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The Penn State Nittany Lions are eligible to play in a bowl game this season after the NCAA ruled they are satisfied with the athletic department’s progress in ensuring it functions with integrity. “Penn State’s commitment to the integrity of its athletics department and its progress toward meeting the requirements of the Consent Decree are clear,” said Northern Arizona President Rita Hartung Cheng via NCAA.org, who chaired Monday’s Executive Committee meeting. “We thank Senator Mitchell for his meticulous and exhaustive work over the past two years. Mitchell’s efforts and the dedication of Penn State officials made today’s decisions possible.” Penn...

A former high school teacher in Montana was released from prison on Thursday after serving just one month for the rape of a 14-year-old student who later killed herself, a corrections department spokeswoman said. The surprisingly lenient term given Stacey Rambold, 54, for the 2007 rape of Cherice Moralez drew a firestorm of public outrage. The state attorney general has appealed for a longer sentence to the Montana Supreme Court, and several groups are seeking the ouster of District Judge G. Todd Baugh, who handed down the sentence. The outcry from women's groups was further inflamed by remarks Baugh made...

The mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, wants to meet with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to discuss his comments 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated. The former Arkansas governor and GOP front-runner in the important Iowa caucuses said Sunday that he stood by the comments. That has infuriated Jeanne White-Ginder, who said: "It's so alarming to me." In a telephone interview Monday with The Associated Press from her home in Leesburg, Fla., she said: "It's very important to me that we don't live...

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Kathleen Willey on Fox now talking about Bill Clinton. She says "Hillary is worse than he is. She works the War Room while Bill goes out after women." Also, "Hillary was behind trying to destroy me. It's her job to protect Bill and destroy his and her enemies." I'm sure this will be rebroadcast. Her book has just been released.

What furious Hillary really knew about Bill’s affairsLast updated at 00:47am on 28th October 2007 Private life: New book could set back Hillary's presidential campaign with claims that she only stayed with Bill for her own political ends  Hillary Clinton's Presidential ambitions suffered a setback last night with the claim that she knew Bill Clinton was unfaithful long before his seduction of Monica Lewinsky. The only aspect of the sex scandal that is said to have surprised his wife was that his relationship with the White House intern lasted so long. And she was furious that he used the Oval...

Kathleen Willey had planned to spend the Labor Day weekend proofing pages of her forthcoming book, “Target: In the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton.” Instead, she says, someone broke into her Powhatan County home Friday, Aug. 31, and stole a copy of her unpublished 230-page manuscript. Her publishers are “aghast,” she says. “I think it’s a Clinton operative,” Willey says. “It sounds like Watergate. It’s amateurish, but I know they’re not amateurs.” Style Weekly reported in its Sources Say column Sept. 5 that World Ahead press planned to publish Willey’s book Nov. 20. The book -- likely to get...

Did anybody see The O'Reilly Factor tonight? Bill had on Susan Estrich, who was there to promote her book, The Case for Hillary. Whether your a fan of Bill or not, it was him at his best.Bill asked Susan where Hillary stands on Iraq, the border, and health care. Estrich couldn't give a straight answer to any of Bill questions and sounded horrible!BILL: Why does Senator Clinton support the war in iraq? SUASAN: Well, you know, that's an interesting question ......BILL: What about illegal immigration? SUSAN: She has taken a much tougher stance there as well. BILL: Susan, Susan, what's...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has criticised President George Bush's administration for its record on unemployment, women's rights and the environment, saying it is "intent upon consolidating and abusing power". "We are living in a time when the other side doesn't want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient - facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer," said Senator Clinton, a possible Democratic contender for the US presidency in 2008. The former first lady spoke yesterday at a New York Women for Hillary breakfast, which raised $US250,000 ($327,000) for her Senate...

Some Hillary supporters say the former first lady may not make a bid for the White House after all. Though initial polls show Sen. Clinton as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2008, U.S. News & World Report says Hillary may not seek the job. Paul Bedard's "Washington Whispers" column in the latest edition of U.S. news reports that ". . . some friends and allies advise against placing bets that the former first lady will be the nation's 44th president." Citing these close friends to Hillary, the magazine says Hillary has made no commitment to running, and some...

DR. CLEAN Democrats won't be caught flat-footed with new Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, several days after the Republican victory in the November elections, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and others in the party authorized an intensive opposition research report on Frist. "It was obvious then that he was going to be a national political figure for the party," says a DNC staffer. "No one could have anticipated what has just happened, but we're certain there is stuff in his past we'll be able to dig up." Of most interest to the DNC are Frist's financials. Before arriving in...

After reading this article --- HILLARY IN NEW ANTI-RAPE CRUSADE, I had to give a call to our FReeper friend, Katherine Prudhomme. She is the Derry, NH homemaker who gained fame by confronting Al Gore in New Hampshire in December of 1999 about the rape of Juanita Broaddrick. According to Gore, he had not seen the interview with Lisa Myers. Sure, we believe you, Al. He also unbelievably tried to equate rape with a simple personal transgression. Katherine was in disbelief as I read her the article. She said that she would be happy to respond to it. Within a...