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Why Gingrich Needs to Find His Inner Victim
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich has always been a hard guy to feel sorry for, given his blustery and often bilious political opinions and an indulgent personal life marked by three marriages and a chilling indifference to the dire circumstances of his jilted spouses. As David Frum put it, "It's not the infidelity. It's the arrogance, hypocrisy, and -- most horrifying to women voters -- the cruelty. Anyone can dump one sick wife. Gingrich dumped two." And yet Gingrich's latest explanation for his tendency to stray from his vows -- an attempt to soften his image with the public ahead of an expected run for the ...
Iran to Air Alleged Confession by Condemned Woman
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- Iran plans to broadcast what it says is a confession by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman who was condemned to death by stoning for adultery and now is serving 10 years in prison for murder. State-run Press TV is set to air the confession tonight as part of a documentary on her case, according to the station's website. The broadcaster dismissed reports that the woman had been freed, pinning them on a "vast publicity campaign by Western media." The station described Ashtiani as a "confessed murderer." "Press TV's 'Iran Today' program will shed light on the highways and ...
White House Ups the Ante With Iran to Save Woman From Hanging
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI'm sure the Obama administration will insist that the fuel deal they are attempting to revive with Iran has nothing to do with the White House's strongly worded rebuke of the government of Iran's intention to move forward with the execution by hanging of a 43-year-old woman charged with adultery. The favored diplomatic term is "two-tracking," but it's pretty clear that Iran's treatment of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has made her a pawn in the much bigger geopolitical fight between Iran and the West. The White House press release went out on Election Day amidst fears by human rights groups ...
Jailed Iranian Woman's Son Reported Missing
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is reportedly missing after two foreign nationals, believed to be German journalists, were arrested after trying to interview him. The lawyer for the woman, 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, also has not been heard from. Iran's chief prosecutor, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, called the two people detained "foreign tourists" and said they lacked correct media credentials, according to a statement published today on the semi-official Mehr News website. Amnesty International / AFP / Getty Images The son ...
Iran Suspends Stoning Death of Woman Convicted of Adultery
By John O. Membrino - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Facing mounting international condemnation, Iran said today it is putting off the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery. "The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped, and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run, English-language Press TV, according to Reuters. Michel Euler, AP Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran protest the death sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on Aug. 28 in Paris. Iran said Wednesday Ashtiani's execution has been put off and is being reviewed. Sakineh ...
Grindr iPhone App: GPS for the Sex Superhighway
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyRemember online dating? Gosh, that seems so last century. An iPhone application which allows cruising gay men to locate one another instantly using Global Positioning System technology is now spreading to the heterosexual market. This latest rage in online romance is called Grindr. Grindr is a free, downloadable iPhone app that lets you find "gay, bi, curious guys near you." It's sort of a sexual version of toptable -- an iPhone app that allows you to search for all the restaurants offering a certain cuisine in your immediate vicinity. Similarly, Grindr provides a grid of who else in your ...
New Hampshire to Legalize Adultery? Gay Marriage IS a Slippery Slope!
By David Gibson - Politics DailyLast June, the New Hampshire legislature made that state the sixth to legalize gay marriage (although a ballot in Maine undid its law) with a law that takes effect on Jan. 1. Opponents argue, of course, that legalizing gay marriage winds up eroding traditional marriage -- and maybe they're right. News out of the Granite State is that the legislature is now considering a bill to legalize adultery. Yes, it's true. "We shouldn't be regulating people's sex lives and their love lives," state Rep. Timothy Horrigan tells the Associated Press. "This is one area the state government should stay out of ...
New Hampshire May Decriminalize Adultery
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, N.H. (Dec. 13) - The original punishments - including standing on the gallows for an hour with a noose around the neck - have been softened to a $1,200 fine, yet some lawmakers think it's time for the 200-year-old crime of adultery to come off New Hampshire's books. Seven months after the state approved gay marriage, lawmakers will consider easing government further from the bedroom with a bill to repeal the adultery law. "We shouldn't be regulating people's sex lives and their love lives," state Rep. Timothy Horrigan said. "This is one area the state government should stay out of ...
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