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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 …
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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.
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W.H. urged to address ‘racist’ charge — Some Democrats and political analysts are urging the White House to shift course and concede that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made an error when she suggested in 2001 that Hispanic women would make better judges than white men.
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‘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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Talking Points Memo, Matthew Yglesias, Los Angeles Times, RHRealityCheck.org, Washington Monthly, Commentary, The Washington Independent, The Plank, USA Today, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Salon, Taylor Marsh, Think Progress, PrairiePundit, Swampland, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Shakesville and Bench Memos
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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 …
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Only Republicans Can Drive Latinos to the Democrats — The Democratic Strategist notes Bill Pascoe's CQ Politics article “Did Obama Just Use the Sotomayor Nomination To Lock in Florida?” The piece notes that not only is Florida's Hispanic population large and growing …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alas, a blog, In the Right, Democratic Strategist and America's Voice Blog
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First GOP senator pledges vote against Sotomayor
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Washington Times, Washington Post, TalkLeft, New York Times, Forbes, DownWithTyranny! and TPMDC
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Washington Sketch: What Did Sotomayor Mean by That?
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New York Times, Commentary, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Foundry, Reuters, Bookworm Room and DailyHowler.com
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THERE IS NO CAR-DEALER CONSPIRACY.... A whole lot of right-wing blogs are worked up today over a report about the political affiliations of Chrysler dealers who've been shut down. … Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), who has a dealership that will close, called this “an outrage.”
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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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JustOneMinute, EconLog, PoliBlog, Clusterstock, Outside The Beltway, Megan McArdle, Atlas Shrugs, Wake up America, The Strata-Sphere, Gateway Pundit, LewRockwell.com Blog, Liberal Values, Townhall.com, Stop The ACLU, PrairiePundit, Left in the West, Libertarian Republican and The Other McCain
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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 …
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Ace of Spades HQ, Washington Post, NewsBusters.org, Gateway Pundit and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
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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 …
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CBS News, Michael Calderone's Blog, Raw Story, FP Passport, D-Day, MoJo Blog Posts, TPMMuckraker, TBogg, Buck Naked Politics, Latest Open Salon Blog, Shakesville, The Washington Independent, American Prospect, Whiskey Fire, Obsidian Wings, New York Magazine, At-Largely, Ben Smith's Blog, Think Progress, Big Brass Blog, The Daily Dish, Informed Comment and Don Surber
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Pentagon denies report Iraq prison photos show rape — The Pentagon on Thursday denied a British newspaper report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Barack Obama wants to block, include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse.
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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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Firedoglake, The Mahablog, World-O-Crap, Whiskey Fire, Wonkette, GOP 12, Salon, Sadly, No! and alicublog
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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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Sestak: Not Even Obama Can Talk Me Out Of Challenging Specter — In another sign of his determination to challenge Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic primary, Joe Sestak just told me in an interview that not even a personal plea from President Obama himself could dissuade him from making the race.
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Washington Monthly, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, BitsBlog, Politics Daily, TPMDC, Newshoggers.com and QandO
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Kicking & Screaming: Journo Dragged From Near AF1 — A reporter for a small newspaper was forcibly removed from a press area near Air Force One shortly before President Barack Obama arrived at Los Angeles International Airport to depart California early Thursday.
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Senator Nelson becomes target of ad campaign — OMAHA — Sen. Ben Nelson is being targeted in a mailing and Internet ad campaign asking people to withhold their political contributions to him and other members of Congress. — The campaign takes issue with the Nebraska Democrat's opposition …
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Centrist Dem under fire for opposing Obama healthcare
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FBI planning a bigger role in terrorism fight — Bureau agents will gather evidence to ensure that criminal prosecutions of alleged terrorists are an option. The move is a reversal of the Bush administration's emphasis on covert CIA actions. — Reporting from Washington …
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TalkLeft, The Enterprise Blog, Weekly Standard, The BLT, Hot Air, The Seminal, Stop The ACLU, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Don Surber and PrairiePundit
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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.
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Salon, Right Wing News, American Power, Riehl World View, Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
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Costs of dismissed Palin ethics complaints pile up — Personnel board member says tab is “close to about a third of a million dollars.” — scockerham@adn.com — The Alaska Personnel Board, clearly frustrated with the pile of ethics complaints filed against Gov. Sarah Palin, wants to publicize the cost of dealing with them.
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Please uncover your face. It's our custom — Why are women's faces concealed in East London but not in Damascus? — Funny to return from Lebanon, Syria and Turkey - where women go unveiled - and return to Britain, the land of the full hijab. I see more women with their faces covered in Tower Hamlets than I did in Damascus.
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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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Michael Calderone's Blog