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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Don't quote Sotomayor on that, Senator — WASHINGTON (AP) - In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it. — Trying to head off criticism …
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Eva Rodriguez / PostPartisan:
Sotomayor's Unconvincing Backpedaling — I'm surprised and disturbed by how many times today Sonia Sotomayor has backed off of or provided less-than-convincing explanations for some of her more controversial speeches about the role of gender and ethnicity in judicial decision-making.
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Washington Wire:
Sotomayor Surprises Sessions — Jess Bravin reports on Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing. — Ouch! — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity …
Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
Smiling GOPers Ought to be Frowning — Watching Lindsey Graham's gotcha grin as he needled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with disingenuous and rhetorical questions you had to wonder what was so funny. — Does the Republican senator think it is amusing that he and his party's …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Sotomayor Leaves Passion Behind in Her Testimony — WASHINGTON — During her enforced silence, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been portrayed as a woman of passion. Her speeches, endlessly dissected in the weeks since President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, reveal a fiery Latino pride.
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Taylor Marsh
Washington Post:Transcript of Sen. Feinstein Questioning at Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:Respecting Precedent, or Settled Law, Unless It's Not Settled
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Gateway Pundit:
OBAMA BOOED IN ST. LOUIS!... And Throws a Sissy Pitch (Video) — Barack Obama Booed at the All-Star Game in St. Louis On Tuesday! — And, he threw a sissy pitch: — It's going to be a rough 4 years. He's only been in office 5 months and he's already getting booed. — ...And protested.
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edlabor.house.gov:
America's Affordable Health Choices Act — The Chairmen of the three Committees with jurisdiction over health policy in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced comprehensive health care reform legislation on July 14 that will reduce out-of-control costs, encourage competition among insurance plans …
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
House Democrats' Health Reform Proposal: Preliminary Analysis of Major Provisions Related to Insurance Coverage — CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) worked together to produce a preliminary analysis of the major provisions related to health insurance coverage …
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Ezra Klein:
The House Releases Its Health-Care Reform Bill — On first glance, it looks good. A few thoughts: — The Process Is the Message: Three separate committees — Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education and Labor — have come together on one bill. This is an incredible achievement.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Meet Political Pundit, Mr. Ricky Hollywood — A reliable source confirms that when you call Levi Johnston's phone number, you're now officially greeted by his new marketing identity in long, loud, boldly-exaggerated phrasing, YOU'VE REACHED R-I-C-K-Y ... H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D!!!
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Pilgrim / Say Anything:
Hilarious: HuffPo Says Sarah Palin Had No Authority To Write An Op-Ed In The Washington Post — My, my, my. — In what is without a doubt the best foot stomping, squealing, hold-your-breath-until-you-turn- purple fit I've seen in quite some time, and it's all because Sarah Palin had the gall …
CNN:
Palin becomes MoveOn target as SarahPAC cash haul surges — (CNN) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee is confirming a flood of new donations that push her cash haul close to the million-dollar mark, as one of the nation's largest liberal PACs announced an ad targeting the former GOP vice presidential candidate.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Isaac Chotiner Gets Jonah Goldberg Wrong — So Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently said this in an interview with Emily Bazelon: … Ginsburg is saying that her perception of the situation in 1980 is that there was a lot of concern on the right about Bell Curve-style dysgenics and that, therefore …
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The State:
Sanford's office couldn't locate missing governor — E-mails, phone calls outline efforts to contact, cover for AWOL leader — Gov. Mark Sanford's chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor's cell phones 15 times during the governor's secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last month.
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:Great Call: In Emails To Sanford's Office, Right-Wing Media …
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Fox News:
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies — It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. — A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling …
Bil Browning / The Huffington Post:
Steele: GOP woos blacks with “fried chicken and potato salad” — The Young Republicans convention was held in Indianapolis last weekend and their election of a racist, middle-aged woman as President isn't the only controversial item to come out of the GOP gathering.
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Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:Steele Says He'll Attract Diversity to GOP With “Fried Chicken and Potato Salad”
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Zandar Versus The Stupid
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Obama's Chutzpah. Sorry, Only Israelis Have Chutzpah. So It's Obama's Haughty Condescension. — Frankly, I am sick and tired of President Obama's eldering—more accurately, hectoring—Israel's leaders. It is, after all, they whose country is the target of an armed and ideological cyclone …
CNN:
Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez — (CNN) — A majority of Americans think Sarah Palin is stepping down as Alaska's governor for political reasons, according to a new national poll, with a majority of Republicans now saying that they do not believe that Palin would be an effective president.
Donna Smith / Reuters:
House bill to hit millionaires with 5.4 pct surtax — A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system to be announced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives will include a surtax on millionaires of 5.4 percent, congressional sources said. — The tax rate is higher …
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