So notes our colleague Richard Lacayo.

In the category of who’d have thunk to have asked goes this gem, kudos to the booker, from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today: Alberto Gonzales: I think it’s a proud day for the Sotomayor family.  It’s a historic day for the Hispanic community. I don’t think that any gender group or ethnic group is entitled to representation [...]

(By Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog)

Judge Sotomayor, we are told, “was raised as a Catholic and attends church for family celebrations and other important events.” For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the description of a non-practicing, cultural Catholic. Stand down, Notre Dame protestors.

Cultural conservatives who were gearing up to use Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination as a fundraising opportunity will find Sonia Sotomayor a difficult sell. Indeed, in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement, they have paid much more attention to the judicial sins of another applicant, Diane Wood. Ed Whelan, of the Ethics and Public [...]

Here’s my story for TIME.com.

First off, it must be said that Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor appears to have a relatively easy path to confirmation on the U.S. Supreme Court, if President Obama announces her nomination later this morning, as the Associated Press has reported he will. The likelihood of a filibuster is slim. Democrats control nearly 60, if [...]

There is all sorts of hand-wringing going on today about North Korea’s nuclear explosion, which the Washington Post says is a test of the Obama Administration’s engagement policy. It isn’t. Some thoughts: 1. First, some perspective: the fact that North Korea has a bomb and missiles isn’t nearly as significant as the fact that it has plutonium [...]

There are so many gross problems with this RNC video comparing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the James Bond character Pussy Galore that I don’t know where to begin. For those Republicans worried that attacks on Pelosi might backfire — this is exactly the kind of over-the-top sexist gambit they should be losing sleep over.