Via Andrew’s blog. Allahu Akhbar!
A dispatch from TIME’s Sophia Yan who sat in for us at today’s hearings: Judge Sonia Sotomayor relaxed a bit in the hot seat in her third day of confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court.
Drudge is going purple-apoplectic about the looming Nationalization or perhaps Government Takeover of health care and all the–red alarm bell here–taxes and–another alarm bell–public options that will surely destroy free enterprise–no, freedom itself!–as we know it…in other words, he and his Republican friends are rabid crazy demagoguing the proposed House health care plan. A few [...]
The next big event in the saga of the Green Revolution and the Purloined Election will occur on Friday when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers the sermon at Friday Prayers. Rafsanjani is, among other things, the most prominent Mousavi supporter roaming the Iranian landscape at present, still chair of the Expediency Council and the Assembly [...]
My colleague Jim Poniewozik has a post up on his blog about a topic that has gotten a fair amount of discussion in the South Carolina media, as well as the blogosphere. In response to a request by The State newspaper under the Freedom of Information act, the Governor’s office has released a trove of [...]
There was more than little poignance in this statement that was just issued from Hyannis Port. It concerns something that happened minutes ago in the historic Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building:
Most lawyers (and any one who’s seen Legally Blonde) know well Aristotle’s famous phrase: The law is reason free from passion.
The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are either playing a very delicate game of good cop/bad cop with President Obama’s nominee to the nation’s highest court, Sonia Sotomayor, or they’re fracturing as a conference and a large number of Rs could end up voting for her.
It is the biggest mystery in Washington at the moment. Here’s what our colleague Bobby Ghosh says his sources are telling him:
