Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

Paving with elephant dung, Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:

How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign

Miranda redux, Associated Press:

In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday — over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the

Dan Collins rates a bit higher this morning on my yardstick for his recognition of the obvious:

Charles Johnson’s gone completely off his rocker.  I wondered, when I started writing at my own site, where all the commenters were coming

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This is the Vacation Edition Not that I actually have one this year, (Thanks, Barry!) but I can dream, right?

• IT’S THE

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This is the Green Beans Edition

• RECESSION? WHAT RECESSION? Surber says Durable goods orders are still off. It would appear that wishful

If Sonia Sotomayor were a horse, thny would shoot her.    Ok, Sotomayor was never going to convince Rush Limbaugh to support her, but her weak and unconvincing testimony hoa lost support from Eva Rodriquez,  Washington Post:

I’m surprised and

The news is not all Wacko Jacko, all the time, from Karen Araize, NBC Philadelphia:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the

Eric already blogged on Ricci, but Ace  brings up an amusing point.    While the decision was five to four, along coservative liberal lines, the count was actually nine to zero against the Wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, via Ace:

Wise

The Washington Post website is reporting:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as

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• Disgusted: I see Ed Whalen has apologized. It’s my considered opinion he was not in the wrong and had nothing to apologize for, and

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This is the JAF Edition. (Just Another Friday)

• Unemployment is up: To the shock of nobody, unemployment is up. This morning’s

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This is the “Need Some Gas?” Edition

• Charges against Countrywide?  As we go to press, word is coming off the wires that

Diversity is not a synonym for affirmative action.   Rather diversity is code speak for bigotry.   Affirmative action is a narrowly tailored remedy for past proven discrimination.   Whereas diversity does away with the requirement to establish past discrimination,    It is  flat

First, Doctor Krauthammer:

Heller [the Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment guarantees gun ownership for individuals] is hardly settled law. It is law in its infancy. It’s a couple years old. And if she is on the court, she

Sonia Sotomayor, is a racist and bigot, via Stuart Taylor, Jr, National Journal:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge]