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So Is She Gay? — It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish. We know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the public square. If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing.
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Wrath of the angry left — How hard will Senate Republicans fight the Kagan Supreme Court nomination? Will legal lefties vent their anger at the White House for not picking a full-throated liberal progressives to battle Scalia and Alito? — Blogger, firedoglake.com and liberal activist :

The Problem With Kagan's “Defective” Quotation — Democrats and their allies on the Left and in the media are jumping on Chairman Steele's statement on Solicitor General Elena Kagan this morning, in which he raised concerns about “her support [in a law review article] for statements suggesting …
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RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan — Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan's ties to a liberal icon and the nation's first African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. — In its first memo to reporters since Kagan's nomination …

Elena Kagan's Nomination — President Obama is set to nominate Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General, to the Supreme Court today. — I should make a disclosure. I met Elena on our first day of law school at Harvard in the fall of 1983. We were introduced by a mutual friend …


Top Strategist Advises GOP To Prolong SCOTUS Fight To Block Obama Agenda — Liberals have been warning President Obama for weeks that Republicans and conservative activists would fight and seek to delay confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee no matter whom he picked. Turns out they were right.

Opinion: A diversity double-standard — Editor's note: Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith” and the new book “The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House.”
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Kagan's Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness — WASHINGTON — She was a creature of Manhattan's liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family's rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) …
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Will the court ‘become a conscious agent overturning progressive laws the way the court was before the New Deal’? — Simon Lazarus is public policy counsel to the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a frequent commentator on the Supreme Court and the intersection of the law and economic and labor issues.
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Far-Right Group AFA Demands To Know Kagan's Sexuality, Since …
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If Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian, She Should Say So because Public Has a Right to Know

Obama Picks Kagan, Scholar but Not Judge, for Court Seat
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Supreme Irony - Kagan Nomination Ends Gay Marriage Hopes

Obama's natural choice of Kagan
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Elena Kagan said “There is no federal constitutional right …
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The Great Disentangling Has Begun: What Bob Bennett's Defeat Means and Does Not — I'd like to think I might have some idea of what Bob Bennett's defeat means and does not mean. — After all, as with Marco Rubio, Doug Hoffman, and Marlin Stutzman, before others noticed, I was beating the drum …
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The Governator at Emory: 'I was going to speak in Arizona, but I thought I'd be deported' — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger greets graduates at Emory University. John Spink/AJC — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave the commencement address at Emory University on Monday.
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EXCLUSIVE: Mullah Omar Captured! — Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody. — According to the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program …
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Clinton Accuses Pakistani Officials of Holding Back on Bin Laden Intelligence — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused members of the Pakistani government over the weekend of practically harboring Usama bin Laden, raising questions about whether the U.S. is pushing hard enough …
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Brown to quit as UK Labour Party leader — Gordon Brown is to step down as Labour leader — Gordon Brown is to step down as Labour leader by September - as his party opens formal talks with the Lib Dems about forming a government. — His announcement came as he and the Conservatives woo …
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Brown to quit as Labour leader to woo Lib Dems
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New McCain ad: You cannot be serious — I don't know what to say, guys. I'm genuinely speechless. Pandering is one thing, shameless careerist pandering is something else, and then there's John “Goddamned Fence” McCain marching along the border in a badass Navy baseball cap looking …

The Welfare State's Death Spiral — WASHINGTON — What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect.
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Confirmed: Apple and AT&T signed five-year iPhone exclusivity deal — but is it still valid? — The term of Apple and AT&T's iPhone exclusivity deal has long been a mystery — although USA Today reported a five-year arrangement when the original iPhone came out in 2007 …


Whitman lead shrinking dramatically — Not long ago Meg Whitman had such a huge lead - 50 points - over Steve Poizner for the GOP nomination for governor, many folks thought the race was over and started sizing up her chances against the Democrats' Jerry Brown.


Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92 — Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
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Limits to be placed on insurance coverage for dependents — Regulations drafted by the Obama administration show that there is a limit to the new requirement that health plans allow families to keep young adults on their policies up to age 26. — “The new policy applies only to health insurance plans …

NYT Tells Greece to Abandon Socialized Medicine? — You know, this has to be one of the strangest stories of the weekend. The New York Times, ever a champion of Obamacare during the recent debates, is reporting (from an April 30 article) on some rather compelling advice for the nation of Greece …