Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
(Most posts are from reporters that are live microblogging the hearing. Also I’ve mixed in some trusted commentators.)
cbsandrewcohen: Kohl (D) notes that Sotomayor’s low reversal record suggests she is faithful to precedent.
cbsandrewcohen: Soto: “I don’t prejudge cases.” That’s going to be one of the headlines this morning.
cbsandrewcohen: Soto on Roe v. Wade: The Casey case [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Day Two Sotomayor Hearings
(Most posts from reporters live microblogging the hearing)
cbsandrewcohen: Morning Sotomayor trawl. @nytimes http://bit.ly/1JFlQV @latimes http://bit.ly/jKzzj CSM: http://bit.ly/dVH6t @slate http://bit.ly/3C1K3u
cbsandrewcohen: Morning Sotomayor trawl. @nytimes http://bit.ly/1JFlQV @latimes http://bit.ly/jKzzj CSM: http://bit.ly/dVH6t @slate http://bit.ly/3C1K3u
[Andrew Cohen is the lead legal reporter for CBS]
DukeStJournal: RT @GeraldFSeib: The Sotomayor hearings are a proxy for the broader ideological [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Sotomayor Hearing:Day One
(Most quotes from reporters live micro-blogging the hearing.)
jaketapper (ABC): I found this pro-Sotomayor essay in the WP by her Princeton professor interesting >> http://bit.ly/as1Cn
[This a far more inclusive look at the foundations of Judge Sotomayor than I have seen elsewhere. To understand who she is today you must understand her past and path. [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
There are Traditional Media on the ground in Iran including NBC, ABC and, if they haven’t been thrown out as was ordered yesterday, the BBC.
Yet we get more information directly from the site of demonstrations, meetings and rallies from the bloggers and tweeters that are on the ground.
Marc Ambinder suggests we approach this uncensored or [...]
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Filed under: In The Blogosphere, In The News, International, Iran, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Filed under: Afghanistan, France, Germany, In The News, International, Iraq, Military, Pakistan, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on May 24th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan have begun serious talks on a regional effort to militarily combat Islamist extremism, terrorism and the Taliban in their joint countries.This is the second meeting in one month on this topic and economic issues confronting the region. Those talks include the growing heroin trade estimated to fund the Taliban $100 million [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, In The News, International, Iran, National Security, Pakistan, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
Secretary Robert Gates made a statement in Washington DC about an extraordinary soldier who in a moment of emergency made a decision that he worried would cost him his job.
[Robert] Gates told an audience in New York about Specialist Zachary Boyd, routed from sleep by enemy fire on his post in eastern Afghanistan.
“He immediately grabbed [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
There is much to talk about.
Here’s one: The RW radio host ‘Mancow‘ was waterboarded this morning and lasted 12 seconds. He called it ‘drowning’ and, as much as he didn’t want to, vehemently called it ‘torture‘. I’ll be looking for the YouTube and post tomorrow or late tonight.
It’s vivid, horrid, quick and nowhere near the [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Note to Readers:
The Dem Daily’s Stuart O’Neill, who had been taking a little time away from blogging, just called me to let me know he’s in the hospital with appendicitis. Stuart will be having surgery tonight… Please send him good thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery!
– Pamela
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Posted on March 8th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
On The Rachel Maddow show in Feb 17, 2009 she had a overwhelmingly fascinating long interview with Professor Gillespie of MIT about the use of unrelated technologies to find Osama Bin Laden.
This is sort of like watching ‘Numb3rs’ on CBS where most of the crimes are solved using mathematics. This time the Professor and [...]
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