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CIA Director Resigns Over Affair

CIA director and four-star former Army General David Petraeus resigned today, citing an extramarital affair. From his resignation letter: Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an …

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Anthony Weiner Returns To Twitter

After almost 18 months of silence, yesterday former Rep. Anthony Weiner returned to the place that ended (for the time being) his political career. Hurricane Sandy has blown Anthony Weiner back into the political chatter. The former Congressman, who resigned amid a sexting scandal, has returned to Twitter for the first time since an unfortunate crotch tweet forced the end …

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DELAWARE: Anti-Gay GOP Family Values Candidate Busted For Molestation

Delaware GOP state Senate candidate Eric Bodenweiser, who is a member of the Family Policy Council, has been arrested for child molestation.  Lou Chibarrro reports at the Washington Blade: The indictment includes 113 felony sex charges, including 39 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse — first-degree and 74 counts of unlawful sexual contact — second-degree. Although the indictment doesn’t identify the …

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Arizona Attorney General Tom “Sanctity Of Marriage” Horne Exposed As Adulterer

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, one of the state’s most vocal opponents of same-sex partner rights, has been exposed (by the FBI, no less) as an adulterer. Tom Horne caused more than $1,000 worth of damage when he clipped another car in a parking garage and just drove off, in order, according to FBI agents, to conceal an affair he …

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WISCONSIN: House GOP Candidate Fires GOProud Hate Crime Hoaxer

U.S. House candidate Chad Lee, who is running for Tammy Baldwin’s seat against openly gay state Assemblyman Mark Pocan, has fired GOP campaign worker Kyle Wood, who has recanted his claim of being violently beaten for being gay conservative. The Lee campaign put out a statement Monday night saying that Wood had been dismissed.  “Today, our campaign unfortunately learned that …

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Yet Another Evangelical Adultery Scandal

If you’ve heard of Dinesh D’Souza, it’s likely due to his lie-filled “documentary” Obama: 2016, which has grossed over $30M already.  Yesterday the evangelical magazine World exposed D’Souza as an adulterer in a recounting of a recent appearance he gave. D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has …

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Pat Robertson Fires Attorney Over Alleged Affairs With Young Men

Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law & Justice yesterday confirmed that it has dismissed one of their top attorneys one day after anonymous blogs claimed that he had had sexual affairs with two young gay men. Via MetroWeekly: ACLJ’s confirmation comes after two blogs — Exposed Politics and The Patriot-Ombudsman — published troves of information about Henderson and his relationship …

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AUSTRALIA: Speaker Of Parliament Resigns In Gay Harassment Scandal

Australian Parliament Speaker Peter Slipper, who is married to a woman, has resigned after being sued for sexual harassment by a gay male former staffer to whom Slipper sent obscene text messages.  The offending text messages, revealed as part of court proceedings against Slipper, described female genitalia as looking like “a mussel removed from its shell”. “Look at a bottle …

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Megachurch Pastor Jack Schapp Pleads Guilty To Sexual Affair With Teen Girl

Megachurch Pastor Jack Schapp yesterday pleaded guilty to federal charges of sex with an underage girl, but denied knowing that taking the teen across state lines was also a federal crime.  Early last month Schapp was fired by Indiana’s massive 15,000-member First Baptist Church. U.S. District Judge Rudy Lozano scheduled the sentencing for Jan. 15, although Schaap, 54, has already …

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NEW JERSEY: Democratic Mayor Of Trenton Arrested For Corruption

Today the FBI arrested Trenton Mayor Tony Mack on charges of bribery, fraud, extortion and money laundering. Mack was the target of a failed recall attempt last year. Trenton is the capital of New Jersey and you can expect the GOP to leap on this scandal immediately.

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NEW YORK: Yet Another State Senate Democrat Arrested For Finance Scam

It never ends for New York’s insanely corrupt Senate Democrats. Sen. Shirley Huntley (Queens) has been hauled away in handcuffs. State Sen. Shirley Huntley was arrested this morning and pleaded not guilty to charges that she allegedly funneled taxpayer money through her Queens non-profit program. Huntley and several other defendants did not speak during their initial appearance in a Mineola …

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Soldiers Salute Prince Harry

A Facebook page titled “Support Prince Harry With A Naked Salute” already has thousands of posted photos. Many are from soldiers, most are not.

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Fox Challenged For FCC Licenses

Citing News Corp’s ongoing involvement in a hacking scandal, a public policy watchdog group has filed an FCC challenge against the renewing of broadcasting licenses for three Fox stations in the Washington DC area. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a petition to deny Fox’s applications to renew licenses for three of its TV stations – WTTG-TV and …

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Church Sex Scandal Bingo

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Former Sen. Larry Craig Says He Was In That Men’s Room On Federal Business

Former GOP Sen. Larry Craig is trying to wriggle out of charges that he used campaign funds to defend himself after his 2007 bust in that Minneapolis airport men’s room. Craig is hoping to avoid repaying $217,000 in campaign funds the Federal Election Commission claims he misused to defend himself. The FEC sued Craig in June in U.S. District Court …

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Megachurch Pastor Jack Schaap Fired Over Adulterous Affair With Teenage Girl

Indiana’s First Baptist Church, which is one of the twenty largest megachurches in the nation, has fired head Pastor Jack Schaap for an adulterous affair with the teenaged girl. The church has issued a press release: At this time, we deeply regret the need to announce that First Baptist Church has dismissed our pastor, Dr. Jack Schaap, due to a …

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BOSTON: Catholic Priest Busted For Child Porn As MORE Files Were Downloading

On Monday when Boston detectives burst in to arrest yet another Catholic priest for distributing child pornography, they found his computer humming away with more downloads. Rev. Andrew J. Urbaniak, 39, mostly kept his head down during his arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court where he pleaded not guilty to charges of possession and dissemination of child pornography. Judge Michael …

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Bill Donohue: Chikin Haters Are Fascists

“Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, has said that we are ‘inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ How this unremarkable statement, which never mentions homosexuals, can be labeled anti-gay is astounding. But according to the editorial board of the New York …

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