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A determined group of Loveland residents vow to knock a nude bronze sculpture off its pedestal - or at least from its location near a busy street. Supporters of the sculpture wonder if the community debate - and the publicity it has generated - is eroding the reputation of the city and its public arts program that has produced 269 statues. "People may be thinking that this is a community full of prudes," said Kimberly Kreutzer, the wife of a local artist. Several critics are pushing to have "Triangle" moved from its location at a busy roundabout on the eastern...

WASHINGTON Aug 3, 2006 (AP)— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she said was a "failed policy" in Iraq. "I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat told the Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation." Clinton confronted Rumsfeld directly on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier in the day, and said his answers left her convinced he should...

The Migrant Workers of Park Ridge CNN reports on a speech by New York's junior senator: Appearing before a religious conference earlier this week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) told the audience that as a child attending Sunday school she would baby-sit the children of migrant workers so that their older siblings could join their parents at work. "I was fortunate that at an early age, through my church, I was given the opportunity to expand my horizons," Clinton told the 600 adults and teenagers attending the Sojourners "Covenant for a New America" conference. Mrs. Clinton grew up in...

theory it will put Chicago to sleep; in reality it will sink the economy. The ballroom was packed with a who’s who of business when Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed the Chicago Economic Club last week. No doubt about it, this was the address of a presidential hopeful. But unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the eyelids grew heavy as she droned on and on. Sleep, it seems, was the better option to suffering through this odd and curious presentation. On the one hand Clinton acknowledged a growing economy, a stock market at historic highs, strong productivity and profits, and low unemployment, while...

HILLARY'S NEW IDEAS Currently in campaign mode, for both re-election to her Senate seat this fall and the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton has found her signature issue. And just what issue is that? The expansion of the 12 year-old Family and Medical Leave Act. You know the one pushed by her husband that gives people time off to care for a kid or a sick relative. Yeah, that one. Only now, The Hildabeast wants to expand it. Get this...she wants to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act to include time off from work for participation in...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version April 10, 2006, 7:27 a.m. Connections Papers reveal Iraq-al Qaeda ties — again. With conservative congressional majorities at risk in next November's midterm election, President Bush repeatedly should remind everyone that a key reason Coalition troops invaded Iraq was to padlock Saddam Hussein's Wal-Mart for terrorists. Pressured by congressmen and journalists, the administration finally has started releasing intelligence documents captured in Baghdad. These papers confirm what The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, Wall Street Journal editorialists, and I have demonstrated for years: Saddam Hussein indeed was entwined with terrorists in general...

With immigration and Dubai, Senator Clinton is triangulating a foreign policy, one issue at a time. Too bad Iraq is part of the triangle. Those pesky, petty reporters. After fifteen minutes of listening to a city councilman, a congressman, a congresswoman, and Senator Hillary Clinton flay the right-wing Republican proposals for immigration reform, a TV reporter wants to change the subject. “This is about immigration!” says one of Senator Clinton’s press aides. “But we’ve asked six or seven immigration questions!” replies the TV guy. “We have to do other topics!” “Well, this is pretty important,” Clinton says sternly. Indeed it...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic insiders take seriously a possible new try for the presidency by Al Gore and say he is capable of raising more money than the presumptive front-runner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton's team has attempted to foreclose conventional Democratic money sources, drying up funding for her potential presidential rivals. She has $17.1 million cash on hand, more than any other possible candidate. Her current fund-raising tour is aimed at an additional $40 million.  However, party operatives believe former Vice President Gore can outdo Clinton through unconventional fund-raising on the Internet. By campaigning left of Clinton, Gore appeals to ardent...

Bill Clinton, the guy who told us that he never cared about money, is getting paid $300,000 a speech by a country that his wife claims threatens our security (" 'Clinton vs. Clinton' Inc.," Editorial, March 4). With all that's at stake with the Dubai Ports World deal, isn't it time someone told these two narcissists that there are more important matters than their personal ambition? Their latest attempt at playing both sides of the fence is another reason no one should trust them with another term in the White House. Gary Mottola Brooklyn ****....Once again, Hillary is using terrorism...

Political junkies are witnessing a true phenomenon in presidential politics: more than two years before the next presidential election cycle there's a movement to target someone considered by the news media and pundits to be a frontrunner in 2008 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even with softball interviews by the likes of Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer, and with almost a daily practice by some members of the mainstream news media of publishing her press releases as if they were news, Hillary Clinton is facing tough opposition not only from Republicans but also from members of her own party. Right after...

We asked the question almost a month ago, now TIME magazine is on the story. TIME ran a story last week on the "Clinton Connection" to the new hit ABC TV show "Commander in Chief," which features Geena Davis playing the first women President. At the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, Clinton told us she doesn't watch the program. Over 16 million people do watch the show each Tuesday night. According to TIME, Capricia Marshall is a consultant to the show. She was Clinton's social secretary, and one of the writers is Steven Cohen. He was once...

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is blasting former top White House aide Lewis Libby for allegedly lying to investigators, saying his decision to leak CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to the press was "simply reprehensible." "Taking such action for political purposes is simply reprehensible and should never be tolerated," Clinton complains in a statement posted to her web site. The former first lady, who had her own truth-telling problems in the Travelgate scandal, said Libby's attempts to "interfere with the investigation" by deceiving investigators "raises serious national security concerns." "This administration owes our CIA agents around the world a promise...

Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro blasted Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for failing to obtain enough homeland security funding for New York State, saying Clinton's performance on 9/11 issues would be a key target of her campaign. "I walked Ground Zero the day after 9/11 with a friend who was looking for her husband," Pirro told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "I know what can happen in New York and all of the trauma that comes from the problem with homeland security and the fact that we don't have enough money to defend ourselves the way New Yorkers need...

Washington -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., would do better than Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., against potential 2008 Republican presidential rivals John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani -- but would still lose, a Gallup Poll showed Wednesday.

Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!) by Mia T, 7.11.05 ``I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington,'' Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character. She drew a laugh from crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catchphrase: ``What, me worry?'' Clinton, who was speaking during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute nonpartisan think tank, didn't mention the presidential election in 2008. She said the United States should...

Fri Feb 11, 2:01 PM ET Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D- N.Y., arrives for the 41st Munich Conference on Security Policy in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Munich conference attracts government, academic and military security experts from around Europe and beyond. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Amid speculation that she might forgo a run for re-election to the Senate in 2006 in favor of a presidential run in 2008, New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has sent an early fundraising appeal that, while directed toward reelection, reads like a trial run for a White House bid. "As the Republicans' number one target in 2006, I have to begin now building resources for the tough fight I face in my re-election campaign," Clinton writes in a letter to supporters. She says her task is made more difficult by "the Republican attack machine out to distract me...

.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York. Bootylicious figures clad in tight low-rise jeans have spilled from the city's street fashion stores into more established labels. "It's absolutely the trend," said Dwight Critchfield, creative director for mannequin firm Goldsmith. "These mannequins look great, and there is a real sex appeal about them." The recent pop culture fixation on large bottoms has been around since at least 1992, when rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot scored a hit with "Baby Got...

BANGOR, Maine - A Texas billionaire plans to run ads in four area newspapers apologizing for a 10-hour traffic jam that stranded thousands of motorists along the only highway to and from Mount Desert Island. "This has truly been a massive mess," supermarket magnate Charles Butt told the Bangor Daily News today from his San Antonio office, where he runs the H.(airy) E.(lephant) Butt Grocery Co. "I'm embarrassed by it and very sorry." Traffic was snarled Thursday along U.S. 1A and Route 3 as local contractors hauled a 50-year-old apple tree from Ellsworth to Butt's waterfront estate in Northeast Harbor....