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Rick Paul, owner of Rick's White Light Diner, was found in contempt of court Monday and must pay $1,000 to a charity of his choice, for again infringing on the Derby-Pie trademark. Before U.S. District Judge Joseph Hood in a Lexington courtroom, Paul was found in contempt of court for violating a 1997 permanent injunction signed by Hood, ordering Paul not to infringe on Kern's Kitchen Inc.'s trademark Derby-Pie. Paul also must pay Kern's Kitchen's attorney fees and costs. "I am disappointed with the judge's ruling and I accept it," Paul said today. "Our proof was considerably different than Derby...

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., receives a chocolate and peanut butter pie from the Southside Inn Restaurant during a campaign stop in New Albany, Ind., Saturday, March 29, 2008.

Today I was reading about Anderson Cooper's coverage of the Iowa Caucus and many people were talking about his magic 3D Pie Chart. Apparently CNN is trying out some new toys. I like new toys. I found some still images, but I'm looking for a movie showing off the tech. (Though I can imagine it in my head if I close my eyes. :) ) Better image here. If anyone has a link to a video showing off this technology, I'd love to see it. :) Peace.

SACRAMENTO — California GOP strategists, seeking to reshape the electoral map in their party's favor, plan to begin raising money this week for a ballot initiative they hope will help a Republican win the White House in the 2008 election. As it is, Democrats assume they must win California's electoral votes to win the presidency. California supplies 55 electoral votes, more than 10% of the 538 nationally. The nascent initiative, aimed at the June 2008 ballot, would change California's winner-take-all system to require that electoral votes be apportioned by congressional district. With Republicans holding 19 of the state's 53 congressional...

Cigarettes saved Betty Conley's life this morning. Conley was baking a dozen sweet potato pies at the Shantel Lounge and Restaurant in Little Haiti when a burgundy pickup containing a man, a woman and two little girls smashed through the wall. The oven and the pies were destroyed, but Conley wasn't hurt. Two minutes earlier, Conley, who had been baking since 6 a.m., had strolled to the International Food Mart next door to buy a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. The International Food Mart, at Northwest Seventh Avenue and 54th Street, doubles as a gas station. Police and witnesses said the...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - After a fierce debate, House lawmakers have decided that key lime pie will be the state's official pie. The bakers' battle had come down to two contenders, sweet potato pie and key lime pie. As the bill moved through the Legislature this year, Florida pie lovers also took up the debate. In March, 30 people in Broward County signed a petition to defend the dessert, and bloggers logged in to join the key lime ranks. Some wanted to add pecan pie to the mix, but legislators said that tasted too much like Georgia. The Senate has...

One of two men accused of throwing cream pies at nationally syndicated columnist Ann Coulter last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Friday. Phillip Edgar Smith agreed to pay $915 in restitution for damage caused to a backdrop screen that was hit by one of the pies, said deputy Pima County Attorney Noah Van Amburg. Judge Paul Simon gave Smith a $250 fine, but told him that if he pays the restitution by Dec. 5 he will suspend the fine, Van Amburg said. According to police, Smith and William Zachary Wolff, both 25, threw the tofu cream pies at Coulter...

By Kim Smith ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.05.2005 One of two men accused of throwing cream pies at nationally syndicated columnist Ann Coulter last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Friday. Phillip Edgar Smith agreed to pay $915 in restitution for damage caused to a backdrop screen that was hit by one of the pies, said deputy Pima County Attorney Noah Van Amburg. Judge Paul Simon gave Smith a $250 fine, but told him that if he pays the restitution by Dec. 5 he will suspend the fine, Van Amburg said. According to police, Smith and William...

PARIS—Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue magazine, was hit with a tofu pie by anti-fur demonstrators as she attended Paris fashion week. Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the vegetarian tofu tart was retaliation for Vogue’s decision to run fur ads while refusing to use PETA’s anti-fur messages.

Pastry hit [neo]conservative commentator at Earlham College. RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) -- An Earlham College student faces a possible trial next month on criminal charges for throwing a pie at [neo]conservative commentator William Kristol as he gave a campus speech. A pretrial hearing was held Thursday for Josh Medlin, 21, who has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge. Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, was splattered by the pie during a March 29 speech about U.S. foreign policy. Members of the audience jeered, then applauded as Kristol wiped the...

Food Fight!By Chris Shugart, May 19, 2005 Nowadays, up-to-date and happening progressives no longer rely on discussion and debate to further their cause. In today's world of liberal politics, thoughtful discourse has become inconvenient. Formulating reasonable arguments can be complex and require annoying things like research, facts, and the coherent articulation of ideas. Why waste time trying to create intelligent rebuttals when you can counter your opponent by just throwing food at them?Malcontented liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have become so yesterday. Their anti-Bush griping is moldier than John Kerry's campaign victory cake. These days, even Michael Moore...

Saturday essay: Food for thought Saturday, May 7, 2005 How to talk to Ann Coulter should not include verbal or physical abuse. That also applies to others daring to set foot on college campuses, only to be set upon by those who disagree with them. Blunt-speaking conservatives such as Ms. Coulter, Pat Buchanan, William Kristol, David Horowitz and Richard Pearle recently were targeted for silencing with weapons such as pies, a salad dressing bottle (probably blue cheese, but definitely not chunky style) and a shoe. A streaker was apprehended before...snip Verbal assaults included the usual name-shouting: "fascist," "bigot," and ironically,...

Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff, both 24, have had criminal charges re-filed against them in in Pima County, AZ.  The two men are accused of assaulting conservative political columnist Ann Coulter during a speech at the University of Arizona (UA).  Similar charges against the pair were dismissed earlier, after neither the arresting officer nor Coulter appeared to testify against them.  Both Coulter and a UA police spokesman said the County Attorney's Office failed to properly notify them of the trial. Smith, an UA political science major, and Wolff ran onstage and threw custard pies at Coulter as...

By Joe Burchell and C.J. Karamargin ARIZONA DAILY STAR Criminal charges have been refiled against two men accused of throwing cream pies at conservative political columnist Ann Coulter during a speech at the University of Arizona last year. Phillip Edgar Smith, a UA political science major, and William Zachary Wolff, both 24, were charged in Pima County Justice Court with misdemeanor assault, disorderly conduct and criminal damage last Tuesday, said Dan Benavidez, spokesman for the County Attorney's Office. Similar charges against the pair were dismissed on March 18 after neither the arresting officer nor Coulter appeared to testify against...

Editor's note: Ann Coulter's column, which normally appears Saturdays in the Star, was inadvertently left out. This is the column that should have been published Saturday, April 23.

Warning to Newt Gingrich! Please be on the ALERT next Wednesday when you are scheduled to speak at the Kennedy school at 6 PM. The DUmmies are planning to pie you. Here is the LINK and the first of several posts on this subject: I'm going to see Newt next week, what kind of pie should I buy? He's coming to the Kennedy School 6PM Next Wednesday. Open to the public. There are other similar posts on this thread. I sure hope Newt is made aware of what the DUmmies have planned for him. Also hope whoever plans to assault...

KALAMAZOO (NEWS 3) - The man accused of dousing former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan with salad dressing has pleaded not guilty in a Kalamazoo court. Samuel John Messick was arraigned on charges of disturbing the peace Thursday. He reportedly tossed a cup of salad dressing on the conservative commentator at a speech he was giving at Western Michigan University on March 31st. Buchanan decided not to press felony assault charges against the man. Messick will be back in court at the end of the month.

"Sometimes I think I’ve been sent as an ex-radical to teach conservatives bad manners,” author and conservative activist David Horowitz likes to say. “Republicans are too polite.” If the tacit message here is that the Left is naturally rude, that was underscored last week when Horowitz was hit with a pie in the face while beginning a speech at Indiana’s Butler University. Pie-throwing seems to have become almost standard practice now when conservative pundits visit college campuses: Just a week before Horowitz was chocolate-creamed, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol got hit with an ice-cream pie while speaking to students at...

Writer Coulter, arresting officer missed 1st trialPima County prosecutors plan to take another shot at two men accused of throwing pies at political writer Ann Coulter, even though she didn't show up at their first trial last month. The Pima County Attorney's Office intends to refile misdemeanor criminal damage and assault charges against Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff in connection with an Oct. 22 incident involving Coulter at UA's Centennial Hall, said Chief Criminal Deputy David Berkman. The two 24-year-olds are accused of throwing cream pies at Coulter as she spoke before 2,500 people on that date. Smith...

Last October, two liberals responded to my speech at the University of Arizona – during question and answer, no less – by charging the stage and throwing two pies at me from a few yards away. Then on March 19, all charges were dismissed against the "Deliverance" boys – including a felony charge for $3,000 worth of damage to school property. Inexplicably, this outcome did not instantly lead to widespread rioting and looting in South Central Los Angeles. Democrat Barbara LaWall is the Pima County attorney who allowed the liberal debate champions to walk. LaWall brags on her website about...

In the 1960s, radicals began their march through the institutions of American society. They marched through them, stayed long enough to find the exits, and now end up right back where they started: on the outside, in a state of powerless, clawing anger, hurling pies at "establishment' figures and wishing death upon congressmen and presidents. The left's feelings of impotent 1960s-style rage can be measured in Drudge Report headlines, such as: "Website sells 'Kill Bush' T-Shirts," and in Drudge's now weekly links to stories about pundits pied by liberals who clearly regard their victims as members of a new establishment....

You know, it's always something! Having run out of a cogent defense for their discredited positions, liberals are now resorting to the old "pie in the eye" trick. From Arizona to buttoned down Indiana, conservative speakers are the target of physical attacks on campus. Pat Buchanan got salad dressing sloshed on him while he was finishing a question and answer session. Ann Coulter and Bill Kristol were both targets of pie throwers. Most recently, David Horowitz got a chocolate cream pie in his face at Butler University in Indiana. The fracas served rather nicely to illustrate Mr. Horowitz's recent campaign....

Liberals enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives, who are religious fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing ideas. As one liberal, Jonathan Chait, put the cliche in The New Republic: Bush is an "instinctive anti-intellectual" and his administration hostile to "fact-driven debate." In a favorable contrast, Clinton is "the former Rhodes scholar who relished academic debates." Showing his usual reverence for fact-checking, The New York Times' Paul Krugman says the Republican Party is "dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation,...

When two assailants attacked conservative columnist Ann Coulter with pies while she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona in October, most people, including the speaker, dismissed it as a prank. When an enraged protester threw his shoe at former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle during a debate with Howard Dean, crying "Liar, liar," in February, it was quickly forgotten. Earlier this month, when assailants tossed pies and salad dressing at conservatives William Kristol and Patrick Buchanan at two separate campus events, the media played it as a joke. But when another pie thrower lobbed his projectile at conservative...

Horowitz Says There Should Be 'Zero Tolerance' For Speech Disruptions INDIANAPOLIS -- A conservative commentator who was hit by a pie during a speech at Butler University this week says he wants the perpetrator to pay in one manner or another. David Horowitz said the pie thrower and any collaborators should be suspended for at least a semester if they are students. If they're not students, he said, they should be prosecuted. "There needs to be a zero tolerance toward disruption of speeches," Horowitz told RTV6's Derrik Thomas on Thursday. "The university -- the essence of its mission is that...

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(Indianapolis) - Someone threw a pie at conservative commentator David Horowitz during a lecture at Butler University in Indianapolis Wednesday night. It's the second time in a week a conservative has been hit by a pie at an Indiana school. Witnesses say there was some "pushing and shoving" when Horowitz's supporters followed the pie-throwers out of the hall, but the attackers got away. After the incident, Horowitz completed his lecture. A Butler spokesman called the incident "deplorable." Horowitz has criticized what he calls the "leftist domination" of college campuses. On his blog Wednesdaynight, Horowitz spoke of "a wave of leftist...

12/13/04 Dear Friends, It is no surprise that the Republicans are sore winners. They have spent the better part of the past month beating their chests, threatening to send to Siberia any Republican who doesn’t toe the line (poor Arlen Specter), and promising everything short of martial law if the Democrats don’t do what they are told. What’s worse is to watch the pathetic sight of the DLC (the conservative, pro-corporate group of Democrats) apologizing for being Democrats and promising to “purge” the party of the likes of, well, all of US! Their comments are so hilarious and really not...

On Monday night, filmmaker Michael Moore made his first appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" since the 2004 presidential election. As is often the case with Moore, he surprised the audience. But in this case, the surprise was the result of his new look. Moore appeared on stage wearing a suit and tie, no beard or hat and a trim haircut. When asked by Jay Leno about his appearance, Moore quipped, "I thought I should look a little sharper for my IRS audit" and "If you can't beat them, you might as well look like them." Moore told...

Judge: Holiday display O-K, but mayor's oversight hinders free speech PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A federal judge says a holiday display in Rhode Island didn't violate the constitutional separation of church and state. But the restrictions the mayor put on it did hinder free speech. The ruling involves a display on the front of City Hall in Cranston last year. Mayor Stephen Laffey had encouraged residents to put up seasonal displays as long as he deemed them appropriate. What resulted was a display with a menorah, an inflatable snowman and Santa Claus, a Nativity scene and a flock of plastic...

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A growing group of stores and restaurants expand offerings for people following Atkins and similar diets. Isaiah and Maureen Copeland plan to open Copeland's Low Carb Cuisine Saturday in St. Petersburg. The store will offer everything from microwavable pork rinds and candy bars to books and tortillas. Isaiah and Maureen Copeland plan to open Copeland's Low Carb Cuisine Saturday in St. Petersburg. The store will offer everything from microwavable pork rinds and candy bars to books and tortillas Don Currie, a Tampa information technology project manager, has lost 41 pounds since Aug. 10 on the Atkins plan and has another...

Firemen in Germany had to use a 38.5-toncrane to hoist a German man weighing 660 pounds out of his apartment and take him to hospital, the fire brigade in the northern city of Hamburg said on Monday. "Because the man was so heavy, we couldn't carry him on one of the normal stretchers, so we had to use the crane," said Hamburg fire brigade spokesman John Ralfs. Ten firemen were needed to lift the 63-year-old man onto a hospital bed placed inside a large industrial container, which the crane had hoisted level with his first-floor balcony. The crane then lowered...