Supreme Court ruling on child rape strikes a blow to human rights.
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...
Julia Gorin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
That's the question that Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing and Suspect Musing of Billary attempts to answer. Dating back to the 1960s and through b...
Terry Real | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Wright felt that Obama did not stand up for him enough and this is payback, or perhaps he feels that his cause is so righteous that devil damn the consequences.
Toby Barlow | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
Our illustrious mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick agreed to pay 8.4 million dollars out of Detroit city funds to hush it up his affair. That 8.4 million dollars could have paid for a lot of other lovin' in the city.
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
NetPets created the fractional mistress industry in 1996, when President Clinton's scandals underscored the need for secure, private and discreet sexual services for politicians.
Jamie Reidy | Posted 03.18.2008 | Entertainment
"Fiona Shackleton, please. "May I ask who's calling?" "Silda Wall Spitzer." "Ms. Shackleton, after Mrs. Spitzer, I've got Madonna on line two." "...
New York Times | DANNY HAKIM and DON VAN NATTA Jr. | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Gov. Eliot Spitzer used campaign funds in connection with his meetings with prostitutes, including payme...
Tom Alderman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
The media gods were certainly smiling on all newsies when the NY Governor stepped up to the microphones this week -- then stepped down from office.
Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
Whether you're her friend or not, the heart of every woman reaches out to Silda and her teenage daughters when we saw that look on her face.
Matt Townsend | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home
Today I spent my morning in the midst of the media feeding frenzy camped outside of Eliot Spitzer's home in Manhattan.
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is a former New York State Attorney General, the current Governor of New York, a self-professed "steamroll...
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
What's the public and media to do after Gov. Eliot Spitzer was caught up in a sex and prostitution scandal? Pass around Spitzer jokes and make copious...
Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
I was the Spitzers' occasional neighbor until four years ago. On more than one occasion, raging and abusive language -- Eliot Spitzer's -- reached operatic levels at 1am and later.
Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
Report: Spitzer Has Used Hookers For 6 Years: The New York Post reported Tuesday that Gov. Eliot Spitzer's history with prostitutes might go back furt...
Samara O'Shea | Posted 03.11.2008 | Living
'm not asking why prostitution is wrong, I'm asking why it's illegal.You cannot call the police and report your spouse for being unfaithful, unless, of course, your spouse is being unfaithful with a prostitute.
Jon Wiener | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home
The question is not whether we will see new revelations in the Spitzer sex scandal, but whether disgust over Spitzer's destruction of his career will lead some voters to look to a woman for freedom from sex scandals.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
It remains to be seen what will happen to Mr. Spitzer, although one has to wonder whether violating a law from 1910 is really grounds for resignation or prosecution.
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
I'm sorry, I thought he was "involved." That's what the news networks said. CNN distinctly wrote down, "Spitzer involved in Prostitution Ring." It did not say "Spitzer caught with Prostitutes."
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
** UPDATED: 2:00 PM ET ** Aides Divided On Spitzer Resignation: "Top aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday morning that they expect the governor t...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
The revelations about Eliot Spitzer's illegal dalliances with a high-priced prostitute have got plenty of his former targets coming out of the woodwor...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
News Flash: A married man goes to a prostitute. What a hypocritical country we live in. The morals police are jumping for joy. The Puritans will come ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
Amy Ephron blogs here at HuffPost: I just want one of them, Hillary, Silda, to stand on the steps of the house, the White House, the Governor's Mansi...
Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
ABC News is reporting that it wasn't sex, but suspicious money transfers that triggered the federal investigation into a New York prostitution ring li...
Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
ABC News is reporting that it wasn't sex, but suspicious money transfers that triggered the federal investigation into a New York prostitution ring li...
Beverly Davis | Posted 03.10.2008 | Home
This is American politics and just about any guy can survive anything if Pres. Clinton can survive an impeachment, especially if his wife is standing beside him during his 'mea culpa.'
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NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living