Poor Mojo's Newswire

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress - but never had sex with them. The governor said he "never crossed the ultimate line" with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed his once-promising political career. . . . During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he's trying to fall back in love with his wife.

Forty years to the day after Stonewall — when a police raid of a New York gay club led to riots and launched the modern gay-rights movement — police in Fort Worth, TX, are being accused of repeating the incident. Early Sunday morning, Fort Worth police, accompanied by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, raided the Rainbow Lounge, a newly-opened gay club in Fort Worth. According to CBS 11 News, “seven people were arrested for public intoxication and at least a dozen more were restrained. The incident was captured on camera and posted on local blogs. The scene was the topic of conversation at Sunday’s Million Gay March in Dallas.” Police say they were investigating allegations that the club was over-serving its customers. They also allege one of the officers was “groped” during the raid, an allegation that witnesses dispute. The Dallas Voice blog quotes an eyewitness identified only as Alison, who says the police “only arrested men and seemed to be targeting effeminate men.”

From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again . . . The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled-dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), speaking to Washington, D.C. publication The Hill, called the recently-passed climate change legislation a “pile of shit” according to an exclusive report. Boehner, during Friday’s vote which passed the legislation by a narrow margin, attempted something of a filibuster by reading aloud from the bill’s cap and trade section for over an hour, then presenting a colorful yet visually complicated chart. “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of shit,” he told The Hill.

Yesterday, ex-Chicago police officers who took part in the televised assault of thousands of protesting American citizens during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, staged a reunion. It did not go unnoticed and without protest.... The Web site noted that about 70 people turned out for the protest, organized by the Chicago chapter of Copwatch, an activist group with chapters in numerous U.S. cities. The group encouraged protesters to "help us let these cops who celebrate their sadistic violence know: We can’t forget, because we’re still living it!"

What does it cost to get an unqualified student into the University of Illinois law school? Five jobs for graduating law students, suggest internal e-mails released Thursday. The documents show for the first time efforts to seek favors -- in this case, jobs -- for admissions, the most troubling evidence yet of how Illinois' entrenched system of patronage crept into the state's most prestigious public university. They also detail the law school's system for handling "Special Admits," students backed by the politically connected, expanding the scope of a scandal prompted by a Chicago Tribune investigation.