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KING: By the way, if you have questions or opinions on Prop 8, you can blog us as well. Judge Judy presided over the marriage of Michael Feinstein, the noted cabaret entertainer, who is starring now in a Christmas show in New York, when he married his long time love interest, and they're a gay couple. And there was a proposition on the ballot in California that would cancel what was placed in by the Supreme Court that gays could get married. That proposition passed. That, in essence, threw out gay marriages. First, those who were married, are they OK?...

Video of Quake During Taping of Judge Judy An earthquake halted the filming of many television programmes in LA. Even the usually unflappable Judge Judy lost her cool as tremors interrupted her show. The earthquake measured 5.4 on the Ritcher scale.

Judge Judy destroys an eBay scammer 10mins

IPod mom to plead case to Judge Judy September 23, 2006 BY DAN ROZEK Staff Reporter A suburban legal brawl over a missing iPod looks like it's going to be settled on national TV. An Aurora mom who filed a $335 small claims lawsuit after her 14-year-old daughter's iPod Nano vanished said Friday she's received notice that TV's "Judge Judy" wants to take the case. Melanie McCarthy said she's been told to fly to Los Angeles to present her case during an Oct. 5 taping of the nationally syndicated courtroom program, hosted by retired Judge Judith Sheindlin. "I'm very confident,"...

by Mark Finkelstein May 9, 2006 Some people might think that striking a police officer, and almost striking a police car while driving under the influence of . . . something, are serious offenses. Not Chris Matthews. Here's how Matthews introduced this evening's Hardball, running down the rap sheet of various government officials who have had run-ins with the law in recent times: "Tonight, putting on the squeeze, putting on the sleaze. Another House aide cops a plea in the Abramoff case. "Dusty" Foggo quits over the poker-and-prostitute scam. Bill Jefferson gets tagged by a witness wearing a wire. Claude...

Less than 24 hours after anti-Bush peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested for "unlawful conduct" at last night's State of the Union address, the charge is being dropped and federal officials are apologizing. "The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol. The policy and procedures were too vague," said Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer. "The failure to adequately prepare the officers is mine." Sheehan was taken into custody shortly after unzipping her jacket, revealing her T-shirt, which had the message, "2245 Dead. How many...

This is the tenth year on the air for a pillar of American jurisprudence: Judge Judy. Derided by some as the legal equivalent of a radio shock-jock, Judge Judy Sheindlin is something else entirely: America’s designated dresser-down, the keenest parser of baloney on television, the secular moralist whose belief in the law is matched only by her desire to let the callow cow-eyed products of the Grievance-American community know where they stand on the intellectual food chain. (Hint: plankton.) Sure, she shouts. Yes, she hectors. If her tongue drew blood they’d have to install gutters and drains on the set....

Ok, Harriet Miers has withdrawn. Who will be next? Whom should Bush nominate? Make your choice!

In another outing of Libs going to the Free Republic "well of ideas", it appears Leftist WaPo columnist Richard Cohen was influenced by something he read on our humble site. --snip-- Over the weekend I went to a party, where I was asked who I thought should succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Without hesitation I boldly gave my answer: Judge Judy. Is it possible he was reading the Rush Thread http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434709/posts?page=73#73 on 7/1. Considering the shortage of new ideas amongst the body politik liberal, I feel quite proud of my effect on an old liberal stooge. They...

I enjoy watching Judge Judy, when possible, and I saw a particularly interested episode the other day. A young white woman who works in a restaurant, as a waitress, was suing for medical compensation against a Mexican woman who attacked her in the restaurant because the waitress asked the woman's neice to extinguish her cigarette (she was in the non-smoking section and other customers had complained). The Mexican woman claimed that the young waitress had used racist slurs against her, which prompted the fight. It was hilarious to see how big a fool the woman made of herself: First, she...