The Bazooka's strip club in Kansas City has gotten around an ordinance prohibiting total nudity by having a partially clothed dancer perform in front of a video on a large screen in which she's fully nude. "It drives me to excel," said dancer Megan DiMoniet. "I just want to put on bigger, better and stronger than ever."
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference failed to pay a $227,872 bill at the luxury Charleston Place hotel, which it had rented out as part of its efforts to showcase presidential candidates before the South Carolina primary. The hotel has sued the SRLC and its signatory, South Carolina political operative Robert C. Cahaly over the money dispute. read more
A former aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) pleaded guilty Tuesday to soliciting campaign contributions while she was supposed to be working at her government job. Darlene Wink, 61, an assistant to Walker when he was Milwaukee County Executive, agreed as part of her plea to assist the investigation into illegal fundraising. Wisconsin Democratic party chair Mike Tate said the plea is the "clearest evidence yet of the culture of corruption built to benefit Scott Walker on his crooked path from Milwaukee to Madison."
BASIC CABLE, NY – After a decades-long battle that spanned nearly two weeks, Stephen Colbert has wrested control of Colbert Super PAC from the clutches of his arch-nemesis and dear friend, Jon Stewart. "Colbert Super PAC has brought in a staggering $1,023,121.24, which my accountant explains to me that is a number far above 'one,' 'two,' 'five,' or even 'many'" said Stephen Colbert, President and Returning Champion of Colbert Super PAC. "We raised it on my show and used it to materially influence the elections – in full accordance with the law. It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country."
Several people associated with conservative activist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas committed voter fraud in New Hampshire Tuesday by procuring ballots under false names -- and could face federal or state criminal charges. They filmed themselves obtaining ballots in the name of dead people but did not vote. One fled a polling place when a poll watcher knew the dead person being impersonated. "If they were intentionally going in and trying to fraudulently obtain a ballot, they violated the law," said Hamline University law professor David Schultz.
"The Catholic Church has a long and well established track record of being opposed to birth control in many forms. This law comes after that."
So what? Churches formed today get all the protections of churches formed millennia ago.