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The Five Stages of Grief As Told By Anthony Weiner
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 3:25pm | 73Dealing with a loss can be difficult for any person. It is doubly hard when the loss is a self-inflicted wound, multiplied by white lies and deceit until, once again, the cover-up becomes more damning than the crime. Anthony Weiner recently went through a horrible situation, and with it, suffered...
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Ron Paul, Clarence Thomas, Martha Stewart and Anthony Weiner Walk Into a Bar...
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 10:36am | 479Just when I thought we were done with Weiner's scandalous weiner, it pokes its head back up for another round of discussion. This time, however, the target is not the embattled former-congressman, who resigned from the House Thursday after an absurd “scandal” involving Weiner tweeting pictures of...
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Weiner Walks Away With Head Held High
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 3:27pm | 346Anthony Weiner, the unnecessarily harassed former Congressman from New York, today announced his resignation from the House of Representatives. The announcement comes after Weiner admitted sending inappropriate images to fans of his, including one that appeared to be his bulging underpants....
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Anthony Weiner Telling Friends He Will Resign
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 11:35am | 195According to the New York Times, U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner has told leaders in the House and his friends that he plans to resign his seat amid growing pressure from Democratic colleagues to leave Congress. Weiner has been embroiled in a "sexting" scandal ever since he mistakenly sent a...
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Anthony Weiner Stepping Down
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 9:38am | 34Disgraced and embattled Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is stepping down, according to the New York Times. Weiner had been waiting for his wife to return home from her overseas trip before making a decision.
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Democrats Want to Drop Weiner and Run
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 4:12pm | 330Nancy Pelosi has no intention of allowing embattled New York Representative Anthony Weiner to become the symbol of the party as we enter the 2012 election season. With that surely on the mind of Democrat strategists, colleagues and friends of Weiner have called for the Congressman to resign...
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Congressman Weiner Takes Temporary Leave to Seek Treatment
Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 4:37pm | 233Embattled Congressman Anthony Weiner is taking a temporary leave to seek professional treatment, his office said Saturday. The Democratic New York Representative has been entrenched in scandal since he recently admitted to having numerous sexual conversations online, in addition to exchanging...
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Weiner's Weiner Opens Door for Alec Baldwin
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 12:42pm | 377New York Representative Anthony Weiner's twitter “scandal” has pundits ruling Weiner out of a 2013 run to replace New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Weiner himself has not ruled out any future runs, but right now, his focus is clearly on undoing the damage to his image and determining whether to...
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Once Every 823 Years, Something Weirdly Amazing Happens
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 4:22pm | 178There's no denying it: there may never be another year quite like 2011. From playboys who wish they were politicians to politicians who wish they were playboys, this has been a year unlike any other. That, however, is only the tip of the iceberg. As luck would have it, the most unique elements of...
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More Weiner Texts Emerge
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 4:34pm | 61The New York Post is reporting that Representative Anthony Weiner exchanged "raunchy" text messages with a Nevada woman and the two planned to meet. He met the woman on Facebook and the correspondence between the two went on for more than a year.
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Anthony Weiner Not the Only Sexy Name in Politics
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 3:07pm | 488For a nation half-full of prudes and Victorian-era religious nuts, America sure has drawn out some dandy names into public life. Here are a few of some of the more unfortunate names to run for office in America. Anthony Weiner One of the more notable congressmen from New York, Weiner really should...
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Weiner Will Rise Again
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 1:39pm | 451With apologies to my colleague, who made the case for Weiner's resignation here, New York Representative Anthony Weiner should not resign from office. Not now, not later, not ever. He will, without a doubt, come out ahead after everything blows over — and will likely rise again in liberal circles...
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Anthony Weiner Should Resign
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 12:24pm | 249Yesterday, I wrote an article outlining Weiner's press conference and semi-defending him. The feeding frenzy that the media creates in situations like these is borderline disgusting. Weiner's sins were not so egregious that he should be hung up in the proverbial public square. The man has been...
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How to Go Long Weiner and Go Short Weiner
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 8:19am | 346Representative Anthony Weiner got busted for behaving like a wiener. And investors are wondering if there is a play in it. At a news conference on Monday, the New York Democrat apologized for his actions and for lying about sending a suggestive picture. "I tweeted a photograph of myself that I...
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Representative Anthony Weiner Holds Press Conference Outlining "Terrible Mistakes"
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 5:39pm | 690U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, who represents New York's 9th Congressional District, held a press conference on Monday afternoon at a Manhattan hotel to outline the "terrible mistakes" he has made in relation to a number of online relationships he has engaged in with young women. Weiner has...