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Conservatives Continue To Make Race The Issue in Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation battle. Some thoughts from law prof Darren Lenard Hutchinson. Of course this will be the week to watch: she’ll start making the rounds of Capitol Hill. Will we note a shift after she meets with politicos in private and they have a chance to talk to her in person? Will they seem more determined than ever to slow the nomination down or will there be a sense that after she meets with them she is more likely to be confirmed? Stay tuned to mainstream media reports for that one…
What’s Needed In The Sotomayor Debate? Ann Althouse calls for a discussion of legal realism.
And Is There A Conservative Anti-Sotomayor “Stealth Strategy” — aimed at making empathy a negative and a new kind of dirty word? Ed Morrissey sees the nomination as a way for conservatives to define Obama. Some say the GOP is focusing almost soley on connecting with its red-meat-hungry base on this issue.
If The GOP Angers Hispanic Voters Will It Be Hopeless For It To Win National Elections? Not really but it won’t be easy…
Remembering Murdered Kansas Dr. George Tiller: A commenter at Balloon Juice writes THIS. Also: read Hart Williams.
A Blogger Needs Your Help: BE SURE TO READ this and realize you CAN make a different. When bloggers who offer readers content for free suddenly hit a seemingly no-exit crisis, you’d be surprised how help at that time from readers can turn a corner. It doesn’t take much. A MUST READ.
On GOPer Rick Santorum: Misunderstood — or understood all too well?
What Kind Of Century Can We Expect From The 21st Century? A bloody one...
Center Stage: Middle-Class African Americans: Another MUST READ at Booker Rising.
What’s Next In Media? The embedabble newspaper?
Is The Obama Era An Era Of American Retrenchment? Thoughts from Dave Schuler.
But What Does America Need? In a special guest column on The Washington Note, James P. Pinkerton — a contributor to the Fox News Channel and frequent poster at FoxForum.com, argues that America sorely needs a defense that defends.
Watch Mitt Romney Run….for President (already).
Shocking Budget Cuts In California...but why has Gov. Ahnold forgotten this one?
Britain’s Got Talent and Susan Boyle has problems…
A Big Case Involving A Judge is a big story in Spain…
John Murtha Was Once The Poster Boy For Opposition To The Iraq War but now he is seemingly the poster boy for something else…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.