest despite an expected loss to Mitt Romney in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, the former speaker told The Washington Times late Saturday afternoon. “We had excellent fundraising meetings and calls yesterday,” Mr. Gingrich said. “Super Tuesday and beyond look good.” The Georgia native thus dispelled rumors circulating in the press that his campaign had scheduled a press conference for late Saturday, after the results were in from the Nevada caucuses. “We will probably be a solid second here with [Rick] Santorum in last place,” Mr. Gingrich said, while acknowledging indirectly that attracting...

(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Republican Senator Scott Brown made a crack about Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s physical appearance on a radio show Thursday morning. According to the Boston Globe, the senator was responding to a crack Warren made during Tuesday's debate. When Warren was asked about Brown using his centerfold spread in Cosmopolitan magazine decades ago to pay for college, she said she “didn’t take her clothes off” to pay for school. When the WZLX disc jockey asked Brown for a response, he said "Thank God," which elicited laughter from the DJs. Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/politics/local_politics/sen-brown-makes-crack-about-warrens-look-on-boston-radio-show-20111006#ixzz1a1CvX02J

I’ve been avoiding this topic just because the arc of the debate is so predictable. First comes the outrage from the left, eager to help Warren get a sympathy bump in the polls by casting her as the victim of sneering frat boy Scott Brown. Then comes the pushback from the right, intent on recovering any inch of lost ground by reminding the left that she took the first shot in sneering at Brown’s appearance years ago in Cosmo. Then the left has a fainting spell at the idea that the right would defend this horrible, horrible woman-hater, and then...

At a debate co-sponsored by the Boston Herald and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell Tuesday, panelists asked Democratic senate candidates to comment on their own college experience in light of the the incumbent senator's colorful modeling past. "To help pay for his law school education, Scott Brown posed for Cosmo. How did you pay for your college education?" a student asked all the candidates during the "lightning round" phase of the questioning. Democratic frontrunner Elizabeth Warren was the first to reply: "I kept my clothes on," she replied, evoking audience laughter and applause. "I borrowed money." Warren added that...

STUART, Oct. 27 — Frank Mezzapelle has been endorsed by The Stuart News in his race for Stuart City Commission. A father/grandfather, community leader and former longtime president of Stuart Main Street (a 501 (c)3 not-for-profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to improv­ing the appear­ance and eco­nomic sta­bil­ity of His­toric Down­town Stuart), Mezzapelle brings new meaning to the all-important transparency that today’s politicians atttempt to present to potential voters. Mezzapelle’s run is not the only race he has participated in. His impressive time in the 12th Annual Dare to Go Bare 5K Run” — a nude 5K — in Lutz, FL in 2004...

“Thank God” is right. Finally the Massachusetts Senate race is starting to get interesting. No, not the primary — that’s over and done. Obedient Massachusetts Democrats will do as they’re told and nominate the party bosses’ pick, Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren. I’m talking about the battle royale, Scott Brown vs. Elizabeth Warren which has turned, literally, into a “beauty contest.” It began at Tuesday night’s Boston Herald debate when Warren was asked how she paid for college. In reference to Brown posing for Cosmo, Warren quipped, “I kept my clothes on.” Gales of hearty liberal laughter ensued. Then, yesterday...

I'm an American and I support the concept of freedom. For example, I proudly support the freedom to not have to look at naked people. And I'd like the freedom to go to one of my favorite cities without having to look at naked people. And I really support the freedom of seating one of my kids at a restaurant table where I'm relatively sure a naked person wasn't just sitting. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener -- make your own joke and please move on -- has proposed an ordinance banning naked people sitting in restaurants and in public places...

Doesn’t Google supposedly use some high-tech program that supposedly pixelates the faces of unsuspecting individuals caught by its invasive Street View cameras? Well, as seen in the above photo (click to enlarge), one Miami woman did not receive that courtesy. She was caught sans clothes by the Google camera as she stood on the doorstep of her home, with a water jug in her hand. It is unknown why she was naked. In a second image, the woman appears to notice the Google Street View car as it continues driving down her block. At press time, the woman’s photo remains...

A Key West woman is facing charges after she was arrested twice in three days in separate naked, drug-fueled romps on public streets, according to police. Alena Larrazabal, 32, was hospitalized after she was found stark naked crawling down a busy Stock Island street Monday afternoon by a couple of deputies, according to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrest report. Police say an incoherent Larrazabal was meandering on her hands and knees as cars swerved to avoid hitting her. At one point, she rolled on to her back and spread her legs before continuing her crawl, the report said. As...

A live report on The Weather Channel today about Hurricane Irene got a few unexpected guests in the form of a bunch of guys in bathing suits ... one of whom lost his shorts and bared it all on camera.

A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down. New Jersey democrat Louis Magazzu, 53, admitted sending the photos to the woman he said he had been corresponding with online for several years. In an email statement, the Cumberland County freeholder apologised to family, friends and constituents but indicated that he thought he was being set up.

Cumberland County Freeholder and recent Dem party chair, Louis N. Magazzu took nude photos of himself and sent them to a woman online. After demands from fellow legislators, Magazzu resigned from office and had recently resigned as Dem party chair. He admitted he took the nude photos with his cell phone standing naked in front of a mirror. He sent the pics via email. Magazzu is still married, though he's been separated for two years, according to his attorney. The 53-year-old Democrat sent the nude photos to a woman with whom he corresponded online. He says she requested the photos...

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Sheriff's deputies arrested a man last week accused of sleeping nude in someone else's car. Investigators said several kids riding bicycles reported seeing a naked man sleeping in a car June 15 parked on Wagon Trail in Deerfield Township. When the car's owner confronted the man, deputies said, he stole a robe from the car and fled on foot. The car's owner said she and her son had moved into their house that day. Deputies said they found the man, identified as 24-year-old Rodney Carter, of Loveland, wearing a red robe with another blue robe wrapped...

A STRUGGLING gym in northern Spain hopes to entice new customers by offering nudist workout sessions, making it the first in the country to target naturists looking to get into shape. Liberal-minded customers in the northern town of Arrigorriaga are invited to burn calories in the buff at Easy Gym, which provides towels for comfort and to "prevent slippage on the equipment." "We knew we had to innovate because we were losing clients," said Easy Gym owner Merche Laseca. "Times are hard. There is a crisis. I need the money. I am not a nudist myself, but I don't mind...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — When police arrested Jennifer Rush on Saturday afternoon as she walked along the beach wearing only a ragged wet T-shirt, it wasn’t their first run-in with the apparently drunk and nearly naked woman. This year alone, police have arrested 23-year-old Rush for “exposing her breasts and rear end” to bowling alley patrons, boarding a charter bus loaded with BP contract workers and “exposing her breasts,” and “exposing her vaginal area to several bystanders … including a child” as she lay on a bench in front of a bar, according to police reports. Local law enforcement agencies...

SAN DIEGO, July 5 (UPI) -- San Diego police say an "honest mistake" led a drunken partier to get undressed and fall asleep in a condo nearly 20 miles from his own home. "This gentleman thought he had been walking into his own home, which is in Mission Valley," Police Lt. Jim Filley told The San Diego Union-Tribune. "We think it was an honest mistake." Mistake or not, the naked interloper was way off target. The condo he was found in Sunday morning was in Pacific Beach, a bar-heavy neighborhood on the other side of Interstate 5 from Mission Valley....

Doesn’t remind me of this…

This June, Playboy is introducing its first 3-D edition of Playboy Magazine complete with those 3D glasses. Three thoughts… (I’ll try to be discreet as possible)

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- An inmate made a break for it Tuesday, losing his clothes in the process, authorities said. Bradley Norris was under a detention deputy's watch at the Lake Wales hospital Tuesday when investigators said he attacked her and made a run for it. He lost his hospital gown in the struggle. The be-on-the-lookout call was for a naked man shackled at the ankles. He made it 300 yards before being captured.

<p>NEW YORK -- Museum patrons know that touching the art is a no-no -- and that means live, naked performers too.</p> <p>Several nude models who are featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art have complained of being groped by some patrons. The museum has declined to talk about specific incidents, but acknowledged that it has had problems with some visitors touching performers.</p>

Two Boots photo lab technicians who copied hundreds of pictures of naked or semi-naked schoolgirls from customers' orders escaped jail yesterday. Thomas Befroy and Alan Hermon hoarded the pictures of girls between the ages of 12 and 17 in a hidden compartment in the lab. Their collection of more than 1,000 photos, built up over 12 years using a machine in the store, included snaps of teenage girls on holiday or in their bedrooms dressing up before a night out with friends. The pair were only caught when a phone engineer discovered their stash in eight carrier bags and two...

SYDNEY—About 5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick. Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces, posed participants for more than an hour in a variety of positions. "It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa," Tunick said. "So I was very happy that that last set up finally got done and everyone came together (in a) united, friendly kiss, a loving kiss in front of this great structure."

Is there anything stranger than a liberal reporter being upset that a semi-nude picture from 1982 didn’t sink a political candidate? Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse stamped on the sour grapes on Wednesday with a temper tantrum of an article on the front page of the Style section headlined "It’s okay. Scott Brown was just being a man. Ah, gender equity. That Cosmo spread might have sunk a woman". What a snide, opinionated headline! Hesse began by suggesting nude pics had surfaced of Martha Coakley, and then, surprise, it was the other way around. Hesse’s topic sentence: "The morning after...

Something about the Republican running for Ted Kennedy's open Senate seat must have rung some bells over at Cosmopolitan. Mediate reports the ladymag sifted through the archives and found Scott Brown very naked in their June 1982 issue -- the winner of that summer's "America's Sexiest Man" contest. Hello! Brown at the time was a 22 year-old law student at Boston College, with blow-dried hair and a whiff of the JFK Jr/Scott Baio vibe, we're thinking. So far in the race, no naked photos of Democrat Martha Coakley have surfaced -- but the election is not until Jan. 19 so...

MZ received an email from someone who said the photo we posted showing a man appearing to be John F. Kennedy on a yacht with naked women was actually a photo from a 1967 Playboy photo shoot -snip- UPDATE: 1:11 PM ET A rep from Playboy tells TMZ the photo ran as part of story titled, "Playboy's Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny with an Able-Bodies Complement of Ship's Belles." She says the photo was taken on one of the islands that make up the Grenadines (Petit Rameau).

'The Nude' exhibit at downtown gallery to feature portraits and live, naked people ASHLAND — City Councilman Eric Navickas and his partner, Amy Godard, will hold a nude show at their downtown gallery in January in response to an attempt to ban nudity in the city. "The Nude" exhibit will feature traditional nude portraits and conceptual art involving live, naked people. "We feel that the nude ban is not only an attack on freedom of expression but also an attack on the human body itself," Navickas said. "We wanted to have a show to celebrate the nude body and differentiate...

There are more sexy shenanigans at Brooklyn's Horndog High. The day after the Daily News reported that two James Madison High School language teachers were busted "undressed" in an empty classroom, sources said a third educator is being investigated for getting too personal with a student. Social studies instructor Allison Musacchio is under investigation for having an inappropriate relationship with a male student, sources said. It is the second scandal in as many days to rock the Midwood school where New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Major League ballplayer Frank Torre once walked the halls. School sources said they learned...

The director of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - the two-part final cinematic chapter based on the series of seven books - says Daniel Radcliffe will do several nude scenes in the upcoming movie, one of them of the steamy variety....a monster tortures Harry's friend Ron (Rupert Grint) with images of Harry in some sort of tryst with Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), with whom Ron is passionately in love.

A new PETA advertisement featuring model Joanna Krupa wearing nothing but a crucifix and a seductive smile is "totally inappropriate" and exploitative of Christian symbols, critics say. Krupa, a Playboy cover girl and a "Dancing With the Stars" regular, is seen topless and bottomless in the latest spot by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which urges people to adopt pets from rescue shelters instead of buying them from puppy mills. The Polish-born beauty appears in the ad with angel wings behind her and a digital halo over her head. Her private parts are covered -- barely --...

Airport security chiefs have been banned from subjecting children to a controversial new X-ray scanner that produces ‘naked’ pictures of passengers because of legal warnings the images may break child pornography laws...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A wine label showing a nude nymph is too racy for Alabama's liquor control agency, which has told restaurants and stores not to sell the product.

Talk about prime exposure. Nearly 400 people at two county nudist clubs skinny-dipped simultaneously yesterday. At precisely 3 p.m., 267 people took to the pool at Pine Tree Associates in Crownsville and another 123 entered the water at the Maryland Health Society in Davidsonville. "It did really fill up the pool," said James Richards of West River, a 17-year member of Pine Tree. "There was cheering and laughter; lots of hoorahs and hurrays." The local clubs were joined by nudist groups across the country and in Canada in an effort to set a simultaneous skinny-dipping record that would be recognized...

I don’t want to sound like a Prude – because I’m not. And I’ll admit that I haven't even seen the "The Proposal." (It’s rated PG-13 – and doing great. It was number one at the box office this weekend) But, some wonder if a PG-13 rating is what it used to be. Is PG-13 - what used to be considered R? I know ... I know – some of you are saying: “Hey - get over it.. It’s just a movie...” But, consider the following from USA Today:

Santa Clara County agrees to pay $1 million in lawsuit over Naked Guy's suicide To many, Luis Andrew Martinez was simply the Naked Guy — a Berkeley fixture who gained national notoriety in the 1990s for refusing to wear clothes. About 10 years later, on May 18, 2006, isolated and alone in a Santa Clara County Jail cell, Martinez — a diagnosed schizophrenic — tied a plastic bag around his head and killed himself. Today — on the third anniversary of his death — lawyers for his family plan to announce a $1 million settlement reached with Santa Clara County,...

Liberals are giddy over revealing photos of Miss California, Carrie Prejean (good Lord! She's still in the news cycle?!), surfacing on the 'net, with the first of six released, thus far: With partially nude photos of her popping up on Web sites questioning her Christian credentials, Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has fired back, claiming the racy pictures are just modeling shots and vowing to continue her battle against same-sex marriage. “I am a Christian, and I am a model,” Prejean said in a statement released overnight to the media. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently,...

Ron Jones with CBS 13 in Sacramento has the story about a local woman who was fired from her job as a cheerleading coach after she turned up in Playboy magazine. "The girls are supposed to look up their coaches," says one concerned parent at Casa Robles High School. Carlie Christine bared all, all over the internet. Casa Robles High School officials in Orangevale confirm with CBS13 that their girl's cheerleading coach, Carlie Christine, was the one who posed nude in a playboy centerfold. Christine is also Playboy's 'cyber girl of the week.' Parents and some students, who did not...

NEWPORT (CBS 3) ― State police say a trooper shot a naked Wilmington man who was beating him with his police radio. The trooper found 35-year-old Fabian Silvestre standing naked on Route 4 around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday. Police say Silvestre charged the trooper and after a struggle, the trooper used his pepper spray. Unaffected, police say Silvestre took the trooper's radio and beat him with it. Police say the trooper feared for his life and fired two shots, hitting Silvestre in the shoulder, but it did not stop him. A second trooper arrived and used a stun gun on Silvestre...

Want to know why Playboy is struggling? To put it in terms a Playboy reader can understand, why pay for the cow when the milk is free? (In case that was too subtle, we mean to say that there’s so much free porn on the internet that no one is willing to pay for “sophisticated” nudity anymore.) OK, we’ve put this off long enough. Let’s just say it quickly and get it over with. “Knocked Up” star Seth Rogan’s ugly mug will be on the cover of Playboy’s March issue. Maybe Christie Hefner hasn’t noticed but he’s a man. A...

We don’t know much about art, but we know ugly when we see it. And that would pretty much sum up our opinion of Madonna. Nevertheless, someone with an apparently severe vision impairment has paid Christie’s Auction House $37,500 for a full-frontal, nude photo of the pop queen as a 20-year-old. Madonna was still using her full name — Madonna Louise Ciccone — when the photo was taken. She landed the gig after answering a classified ad seeking a nude model. She may have earned as little as $25 for the photo session. We just wish we could be there...

Nude Biker Crashes with Trooper's Car SEARCY, Ark. - A naked man on a motorcycle who crashed with an Arkansas state trooper's cruiser on a night when it was sleeting faces misdemeanor charges. A Searcy police report says 35-year-old Christopher A. Clark of Searcy kept riding when a trooper tried to pull him over during the Jan. 26 incident. Clark stopped abruptly several times in the street and then sped up quickly, until the trooper bumped him on one of the stops. The report didn't indicate any injuries but both vehicles were damaged. A witness quoted in the police report...

"GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a Greensburg Salem High School who received them, are charged with child pornography."

North Side tavern hangs nude portrait; Bruce Elliott, whose wife owns the Old Town Ale House, painted this nude portrait of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. He said his daughter, who does a good impression of the Alaska governor, served as model. (Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune / September 29, 2008) There's been no shortage of takeoffs on Sarah Palin lately, from television skits to action figures, but Bruce Elliott has gone one step further than most. He's taken off her clothes.

Sarah Palin painted in the nude at Old Town Ale House in Chicago Bruce Elliott has painted a nude portrait of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and hung it above the Old Town Ale House, where it's now a prime attraction among his display of more than 200 celebrity portraits and other racy art. Elliott's wife, Tobin Mitchen, owns the bar on Chicago's North Side, Palin became Elliott's muse after he saw her on TV. "I've been following her religiously," he said Monday at the bar. "I had never heard of her before, like everyone else. I find her...

A Deltona father ended up in jail Thursday after finding his daughter's teenage boyfriend naked in the girl's bedroom and hitting him with a pipe, sheriff's officials said. Raul Colon, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend -- or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year. So when he heard noises coming from his daughter's room early Thursday and saw a naked stranger standing on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe he had taken from the garage, hitting the 15-year-old, according to a Volusia County sheriff's report. Colon was...

CONTROVERSIAL French swimmer Laure Manaudou is at the centre of a nude picture controversy. Her Italian swimmer former boyfriend Luca Marin is accused of posting video and pictures of Manaudou, who is the Olympic and world 400m world champion. The pair had a spat at the European short course swimming championships in Hungary at the weekend. "I know nothing about the video and have only seen the photos. Yes, it looks like it's really her but it is ridiculous to think it was me who put them there,'' Marin told the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport.

Several hikers ran across eight bares last week in Gathland State Park. A group of men between the ages of 40 and 60 reportedly disrobed and started walking along the trail, said Sgt. Ken Turner, a spokesman for the Department of Natural Resources. About 10:30 a.m. Friday, a man was in the park when he saw the men gathering near the Appalachian Trail. He then saw them hiking in nothing but their shoes, Turner said. His wife reported the sighting to police about an hour later, Turner said. Officials did not release the name of the man or his wife....

TAMPA, Fla. -- The wife of a Tampa man who hired a nude maid to clean their home while she was away is speaking out about jewelry stolen from their home. Police say Kenna Dimartini is a person of interest in the case. The wife, who does not want to be identified, says $40,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from their home. The husband was able to point officers to the woman's Web site and give a description. The wife says she plans to file for divorce.

A nude maid cleaned up good at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says the maid stole more than $40,000 from a Cheval home despite not wearing any clothes. The 50-year-old man hired the maid through the Internet on Friday to clean his suburban Tampa home. Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100 per hour. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean. When the man's wife...

April 9, 2008 is the date of the Official Beijing Olympic Torch Run in San Francisco. This is the only U.S. city on the Torch's world tour. The national and international media will be here. A nude torch run is being planned to coincide. We are inviting you and your nude friends to join us. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make an indelible statement for human rights. Meet: 12:30 pm sharp near the front of Tacqueria Pancho Villa Pier 1, the Embarcadero (waterfront side) [ the next building north from the Ferry Building] Look for faux "torch" labeled "Human...