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Whether it's "Team Heidi" or "Real Girls Eat Meat," you know celebrities care deeply about something when they put it on a T-shirt.

That's why we couldn't ignore the fact that many Tinseltown types seem to be wearing gear in support of Sen. Barack Obama's quest for the presidency. Who knew?

The pendulum always swings both ways, however. So we will await the inevitable crush of McCain '08 hats, hoodies, and decorative neck tattoos sure to turn up soon.

Until they do, though, check out our Team Obama gallery and see who supports him.

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Just in time for China's moment in the spotlight, some of the biggest voices in showbiz are taking another stand on behalf of Tibet.

Sting, John Mayer and Dave Matthews are among the rockers lending their musicianship to Songs for Tibet, an all-star album intended to draw more attention to the Asian province's ongoing struggle for national sovereignty.

The album, which will also feature tunes by Alanis Morissette, Moby and Garbage, will have a global release on iTunes Aug. 5, three days before the 2008 Summer Olympics get underway in Beijing. Hard copies will hit stores Aug. 12.

"We wanted to express our support for the Tibetan people and their message of peace through music, a fundamental means of expression, at a time when the eyes of the world are on China," said the Art of Peace Foundation's Michael Wohl, whose Dalai Lama-supporting nonprofit is behind the CD project.

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Chuck Norris doesn't play games.

He disables them with a roundhouse and then makes them tearfully admit defeat.

Or so we would imagine after spending time on Chuck Norris Facts, the site that posits, "Chuck Norris does not get frostbite, Chuck Norris bites frost," and other ridiculous odes to the Walker, Texas Ranger star's straight-faced badassery.

But the martial arts star who doesn't wear a watch (because "he decides what time it is") has decided it's time for a mobile video game, Chuck Norris' Bring On the Pain.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named animal lover Bo Derek to the seven-member California Horse Racing Board, which oversees all of the state's racing and betting action.

The 1980s-era bathing beauty will get her feet wet Thursday, when she's scheduled to attend her first meeting at Del Mar Racetrack, near San Diego. The post, which was confirmed by the state Senate, pays $100 per day, maybe enough for extra oats for her own stable full of Iberian horses.

But Derek, who has been lobbying Congress for the past five years to ban the slaughter of wild horses, could hardly have found a more suitable role.

In addition to being a spokeswoman for the Animal Welfare Institute, in 2002 she penned the memoir Riding Lessons: Everything That Matters in Life I Learned from Horses and is the founder of her own line of fine pet-care products, Bless the Beasts.

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Remember when Naomi Campbell did the “Thriller” dance with a bunch of CGI lizards for some drink we still have no interest in? Yeah, she’s got nothing on these guys.

Anyway, she’s doing more ads for SoBe, which is where this strange photograph above comes from. Plus, she's got some other things on her mind, as well...

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For those of you who can't envision an election season without Rush Limbaugh's fair and balanced political perspective, fear not.

On the eve of The Rush Limbaugh Show's 20th anniversary, the conservative talk-radio host has signed an estimated $400 million deal with Clear Channel Communications that will keep him on the air through 2016, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

According to Limbaugh, that hefty sum includes a $100 million signing bonus. His existing $225 million, nine-year contract was due to expire in 2009.

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The former president of the United States of 24, Dennis Haysbert, says he may have helped make Barack Obama's candidacy possible.

"If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people," says the actor. "And I mean the American people from across the board—from the poorest to the richest, every color and creed, every religious base—to prove the possibility there could be an African-American president, a female president, any type of president that puts the people first."

As ardent supporters of his fake presidency, we won't argue with him. Still, he may have his history a little askew: Hadn't Morgan Freeman already been president during the Deep Impact administration?

Senator Obama seems to think so. Upon meeting Freeman back in April, Obama said, "This guy was president before I was."

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The Supreme Court, that is.

In a letter released today, rocker Ted Nugent blasted four unnamed Supreme Court justices—though presumably he means Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer—for dissenting in a ruling that overturned a Washington, D.C., law that had banned handguns.

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