How very odd of them; it must mean that the aren’t terribly bright, and/or haven’t been reading The Economist religiously enough.
Yeah. Put that in your vibrator and plug it right into the wall.
From the bathtub, bitches.

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She’s not dead yet.

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That was a paraphrase; this isn’t:
Obama says he’s sure Sotomayor would “restate” her views (which technically means she would repeat the same idea in different words). White House allies have carried this further, saying she “misspoke” (in the words of Democratic spinner Lanny Davis). The Washington Post reports her comments were “unscripted.”
But this is [...]

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He was pretty far ahead of his time on the issue of gays; certainly if he’d been elected we wouldn’t have this “don’t ask, don’t tell” bullshit.
I mean, can’t Obama take some time out from screwing up the economy/foreign policy and at least address that?
One more, though, Meghan McCain doesn’t understand it when people [...]

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Well, duh. We’re the party of liberty and equality—remember?
The Bush Administration was the most gay-friendly administration in history. Evah.
Via Althouse over at Insty’s place. She suggests that Cheney’s just “doing his usual thing of currying favor with the lefties.”
I hadn’t thought of it in quite that way . . .

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Oy gevalt.
Via Dan Collins, who points out that the Chrysler spokeswusses are doubling down . . .
The White House and Anti-Chrysler management should either disclose the methodology used to make these decisions, or they should shut up; they bore me.
UPDATE: And is race a part of the pattern in the closings? (If, indeed, there [...]

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Charles Krauthammer:
Rebut, Then Confirm
Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci.
Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn., Ricci struggled as a C and D student in public schools ill-prepared to address his serious learning disabilities. Nonetheless he [...]

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Via Darleen over at Protein Wisdom, an astonishing exchange between Hugh Hewitt and MSNBC Commentator/Los Angeles writer Lawrence O’Donnell:
O’D: . . . [L]et’s just get a couple of things straight. Nothing about Al Qaeda, nothing about the AQ Khan network, nothing … The guy [Cheney] wants you to rate his job starting on September 12 [...]

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Or, perhaps, simply overstating his case to make a point. (Maybe, as Insty suggests, “enjoying this turnabout thing.”)
I agree that constructionism is the happenin’ judicial philosophy, that race-blindness is rarely to be had by letting race dictate our decisions, and that Sotomayer was clumsy in that statement about wise old chicas or whatever. And I’m [...]

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It looks like the redesign over at First Things has finally been (mostly) completed, and we now have unfettereed access once more to The Anchoress, who has a few thoughts about our new Supreme Court nominee:
Howard Kurtz just annoyed me on twitter by passing on the news that the Mainstream Media will be pressing forward [...]

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Which, again, wouldn’t be a bad strategy if all the ones being cut truly were poor performers, but there’s no evidence that that is the case.
Furthermore, contra Christophe’s glib comparisons to Starbucks and Apple, the immediate effects of this action—supposedly undertaken by Chrysler and GM management, but apparently dictated by the White House—will be [...]

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Moe Lane explains that one has to go to The Volokh Conspiracy and see for oneself how beautifully Orin Kerr pwns Dahlia Lithwick over the upcoming Sotomayor confirmation hearings. It’s lovely.

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Hooray!
Be Moe reports from the Protein Wisdom Pub about just what that boot feels like against that human face:
On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to [...]

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According to Gabe at Ace’s place, the Indiana pension funds have lost their appeal of the Chrysler sale:
To review: the Indiana police and teachers pension plans are secured creditors in Zombie Chrysler who are trying to hold off the sham sale of the company which has been concocted by President Obama. They sought a stay [...]

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Cooler heads may yet prevail.

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I don’t have a legal background, but this seems like the right balance at this time between judicial activism and total passivity.
Gay Patriot:
I believe the justices made the right decision this time. The decision was 6-1. Now, the issue is developing a strategy to repeal the state constitutional provision defining marriage as the [...]

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Here’s an interesting article from The New York Times. I know a lot of you are going think that there is an “agenda” here, at least at the newspaper (the writer seems more amused than anything by our hodgepodge of laws, state-to-state), but there are still larger points to be made here—about What Constitutes Gender? [...]

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This Obama-Youth organization, or whatever he’s going to call it: overreaching. That is the kind term. (The unkind one? Fascism lite.)
Ace, hearing that the Obama-cultists will be given some sort of special powers to act as a Quasi-FEMA agency and help out with natural disasters—and yet do so, somehow, without answering to the Feds—only the [...]

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Ethan A. Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance writes about the end of Alcohol Prohibition in today’s Wall Street Journal:
Today is the 75th anniversary of that blessed day in 1933 when Utah [Utah!—ed.] became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 21st amendment, thereby repealing the 18th amendment. This ended the nation’s disastrous experiment [...]

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