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10:30 AM ET, June 2, 2009

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Justices Gone Wild  —  Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings won't happen for over a month, but it's easy to predict how they will go.  In a series of preening, long-winded questions, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will attempt to divine Sotomayor's position on a variety …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Whiskey Fire and TBogg
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Charles Savage / The Caucus:
Conservatives Ask Republican Senators to Filibuster on Sotomayor  —  Several years ago, when Senate Democrats were using filibusters to block confirmation votes on several of President George W. Bush's appeals court nominees, some conservatives decried the tactic as unconstitutional.
Rick Santorum / The Politico:
Why I would oppose Sotomayor  —  “There is a fundamental distinction between what is required of and should be sought of a circuit court judge and a district court judge and a Supreme Court judge.”  —  The words of a conservative like Jeff Sessions or Jim DeMint?
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Right demands tougher fight  —  Conservatives are demanding that Senate Republicans take a harder line on Sonia Sotomayor, with new signs of tension between the Hill GOP and elements of the Republican base over the direction the opposition should move in the Supreme Court fight.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Leader Of Conservative Opposition To Sotomayor Was Nailed For Hacking …
Discussion: Think Progress
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:   Republicans back off ‘racist’ accusations
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William M. Welch / USA Today:
Recruiter shot dead outside Army office  —  A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday.  —  “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular …
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Responds To The Tiller Murder: ‘No Backpedaling Here...Every Single Thing We Said About Tiller Was True’  —  After yesterday's brutal shooting of George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who administered abortions, many anti-choice groups quickly condemned the murder and attempted to separate themselves from the actions of the killer.
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Justin Kendall / Plog:
Phone number found inside car of man suspected of killing George Tiller belongs to woman who plotted 1988 clinic bombing  —  KMBC Channel 9 captured this shot of a phone number to anti-abortion group Operation Rescue inside the car of Scott Roeder, the man suspected of shooting …
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Terry Declares That Tiller “Reaped What He Sowed,” …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin, like most right-wingers, doesn't get it: Abortion …
Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog:
Playboy 's “Top 10 Conservative Women We Hate to Love”  —  The Playboy article linked to on this blog listed 10 conservative women “they love to hate” adding their reasons why.  The blog included the link but only used the names of the women listed.  But the Playboy article also included …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
It's official: Playboy is a hate site; Update: Playboy pulled it  —  Playboy likes to claim that it prints pictures of naked women as a means to empower them.  Uh-huh.  It seems that Playboy and Hugh Hefner only like to empower women to the extent that they'll take off their clothes …
Michelle Malkin:
Moron of the day  —  No, the moron of the day award does …
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
David Gardner / Daily Mail:
How Obamas' romantic £120 trip to Broadway racked up a £45,000 bill  —  ...that's for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade  —  It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife …
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
The cost of a NYC weekend
Discussion: Townhall.com and Scared Monkeys
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Cheney mixes up Obama, Osama  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney confused the president of the United States with the world's most-wanted terrorist in a speech on Monday.  —  Speaking at the National Press Club, Cheney answered a question as to why his administration had not caught Osama bin Laden.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Dick Cheney Explains Why He's Unbound
Discussion: NY Daily News
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama Says U.S. Must Be More ‘Honest’ With Israel
Discussion: CNN, Informed Comment and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
Foreclosures: No End in Sight  —  A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures.  Unfortunately, there's little evidence, so far, that the Obama administration's anti-foreclosure plan will be able to stop it.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Most oppose closing Gitmo  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.  —  By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A New Iran Overture, With Hot Dogs  —  SAN SALVADOR — Having sent the Iranian people a video greeting on their New Year, President Obama is now inviting them to help celebrate a quintessentially American holiday, the Fourth of July.  —  Last Friday, the State Department sent a cable …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Dems pressure Obama on Israel  —  As President Barack Obama prepares to depart for his first trip to the Arab world, the administration's escalating pressure on Israel to freeze all growth of its settlements on Palestinian land has begun to stir concern among Israel's numerous allies in both parties on Capitol Hill.
David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Citigroup Is Halting Some Payouts  —  Bank Tells Executives It Won't Dispense Tens of Millions as Promised  —  Citigroup Inc. has told about five former top executives that it won't pay them tens of millions of dollars in promised severance payouts, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Dealbreaker and DailyFinance
Gallup:
Approval of U.S. Leadership Up in Some Arab Countries  —  Most remain low overall; more Palestinians disapprove than before  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama may find audiences in many Arab countries more willing to listen when he addresses the Muslim world Thursday from Cairo, Egypt.
Scott / Power Line:
How Hillsdale beats Harvard  —  My interest in the the Solomon Amendment giving recruiters access to federally funded universities was piqued by a visit to Yale in the fall of 2002.  I happened to be on the Yale campus when the law school managed to drive off military recruiter Brian Whitaker …
The Huffington Post:
Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage  —  Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama.  But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government.
George L. Priest / Wall Street Journal:
The Justice Department's Antitrust Bomb  —  Microsoft and Intel will find refuge in the courts.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  As if commandeering the banking, finance and auto industries weren't enough, a couple of weeks ago the Obama administration decided to throw a bomb at modern antitrust law.
 
 
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Natalia Antelava / BBC:
Inside Hezbollah  —  Hezbollah's behaves as a normal political party …
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A Saga of Decline and Denial
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Uyghur Detainees at Gitmo Compare U.S. to Hitler
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Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
N. Korean Leader's Youngest Son Named Successor
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Richard Wolffe / Blogs and Stories:
Secret Rev. Wright Meeting
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’
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Mike Robinson / Associated Press:
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Andrew Gelman / FiveThirtyEight:
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Confidence in U.S. Economy Builds Even as Recovery Still Seems Distant
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Even the New York Times, for which Mahmoud Abbas has been a virtual hero …
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