Mon, Apr 20th, 2009 | Politics |

"Normally, I dress to thrill," he says. But on this evening, instead of the custom-made corsets and leopard-print bathing suit he favors as tops, the 60-year-old Rasmussen--who prefers to be called not Your Honor or Mr. Mayor but rather Stu--has ...Read More

Bo tax ? Nip/tuck levy to help fund health plan

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Politics |

Bo tax ? Nip/tuck levy to help fund health plan WASHINGTON - They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul ...Read More

The Botax? Nip/tuck levy to help health care plan

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Health, Politics |

They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they search for ways to pay for costly health care overhaul plans. Vanity was ...Read More

Former Miss California Carrie Prejean: The Bible doesn't prohibit breast implants

Mon, Nov 16th, 2009 | Entertainment |

Does God approve of breast implants? Carrie Prejean has no doubt. The former Miss California told Christianity Today that the Bible makes no judgment about boob jobs. "I don't think there's anything wrong with getting breast implants as a Christian," she told the ...Read More

Woman accused of faking breast cancer

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | Health |

Woman accused of faking breast cancer WACO — A Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged, authorities said. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack said in court records obtained by the Waco Tribune-Herald that 24-year-old ...Read More

Cancer frauDDD had eyes on breast implants

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | Health |

WACO, Texas - She claimed she had breast cancer, but now cops say it was all a big lie - she just wanted bigger breasts! Police have accused a Texas woman of lying about having breast cancer and spending $10,000 raised ...Read More

Woman accused of faking breast cancer for implants

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | U.S. |

WACO, Texas—Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack says in court records that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern shaved her head ...Read More

She faked breast cancer to get breast implants

Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 | Health |

Folks in central Texas don’t like being played for boobs — especially by a woman who claimed to have breast cancer when all she really had was a chest that was flatter than she wanted it to be. In August, more ...Read More

Cleveland to host 2014 Gay Games

Wed, Sep 30th, 2009 | U.S. |

Cleveland has been tapped as the host city for the 2014 Gay Games, a sports and cultural festival that organizers say attracts as many as 12,000 athletes and generates tens of millions of dollars in spending. The announcement on the city’s ...Read More

Transgender activist runs for mayor of Idaho town

Sat, Sep 5th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

About a block from a street concert in downtown Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy coffee shop - the unofficial liberal embassy of this sprawling Republican stronghold in southwest Idaho. Dressed in a cream-colored pantsuit, a political ...Read More

Obama poll problem persists, Congress...

Mon, Aug 31st, 2009 | U.S. |

President Barack Obama can't shake off his public opinion poll problem. The Rasmussen reports daily presidential tracking poll today shows likely voter approval of presidential performance at 46 percent, the lowest level yet for Obama. But wait, before anyone in Congress starts jumping up ...Read More

Candis Cayne on Cher and Chaz

Fri, Jun 12th, 2009 | Entertainment, Most Viewed |

I talked to transgender actress Candis Cayne yesterday about the jaw-dropping news that Chastity Bono has begun the process of transitioning from a woman to a man. The former Dirty Sexy Money star advises Cher to be there 100 percent—no matter ...Read More

LAPD Detective Charged in 1986 Love-Triangle Murder

Wed, Jun 10th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

She had a sworn duty to protect others. But her fellow police officers allege that one of their own -- a detective -- is a murderer who was involved in a love triangle more than two decades ago. Los Angeles police ...Read More

Detective stalked slaying victim, father says

Wed, Jun 10th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

Nels Rasmussen says he vividly remembers the calls from his daughter 23 years ago when she confided her fears that a jealous LAPD officer was out to harm her. She told him the young female officer had shown up in ...Read More

LAPD detective, Stephanie Lazarus, arrested in murder of ex ...

Tue, Jun 9th, 2009 | U.S. |

A veteran LAPD detective played a role in solving a 23 year old crime - because she may have committed it. Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, was charged with murder on Monday for killing her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986, the Associated Press ...Read More

Veteran L.A. detective charged with murder

Tue, Jun 9th, 2009 | Most Viewed |

LOS ANGELES - A veteran detective was charged with murder Monday in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 — a crime that went unsolved for more than two decades as she rose through the Los Angeles Police Department ...Read More

'The Hangover's "Stu's Song": Best musical moment in a movie this ...

Mon, Jun 8th, 2009 | Entertainment |

Most deliberately funny songs, especially from movies, are criminally underappreciated (South Park's "Blame Canada" lost at the Oscars to the earnest Phil Collins tune "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan.) Maybe I'm an easy sell, but put a funny guy ...Read More

Police officer accused of killing romantic rival in 1986

Fri, Jun 5th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

(CNN) -- A veteran police detective in Los Angeles, California, was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of killing a former lover's wife in 1986, marking a rare instance in which the department has arrested one of its own, Police Chief ...Read More

Boys behaving badly is good for once

Thu, Jun 4th, 2009 | Entertainment |

The old adage ''What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas'' has never felt truer than it feels in The Hangover, since no one who partook of the film's central event -- a bachelor party -- can remember anything about it ...Read More

Lane Hudson: The Dallas Principles, a new approach to LGBT equality

Wed, May 20th, 2009 | Politics |

As anyone who has been following my blogging here will know, I've been pushing very hard to hold folks accountable for a stunningly absent effort to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in our code of laws. ...Read More

Did Nancy Pelosi lie? New poll shows Americans are divided.

Mon, May 18th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

Apparently the American people didn't get President Obama's memo that this is the age of post-partisanship. Because at least when it comes to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's spat with the CIA, the results of a new poll are entirely predictable. Did the ...Read More