
BREAKING!!!
And a nice surprise for a change…
Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee (h/t BostonBoomer)
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the White House.
I say to Right Wing Freaks: “Bring. It. On!”
Little Midget Wants to Play With The Bigz
Reports: NKorea test-fires 2 short-range missiles
North Korea launched tests Tuesday of two more short-range missiles a day after conducting a nuclear test, news reports said, pushing the regime’s confrontation with world powers further despite the threat of U.N. Security Council action.
Korean Blast Draws Outrage
Nations around the world voiced alarm and frustration about what could be done to rein in the growing security threat from North Korea after the isolated regime set off what it said was its most powerful nuclear test yet.
Along with an underground detonation that registered on seismic stations as far away as Texas, North Korea tested three short-range missiles, including one from the same site from which it fired a long-range missile over Japan in April.
Tested Early by North Korea, Obama Has Few Options
Tensions rise on Korean peninsula
A day after North Korea’s nuclear test, tensions on the Korean Peninsula rose further as Seoul announced that it would join a U.S.-led initiative to curb nuclear trade and the North reportedly test-launched two more short-range missiles.
Blast by N. Korea tests US policy
North Korea’s nuclear test yesterday morning, its most defiant move since President Obama took office, presents a direct challenge to the new US administration’s more conciliatory approach to ending North Korea’s nuclear program, according to current and former US officials and arms control specialists.
No more sunshine in North Korea
There are three explanations for North Korea’s nuclear test today, none of them palatable
So Long, Suckers
Favorites of Left Don’t Make Obama’s Court List
Pamela S. Karlan is a champion of gay rights, criminal defendants’ rights and voting rights. She is considered brilliant, outspoken and, in her own words, “sort of snarky.” To liberal supporters, she is an Antonin Scalia for the left.
But Ms. Karlan does not expect President Obama to appoint her to succeed Justice David H. Souter, who is retiring.
Why Obama Owes Bush an Apology
Mr Obama is adjusting the Bush administration’s policies here and there and seeks to put them on a sounder legal footing. This recalibration is significant and wise, but it is by no means the entirely new approach that he led everybody to expect.
Mr Obama is in the right, in my view, but he owes his supporters an apology for misleading them. He also owes George W. Bush an apology for saying that the last administration’s thinking was an affront to US values, whereas his own policies would be entirely consonant with them.
This Week’s Must-Watch
Obama To Reveal Supreme Court Pick
Gay-Marriage Fight to Persist in California
Democrats, Republicans to address health care
Regulation war: business in crosshairs
The Treasury Department this week is expected to unveil its plan for revamping the patchwork of agencies that oversee the financial industry.
Crunch time looms for GM, Chrysler restructuring
Economy Watch
The question isn’t whether Social Security will be around but how we’ll pay for it
“Is Social Security still going to be around when I retire?”
That’s a question that concerned American workers are asking at a time when employers are increasingly opting not to provide traditional pension plans or freezing existing ones. Meanwhile, 401(k) plans have been ravaged by a prolonged stock-market free fall, and some employers have ceased matching contributions for them.
The concern about retirement security escalated another notch May 12, when Social Security trustees projected that payroll tax revenues flowing into the program will fall below program costs by 2016 — a scant seven years away and a year earlier than forecast last year.
US Economy Could Begin Growing This Year: Krugman
“I will not be surprised to see world trade stabilise, world industrial production stabilise and start to grow two months from now,” Krugman told a seminar. “I would not be surprised to see flat to positive GDP growth in the United States, and maybe even in Europe, in the second half of the year.”
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
Selling ads doesn’t generate only profits; it also generates torrents of data about users’ tastes and habits, data that Google then sifts and processes in order to predict future consumer behavior, find ways to improve its products, and sell more ads. This is the heart and soul of Googlenomics. It’s a system of constant self-analysis: a data-fueled feedback loop that defines not only Google’s future but the future of anyone who does business online.
Mr. President, Show Me the Stimulus Money
Three months after the passage of a much ballyhooed stimulus package aimed at resuscitating the economy and creating jobs, precious little federal money has actually been paid out.
Where Is TARP Money Going? How Much Is Left?
“War On The Terror”: The Sequel
Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others
Who Killed Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi?
Nothing better illustrates the farce of the Bush administration’s involvements in the Middle East than the brutal detention and mysterious death of Ali al-Fakhiri, better known in the media by his nom de guerre, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi.
Ex-Detainee Describes Struggle for Exoneration
When the nightmare finally ended — seven years at Guantanamo Bay, two years of force-feeding through a tube in his right nostril, the long struggle to proclaim his innocence before a judge, and finally 10 days of hospitalization — Lakhdar Boumediene celebrated with pizza for lunch in a little Paris dive.
From Albania, freed Guantánamo prisoner watches detainee debate unfold
If Obama cedes ground on torture to Cheney, we’ll all pay a heavy price
Headaches Galore
3 Soldiers Killed in Afghan Bombing
Gates Says Taliban Have Momentum in Afghanistan
Mr. Gates said the momentum in Afghanistan is with the Taliban, who are inflicting heavy U.S. casualties and hold de facto control of swaths of the country.
Iran rejects proposal to freeze its atomic programme
Pakistan battles Taliban, humanitarian crisis looms
HRC and Yale: A Love Affair
Cheers and honors for Clinton at Yale
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a standing ovation as well as an honorary degree at Yale University’s 308th graduation ceremony yesterday.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Surprises Yale Graduates
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