“Sonia Sotomayor in the news. She’s testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And she has said that she ‘felt out of place attending Princeton.’ Sotomayor says there were so many white males in Princeton, she felt like she was testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” – Conan O’Brien “Have you been […]
At the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast, U2 singer Bono stiffed then-president Bush out of a photo op when Bush tried to give Bono a hug. He dodged the hug by stepping behind the podium, and thought that nobody noticed. But when he sat down, he was sitting next to then-Senator Barack Obama. In the following […]
The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee keep bringing up the Wise Latina quote: © Clay Jones © Mike Luckovich
“President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had her second day in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. I guess they have to do that in order to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Her confirmation is pretty much a forgone conclusion, but even the leading Republican said the only way she would not […]
© Stuart Carlson Paul Krugman, on the massive bonuses that Goldman Sacks is preparing to hand out to their employees (an average of over $1 million per employee!), just a few months after the massive federal bailout, and why this is almost certainly very bad for America. And Andy Borowitz reports that Goldman Sachs is […]
“Today, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor got under way. And, of course, people have opinions on both sides. Critics of Judge Sotomayor claim that she has a bias against white people. But this morning, she proved them wrong by showing up at the hearings wearing a Coldplay t-shirt and carrying a […]
Two stories today make it clear that, in the words Paul Krugman in the NY Times: I don’t think many people grasp just how raw, how explicit, the corruption of our institutions has become. The first story is about the American Conservative Union, who claim to be the “nation’s largest and oldest conservative grassroots lobby.” […]
Jesse Ventura says what he really feels about Sotomayor, Franken, Palin (“I would never vote for her”), Michael Jackson, politician’s private lives (“They spent $100 million to discover Bill Clinton cheated on Hillary, when on 9/11 they only allocated $4 million to find out who killed 3,000 people”), and Obama (“He’s doing a heck of […]
Senator Bernie Sanders makes the excellent point. The Republicans try to scare us that socialized medicine will be terrible, but the truth is that we already have socialized medicine in this country — it is run by the Veterans Administration. If any politician tried to get rid of the VA health benefits, they would quickly […]
An excellent article at Five Thirty Eight points out that while conservatives claim that the Democrats want to appoint “liberal activist judges” to the Supreme Court, statistically, the most activist court in in modern history was the Rehnquist Court, a conservative court. The same article points out how the make-up of the court — conservative […]
