Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard By Joe Conason —
If right-wing broadcasters don’t want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly—as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead in his Wichita, Kan., church last Sunday—then they ought to moderate their rhetoric.

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The Trauma of 9/11 Is No Excuse
By Richard A. Clarke
Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense.
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STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE MURDER OF DR. GEORGE TILLER
I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.
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Obama’s Real Hundred Days
By Michael Tomasky
With health care and climate change on the agenda, the next hundred are more important than the first.

Sotomayor's New York Justice
The Supreme Court has always been a weird place, the closest government institution to a mystic cult, and in recent years, thanks to Republican appointments, the atmosphere has grown even stranger, more academic and detached, dominated by “originalists” and paranoids who seem to hate the modern world as it actually exists and who want to take the country back to some idealized past, before all those whiny minorities spoiled things.

by Chris Smith

Rogues, Robes and Racists
by Charles M. Blow
Someone pinch me. I must be dreaming. Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!



Note to Newt: How "New Racism" Isn't Like "Old Racism"
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PETRAEUS: US VIOLATED GENEVA CONVENTIONS

What Will Cheney and Rush Say?

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Some Question Jihad Qualifications of Synagogue Bomb Plot Morons
By Roy Edroso

While the four losers who wanted to blow up Riverdale synagogues -- whose conspiracy was "played out on a veritable soundstage of hidden cameras and secret microphones," per the Times -- continue to grab scary headlines, some are suggesting that they were just pathetic mooks who got grifted by an overzealous FBI informant. "It seems that the informant whipped up their violent tendencies and their hatred of Jews, cooked up the plot, incited them, arranged their purchase of weapons, and then had them busted," says Robert Dreyfuss at The Nation. "It is disgusting and outrageous that the FBI is sending provocateurs into mosques."

TPM Muckraker's Zachary Roth describes the crew as "a group of struggling credulous, under-educated men, existing on the fringes of society, who lacked the intelligence or willpower to avoid getting taken in by a government informant anxious to mitigate his own situation..." Roth finds it "almost reassuring that the biggest terror bust we've seen in a while has this sad-sack group at his center."

Graham Rayman's profile of the interesting FBI man who snared these birds is here.
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Those labeling Sotomayor a radical don't know her at all

by Robert Morgenthau
No sooner had President Obama announced his nomination of Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor than conservative partisans began calling for her defeat.

Buchanan on Sotomayor: "Not that intelligent."
If Republicans keep trashing the Supreme Court nominee, they'll wind up an even tinier minority than they are now.
by Joan Walsh
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Obama Selects Sotomayor for Court
Souter Replacement Would Be First Hispanic Justice
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President Obama announced on Tuesday that he had chosen Judge Sonia Sotomayor of a Federal Court of Appeals based in New York as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
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CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, misrepresent Sotomayor remark on role of appeals court judges
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Banking on Fear
by Leslie Savan
While we're enthralled by Obama's elegance and reason, Cheney waits like a troll under a bridge, watching for the slightest misstep.

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Zakaria: "Everything You Know About Iran Is Wrong"

The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What's the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons.

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