Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann released a statement today saying she's formally requested of the Swiss consulate to have her Swiss citizenship withdrawn effective immediately.

Both Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan will attend this Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner as guests of Fox News.

BP may or may not be going bankrupt. But the hotels in Florida are certainly hurting. Potential visitors in the Midwest are being scared away by images of the coast mired in gunk. Deals to the rescue! Or… not?

Ladd Ehlinger Jr. is the conservative filmmaker behind that absurd advertisement for Alabama Agricultural Commission candidate Dale Peterson. He also makes weird, low-budget science fiction movies. One is a computer-animated adaptation of the book Flatland, starring Martin Sheen.

Maybe you remember Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James' flag-waving "We Speak English" ad. This spot from Republican Alabama Agricultural Commissioner candidate Dale Peterson makes James look like a gay Commie terrorist. Dramatic music! Guns! Horses! Drawling! God Bless America.

Silver Spoons star Ricky Schroder went to Washington, D.C. last week. "I met with the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and with the guys at the Pentagon to see if I could help them with anything entertainment related." God help us.

When we've seen dancing soldiers videos before, the gay references were in the eye of the beholder. Not so with these soldiers who say (or read?) "It's alright to be gay in the military," then dance to Ke$ha.

In a dusty storeroom in Afghanistan, seven soldiers stand in formation. Lady Gaga is on the sound system. They dance. Videos like these from the frontline are a far cry from candid camera hazing rituals that usually grab the spotlight.

The women of Maine are sick of men being allowed to take off their shirts on hot days, while women must keep their chests, with associated ornaments, hidden. A couple of dozen just staged a topless march about it.

Yesterday we met a group of nimble-footed U.S. soldiers who, in their free time in Afghanistan, remade Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video, with glorious results. Today, The Smoking Gun introduces us to the lip-syncing stars of the 82nd Airborne Division. [TSG]

This video shows a group of nimble-footed U.S. soldiers remaking the "Telephone" video. The result is magnificent. Alternating between regulation camo and spangled leotards, our men in Afghanistan swing their hips, snap their wrists, and twinkle their toes like pros.

NBC execs have either been watching a lot of Westerns, or have calculated that ridiculously overblown patriotism will get more viewers for the winter Olympics. In either case, two media-watchers are sick of the star-spangled blather.

It needed but this. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, who the AP describe as the "lover (never confirmed) of Anna Nicole Smith," and a "self-proclaimed member of European royalty," will try and fill Arnold Schwarzenegger's chair in the upcoming election.

Hearty Defamer congratulations go out to the estimated 40,000 immigrants acquiring their American citizenship today in Los Angeles. And even bigger kudos for making it the kind of party those Liberty Island underachievers in New York only dream of:

Since this photo is not brand new, I've been waiting for two weeks for an excuse to use it. And now I have one: it's the end of the day on Friday! AWSOME! [Asylum]