On CNN today, the two top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee hotly debated the undercurrent of ethnic/racial/identity politics that rippled through four days of the panel’s confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor this past week. And on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, reiterated his opposition to the judge’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Sunday’s breakpoint, if you will, that exposed the Democrat-Republican disagreement, occurred on CNN when Senator Patrick Leahy, the committee’s Democratic chairman, barked: “Come on.

Someone asked me yesterday why I hadn’t posted anything on the death of Walter Cronkite. Well, I’m not as big a fan as many want me to be, and de mortuis nil nisi bonum, and all that. Yes, I grew up with him like everyone of my generation, but I never trusted him as much I was supposed to after Tet. There was nothing objective in his essential declaration of a lost war after a great American victory.

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is probably really pleased pink to find himself included in a current tabloid story in the NATIONAL EXAMINER on gay celebrities. According the story running in the July 13, 2009 issue, Rush Limbaugh learned how to “dress for success from a homosexual man who also helped get him a big break in radio”. And even though Limbaugh has been known for heavy gay bashing content on his radio programs, he himself has been dogged by many rumors of a secret gay lifestyle for years.

Top ten reasons to be a Republican today! 1. To be a member of a true original American focus group; I have never seen so much focus on saying no to a black man as the Republicans have decided to do to President Obama. 2. To coalesce around a small town mayor who would be Governor, having not finished, though was former Vice Presidential Candidate, but not ready for Prime Time Player from the State of Alaska, Sarah Palin. 3.