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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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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) …
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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Schedule, Day by Day — The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to open a weeklong hearing on whether to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. Monday. The hearing will be broadcast live on C-Span and will be streamed online at the committee's Web site.
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Michelle Malkin:Day One: Spotlight on Sotomayor — Able to leap tall life obstacles in a single bound!
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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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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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CNN:
Obama orders review of alleged mass killings — (CNN) — President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Primary Weapon — That's a nice Senate seat you've got there, Unspecified Moderate Democrat. Shame if anything happened to it. — A few weeks ago, Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she and other Senate Democrats harbored reservations about President Obama's plans to overhaul the health care system.
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 …
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 …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Sotomayor! — So . . . Sotomayor hearings start today. Summer news is always hard to come by but I, personally, am going to try to resist the temptation to over-hype this. I don't think anybody thinks that replacing Souter with Sotomayor will substantially alter the course …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Wrath of Inhofe — My vision of less Star Trek blogging was somewhat undermined by the American Film Institute's decision to include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as part of their summer “totally awesome” 80s movie series. Naturally, I had to go over the weekend.
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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. …
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