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During its annual meeting at the end of the month, New York State Bar Association had planned a presentation, “Their Point of View: Tips From the Other Side,” which was described as a “distinguished panel of gentlemen from the legal field” who would “discuss the strengths and weaknesses of women in the areas of communication, negotiation, medication [sic], arbitration, organization and women’s overall management of their legal work.” State bar president Michael Getnick …

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The Washington Post reports that “[h]undreds of prisoners held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan will for the first time have the right to challenge their indefinite detention and call witnesses in their defense under a new review system being put in place this week”:
The new system will be applied to the more than 600 Afghans held at the Bagram military base, and will mark the first substantive change in …

Cross-posted with permission from The Stiletto, a political blog.  The author presents her own opinions, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
As Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) and his oft-modified unlimited hangout continue day-after-day, it’s now impossible to ignore his staggering marital and political indiscretions, nicely summed up by Washington Post media analyst-cum-political pundit Howard Kurtz:
a) His “Appalachian Trail” disappearance
b) His choice of an Argentine lover
c) His stream-of-consciousness press conference
d) His wife hanging him out to dry, especially after he asked permission to visit his gal pal
e) His endless apologizing
f) The …

A man’s wife or POSSLQ gets pissed off at him for leaving his dirty dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the dishwasher or washing them himself, or shoving a week’s worth of dirty socks under the bed so she is forced to crawl underneath on all fours to retrieve them on laundry day, or watching TV instead of getting dinner started when she had to stay late at the office and has come home bone tired. That can only mean one thing: She’s on the rag.
So “self-preservation” …

During the final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama at Long Island’s Hofstra University moderator Bob Schieffer asked about the abased tone of the campaign, and the GOP contender made this cryptic, inside baseball reference: “In fact, some T-shirts that are very… unacceptable.”
What T-shirts? McCain never says. And unless you watch FOX News or regularly read political Web sites, you would not know what the heck he’s taking about.
Unacceptable? The Stiletto is perplexed and dismayed that McCain has never defended the honor of his running mate, who has been …

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, thinks the MSM is being too kind to Gov. Sarah Palin and her performance in the veep debate with Sen. Joe Biden: “[M]uch of the media saw a credible performance. …  In effect, columnists, bloggers, talk-show hosts and digital lamplighters everywhere have adopted the ethic of the political consultant: what works, works. It did not matter what Palin said. It only mattered how she said it …”
Contrary to Cohen’s assertions, a new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that Americans …

The Stiletto offers this photo of an “action figure” of vice presidential candidate AK Gov. Sarah Palin without comment. Another equally offensive version of the doll is also being rushed to market by HeroBuilders.com.

Consider these headlines:

Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, September 5, 2008
High-Profile Foreign Policy Experts Guide McCain, Obama, The Statesman, August 10, 2008
A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy, The New York Times, July 18, 2008  
Obama’s Policy Team Loaded With All-Stars, Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2007
Obama Taps Influential Foreign Policy Experts, Chicago Sun-Times, May 10, 2007

The Washington Post’s headline suggests Sarah Palin is being tutored by foreign policy experts, rather than being ”guided” or ”advised,” as John McCain and Barack Obama are. Even when Obama was a …

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Sen. John McCain gave perhaps the best speech of his life. He was expressive, relaxed and very engaging, with much of his remarks devoted to a promise of a bi-partisan administration, and taking the Repub party back from Congressional legislators who had become corrupt, power-mad spendthrifts (you know who you are).
I cheered when he stuck it to those who questioned how Sarah Palin could raise a family of five children, including a …

Did anyone notice that …

During Sarah Palin’s speech accepting her party’s nomination for vice president, CNN and MSNBC kept cutting away to an over-the-shoulder shot that clearly showed the text scrolling on the TelePromTer? When Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech the week before, the cameras were trained on him and those Styrofoam Greek columns on the set.
In their post-mortems of Palin’s performance, two of the Fox News panelists – Mort Kondracke and Nina Easton – both made it a point to state that Palin’s speech was written for her …