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From my buddy Juanita Jean at the World's Most Dangerous Hair Salon, here's a little response to Rush's latest fire bomb:Posted without further comment....

Tonight, Keith gave a special comment about the ongoing controversy over the Susan B. Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood for politically expedient reasons.  Saying what we are saying, much more eloquently than us, Keith asserts that Karen Handel resigning is not enough.  Have a look:...

Karen Handel, new Susan B. Komen senior vice president of government relations, recruited by former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, and architect of the organization's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood, resigned in disgrace today.  The firestorm of outrage generated by her push to stop funding breast cancer screening for low income women blew up in Handel's face last week, and cost her her job today.  As we've been reporting on over the last week, the...

Ari Fleischer, press secretary to GWB who led the message war that took us into Iraq, has confirmed that he was hired by the Susan B. Comen Foundation to recruit a senior vice president of government relations, the position now filled by anti-choice zealot, Karen Handel.  Fleischer, well known conservative pundit, is believed to have been involved in Komen's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood by reverse engineering a new rule to single out the women's...

UPDATE: A Komen Foundation representative has claimed that it has no relationship with Discount Gun Sales, the online gun dealer, to sell the pink accented handgun.  Spokesperson Andrea Radar, responding to this latest controversy, said, the foundation has "no record of receiving money from this company."  If that's true, that begs the question about why Komen didn't shut down sales of this gun?  Discount Gun Sales has confirmed they have been selling the gun for...

UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry has referred to himself as a prophet in an interview with Fox News.(Above---The Prophet Elijah Receives Bread and Water from an Angel by Peter Paul Reubens (1577-1640). I suppose it is possible that Governor Perry lives on bread and water in the $10,000 a month Governor's Mansion he lives in at taxpayer expense.) Here is what Governor Perry said---CAVUTO: You have kind of like the Chris Christie phenomenon: very popular outside your state, still popular but not...

I would love to know more about Mike Huckabee. What I know is troubling enough. I know from the 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination that he's a religious bigot who took this shot at Mitt Romney's Mormonism:"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"Now I know he's a panderer who knows that in able to get the Republican nomination in 2012 he has to play to the nutballs who will vote in...

There is a fight taking place about who should be the next Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.The incumbent Speaker, Republican Joe Straus, was elected two years ago with the help of Democrats in the House.With Republicans gaining many seats in this month's election, some Republicans are calling for someone they feel would a more conservative Speaker to take the office from Mr. Straus.Speaker Straus is Jewish.Not surprisingly given the people involved in this...

I have taught a lot of workshops over the years, and one of the components that I cover when I deliver a workshop on change management is something called the "Emotional Contagion Theory."In the March 2005 issue of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Richard Saavedra and Thomas Sy at California State University at Long Beach examined the effects of a leader's mood on a group. They took 189 volunteer undergraduates, divided them into 63 groups of...