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Gingrich: Sotomayor ‘racist,’ should withdraw nomination — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Rush Limbaugh isn't the only one calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Newt Gingrich is, too — and he's demanding that Obama's pick to the Supreme Court withdraw her nomination. — On Twitter, Gingrich pointed …
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White House Smacks Gingrich For Calling Sotomayor A Racist — The White House hit back at Newt Gingrich on Wednesday for a twitter post made by the former House Speaker accusing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor of being a racist. — Early on Wednesday, Gingrich put up a post …
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I was wrong about Sotomayor speech — The NYT has a link to the entire speech in which she made the comment about the “wise Latina” reaching a “better” verdict than “a white male who hasn't lived that life.” I'm still a bit troubled by the remark, but not in any important way.
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Sotomayor ‘fight’ could fizzle — Top Senate Republican strategists tell POLITICO that, barring unknown facts about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the GOP plans no scorched-earth opposition to her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice. — More than 24 hours after the White House unveiling …

On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Show Unease — WASHINGTON - In nearly 11 years as a federal appeals court judge, President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, never directly ruled on whether the Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion.
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Conservatives react to historic Supreme Court nominee by smearing …
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Sonia Sotomayor rejected the New Haven firefighters' claim …
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President Obama Tries To Play “Rope-the-Dopes” With Judge Sotomayor
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W.H. to Sotomayor critics: Be ‘careful’
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Gingrich Calls On Sotomayor To Withdraw Because She's A ‘Latina Woman Racist’

About That “Wise Latina” Statement
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Parody? — Are The Hill — and anti-Sotomayor operative Curt Levey …

Sonia Sotomayor and Identity Formation
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EXCLUSIVE: Sestak Intends To Run For Senate — Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is privately telling supporters that he intends to run for Senate, TPMDC has confirmed. — “He intends to get in the race,” says Meg Infantino, the Congressman's sister, who works at Sestak for Congress.
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It Sticks in My Craw — Most e-mailers were with me on the post on the pronunciation of Judge Sotomayor's name (and a couple griped about the whole Latina/Latino thing — English dropped gender in nouns, what, 1,000 years ago?). But a couple said we should just pronounce it the way the bearer …
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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE.... One of the low points in the right's criticism of Obama during the presidential campaign came in October, when some conservatives started complaining about the Democrat's pronunciation of “Pakistan,” with a soft “a.” — The National Review's Mark Stein complained …

Biden talks Irish poetry, gets in a dig at Obama's teleprompters at Air Force Academy — On Tuesday, he did the economic recovery thing, touting the environmentally friendly jobs that President Obama's $787-billion stimulus package is creating. — Then, as the Ticket reported Tuesday …
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It's Not About Bill — Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians.


Photos show President Barack Obama as Barry the freshman — Lisa Jack took pictures of the future president when he was an Occidental College student. — A public that wants to know everything about Barack Obama can thank Lisa Jack for a glimpse of what the future president …
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Video: O'Reilly smears Hot Air — Ah, there's nothing like yanking out 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.

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 …

Supervisor Asks Woman To Take Down American Flag — UPDATE: Hospital Says Woman May Re-Hang Flag (Read More Below) — MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) ― Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office? — For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.
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Inside America's (Mock) Attack on North Korea — Even the hawks say there's not much America can do, in response to North Korea's nuclear test. But that doesn't mean the U.S. military isn't prepping for a war with the Kim Jong-Il regime, just in case. — In March, American …
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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:
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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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