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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
‘Empathy’ Is Code for Judicial Activism — What damage did Democrats suffer when they attacked Miguel Estrada? — Printer — Friendly — Both President Barack Obama and Republicans get something they want from the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Are Uneasy — WASHINGTON — In nearly 11 years as a federal appeals court judge, President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, has never directly ruled on whether the Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion.
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Rasmussen Reports:
87% Expect Sotomayor Will Be Confirmed, 45% Say She Should Be — Eighty-seven percent (87%) of voters nationwide believe Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice. That figure includes 59% who believe her confirmation is Very Likely.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Positive Initial Reaction to Sotomayor Nomination — Americans believe intellect, experience most important in Obama's choice — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' first reactions to the news of President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court are decidedly …
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Sonia Sotomayor ‘La Raza member’ — American Bar Association lists Obama choice as part of group — As President Obama's Supreme Court nominee comes under heavy fire for allegedly being a “racist,” Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza …
Mike Allen / The Politico:Sotomayor ‘fight’ could fizzle
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings — Evidence appears to be mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Repubicans. What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere …
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Dealergate: Stats demonstrate that Chrysler Dealers likely shuttered on a partisan basis … How did the U.S. government's “car czar” decide which Chrysler dealers to close and which would remain open? No one appears to know, not even the President of Chrysler:
Michelle Malkin:
Dealergate and the MSM — I talked about Dealergate on Fox and Friends this morning. Will try and get the video clip up later today. I made sure to credit bloggers Doug Ross and Joey Smith, who took the lead in probing the relationship between political considerations and Chrysler dealerships targeted …
Telegraph:
Abu Ghraib abuse photos ‘show rape’ — Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged. — At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another …
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
National security adviser downplays N. Korea threat — President Obama's national security adviser on Wednesday said that North Korea's recent nuclear detonation and missile tests are not “an imminent threat” to the safety and security of the United States.
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
The Peter Principle — We hang together or hang separately. … All of us, every single person regardless of political persuasion who reads this, have a tendency to deny our friends and fellow travelers at times. All of us. — Peter, under pressure and fear, denied Christ not just once, but three times.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: O'Reilly smears Hot Air — Ah, there's nothing like yanking a comment out of context and using it to smear the entire site, even though neither Ed nor I have ever referred to Obama as “Hussein.” Bonus points to O'R for referring to the comment in question as a “blog posting” even though it's anything but.
Quinnipiac University:
Specter Tops Toomey By 9 Pts. In Pennsylvania Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; New Democratic Senator Has Big Primary Lead — Former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey, the likely Republican challenger in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race, has gained some ground and now trails newly-converted Democratic …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:EXCLUSIVE: Sestak Intends To Run For Senate
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Patti Domm / Market Insider Blog:
New Investor Worry: Treasury Selloff Spiking Interest Rates — The stock market is watching the bond market, wary a spike in interest rates will derail a fragile economic recovery and snuff the market's rally. — Stocks tumbled Wednesday, but the real drama was in Treasurys and mortgages.
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James Warren / Atlantic Correspondents:
Shhhh. Newspaper publishers are quietly holding a very, very important conclave today. Will you soon be paying for online content? — Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future.
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Kathleen M. Howley / Bloomberg:
Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures, 30-Year Rates Increase — Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures rose to records in the first quarter and home-loan rates jumped to the highest since March as the government's effort to revive the housing market lost momentum.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Rings Up Cash Among the Stars — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The state budget may be severely overdrawn, but the California political A.T.M. seems to be working just fine. — President Obama arrived at a back-to-back fund-raising dinner and concert on Wednesday night and raised $4 million for the Democratic National Committee.
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