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What Maria Shriver Can't Teach You About Cheating

A book publicist just sent me an email with the subject line: "Suspicious of your hubby? Don't be Maria Shriver." The title she's promoting is "The Married Man's Guide to Cheating" – but, apparently, the Schwarzenegger affair presents a golden opportunity to market the book to women. It's a choice example of the absurdity and shamelessness of the market for advice on how to keep your man from cheating or catch him if he's already strayed.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Fathered Child with Mansion Employee

• CARTOON: A Weak Arnold Schwarzenegger?

A Brief Tour of the Cambodian Sex Industry

That had to rank as one of dumbest questions in the history of modern journalism. I'd put it to a young woman who'd just served me a drink atZanzibar, a hostess bar in Phnom Penh whose "staff of beautiful ladies ... are always on hand to serve and satisfy your every desire." Hostesses are paid to be flirty and solicitous, but I had clearly tried this one's patience.

Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn and Caligula: Why Powerful Men Compulsively Cheat

As far as nature is concerned, this is just fine. The goal of any organism, after all, is to ensure the survival and propagation of its genes, and males – far more so than females – are eminently equipped to do that. Even the world's most reproductively prolific mothers rarely produce more than eight or nine children in a lifetime. Males can conceive everyday, even multiple times a day, and come emotionally hardwired to do just that.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Fathered Child with Mansion Employee

Destroy the Debt Ceiling: It Does Nothing to Control Spending, and It Inspires Bickering

Today, the United States officially hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, meaning the country can no longer issue new bonds to finance its debt. The Treasury Department has already started undertaking "extraordinary measures" to keep the country's bills paid. Eventually, though, the United States will need to do one of three things: default on its obligations, start making drastic cuts in federal spending, or raise the debt ceiling again.

• U.S. Government Reaches $14.3 Trillion Debt Ceiling

• Why We Cannot Raise the Debt Ceiling

Tina Dupuy: Global Warming Denial Is Like Closing Your Eyes to Make Your Opponent Disappear

According to Oakland, California's Harold Camping, the Rapture was supposed to hit American Samoa (the location of the International Dateline) at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011.

• Supreme Court Favors Westboro Baptist Church in 8-1 Decision

Republican Perspective: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Becomes Strong Choice for Republicans

Rush Limbaugh is starting a movement, a movement to draft Texas Governor Rick Perry for President. Here's what Rush said this week on this radio program: "There's no way you're gonna hear Rick Perry supporting amnesty in any way, shape, manner, or form. He's solid on that, plus pro-life. Rick Perry stands in opposition to inside the Beltway Washington elites, I don't care what party they are."

• Barack Obama: ‘America Must Use All Our Influence to Encourage Reform in the Middle East’
• U.S. Government Reaches $14.3 Trillion Debt Ceiling

Republicans Twist and Shout on Health Care Reform

The best thing about the upcoming 2012 election is that the ominous "Obamacare" was a Republican idea. But now since this alternative to Hillarycare was signed into law by a (gasp) Democratic president the GOP has been trying to peg as a radical socialist Kenyan – Republicans now have to be against their own ideas.

• U.S. Government Reaches $14.3 Trillion Debt Ceiling
• Obama Urges Congress to Repeal Tax Breaks for Billion-Dollar Oil Companies

Republican Perspective: Rapper Common’s ‘Poetry’ Should Be Uncommon

The first motion picture to be shown in the White House was D.W. Griffith's "A Birth of a Nation." Progressive Democrat (yes, I wrote Democrat) president Woodrow Wilson showed the highly controversial silent film that was later used as a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) recruiting tool portraying KKK Klansmen as superheroes rescuing white women from uneducated sexually aggressive African-American men.

• Rapper Common Preforms at White House
• The Left's Absurd Defense of Rapper Common

Canadian Judge Says Anonymity for Sperm, Egg Donation Is Unconstitutional

The B.C. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday anonymity for sperm and egg donation is unconstitutional, allowing children born as a result of donor insemination access to biological records of their parents.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France’s First Lady, Pregnant with Little Sarkozy

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, is pregnant with President Nicolas Sarkozy's child, arriving in time for the coming election.

• Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Fuels Pregnancy Rumors
• Father-in-Law Says Carla Is Pregnant

Bomb Found in Ireland Hours Before Queen Elizabeth Marks First Visit

Queen Elizabeth II arrived in the Republic of Ireland, the first visit by a reigning British monarch, on Tuesday hours before the Irish Army removed a bomb from a bus headed towards the Queen.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Jailed at Steeled Rikers Island

I.M.F. Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been sent to the infamous Rikers Island prison. He is fighting charges of sexual assault.

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested for Sodomizing a Hotel Maid in New York

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested for Sodomizing a Hotel Maid in New York

I.M.F Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested Saturday evening in New York on sexual assault charges. He was widely considered the front runner in replacing French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2012.

Silvana Koch-Mehrin Resigns from European Parliament in Plagiarism Row

Germany's Silvana Koch-Mehrin resigned from the European Parliament on Wednesday after claims she plagiarized a college thesis paper tarnished the reputation of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government.