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Scoop: Chris Brown tweets about Rihanna

During the wee hours of Monday morning, singer Chris Brown took to Twitter and posted a YouTube link to a photo montage of himself and Rihanna during happier times.

‘Dancing’ delivers a double whammy

Tom DeLay looked rough dancing a week ago and even worse on Monday night. With stress fractures in both feet, it seemed that the former politician was out of options. While he made it through Monday night's show, he announced Tuesday night that he was ready to take the advice of his doctors and withdraw from the competition. Sadly for Tom, he went home the week before he would have been doing his home state Texas two-step, so host Tom Bergeron told him he could come back and do it in the season finale if his feet recover by then.

Injured Tom DeLay hangs up his 'Dancing' shoes

It wasn't two left feet, but two fractured feet that forced Tom DeLay to hang up his dancing shoes on Tuesday.

DeLay proves he’s no wild thing on ‘Dancing’

The women will dance tomorrow night, but for now, Tom DeLay should be happy it's over and Ashley Hamilton should be enjoying it while it lasts.

Best bets: New TV season begins at last

"Dancing With the Stars," "Grey's Anatomy," and "House" are among this week's returning shows.

Scoop: Can Burke keep DeLay ‘Dancing’?

A "Dancing With the Stars" source says Tom DeLay was intentionally paired with fan favorite Cheryl Burke to keep the buzz going.

Scoop: Abdul negotiating a return to ‘Idol’

Now that the “Dancing With the Stars” cast has been announced, and Paula Abdul’s name is not on the list, negotiations between Abdul and Fox for her return to “American Idol” have become more intense.

Conservative ‘Dancing’ takes risk with DeLay

The new and expanded “Dancing With the Stars” cast is largely the usual combination of

'Dancing With the Stars' cast includes Tom DeLay

Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new season of "Dancing With the Stars.

Appeals court snubs Tex prosecutors in DeLay case

A Texas appeals court has delivered a setback for prosecutors in a case that has links to former Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Indictments to stand against DeLay associates

An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed.

Ex-Lawmaker Wins Race for Lantos' Seat

Former state lawmaker Jackie Speier, nearly killed the day of the Jonestown mass murder-suicide three decades ago, won a special congressional election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Tom Lantos.

Tom DeLay Worries Clinton Will Win

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will capture the presidency in 2008 unless the Republican Party can rise to meet the challenge, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Thursday.

DeLay Assails GOP Colleagues in New Book

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's just-published memoirs skewer his former comrades in the historic 1994 Republican revolution for squandering the victory through useless and ineffective leadership.

DeLay's Replacement Wants Files Probe

The newest member of Congress, who is temporarily filling former Majority Leader Tom DeLay's Texas seat, wants an investigation into the destruction of computer files in her office by staffers she inherited from DeLay.

Cheney Stumps in DeLay's Former District

Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday gave a critical financial boost to the Republican candidate running a last-minute, write-in campaign to claim former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's seat.

Mayor Drops Bid to Replace DeLay

Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace withdrew Monday as a Republican write-in candidate for the seat vacated by the resignation of former House Majority leader Tom DeLay.

DeLay to Remove Name From Texas Ballot

Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he is taking the necessary steps to remove his name from the November ballot, giving his party a chance to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding the House seat.

DeLay Vows to Take Name Off Texas Ballot

Dogged by scandal, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he will do whatever is necessary to remove his name from the ballot, a step that will allow the party to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding his seat in Texas.

Republicans Want Court to Hear DeLay Case

Texas Republicans want a federal appeals court to quickly resolve a dispute over whether former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay should remain on the November ballot, saying they are running out of time for replacing DeLay with another nominee.

DeLay Suggests He Might Not Retire

Former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay suggested Friday that he may not be ready for retirement just yet, a day after a federal judge ruled that his name must remain on the November ballot even though he resigned from Congress.

DeLay Dispute Moves to Higher Court

With state election deadlines closing in, the legal fight over whether to keep indicted former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on the November ballot moves next to a higher court.

Top Court Rules States Free to Redistrict

A fractured Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states are free to redraw congressional districts whenever they want, largely blessing Tom DeLay's bitterly contested handiwork in Texas and the gains it gave national Republicans.

DeLay Testifies He Lives in Virginia

Former Rep. Tom DeLay testified Monday that he lives and votes in Virginia, bolstering the Republican Party's claim that he is ineligible to appear on the November ballot in Texas.

DeLay Office Knew Abramoff Arranged Trip

Prosecutors have e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arranged the financing for the GOP leader's controversial European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking questions."

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Live Poll: Is Tom Delay Gay?

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Did DeLay Dance on Ron Paul's Head?
Source: CQ Politics

"In 2003, Ron Paul was in line to be chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee of this committee.

Sunshine Libertarians
Source: LewRockwell.com

Tom Delay was a warmonger and socialist when Bush was in power, and a sorta-libertarian under Clinton. (Now he's on Dancing With The Stars.) Glenn Beck was among the most commissar-like of the neocons under Bush—he even compared Ron Paul donors to terrorists.

Does DeLay's Angry Quadriplegic Town Hall Protesters Tale Add Up?
Source: Talking Points Memo

Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews asked an exuberant Tom DeLay about the Tea Party/Birther agitation bubbling up around the country.

Osmond, DeLay in "Dancing With The Stars"
Source: CBS News

(AP) Sixteen celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, sports and politics will be kicking up their heels on the new season of "Dancing With the Stars."

Yahoo! News | 'Dancing With the Stars' cast includes Tom DeLay
Source: Yahoo! News

Will "The Hammer" be dancing to music by MC Hammer?

Letters from Texas: A Travelers Guide to Wackadoodleonia
Source: lettersfromtexas.com

Dear Foreign Visitor: As your guide to the sovereign state of Wackadoodleonia, welcome!

Delay Claims Poorer-than-Average Texas is Wealthy Because Texans Work Hard
Source: Think Progress

excerpt: "Tom DeLay went on a strange neo-secessionist binge yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This segment of the interview in which he lays out his substantive rationale has gotten less attention.

The United State of Texas!

Everything in Texas is Bigger! Apparently that also goes for their ego's! Should Texas be allowed to secede?

Texas 3rd Court of Appeals rules that money laundering was once OK as long as it done by check, not cash.
Source: The Austin American-Statesman

An Editorial in the Austin American Statesman cites a recent Texas Court of Appeals decision that if you live in Travis County Texas laundering money is legal if done by check. Of course, it took three Republican judges, cited below, to come up with such a ruling.

Exclusive: What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?
Source: Religion Dispatches

In an exclusive interview, investigative reporter Mike Reynolds uncovers the special relationship between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices "spiritual warfare," harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the region as the evangelistic final fro …

The vermin that is Tom DeLay - Joan Walsh - Open Salon
Source: Salon.com

I had friends complain that Barack Obama's TV ad Wednesday night was "dull," but I thought it worked.

DeLay On Obama: 'I Tagged Him As A Marxist Months Ago'»
Source: Think Progress

Invoking William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews today, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay declared that Sen.

So, NOW the Repubs Want Checks and Balances
Source: The Houston Chronicle

In what is probably the strangest twist of this election season, the McCain campaign and all of its GOP talking heads are now trying to convince the electorate that they shouldn't vote for Obama because that would give the Dems control of both houses of Congress and the White Hou …

A Nation of Masochists
Source: Informed Comment

"The Republican Party came to Washington, DC, in 2000 with a solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court, allowing them to steal the presidency, as well.

Tom Delay says Barack Obama is one of the Marx Brothers

Saturday, June 7, 2008 Thursday, on the conservative Mike Gallagher radio show, former House Majority leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said "if McCain does not define him as what he is — hey, I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a Marxist." L …

Bush backer pens pro-Obama book - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

The conservative Evangelical biographer of George W. Bush and Tom DeLay has moved on to a new subject: Barack Obama. And his new book, due out this summer, may lend credibility to Senator Obama's bid to win Evangelical Christian voters away from the Republican Party.

Tom Delay, Setting a Conservative Agenda
Source: Town Hall

An interesting article about how timeless conservative ideas can win the political day. Republicans are not losing because they are conservative, they are losing because they forgot what it meant to be conservative.

Schaffer Shoots Foot on Major Human Rights Scandal?
Source: ColoradoPols.com

We can't believe he brought up the Northern Marianas experience with immigrant labor as a good thing. Seriously, we're floored by this.

DeLay Claims McCain Has Damaged the GOP
Source: Talking Points Memo

Disgraced former Majority Leader Tom DeLay: "McCain has done more to hurt the Republican party than any elected official I know of."

The media: Dishonesty matters, and they have been dishonest with us for a long time
Source: American Thinker

We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners.

John Lombardi: Bad Day at Blackwater
Source: The Huffington Post

The added obscenity about Blackwater few ever mention (why, I wonder?) is that it got its first federal contract in 2000 under the Clinton Administration. See Jeremy Scahill's book talk on YouTube "Blackwater Invades Illinois" 2min.

Republicans and Democrats different on handling Scandals!
Source: NewsMax

Republicans handle it. They look at it, and when the evidence is right on that someone is guilty, they do something about it. On the other hand, the Democrats don't. And the media, the double standard in the media is amazing.

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