First there was the gay marriage question at the Miss USA pageant. Now Miss California Carrie Prejean is in hot water for posing for racy modeling pictures several years ago. What’s more, she assured the Miss California USA pageant, after one of the photos was released, that only one photo existed. But then a second was released, and there reportedly are two more. Prejean had signed a contract with Miss California USA stating she has never been photographed nude or partially nude. As a result, she could lose her Miss California crown. Oh, the horror. Also, it was reported earlier that the Miss California USA pageant paid for Prejean to get breast implants.
Who knew there was so much scandal potential in a beauty pageant? Will Prejean continue to be a heroine of the religious right?
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As the new ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will Sen. Jeff Sessions (in photo), R-Ala., be tempted to settle some old scores in the process of dealing with President Obama’s first nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court? Sessions saw his own nomination to the federal bench by President Reagan go down in committee 23 years ago. In the process, 
Kathleen Sebelius gained national attention for having been a one-woman recruitment machine for the Kansas Democratic Party. But the voter registration numbers since 2002, when she first ran for governor, don’t show a sea change: Then, Kansas had 743,000 registered Republicans and 441,000 Democrats. As of January, the state had 758,000 Republicans and 479,000 Democrats (and some of the Democratic gains are likely due to Barack Obama, not Sebelius). In any case, House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, told The Eagle editorial board last week: “I don’t think the success of the party is just about her.”Follow us
