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Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
The Seinfeld Hearings — How Senators could, but probably won't, make the Sotomayor confirmation a show about something. — Printer — Friendly — If you suspect this week's Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor will be, like “Seinfeld,” a show about nothing, you are probably right.
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Sotomayor goes low-key on day one — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor put judicial restraint into practice Monday afternoon — passing up the opportunity to deliver a passionate rebuttal to critics who have accused her of embracing the idea that her personal biases and ethnic background affect her judicial philosophy.
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Live Blogging the Sotomayor Hearings — ‘A Truly American Story’ | 10:03 a.m. Senator Leahy now begins talking about the story we'll all hear throughout the Democrats' opening remarks — the success, or rags-to-riches if you will — tale of the judge's upbringing and career.
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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:Sotomayor's statement — Her opening statement: — Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:Schedule, Day by Day — The Senate Judiciary Committee is set …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:Sotomayor hearing: All Senators' opening statement texts: Leahy, Sessions, et al
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Liz Cheney: Investigating My Dad Would Prove Americans 'Can't Trust' Democrats With National Security — On Saturday, the New York Times reported that former Vice President Dick Cheney gave “direct orders” to the CIA, compelling the agency to withhold “information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years.”
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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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Joseph Weber / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Liz Cheney open to political run — The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that running for political office is on her horizon. — “It's something I very well may do,” said Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney, a lawyer and State Department appointee who has worked on two Republican presidential campaigns.
New York Times:
Palin's Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation — 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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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Palin's PAC Raises $700,000+ … Update, 4:10 p.m.: Palin has collected at least $200,000 more for Sarah PAC since the reporting period closed at the end of last month, according to a source familiar with the numbers. Palin's resignation — announced on July 3 — triggered a flood of donations to the PAC, the source added.
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.”
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Boiling the Frog — Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog? — I'm referring, of course, to the proverbial frog that, placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually heated, never realizes the danger it's in and is boiled alive. Real frogs will, in fact, jump out of the pot — but never mind.
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Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:
$260M BACK STAB — HILL'S FLIP ON DIPLO TAXES COSTS CITY A BUNDLE — Thanks a lot, Hillary! — In a surprise turnaround that will cost the city $260 million in back taxes and untold millions in future lost revenue, Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department has quietly reversed …
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Elaine Quijano / CNN:
Obama announces new surgeon general — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama has tapped Dr. Regina Benjamin to serve as surgeon general, a White House official said Monday. The president is expected to announce his decision Monday morning. — The rural family physician has long provided medical care on the Gulf Coast.
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BBC:
Sudan women ‘lashed for trousers’ — Several Sudanese women have 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 …
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Ncarlile / Think Progress:
Buchanan: Todd Palin should drown Levi Johnston. — Earlier today, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan suggested that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband should murder his daughter's ex-fiance, Levi Johnston, for saying Palin's decision to resign came down to “money.” While appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Buchanan said:
Rasmussen Reports:
49% Oppose Health Care Reform Plan, 46% Favor It — Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters now at least somewhat oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, while 46% at least somewhat favor it, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Obama to join Fox broadcast booth for All-Star Game … Barack Obama will be adding baseball broadcaster to his résumé. SI.com learned Sunday that the President will join Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver during Tuesday's All-Star Game.
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.
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Chris McGreal / Guardian:
CIA planned al-Qaida assassinations in friendly countries, officials say — Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without …
Megan McArdle:
The Price of Innovation — Two pieces worth reading on health care innovation. First, Glenn Reynolds on his family: … This is something I've been saying for a while. But it touches on something else I've been thinking about—the way in which our attempts to measure health care innovation …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Web Traffic (or Lack of) May Be a Reason for a Columnist's Dismissal — The political columnist Dan Froomkin was hired by The Huffington Post last week, two short weeks after being fired by a more traditional Post, the venerable newspaper in Washington. — In his departure from The Washington Post …
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