[It's been a while. Think of June as my Lost Month]
Rasmussen has some unpleasant news for President Obama as relates to healthcare, climate change, and the economy:
Thirty-three% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-five percent (35%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential [...]

Sotomayor: In 1994 the “wise woman” wasn’t necessarily a Latina
Apparently during a speech in 1994 Supeme Court nomine Sonia Sotomayor made a statement almost identical to the one from 2001:
“I would hope that a wise woman with the richness of her experience would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion,” she said in the [...]

“If the 40 remaining Republican senators end up voting for Sotomayor, her race will be the reason.” Michael Kinsley, in the Washington Post, puts into play a scary idea. Is Sotomayor facing a basically uncontested nomination due solely to her race (and gender)?
She’s certainly intelligent, well-educated, and experienced. Even the unfavorable opinions of lawyers who [...]

Just as I said the other day, the op-eds are coming out calling President Obama’s nominee a centrist.
E.J. Dionne:
Liberals should not take the bait of the right-wingers by allowing the debate over Sotomayor to be premised on the idea that she is a bold ideological choice. She’s not. But if conservatives succeed in painting this [...]

There’s one thing that really gets my respect, and I hope she doesn’t throw it away during the confirmation hearings. Sonia Sotomayor says what she believes, and says it out loud. I disagree with most of what I’ve heard, but I’m glad she said it.
For one thing it means that the people (and the Senate) [...]

I know little about the case of Colleen and Daniel Hauser, but I don’t think the details are very important for the majority of us. The details, of course, are what draw most of us  to the story.  We want to know more about this mother who “neglected” her son, the strange religious group (which [...]