South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford now says there were more trysts with his Argentine lover than he previously disclosed.

In a lengthy, emotional interview with The Associated Press, the governor described seven meetings with the woman, including their first in 2001. Sanford says there have been five over a 12-month period, including two multi-night stays with her in New York.

It was the first disclosure of any get-togethers with her in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which he admitted to a total of four encounters in the past year.

Sanford, who made a big deal about not taking stimulus money because he’s such a good guardian of the state’s finances, now says he’ll pay back the state for a 2008 trip to Brazil and Argentina taken on the government dime.  He says no other liaison used government money.

I was thinking of a feature called “Wingnut of the Week,” but they’re coming at us so fast and furiously that “Wingnut of the Day” seems more appropriate.  Welcome back to Liberaland, Sally Kern, the Oklahoma state legislator who said last year that homosexuality is our biggest threat, “even more so than terrorism or Islam.”

Kern’s latest venture into wingnuttia is the “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation For Morality”.  Here

are some of the WHEREASES

WHEREAS, “It is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand” (John Adams); and

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WHEREAS, “Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people” (John Adams); and

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WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and

WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery; and

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WHEREAS, grieved that the Office of the president of these United States has refused to uphold the long held tradition of past presidents in giving recognition to our National Day of Prayer; and

WHEREAS, deeply disturbed that the Office of the president of these United States disregards the biblical admonitions to live clean and pure lives by proclaiming an entire month to an immoral behavior;

So the premise is that the good Christians who founded this nation are being disregarded by a new era of immorality led by the gays, the abortionists and a president who doesn’t promote clean and pure living.

BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, humbly call upon Holy God, our Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer, to have mercy on this nation, to stay His hand of judgment,and grant a national awakening of righteousness and Christian renewal as we repent of our great sin.

Here’s what Kern said last year when she went on her gay-fearing tirade (h/t Think Progress).

Way to win those hearts and minds!  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared June 30 a national holiday. I wonder if they’ll celebrate it yearly.

“All of us are happy — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds on this day,” Waleed al-Bahadili said as he celebrated at the park. “The Americans harmed and insulted us too much.”

There was even a countdown clock and fireworks.  Sounds like New Year’s Eve and the Fourth of July wrapped up into one giant party.

• Alan talks with Dick Morris about his new book Catastrophe, which argues that President Obama is pursuing a radical agenda.

• Ann Coulter, author of Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, sits down with Alan to debate the Supreme Court’s ruling on white firefighters.

• Comedian Andy Borowitz responds to Bernie Madoff’s sentencing with helpful and hilarious tips from Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving Prison.

Madoff will never see daylight again, unless it’s in a prison yard.

“I cannot offer any excuse for my behavior,” Madoff was reported to have said in court this morning. “I made a terrible mistake.”

Federal prosecutors had requested the maximum 150 year-term. Madoff’s attorney, Ira Sorkin, said his client deserved a much more lenient 12-year sentence for, in part, cooperating with authorities and citing Madoff’s limited life expectancy.

Ruth Madoff gets to keep $2.5 million in assets while giving up a claim to more than $80 million in other assets.

In ruling in favor of the white firefighters, the high court went against a decision by nominee Sonia Sotomayor, something sure to be underscored by her detractors.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans (such as Gary Tinney, r) and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The court was divided along ideological lines and, in dissent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the white firefighters “understandably attract this court’s sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion. Nor have other persons received promotions in preference to them.”  Justices Bryer, Souter and Stevens signed on to the Ginsburg dissent.

It’s important to note, when conservatives try to use the Supreme Court reversal to argue against her joining the court, that she is not being nominated to agree with the conservative majority.

The Republicans who are rejecting the climate change bill are doing so based more on ideology than science.  Paul Krugman reminds us that ice caps are shrinking arid zoes are spreading, and scientists are predicting a 9 degree rise in temperature by the end of the century.

Global greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than expected; some mitigating factors, like absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans, are turning out to be weaker than hoped; and there’s growing evidence that climate change is self-reinforcing — that, for example, rising temperatures will cause some arctic tundra to defrost, releasing even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The deniers aren’t debating from a factual analysis.  Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia went so far as to call climate change a “hoax” that’s been “perpetrated out of the scientific community.”  These deniers should ignore scientific warnings at their own peril; the peril being loss of their political careers.

The woman with whom South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford had an affair speaks like an aggrieved party because of “certain incorrect things that are being spread worldwide” and causing “great pain to me…my two children, my family….”  Among other things, she writes:

1. I won’t speak about my private life as it just belongs to me. It has already been made too public during these last days, bringing to me even more pain.

Yes, that can happen when you have an affair with a married United States governor.

What’s with all the celebrity deaths?

Mays, [was] 50, start[ed] selling in the 1980s on the Atlantic City boardwalk. He went on to hawk the WashMatik, the Ultimate Chopper and then, crucially, OxiClean. On the Home Shopping Network and endlessly repeated infomercials and two-minute ads — the call-this-number-and-buy-it-now style of marketing known as “direct response…”

I don’t find Pabst ugly at all, but the boxer-mix won the title at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Northern California.  The dog’s owner got $1600, which might be used for dental work to fix that underbite.