The Secret Service shut down a 5 year old's birthday party because it was somehow interfering in former President Bill Clinton's golf game. Here's the kicker: the little girl was the daughter of porn star Sophia Rossi.

Right. We're sure you were there for your daughter's birthday, Sophia.... Or maybe it was to see the baby daddy?

In any event, here's the story: Clinton was about to hit his second shot on the fifth hole at Las Vegas Country Club on Saturday when Secret Service agents shut down the fireworks about to be launched by Sophia's daughter. more...

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Most people aren't aware that Harry Reid is considered a conservative Democrat. The problem with Harry Reid has never been that he's a liberal, but rather his extreme partisanship. It looks like this may be hurting him at home.

On a personal note, I've spent some time in Reid's old haunts in small town Nevada. I can only say that if Reid's national supporters ever showed up there, they'd likely get their asses kicked.

Las Vegas Sun:

Sen. Harry Reid, once a fairly obscure conservative Democrat from the small state of Nevada, is all the buzz inside the Beltway lately - unfortunately for him, it's the Washington and not the Las Vegas Beltway....

But Reid's national stature among activist Democrats, concentrated on the blue-state coasts, carries risks for him at home, analysts say. His consistent opposition to President Bush and his need to mollify the liberals in his party is costing him in Nevada, where polls show he has lost support since becoming minority leader.

Although Reid, who won re-election in 2004 and still has four years in his term, said in an interview that he pays no attention to polls, his actions in Nevada during the two-week Easter recess suggested that he is keenly aware of his vulnerabilities. He spoke to groups that carry at least a patina of conservatism - chambers of commerce, police and firefighters, religious groups, military men and women, district attorneys.

Reid touted national security, faith-based solutions and anti-gang measures. In front of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, he reminded the audience of his support last year for legislation long sought by conservatives that made it harder to declare bankruptcy.

And yet, in the conflict Reid faces - between his more conservative Nevada roots and his new coastal liberal friends - he struggled to quell his bluest, Democratic instincts, launching a shot at Bush at the chamber event.

"How can Republicans support somebody who's running us into the ground like this?"

In the meantime, let me remind my Searchlight Nevada readers that's it's not polite to slash the tires of hybrid cars. Even when the guy driving it has a ponytail.

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I love conspiracy theories. They're just cooler than your run-of-the mill every day type theories that produce falsifiable hypotheses. In fact, I plan to write the definitive book on the subject if I ever get the time (read: quit blogging).

Dean has the skinny on conspiracy theories:

In events with huge numbers of eyewitness events, it is entirely normal for there be witnesses who are confused, misremember things, contradict themselves, or contradict each other....

Personally I think 9/11 was planned by the Illuminati and perpetrated by the Pentavarite. Or maybe the J-O-Os. I'm thinking Nessie had a hand in it too. more...

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Apparently May Day will be celebrated this year by illegal aliens by not going shopping. Personally, I hate shopping. All shopping. Except for guns. And maybe for wicked cool robots. But I might just have to shop on May Day.

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My buddy Bill Dauterieve tells me he spotted South Park creator [and Lord and Savior of this blog] Trey Parker at the Apple Store at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica the other day. According to Bill, "he was buying socks for his iPod." Not sure what that means, but it must be some super-sikret Hollywood insider lingo.

But that's not the most intriguing part, after asking him if he genuflected upon seeing Trey, he told me no because, "he had this hairy, creepy Japanese manservant/bodyguard watching out for him."

Being Trey Parker's numero uno blog stalker fan, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. In my mind, since the latest Mohammed cartoon flap, he's had to hire himself a Shaolin monk to keep the angry suicide-bombers away.

The other explanation being far too painful to even hint at. Think of a happy place. Think of a happy place....

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(San Francisco) Get a load of this. Obviously, a person has to be really, really smart to be a U.S. Appeals Court judge because, no matter how many times average people read the Constitution, they're not going to see what the judges find. This is from the 9th Circuit.

From SacBee.com:

The Eighth Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments," bars punishment of "involuntary sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks that is an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter in the City of Los Angeles," said a divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court specifically ruled that the city of Los Angeles could not roust derelicts off the streets unless the taxpayers had previously provided a cozy shelter for every conceivable vagrant that drifts in. In other words, the taxpayers must provide shelter or the homeless have the right, per the Constitution, to involuntarily sit, lie and sleep anywhere they damn well please on city sidewalks.

In conclusion, law school apparently not only teaches the law but also gives students X-ray vision. I still haven't found any reference to "homeless" in the Constitution, much less "involuntary sitting." I don't want to go to law school but I'd sure like to git some of that there X-ray vision.

From Interested-Participant.

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What an incredible smell Confederate Yankee has discovered.

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Dignan is going to challenge Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. No, not to a fight.

Question: How long before McKinney accuses Dignan of being a racist?

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