Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is touting congressional Democrats' push to make college more affordable for young people, including those without legal residency.

WASHINGTON —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who stripped embattled Rep. William Jefferson of his seat on a powerful tax committee last year, is expected to appoint him to the Homeland Security panel, infuriating some Republicans who charge he may be a security risk.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who yanked embattled Rep. William J. Jefferson off a powerful tax committee last year, has decided to put him on the Homeland Security panel, aides to the Louisiana Democrat confirmed yesterday.

(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA An underground trend is attracting a number of college students - naked parties and the name says it all.

These nude parties are held all over the country and CBS's The Insider was able to obtain undercover photos.

College parties are notorious for pushing the envelope. Animal House is one thing but this however is another.

"The way it was billed was don't be a prude, come to the nude party," said a Penn student who did not want to be identified.

The junior at Penn agreed to talk to CBS 3 if we disguised his face and voice since only his dad knows about the parties he has come to love.

"It's a very clever set up. It's a house with four stories," said the student.

He says the first floor is for people with clothes, the 2nd floor is underwear and the third and fourth floor are reserved for those who choose to bare all.

"I just went wearing a hat, a bow tie and an overcoat, so I went straight to the 3rd floor," explained the student.

No more than a hundred or so people attend these parties at one time. So it's no wonder there are many students at Penn who've never heard of them.

"Not that I heard of, if there are I'd like to go," said one Penn student.

The Insider recently reported on these parties after a New York Magazine writer went to one undercover at Yale.

That's where, years ago, President Bush's daughter Barbara is reported to have gone to a naked party.

"I think most parents who send their kids to an Ivy League school would be pretty disturbed by what I saw," said the writer.

One woman attended a nude party and says some students did hear some pretty wild stories.

"One room will turn into basically the sex room," said the woman.

But according to reports, most naked parties are sex free. Our Penn student says he never saw people cross the line.

When asked if it was sexually charged though, the Penn student replied by saying, "There is somewhat of sexual nature, optional," said the student, adding, "A lot of people do go home together after the party. It's an atmosphere that encourages people getting together."

So why are these kids so comfortable being naked? Are the sexually charged messages from Hollywood having an impact?

Sex therapist Chris Fariello doesn't think so.

He says the parties are just a vehicle for them to rebel against society's views of nudity and sexuality.

"I think people aren't going to these parties because they want to experience others. I think they're going to express themselves and this is a great way for them to come out of their shell or express side of them they don't normally get to express may never get another chance like that," said Fariello.

"I just don't think there's anything to be ashamed about with human body, wanted to be in a situation where people were comfortable with themselves and wanted to be natural," said the Penn student.

When asked about the President's daughter Barbara attending one of these parties at Yale, the White House said it does not comment on their personal lives.

Penn officials would not comment on the parties either.

National socialism is a vague and often hard to define term that has been used in self-description by a number of political movements. However, most movements have two things in common:

1. They are nationalist
2. They are socialist

  That definition is from Wikipedia, but it's dead on accurate. It's also the kiss of death for the American Revolution and the two great documents from it, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America.  For a form of socialism will be in direct conflict with the ideals and laws of both documents.  "Elections have consequences".
   
I read this story tonight:

The Corner" at the National Review Online reports that at a Republican luncheon yesterday, White House adviser Karl Rove was overheard explaining the Bush amnesty immigration plan by saying, "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas." Excepts from "The Corner" article below:There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where "respectable Republican cloth coat" once actually meant something. But it does seem to be necessary to explain.    Rove's comment illustrates how the Bush-McCain-Giuliani-Hagel-Martinez-Brownback-Huckabee approach to immigration strikes at the very heart of self-government. It is precisely Rove's son (and my own, and those of the rest of us in the educated elite) who should work picking tomatoes or making beds, or washing restaurant dishes, or mowing lawns, especially when they're young, to help them develop some of the personal and civic virtues needed for self-government. It's not that I want my kids to make careers of picking tomatoes; Mexican farmworkers don't want that either. But we must inculcate in our children, especially those likely to go on to high-paying occupations, that there is no such thing as work that is beneath them.

   Now, I whole heartedly agree with the last two sentences of that story.  I, and you, see everyday, in "the Mall', at schools, colleges, our children who live in their MTV, IPod world who think that the World is owed to them.  That consequences are for other people.  That work is something poor people do and never them.   
  But those are the jobs exactly what the especially, well off caucasion 'youth' need to be doing in order to have a well rounded education about life.  Experience is the best teacher!!!!
  Now what has me steamed is that arrogance of the upper echelons of the RNC.  They are obviously not taking anything seriously, immigration, terrorism, the homeless, jobless.  Is it any wonder that the Democrat(ic)s won so big in 2006.  With that kind of attitude....2008 is going to be a cake walk for the Democratic Presidential nominee.