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Young people who want to spend their college years to undergoing radical intellectual transformations do so typically through the study of liberal arts. No other academic scheme is able to challenge the preconceived notions that young people have in quite the same way as the introspective, penetrating dialogues found in Plato’s Republic or in Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Only within the course listings of the liberal arts infrastructure would burgeoning humanists be able to find such prime opportunities to alter how they think, feel, and live. The study of Greek philosophy and psychology are highly valued disciplines, but what...

Television star Judge Judy filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, charging Hartford attorney John Haymond with using her image in advertisements for his firm without her permission. The lawsuit filed by Judith Sheindlin, whose show has been broadcast since 1996, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages from Haymond.

Television’s Judge Judy filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Connecticut personal-injury lawyer, alleging that he used her image without authorization in advertisements that falsely suggested she had endorsed his firm. The lawsuit filed in federal court seeks more than $75,000 in damages from Hartford attorney John Haymond and his firm. Judith Sheindlin, a retired Family Court judge who has starred in “Judge Judy” for 18 years, said this is the first time she has filed a lawsuit against anyone. She said the unauthorized use of her name and image is “outrageous” and requires action. …

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Popular television judge Judy Sheindlin – better known as “Judge Judy” – told Megyn Kelly Friday on "The Kelly File" that “government is there to serve us. Not the other way around." Judge Judy didn’t stop there, also questioning whether the welfare state has allowed people to become too dependent on government.

AMONG the ads for toothpaste and dish detergent, the loyal viewers of daytime television are seeing a new pitch: Support President Obama. Judge Judy, in fact, has become one of the favourite venues for the Obama campaign and its allies to reach sympathetic voters. When the courtroom reality show featuring a sharp-tongued former judge airs in swing states, it often comes with ads telling viewers that Republican candidate Mitt Romney uses tax havens and as a businessman has shipped jobs overseas. The show is considered an ideal vehicle for commercials pushing the president's re-election because such courtroom programs are watched...

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Here is an example of why this country is going broke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYH6npvlIo

An incoherent Judge Judy told shocked audience members she "needed to stop" one of her made-for-TV cases because she was "not feeling well," RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. Judge Sheindlin was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday morning after she suddenly started saying things that didn't make sense, a studio insider revealed. "She was just sitting on the stand during her show taping and she started saying things that didn't make any sense," a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com, exclusively. "She said, 'I need to stop, I'm not feeling well.'" PHOTOS: Couples We’d Like To See! The source...

Judge Judy Sheindlin was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday morning "feeling nauseous" and suffering "intestinal discomfort", The Los Angeles City Fire Department confirmed to RadarOnline.com that a paramedic ambulance was dispatched to the KTLA Studios in Hollywood, where Judge Judy tapes her show, at 9:12 a.m. today. A 911 call was made and paramedics responded to a "medical call" and then transported the 68-year-old judge to a local hospital. "The judge was feeling nauseous and had some intestinal discomfort and decided to go to the hospital to get it checked out," Judge Judy's rep, Gary Rosen, told RadarOnline.com...

Move over, Oprah -- there's a new daytime queen in town. "Judge Judy" was daytime's top-rated show last season -- knocking "Oprah" off its perch for the first time since the 2000-2001 TV season. For the 2009-10 season, "Judge Judy" averaged 6.5 million viewers -- 600,000 more viewers, on average, than "Oprah," according to Nielsen. The two shows go head to head at 4 p.m. here in New York ("Judy" on Ch. 2, "Oprah" on Ch. 7). Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/judge_judy_knocks_oprah_off_top_AVkY89z91qr8srHhdoCkAM#ixzz0zpAkJ1I3

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...