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G. Gordon Liddy On Sotomayor: 'Let's Hope That The Key Conferences Aren't When She's Menstruating' — Yesterday on his radio show, conservative host G. Gordon Liddy continued the right wing's all-out assault on Judge Sonia Sotomayor. First, just like Tom Tancredo, Liddy slammed Sotomayor's affiliation …
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Republicans, Let's Play Grown-Up — Sotomayor's hearings are an opportunity for serious debate. — Printer — Friendly — “Let's play grown-up.” When I was a child, that's what we said when we ran out of things to do like playing potsie or throwing rocks in the vacant lot.
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Top Republican calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments ‘terrible’ — (CNN) — A top Senate Republican is taking aim at recent statements from conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich suggesting Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a “racist.”
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Steele: GOP Needs To Stop “Slammin' And Rammin'” On Sotomayor — RNC chair Michael Steele, guest-hosting on Bill Bennett's radio show early this morning, repeatedly distanced himself from Republicans and conservatives who have been harshly attacking Sonia Sotomayor, saying the assault risked damaging the party.
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W.H. concedes Sotomayor misspoke — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to tamp down criticism over controversial comments Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in 2001, regarding whether a Latino judge might render “better” rulings than a white judge, saying the judge …
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Blown circuits: Rove levels attack on Sotomayor based on false claim that she and Alito were colleagues — SUMMARY: Karl Rove claimed that he “got wind of” allegations that Sonia Sotomayor “was combative, opinionated, argumentative” while reviewing the record of her “colleague on the court” Samuel Alito.
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A Republican Response to Sonia Sotomayor: Criticize, Then Confirm — Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci. — Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn. …
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On the NRSC Endorsement — Thanks very much to Sen. Cornyn for his willingness to reach out to us on this issue. — Erick — Two and a half years ago, the Republican Party suffered a major blow in the 2006 midterm elections as the Democrats regained control of Congress and began laying …
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Impartiality and Empathy — Michael Gerson unwittingly reveals the problem of the distinction between impartiality and empathy that Sotomayor's opponents are trying to maintain. Gerson, like Charles Krauthammer, argues that the law should be applied as it is, impartially …
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Forget Whether She Qualifies as a “Racist.” …
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LEAVE IT TO LIDDY.... And here I thought Tom Tancredo …
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The AP's Sharon Theimer and her Sotomayor hatchet job
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David Frum (American Enterprise Institute) …
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Did Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity? — Yesterday we showed you video of Erich “Mancow” Muller, a Chicago-based right-wing shockjock, appearing as a guest on Keith Olbermann's show to discuss his being waterboarded. He claimed it led to an ideological conversion!
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Bored Bloggers Are All Wet — I am not a magician. Many news cameras were there! — Obviously, it was on the radio and I wasn't in prison. I'm also not a radicalized Muslim terrorist. But it was not a hoax! I repeat: NOT A HOAX. — We kept telling management, the insurance companies …
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Lefty blogs punked by Mancow “torture” stunt(?); Updated — Last week, liberal blogs went ga-ga over radio talk show host Mancow's waterboarding stunt. — Matthew Yglesias wet his pants. He featured Mancow's photo and the blaring headline: “Conservative Radio Host Has Himself Waterboard …
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EXCLUSIVE: Career lawyers overruled on voting case — Black Panthers had wielded weapons, blocked polls — Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding …
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More Preferential Treatment? — Stuart Taylor digs up another example from Sotomayor's Princeton days: … I went to Princeton but somehow I never got to teach my own class, or grade my own work. One wonders how Sotomayor judged her work in that class, and whether the grade helped or hindered her efforts to graduate with honors.
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Netanyahu: “What the hell do they want from me?” — Last night, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told journalists that the Obama administration “wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a confidante.
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Inside Cover — Muslim Group Shuts Down Conservative Conference — The manager of a prominent Nashville hotel cancelled a contract with a conservative foundation to hold a conference this weekend on radical Islam, apparently after learning that the group would feature a keynote address …
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After Waterboarding: How to Make Terrorists Talk? — Correction Appended: May 29, 2009 — The most successful interrogation of an Al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or “walling” and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal …
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I Guess “The Use Of Sugar Free Cookies Saved Lives” Just Didn't Sound Tough Enough
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Liberaltarians? — Building bridges on economics, foreign policy and civil liberties. — I recently attended a dinner with a group of prominent liberal and libertarian bloggers to see if there is a community of interest that might lead to closer cooperation on some issues.
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Administration blocks helicopters for Israel due to civilian casualties in Gaza — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has blocked Israel's request for advanced U.S.-origin attack helicopters. — Government sources said the administration has held up Israel's request for the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter.
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The Empathy Issue — The American legal system is based on a useful falsehood. It's based on the falsehood that this is a nation of laws, not men; that in rendering decisions, disembodied, objective judges are able to put aside emotion and unruly passion and issue opinions on the basis of pure reason.
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Levin: CIA memos don't show what Cheney says — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims — that classified CIA memos show enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding worked — are wrong.
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In which the president discovers an American intelligence agency at Five Guys — On his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the President appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency …
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The Big Inflation Scare — Suddenly it seems as if everyone is talking about inflation. Stern opinion pieces warn that hyperinflation is just around the corner. And markets may be heeding these warnings: Interest rates on long-term government bonds are up, with fear of future inflation …