"U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today he was approving the nation's first offshore wind farm, the controversial Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod. "

Host Stuart Varney tried to trap Thomas by asking if she was "far left," a term that Bill O'Reilly often uses to imply some liberals are nuts. Without pause, Thomas proudly admitted that she was "as far as you can go" to the left.

VARNEY: Some of the critics say that you are a liberal and you let your politics show, very very clearly, and that maybe you should not let your politics show when you're a White House correspondent.
THOMAS: Why not? I'm a columnist; I'm an opinion columnist, and I have the right to show my opinion, and I am a liberal, indeed.
VARNEY: Would you say you're on the far left?

THOMAS: I would say I'm as far as you can go
Varney went on to ask Thomas if she let her politics bled through during her time as a reporter for UPI. "I played it right down the middle. Nobody could accuse me of bias, but I didn't file out of the human race. I allowed myself to think, to care, to believe, as you do," said Thomas.

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Peter Peterson and Robert Rubin are both enormously wealthy men. (They joked about dividing their lunch tab based on their net worth.) They are lecturing the country on the need to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for retirees who have a tiny fraction of their wealth. Many of the victims of the cuts that they would push are people who are already struggling.

These rich b@stards are telling people who work hard their whole lives that they have to "sacrifice" their meager public pension to refill the treasury that these same rich b@stards have looted --- and which they continue to refuse to help replenish, despite the fact they are still swallowing firehoses full of money. This, after the middle class in this country just suffered the biggest loss of wealth since the Great Depression as a result of these riverboat gamblers playing with the economy like it was their favorite Baccarat table in Monte Carlo. Chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it. Sociopathy is more like it.
If they can't do the right thing, the least they could do is slither off in to the the darkness to count their winnings. Instead, these arrogant jerks are out there lecturing everyone about "sacrifice" while they buy off every government official in town to make sure they aren't among those who have to heed that call.

It's sick.

Gregg Kravitz is a 29-year-old former stockbroker from Philadelphia, who is running for the Pennsylvania statehouse. He claims to be a bisexual.

His opponent in the XXXXX primary, incumbent Babette Josephs, says Kravitz is lying about who he sleeps with in order to curry favor with gay voters. Josephs claims she met a woman at a fundraiser who identified herself as Kravitz's girlfriend. "I outed him as a straight person," Josephs announced.

"I do have a girlfriend," Kravitz conceded in an interview with The Daily Caller, "but I am a bisexual man,

Really.   From Politico:

"One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama's presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.

"Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me," Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat. Now, a year later, with another correspondents' dinner Saturday night likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press's cozy relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the public perception.

Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship -- as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the past decade, reporters who cover the White House say.

Reporters say the White House is thin-skinned, controlling, eager to go over their heads and stingy with even basic information. All White Houses try to control the message. But this White House has pledged to be more open than its predecessors, and reporters feel it doesn't live up to that pledge in several key areas:

-- Day-to-day interaction with Obama is almost nonexistent, and he talks to the press corps far less often than Bill Clinton or even George W. Bush did. Clinton took questions nearly every weekday, on average. Obama barely does it once a week.

-- The ferocity of pushback is intense. A routine press query can draw a string of vitriolic e-mails. A negative story can draw a profane high-decibel phone call or worse. Some reporters feel like they've been frozen out after crossing the White House.

-- Except toward a few reporters, press secretary Robert Gibbs can be distant and difficult to reach -- even though his job is to be one of the main conduits from president to press. "It's an odd White House where it's easier to get the White House chief of staff on the phone than the White House press secretary," one top reporter said.

-- And at the very moment many reporters feel shut out, one paper -- The New York Times -- enjoys a favoritism from Obama and his staff that makes competitors fume, with gift-wrapped scoops and loads of presidential face time.

The gyrations of a pole dancer may be difficult to execute, but that does not make them art, a New York state tax appeals board has concluded in rejecting an administrative law judge's finding that the exotic dancing qualifies for a sales tax exemption.

The panel overturned the finding by Administrative Law Judge Catherine M. Bennett that a "dramatic arts" exception to Tax Law §1105(f)(1) should apply to Night Moves' liability for some $129,000 in state sales taxes on cover charges and money dancers turned back to the club for the individual dances they performed for patrons in private. The tax bill covered 2002-05.

Bennett based her decision in large part on the testimony from a University of Maryland dance expert, Judith Lynne Hanna, who submitted DVDs of pole dancing performances and also described what dancers and former dancers at Nite Moves told her about their routines.....

Attorney Andrew McCullough, who represented Nite Moves before both the appeals board and Bennett, said he would file a notice of his intention to appeal the ruling to the Appellate Division, 3rd Department....

McCullough, who lives in Midvale, Utah, said he got to know Nite Moves' general manager Stephen Dick while patronizing the club. ....

McCullough, the chairman of Utah's Libertarian Party said he is running for governor of Utah this year.

New York Law Journal

I am with University of Maryland dance expert, Judith Lynne Hanna who should know what is dance and what is not dance..