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 February 22nd, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
There is an insightful article in The New Yorker about the unusual character that is Rahm Emanuel. I recommend taking the time to read it.
As a former White House aide, a former head of the DCCC and a Congressman who was headed for the Speakership some day it took more than a little persausion for [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Joan Walsh weighed in on the piece in the New Yorker about Keith Olberman, that I wrote about earlier today. Walsh took offense as I did to what MSNBC head Phil Griffin told the New Yorker Hillary supporters who will “come back” because there’s “nowhere else to go”:
I have some advice for Phil Griffin, not that [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, Sexism, Women's Issues
Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Robert Stein
The American Society of Magazine Editors, of which I am the last surviving founder, announced today this year’s finalists for the National Magazine Awards.
It’s no surprise that Iraq is high on the list of subject matter–the Abu Ghraib scandal and the massacre at Hadditha–along with articles about breast cancer, fishing, Scientology and the best [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Judicial, News Media, Politics, Republicans
Posted on October 12th, 2005 by Nick
Still, I miss Al to a certain degree. His infusion of “populism” into the 2000 campaign is exactly what the Democratic Party and the Country needed. Yet, the Washington Post notes today that Gore will not run in ‘08 and also links to a New Yorker story about Gore (Issue of 2004-09-13) that [...]
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Filed under: John Kerry
