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After Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., compared homosexuality to incest, bigamy, and adultery, Savage embarked on a campaign to coin a new noun, “santorum,” to be defined as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the product of anal sex.” But some of Savage’s antics are less innocuous. In 2000, he penetrated the presidential campaign of the Republican Gary Bauer, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage. Savage wrote a column for the online magazine Salon that, after being diagnosed with...
...gooey black jelly made from the ground-up shell of the GOLDEN COIN TURTLE, found in Southeast and East Asia, is prized in China as a purported cure for cancer and kidney failure...
...long as I can remember, the middle class has been the gold coin of American politics. Every candidate I’ve ever heard—from either party—has claimed to represent the middle class. According to every poll I’ve seen, most Americans think they’re part of the middle class. It should come as no surprise that pundits from every political perspective have spent much of the time since the 2004 election trying to figure out what the middle class wants. What’s more surprising is that when many...
Royal intervention staved off that opposition, but nothing stopped the one a decade later. “The 1741 conspiracy and the 1730s opposition party were two faces of the same coin,” Lepore explains in the book. “But one was very much more dangerous than the other.” White intellectual protest was one thing. This time, black slaves were allegedly plotting the murder of the white people. This was too much. And the government, still reeling from the Zenger trial and the vocal white opposition of the 1730s, responded with a ruthless...
...stem from a widening corruption scandal that since June has forced the resignation of the head of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and the conviction of Taft's former chief of staff on ethics charges, amidst an ongoing criminal probe of deep-pocketed GOP donor Tom Noe, a rare coin dealer and long time political ally of Taft's. The Ohio Attorney General says Noe stole as much as $4 million from state investment he was managing, and even Noe's lawyers concede that $13 million is missing from the fund...