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Bertrand Delanoe, the openly gay mayor of Paris, has been given extra security after U.S. intelligence services informed the French that al-Qaeda may be targeting him for assassination. American sources monitoring internet traffic picked up references to Delanoe listing him as a target. Delanoe is running for a second term as mayor of Paris and is considered a contender for …

-The Little Mermaid, which opens today, is being widely panned. From the Washington Post: “In director Francesca Zambello’s confused production — a morass of mechanical characters, syrupy new songs and gaudily irrelevant set pieces — all the warmth and charm of the film manages to get away. The bloated, 2 1/2 -hour show — an hour longer than the 1989 …

“It’s not a TV crazed race. Frankly you can’t buy your way into it. You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.” -Clinton supporter New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, during a radio interview. The stronger Obama gets, the more we’ll …

“Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following the pattern of her long-suffering mother, she thinks it is her mission to endure every insult and personal degradation for a higher cause — which, unlike her self-sacrificing mother, she identifies with her near-messianic …

Finally, some good news regarding HIV. According to the latest Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, the “definitive registry of births and deaths in New York City”, deaths in NYC from HIV/AIDS fell nearly 15% in 2006 . In 2005, the death toll was 1419. In 2006, 1209 New Yorkers died from AIDS complications, the lowest number since 952 died in …

I knew it. And you knew it. And now even the Pentagon has to admit that the speedboat incident is fishy. The list of those who are less than fully confident in the Pentagon’s video/audio mashup of aggressive maneuvers by Iranian boats near American warships in the Strait of Hormuz now includes the Pentagon itself. Unnamed Pentagon officials said on …

Herman Munster John Kerry has endorsed Barack Obama. Senator Obama is being endorsed by a fellow senator, John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year with John Edwards as his running mate and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago. Mr. Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, planned to …

In a column in today’s Wall Street Journal, evil GOP mastermind Karl Rove lays out four reasons he thinks Hillary Clinton won in New Hampshire: Mrs. Clinton won a narrow victory in New Hampshire for four reasons. First, her campaign made a smart decision at its start to target women Democrats, especially single women. It has been made part of …

As Pam puts it, Gene Roddenberry would be rolling over in his grave, had his ashes not been shot into space. Painfully, painfully bad. Wait for the biology lesson in the middle part.

Bill Richardson has ended his bid for the Democratic nomination. He’s prime veep material for either Clinton or Obama as he could bring in the massive Latino vote. Aside from his atrocious sleep-walking performance during the Visible Vote forum, during he said he thought being gay was a choice (a position he backed down from the next day), I like …