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More Lessons Learned from Politics: You Lose When You Criticize and Demean Your Potential Client's L

Many of you have friends working for companies that already have a lawyer You want to know how to get those potential clients to switch to your firm. Like many things, it is easier to tell you how NOT to do it than to tell you how to do it. Once again you can learn how not to do it from politics Here is a case in point. How many of you think you will convince a client to hire you by mocking or...

Tasha Kheiriddin: Letting the left claim the cerebral high ground (Full Comment)

"You’re a conservative woman. So what do you think of Sarah Palin'” I always cringe at that question, usually coming from someone on the left, because I find myself in the annoying position of having to criticize one of the few high-profile women in right-wing politics. On the plus side, Ms. Palin is a tenacious politician, refusing to fade away after the Republicans’ electoral drubbing of 2008.

Concierge Politics (ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES)

Should a gay politician spend his political career denying gays various rights? Roy Ashburn has done so : Sen. Roy Ashburn, whose personal life became the subject of rumors in the wake of a DUI arrest last week, said today he is gay, but he defended his numerous votes against gay rights bills. ... Gay-rights advocates seized on the news to point out Ashburn's votes against gay rights legislation...

The Obligation to Challenge False Claims (Atheist Revolution)

I respect the right to free expression, but I will not necessarily respect the content of what someone decides to say. A racist statement, for example, is one that I not only will not respect but against which I may speak out rather forcefully. A factually incorrect statement, presented as fact, also deserves no respect. Yes, you have the right to speak your mind, the right to be wrong, and even...

CAPITAL CULTURE: Palin candidate, pundit, celeb? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

NEW YORK -- For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been one of the most famous political and cultural figures in the country. Even by that standard, though, last week was an extraordinary one.

Palin notes irony of using Canada health care (Examiner)

Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care.

Palin pans Canada's health care system (Denver Post)

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has criticized Canada's health care program, saying the socialized system should be dismantled in favor of free enterprise.

Palin defends writing notes on her hand - God did it, why can't I? (NY Daily News)

Sarah Palin has offered up a new excuse for using her hand to scribble crib notes God did it, too.

Palin defends writing notes on her hand - God did it, why can't I? (NYDailyNews)

Sarah Palin has offered up a new excuse for using her hand to scribble crib notes God did it, too.

Sarah Palin and Other Republican Stars Still Fetishize the Gipper — What Would He Think of Them? (

This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune. While Friedrich Nietzsche was often critical of Judaism, he was also a virulent opponent of the rising anti-Semitic political movement in Germany. For example, he wrote the following in a letter to his sister because he objected to her relationship with Bernhard Förster, whom she later married: It is [...]

Newsbusters’ Noel Sheppard Clutches His Pearls (Oliver Willis)

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters falls right on the fainting couch because of an off-color joke Kathy Griffin made about Sarah Palin. This is what is acceptable to say about a married woman with five children as well as about an esteemed Senator who almost gave his life for our country? Where are the feminists and the NOW [...]

The NY 29th (Wampum)

The resignation of Eric Massa creates an open race in the district just west of Ithaca. Rep. Massa had come around to viewing the tobacco taxation issue, that is, the State's claims that it could tax economic activity on the Seneca Reservation, as contrary to public policy. A good thing in a Representative. In the 2008 race, John R Kuhl Jr (R) raised $1,500,000, picking up 49% of the vote, to...

Watch: Sarah Palin Thinks She Is God (Towleroad)

She says about the inked stigmata she was caught sporting at a Tea Party Convention last month: "If what was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us...In that passage...

Sarah Palin Has A God Complex (Oliver Willis)

She claims it was ok to write on her hand, because you know, God did it too.

Late weekending (BobFromBrockley)

Noone is illegal Paul in Lancashire on Yarls Wood and Labour’s soul . Reconfiguring the left Reuben asks How should the left feel about social filth? Orwell and nationalism A critical view from Dave Semple , and a response from Carl Packman . Blair Derangement Syndrome Jeff on the pyschodynamics of the Chilcot Inquiry . Karadzic/Chomsky A post with must-read links from Graeme: Poison in the well...

Breaking GLBT News :: March 6, 2010 (WickedGayBlog.com)

Three Arrested in San Francisco for Anti-Gay BB Gun Attack Friday Mar 5, 2010 Three young men have been arrested in connection with a drive-by BB gun attack against a gay man in San Francisco. Online chat sites say the three are Muslims. Thousands march in Cape Town for gay rights in Africa Thousands of people took part in a raucous gay pride march Saturday in Cape Town, South Africa’s gay...

Radical homosexuals ate my baby! (Alternate Brain)

Friday Morford . Un-effing-believable. Worse. Maybe too effing believable. Behold, an item known henceforth as the National Impact Survey of the Radical Homosexual Agenda in California Public Schools, as recently and furtively received/discovered by yours truly, your humble and sexually perverted and imperfectly liberal, very-straight-but-very-gay-rights-supporting satire columnist, in a...

EXCLUSIVE: Bravo TV Star To Pose Nude In Playgirl (RadarOnline.com)

One of the stars of "Make Me A Supermodel " is going full frontal for Playgirl magazine, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. Levi Johnston Nearly Naked-- Playgirl Releases Sexy New Shots! Film Magic read more

California Students Rise Up Against Massive Education Cuts (AFL-CIO Weblog)

Californians by the tens of thousands spoke as one yesterday demanding the primacy of public education in the state’s budget. Up and down the state, students held scores of demonstrations, rallies, marches and teach-ins at governmental centers, universities, community colleges, high schools and elementary schools. The actions come as the 2010-2011 budget process looms and Republican Gov. Arnold...

What Does Sarah Palin and Bush Have To Do With the Blind Side Movie? (Opinionated Catholic)

Well a lot if you believe this incredible stupid piece that was in the U.K Times. Do these folks live in an alternative reality? Get Religion has ‘Blind Side’ paranoia in full flight

Don't miss this interview with Marc Morano (Tom Nelson)

#18) INTERVIEW WITH MARC MORANO: PART II – Naming Names (Bill McKibben, Exxon Mobil, George Monbiot, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Romm, Dan Weiss, Robert Murtha, Mike Mann, Ed Begley, Jr., Andy Revkin, and Ralph Cicerone) | The Benshi [Check out this selection of questions from alarmist Randy Olson]: RO: Okay, so let’s start with this — do you have doubts about President Obama’s birth certificate?

Texas primary: Kay Bailey Hutchison couldn't pull a Sarah Palin (Christian Science Monitor)

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison failed in her GOP primary challenge to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. History shows it's difficult to oust a sitting governor. Sarah Palin, in 2006, was the last to do it.

Palin snaps up Oscar swag (Denver Post)

Sarah Palin showed up Wednesday at a celebrity gift suite with two daughters, her brother and an entourage in tow and loaded up with promotional cosmetic and fashion items being given away during Oscar week.

Sarah Palin loads up on free stuff at gift suite (Arizona Republic)

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Sarah Palin showed up at a Hollywood gift suite with two daughters, her brother and a small entourage in tow and loaded up with free promotional cosmetic and fashion items being given away in connection with Oscar-week festivities....

Sarah Palin nude! (Pinklatex Blog & Comedy Radio Webc)

You keep asking, and I kept saying NO!!! Well I felt bad, so are few… enjoy… scroll down is it real'? maybe not… again… enjoy

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