Gingrich: Sotomayor "Racist", Should Withdraw Nomination

May 27, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rush Limbaugh isn’t the only one calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Newt Gingrich is, too — and he’s demanding that Obama’s pick to the Supreme Court withdraw her nomination.

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Waldman: Is Sotomayor an Abortion Centrist?

May 27, 2009

After the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor’s selection, abortion groups lined up predictably, pro-life groups expressing outrage and pro-choice offering praise. Everyone seems to be assuming she’s ardently pro-choice, if for no other reason than that Obama’s appointed her. But there’s stunningly little information about her abortion views – and what we do know hardly paints […]

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Mark Levin Takes on David Frum

May 27, 2009

David Frum was never much of a thinker. Try as he might, he just can’t seem to attract interest, let alone a following, even when stabbing his old boss, President George W. Bush, in the back with a rambling screed. Profiting from a confidential relationship with a president is about as low as it gets. […]

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Mercurio: Sotomayor Already Rallying Republicans, But in Which Direction?

May 27, 2009

For weeks, Republicans have said the battle over David Souter’s Supreme Court successor would be their best chance this year to rally their base, raise money, organize activists and, if they’re lucky, chart a path back to power. All of that is still possible. But the early reaction from party leaders to President Obama’s choice […]

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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Threaten to Stop Using Twitter

May 27, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — News of a Twitter reality series is not sitting well with two of the micro-blogging Web site’s most famous users — Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. “I hope this isn’t true,” Demi wrote in response to the planned Twitter series, announced over Memorial Day weekend. “If it is, our Twitter time […]

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Rittelmeyer: Ross Douthat, Concern-Troll?

May 27, 2009

Ross Douthat doesn’t know it, but his column this morning was written in 1772. Justus Moser took a harder line in “On the Diminished Disgrace of Whores and Their Children in Our Day” than Douthat does in “Liberated and Unhappy,” but I suppose it’s easy to be brave when you’ve been dead for two hundred […]

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Burris Did in Fact Make an Offer for Illinois Senate Seat

May 27, 2009

I am perilously close to being gobsmacked by this transcript of the Burris/Blagojevich conversation (via Hot Air). I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that there’s enough there to indicate that Roland Burris flat-out lied about not trading favors and money for the Senate seat.  I am not, however, so stunned as to […]

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Mostly Harmless: The Conservative Case for Sonia Sotomayor

May 27, 2009

The New Ledger’s writers will be weighing in on the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court throughout the week. Benjamin Domenech argues that conservatives should be happy with the nomination, and that Sotomayor does not represent any fundamental reshaping of the court.

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Breaking: Burris Promised Blagojevich Campaign a Check a Month Before Appointment

May 26, 2009

In a November conversation caught on an FBI wiretap, Roland Burris promised Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s brother that he’d write the governor a campaign check by mid-December, Burris’ lawyer said today. That was about a month before Rod Blagojevich appointed Burris to the U.S. Senate.

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How and Why Obama Picked Sotomayor

May 26, 2009

President Barack Obama called Judge Sonia Sotomayor at 9 p.m. on Memorial Day to say she was his pick for the Supreme Court. Obama showed he was willing to pick a fight with his choice — Republicans do not consider her a “consensus” nominee and had signaled that they considered her the most liberal of […]

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