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8:25 PM ET, July 14, 2009

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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 …
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John / Power Line:
Sotomayor's Nose Grows Longer  —  Pat Leahy opened the questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by asking her some softball questions about her controversial speeches and decisions.  In response, Sotomayor's characterization of her “wise Latina” speech was strikingly disingenuous:
Anill / Think Progress:
Sen. Jeff Sessions Slams Sotomayor For Not Voting Like Other Puerto Ricans  —  This morning, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) castigated Sotomayor for not ruling with her fellow Puerto Rican colleague, conservative Judge José A. Cabranes, when she decided to deny an en banc appeal in Ricci v. DeStefano …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Revisiting the Judges of Yore With Republican Senators
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:   Sotomayor contradicts Obama
The New Republic:   Great Moments In Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Respecting Settled Law, Unless It's Not Settled
Discussion: The Politico
Eva Rodriguez / PostPartisan:
Sotomayor's Unconvincing Backpedalling
Discussion: Rough Sketch and Harry's Place
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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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.
Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
BREAKING: House Bill Looks Good (So Far)
New York Times:
House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich
Discussion: The Caucus and Newshoggers.com
Sarah Palin / Washington Post:
The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End  —  There is no shortage of threats to our economy.  America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing.  Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs.
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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 …
Dan / Riehl World View:
Meet Political Pundit, Mr. Ricky Hollywood
Discussion: The TrogloPundit and Redhot
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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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Another Phony Scandal  —  With Speaker Pelosi caught in the web of her own deceit over what the CIA told her about “torture,” and the Obama administration in the middle of its latest 180-degree reversal over CIA interrogators (Attorney General Holder is now considering prosecutions despite Obama's promise …
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
With Pelosi's blessing, Dems push ahead with probe of CIA
Discussion: Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
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”
Michael Tracey / The Nation:
The Same-Sex Marriage Switch  —  Former President Bill Clinton has come out in support of same-sex marriage.  —  After speaking at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, DC, on July 8, the former president was asked if he supported same-sex marriage.
The New Republic:
Jonah Goldberg Embarrasses Himself  —  In his Los Angeles Times column today, the man who styles himself the Churchill of opposition to liberal fascism takes aim at a surprising target. … Goldberg was just getting warmed up in these paragraphs, later adding:
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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 …
Lisa Mascaro / Las Vegas Sun:
Ensign to stay in Senate, seek reelection  —  Fallout from affair, including ethics complaints, leaves him undeterred  —  WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. John Ensign said Monday that not only does he have no intention of resigning in light of his affair and his parents' payout to the woman's family …
Agence France Presse:
Hamas says Israel dumping aphrodisiac gum on Gaza  —  GAZA CITY (AFP) — Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to “corrupt the young,” an official said on Tuesday.
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 …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
“Serious Self-Reflection”  —  Haaretz reports today: “Obama to U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel must engage in self-reflection”  —  And not just any old self-reflection.  According to the article, Obama told Jewish leaders at the White House yesterday that Israel would need “to engage in serious self-reflection.”
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M Peretz / The New Republic:   Obama's Chutzpah.  Sorry, Only Israelis Have Chutzpah. …
ABCNEWS:
Michelle's Father Buried At Dug-Up Cemetery  —  First Lady's Office Initially Said Fraser Robinson Was Buried At The Historic Cemetery  —  After initially saying that Michelle Obama's father is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery, the first lady's office now says he is not buried at the historic Chicago cemetery …
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Chicago Breaking News:
White House: Dad not buried at Burr Oak
Discussion: The World Newser and On Deadline
BBC:
Bride's bouquet brings down plane  —  The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash.  —  The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
Media Matters for America:
Saradise Lost: How Alaska bloggers dethroned Sarah Palin  —  It turns out that blogger Phil Munger hears all his big, breaking Sarah Palin news in the kitchen of his house, which overlooks Neklason Lake and sits just 10 miles from the center of Wasilla, the Southcentral Alaska town where Palin once served as mayor.
Wall Street Journal:
The Small Business Surtax  —  The Obama Democrats pick income redistribution over job creation and economic growth.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Jason Furman owes an apology to Michael Boskin, the Stanford economist who wrote a year ago on these pages that Barack Obama would raise American income tax rates nearly to 60%.
Will Wilkinson / Cato Institute:
Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality  —  Will Wilkinson is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound. … Recent discussions of economic inequality, marked by a lack of clarity and care, have confused the public about the meaning and moral significance of rising income inequality.
Discussion: Cato @ Liberty
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Obama Birther Soldier is a FreeRepublic Poster  —  Maj. Stefan F. Cook, who is refusing to be deployed because of his belief in conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama's citizenship, is a member of, and frequent poster at, the conservative Website FreeRepublic.
 
 
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CNN:
Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and AmSpecBlog
Conor Friedersdorf / The Daily Dish:
Sundry Thoughts on Health Care
Marlise Simons / New York Times:
Taylor Calls War Crimes Charges ‘Lies’
Discussion: Truthdig
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
THE WHITE HOUSE PAY GAP.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
A Bad Week for House Republicans
Discussion: Associated Press and AmSpecBlog
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