Foley & Lardner law firm gets $208M NIH contract

The Milwaukee-based office of Foley & Lardner LLP says the law firm has received a $208 million contract from the National Institutes of Health.

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Ex-US Rep. Foley makes talk radio show debut

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley began his new career on a Florida political talk radio, three years after a lurid scandal ruined his congressional career.

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Move over, Rush: Ex-US Rep. Foley has radio show

There's a surprising new voice in the world of political talk radio as former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley returns to the spotlight three years after a lurid scandal ruined his congressional career.

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Fla. authorities say they can't prove Foley case

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley won't face state or federal criminal charges for sending salacious computer messages to underage male pages, in part because authorities couldn't prove the authenticity of the chats, officials said Friday.

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AP: Sources say ex-Rep. Foley won't face charges

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

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Ex-Chargers LB Foley will settle lawsuit for $5.5M

Former Chargers linebacker Steve Foley has agreed to settle his lawsuit for $5.5 million against a police officer who shot him while off-duty two years ago, ending his pro football career.

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Chargers' Foley settles with police officer

Former San Diego Chargers linebacker Steve Foley has agreed to settle his lawsuit against a police officer who shot him off-duty two years ago and ended his pro football career.

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Ramping up for Bluetooth’s second decade

It doesn’t have the kind of name that elicits excitement among consumers.

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Fla. Denied Access to Foley Computers

The state's top law enforcement official was denied again Tuesday in his quest for access to former Rep. Mark Foley's computers in his probe of electronic messages to congressional pages.

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Justice Report Faults FBI in Foley Case

The FBI should have acted to protect teenage House pages when it initially learned last July that Rep. Mark Foley had sent disturbing e-mails to a former page, a Justice Department report concluded Monday.

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Extra Treatment Time for Foley

Former Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned over sexually explicit messages sent to male congressional pages, is remaining in treatment for alcoholism beyond his initial 30-day stay, his attorney said Wednesday.

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Lawmakers Face Scrutiny in House Probe

The House's investigation of a page sex scandal has only one certainty: Former Rep. Mark Foley will escape punishment by his peers.

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Democrat Christian Radio Ad Slams Foley

A Democratic candidate accuses her Republican rival of not doing enough to stop disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley and his salacious messages to teenage males in an ad for Christian radio stations.

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IM Conversations Can Linger for Years

Instant-messaging conversations, though quick, aren't always fleeting.

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Gingrich: Dems' Sex Scandals Are Worse

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.

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Debate Shifts After Foley Says He's Gay

By finally acknowledging after years of evasion that he is gay, Mark Foley has altered the debate among conservatives and gays over his overtures to male pages in Congress.

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FBI's Foley Case Eyes Legal 'Gray Area'

Former Rep. Mark Foley's online conversations with teenage male pages have all the trappings of a political scandal, but making a federal case out of the sexually charged exchanges could prove difficult, veteran investigators say.

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Foley Acquaintances Question Alcoholism

When disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley announced he was entering rehab for treatment of alcoholism and "other behavioral problems," some of those who have known him for years were shocked and suspicious, saying they rarely saw him drink.

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Foley Interest in Pages Seen in Speeches

Former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., told House pages in warm farewell speeches over the years that he took "a special interest in each and every one" of them, identifying many of the youngsters by name and thanking them for their service.

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GOP Leaders Knew of Foley E-Mail in '05

GOP leaders admit their offices have known for months that a Florida Republican congressman was sending inappropriate e-mails to a boy who had worked as a page in the House of Representatives.

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Disgraced, Rep. Foley Exits in a Hurry

This time there were no tortured explanations, no heels dug in, no long, slow drip of revelation or fight for redemption. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., just up and quit after his e-mails expressing undue interest in a 16-year-old male page were exposed to the nation. Less than six weeks from a tough election for Republicans who control an already ethically tainted Congress, the more common stick-it-out approach to scandal was cast aside.

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Chargers LB Shot by Off-Duty Officer

Chargers linebacker Steve Foley was recovering after being shot near his upscale suburban house by an off-duty police officer following the player's second run-in with law enforcement in 4 1/2 months.

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"...they might get a hero's welcome... imagine if Mark Foley could have just waited until now for this to come out..."

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From Clarence Thomas to Mark Sanford, the definitive guide to randy Republicans Give this to Republicans: They know how to conduct sex scandals in style.

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What does 'feature complete' means to Microsoft? Microsoft watch, Mary Jo Foley explains.

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On the 35th anniversary of Nixon's "I am not a crook", a look back at some boneheaded political slips

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Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

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Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

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Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, married with a child, declined to say Monday whether he had carried on an affair with a former aide and paid to keep her quiet, then called for an investigation by the House ethics committee into his own conduct.

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Does it say "GOP: Homophobic Gay Person" in the Dictionary?

It sure makes you wonder these days. Hold on let me look. Nope; the dictionary hasn't changed to state that the definition for GOP is homophobic gay person. At least not yet.

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The Nation -- "Knowing Governor Mitt Romney is knowing somebody who first and foremost has very strong family values," says Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig as he makes the case for his man in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

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Sen. Larry Craig or Rep. Mark Foley, both stain the office they swore to uphold. My disdain for them has nothing to do with their alleged sexual preference. I could care less about their sex life. I do care about their integrity.

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Baldwin County, Alabama, tops any of the five Florida Panhandle counties -- as well as any Alabama county -- in lodgings revenue, but the area still faces challenges, local tourism officials said Thursday.

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First of its kind gay-themed TV ad to air in New York and LA, but not in San Francisco because the ad is deemed "too controversial".

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The FBI should have done more to investigate the Mark Foley e-mails or, alternatively, notified House authorities in charge of the congressional page program, the FBI's inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, said in a report today.

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Officials lied to reporters when they said the FBI suspected a nonprofit group held for months inappropriate emails between Mark Foley and a former teenage page, before turning them over to investigators, according to a new report.

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Whats in Your Closet?

Growing up the closet represented the hidden fears of adolescence. In the middle of the night the sounds one heard while laying awake in bed polluted the mind with all sorts of horrific images of what remained hidden behind the door.

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Same Story, Different Spin

Being obsessive, I subscribe to breaking news e-mail alerts from various news sources. Two of these just came in, one from CNN and one from MSNBC, and I had to shake my head at the seemingly conflicting headlines:

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Everyone go back to sleep! The Democrats are in power. I smell something in the air, the winds of change are a blowin'. Many blog sites that have been screaming bloody murder in the past few years and overnight have changed their tune. November is the month for the musical chairs.

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Why queer activists out closeted Republicans

I've seen an attitude surface many times in recent weeks, from Newsviners and others, in regards to the continued outings of queer*, closeted Republican politicians and prominent right-wing figures.

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A great spoof of the misleading RNC anti-Ford attack ad. A YouTube video.

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Finally, Dick Cheney has done us all a big favor.

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In the latest sign of rank hypocrisy among social conservatives, the president of the 30-million member National Association of Evangelicals has resigned amidst accusations that he had a relationship with a male prostitute.

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IS BUSH GAY ???

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Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, steps down amid allegations he had a 3 year relationship with a gay prostitute. From Wikipedia:

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So Sen. John Kerry was kidding? He called his ugly, mean-spirited attack on every single American who has ever served or is serving in the military a "botched joke" about the President? As Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies would say: "Riiiiiiight."

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