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The Ultra-Conservative Sotomayor!
James Taranto points out in the Wall Street Journal the irony of Senate judicial confirmation hearings, in that the nominee in question, in attempting to assuage the opposition, often skews her statements to the opposite side of the political spectrum. So, here we have Sonia Sotomayor appointed by the Democrat Obama trying to allay... »
How Mainstream Is Sotomayor?
Yesterday’s New York Times published an article on a new study by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice on the record of Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial decisions. The conclusion was that “she has a slightly higher rate of striking down governmental actions than her appeals court’s average rate, but that the gap is small.” A... »
Senator Franken!?!?!!!?
What is this world coming to? It looks like Al Franken has finally been certified as the winner of the Minnesota Senate race, which would effectively give the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority. Obama must be ecstatic; after all, this is just in time for confirmation hearings for 67%-reversed Sonia Sotomayor and for pushing through... »
Sotomayor Overturned Yet Again
In this hot-off-the-wire news, the Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court ruled today in favor of the Connecticut firefighters suing over the denial of promised promotions, reversing the decision of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. This brings Sotomayor’s reversal rate up to an abysmal 67%, an astoundingly high rate, and casts some embarrassing doubt... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]