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November, 2025

  • 9 November

    Celebrity Blogger Gets Earful Following Gay Slur

    Poor Perez. After Perez Hilton’s slur-laden reaction to an alleged assault by the manager of the Black Eyed Peas, even former allies of the celebrity blogger have turned against him. Officials at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) have called on Hilton to apologize for the “vulgar anti-gay …

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  • 9 November

    U.S. Nabs Millions of Dollars in 83-Nation Cash-Smuggling Sting Operation

    LOS ANGELES – Whether it’s gun running, drug smuggling or human trafficking, crime has one common currency: Cold, hard cash. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents recently completed the largest cash-smuggling sting in history, a five-day operation involving police in 83 countries that uncovered more than $27 million in undeclared at …

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  • 9 November

    How to Survive Holiday Travel

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you go. See hysterical women and men Traveling once again Wishing relatives had agreed to come to them. With apologies to songwriter Meredith Wilson, as well as crooners Perry Como, Bing Crosby, and Johnny Mathis, that fractured lyric sums up the …

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  • 9 November

    Obama Takes Heat for Inaugural Speaker

    Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Frank Assessment Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts is upset with President-elect Obama’s selection of the prominent Evangelical Minister Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation. The first openly-gay member of Congress said on Sunday’s “Late Edition” on CNN: “Mr. Warren compared …

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  • 9 November

    Oprah Won't Get Fooled Again

    Oprah Won’t Get Fooled Again Oprah Won’t Get Fooled Again How do we measure 2008? Wasn’t it the year of Oprah? She selected the new president of the United States, tried to start a new age cult, avoided a major fire at her Montecito mansion, her mom got sued by …

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  • 9 November

    Adventures in Space — for a Price

    If you’ve ever longed to be an astronaut, floating weightless and catching a glimpse of Earth from outer space, a Washington, D.C.-area company can make your dream come true – as long as you have the bucks. Space Adventures, a private company based in Arlington, Va., sends its patrons on …

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  • 9 November

    She's Not Having a Good Day

    And now the most fascinating two minutes in television, the latest from the election-day grapevine: Miss the Grapevine? Watch it! State Law Clashes With ConstitutionIf Republican Norm Coleman wins that Minnesota Senate seat, state law provides that he would immediately fill the vacancy created by the death of Democratic Senator …

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  • 9 November

    Gretchen's Take: What do people think about American Dream?

    My take today is about what Senator Rand Paul talked about in the speech launching his presidential campaign — the American dream and wanting it for every child in America. He said he wants it to return to the dream he had growing up. It’s a presidential message we’ve heard …

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  • 9 November

    N.Y. Times Continues to Embrace Defamation

    Mud and the media part two. CBS (search) has already lost the public relations battle over ‘memogate.’ As we told you last night, the controversy over the BushNational Guard (search)documents has eclipsed the original “60 Minutes” story and even engendered sympathy for the president in some quarters. So far, the …

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  • 9 November

    Barbra, Neil, Bette Will Sing for Kerry

    Kerry Concert |Jacko Update |Robert Altman Barbra, Neil, Bette Will Sing for Kerry The likely Democratic presidential nominee is about to get some big gun help from some major pop stars. Next week it will be announced, I am told, that Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond will perform a one …

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