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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Morning Fix: Five Senators to Watch on Sotomayor — The confirmation hearings for judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court begin today at 10 a.m. and, although the drama has largely been drained from the question of whether she will be confirmed (barring some disaster she will be on the Court) …
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New York Times:
Questions for Judge Sotomayor — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, is scheduled to appear today at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed editors asked seven legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear the nominee answer.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:Partisans Likely to Use Sotomayor Hearings as a Platform and a Barometer
Michelle Malkin:Day One: Spotlight on Sotomayor — Able to leap tall life obstacles in a single bound!
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:G.O.P. Set to Question Judge's Impartiality
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NY Daily News, ABCNEWS, The Caucus, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Time and Washington Post
New York Times:
Palin's Route to Resignation: Missteps and Ignored Advice — This article was reported by Jim Rutenberg from New York and Serge F. Kovaleski from Wasilla and Anchorage, Alaska. Jo Becker reported from New York and Kim Severson and William Yardley from Wasilla and Anchorage.
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, Obsidian Wings, MoJo Blog Posts, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gawker, PoliBlog, Gateway Pundit and Riehl World View
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin — Their harsh views conflict with those of grass-roots GOP voters, revealing a serious split within the party. — Since announcing her resignation, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been pummeled by critics who have called her incoherent, a quitter, a joke and a “political train wreck.”
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Obama Faces a New Push to Look Back — President Obama is facing new pressure to reverse himself and to ramp up investigations into the Bush-era security programs, despite the political risks. — Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program …
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Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Ezra Klein, Concern Troll — Ezra Klein is concerned—or rather, he's “gripped” by an “unsettling thought”: … I agree with my distinguished colleague (and welcome him to the concern troll community). He's woken to the realization that Obama is running into political difficulty …
Bloomberg:
BusinessWeek Said to Be Up for Sale by McGraw-Hill — BusinessWeek, the McGraw-Hill Cos. magazine that lost 30 percent of its advertising revenue in the second quarter, is up for sale, according to a person close to the situation. — McGraw-Hill hired Evercore Partners Inc. …
New York Times:
Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say — Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery. Then there is Goldman Sachs. — Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money …
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DailyFinance, Rolfe Winkler, The Confluence, Not Tucker Carlson, The Big Picture and Liberty Street
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Frenetic Pace, Packed Agenda Put West Wing Staffers Through Wringer — The White House mess — the military-inspired term for the West Wing cafeteria — opens at 7 a.m. each day. And each day, there is a long line of hungry staffers who have already been at the office for well over an hour.
Foster Kamer / Gawker:
Hate Speech Against Malia Obama On Conservative Blogs Reported By Hate Speech Planting Journalist — We should've seen this coming: conservative blog Free Republic fired hate speech off at Malia Obama after this photo of her appeared, letting their commenters go to town.
Washington Post:
Iran's Rumored Nicaraguan ‘Mega-Embassy’ Set Off Alarms in U.S. — MANAGUA, Nicaragua — For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhead in Nicaragua as part of a diplomatic push into Latin America, featuring huge investment deals …
BBC:
Sudan women ‘lashed for trousers’ — A group of Sudanese women has been flogged as a punishment for dressing “indecently”, according to a local journalist who was arrested with them. — Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who says she is facing 40 lashes, said she and 12 other women wearing trousers …
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Sestak raised $1 million-plus in the spring — That gave him $4.2 million to take on Sen. Arlen Specter, who began the quarter with $6.7 million. — U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak plans to report this week that he raised a little more than $1 million in the second quarter this year …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Future of Conservative Ideas — Drake Bennett profiles four up-and-coming right-of-center thinkers: Luigi Zingales, Bradford Wilcox, Reihan Salam, and Megan McArdle. I've never heard of Wilcox, but his ideas (family is good!) don't sound very interesting.
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Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Rewrites the Cold War — The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies. — Printer — Friendly — There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.
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