While the rest of the world worries about getting SARS, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has come down with a different malady: a bad case of hoof-in-mouth disease. More

Sneaking a peek through the curtains the Bush administration has used to cloak the awarding of contracts to rebuild Iraq is like catching a glimpse of a very special incest episode of ElimiDate: a bunch of muscular, cash-drunk corporate lotharios vying for the affection of their governmental kissing cousins. More

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"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home," Sen. Rick Santorum told an AP reporter, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." More

Now that the war is over (even though it hasn

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Future public-relations students someday will study what may become known as "The Mavra Stark Mistake." Stark is the president of the National Organization for Women's Morris County, N.J., chapter who is protesting the double-murder charge in the Laci Peterson case. More

Any parent who has seen her children struggle to hoist a 50-pound backpack over their tiny shoulders will endorse Sen. Curtis Person

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