Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey has dropped his bid for the Minnesota governorship. That probably happened because Minnesota authorities told him to get out of the state after a restraining order was placed on him regarding his 16-year-old “fiancée” from Minnesota.
The 45-year-old Sharkey, who claims that he is a vampire, brags that he has not had a girlfriend [...]

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No one will probably ever know what was going on in former New York Rep. Eric Massa’s head last week.
First, he announced that he was resigning because of the reemergence of cancer. Then, it emerged that he was being investigated for sexual harassment of some male staffers. It involved something regarding his overly enthusiastic tickling [...]

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In North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James expressed his concern about the high-rate of herpes infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that one in six Americans has herpes, and 48% of African-American women are infected.
James thinks he knows the answer.
“The problem is worse in the African-American community because there is more promiscuous [...]

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The Oklahoma State Senate is considering a bill that will allow that state to opt out of The Matthew Shepard James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed last October by Congress. That act transferred hate crime protections to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.
Some in Oklahoma have a problem with this.
Oklahoma State Senator Steve Russell [...]

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Fervent anti-abortionist and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Neal Horsley is in trouble with the law after threatening Elton John.
Horsley read of Elton John’s comments that Jesus was a “compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.”
Horsley, a devout Christian of some sort, posted a YouTube video of himself threatening to kill John. He has been arrested [...]

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The Texas Board of Education has finished its tortuous struggle at rewriting history. The board is an elected body that, among other things, selects the social studies curriculum for Texas schools.
The 15-member board is filled with seven die-hard social conservative Republicans, three moderate Republicans and five Democrats.
The social conservatives hold a firm control of the [...]

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The Majority Leader of the Utah state House went hot tubbing some years ago in the nude. That is not news in itself. However, the then 30-year-old Kevin Garn’s hot tubbing involved a 15-year-old girl who was also nude.
This happened in 1985. Garn was married at the time and the 15-year-old, Cheryl Maher, was an [...]

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The more the incident in a men’s locker room between White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and former Congressman Eric Massa plays out, the weirder the story seems.
Massa’s story for retiring keeps changing. First, it was his health, then Massa claimed that the Democratic leadership pushed him out and then word came that Massa is [...]

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This is called a bad choice of words.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was caught on video speaking to the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties about the health care reform bill. “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” Pelosi said.
The five-second clip from YouTube is [...]

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Minnesota State Senator Tarryl Clark must know something about what state employees like to watch on the television than the rest of the public knows.
Clark introduced a bill that would ban state employees and elected officials from staying at any in-state “facility that makes pornographic images or performances available to its patrons.”
Associated Press is circulating [...]

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