The newly appointed editor of Russian Vogue has courted controversy by putting Vladimir Putin's alleged mistress on her first front cover.
The January 2011 issue features former rhythmic Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, 27, wearing a £21,000 gold Balmain dress with her hands on her hips.
Viktoria Davydova's decision to give her such prominence in the magazine is one that is likely to irritate the strong man Russian prime minister who has scornfully denied a newspaper report that he has left his wife Ludmila, with whom he has two daughters, for Miss Kabayeva. Look's like Viktoria's gunning for a tour guide job at Chernoybl...
While there is no substantive evidence that Mr Putin, 58, is romantically linked to Miss Kabayeva, who also happens to be an MP for Mr Putin's ruling United Russia party, the alleged affair has long been the hottest gossip topic among Russia's elite.
The rumour first came to public prominence in 2008 when a Russian newspaper, owned by billionaire oligarch Alexander Lebedev, quoted a source as insisting the story was true.
Mr Lebedev shut the newspaper down soon afterwards claiming it had not been a commercial success though many suspected the real reason was to appease an angry Mr Putin. Don't try the sushi, hon...
Republicans should offer to pass a "very clean, simple Continuing Resolution that keeps the government open." The GOP shouldn't budge, insists the former Speaker of the House. "This election was in part over pork-barrel spending by earmarks" and the "Democrats are trying to behave as though the election didn't occur." Word.
Vice President tells Sen. Jim DeMint and others opposing the ratification of the START treaty: "Get out of the way. There's too much at stake." This guy really has no idea what he's doing.....
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Biden needs to be slapped up side the head with a clue-bat. I'd suggest one about the size of the Washington Monument. Anything else would be a waste of time for that clueless moron.
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the Intellectual Genius of the Obama Administration. You know he's perpetually fascinated and amazed by Krazy Straws: "It goes all over and finally finds my mouth! How does it do that?"
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[t]he Senate Republicans' one-page joint resolution to keep the government funded through February 2011 (via GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell). via Michelle Malkin. Compares the GOP proposal, which is 7 lines to the 2,000 page dhimocrat porkfest.
Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that's laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill after several Republicans who had been thinking of voting for the bill pulled back their support.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The newly appointed editor of Russian Vogue has courted controversy by putting Vladimir Putin's alleged mistress on her first front cover. 
Republicans should offer to pass a "very clean, simple Continuing Resolution that keeps the government open." The GOP shouldn't budge, insists the former Speaker of the House. "This election was in part over pork-barrel spending by earmarks" and the "Democrats are trying to behave as though the election didn't occur."
[t]he Senate Republicans' one-page joint resolution to keep the government funded through February 2011 (via GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell).
