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Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court when the court’s current term is over at the end of June. Souter will likely stay on until President Obama’s nominee to replace him has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, National Public Radio reports.

Listeners waiting to hear the reasoned arguments of “angry gay-rights activists” during an extended National Public Radio (NPR) report this morning on California’s new ban on same-sex marriage … are … still … waiting.

And on the fourth day they rested? Minnesota’s top two elected officials spent the last three days talking economic stimulus on the airwaves and cable lines of two supposed bastions of liberal media, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on successive nights, [...]

The semantics of border crossing: Despite years of debate about the use of the term “illegals” to describe people the National Association of Hispanic Journalists prefers to call “undocumented immigrants,” the Star Tribune ran a story on Wednesday using the term. The Associated Press story, “Green Bay, Wis., passes ordinance against hiring illegals,” shouldn’t have [...]

Just in time for the new Congress, American RadioWorks has come up with a terrific documentary entitled “Imperial Washington“. Listening to it one wonders, “How come no one came up with this stuff a few years ago?”

Actually, part of the answer is explained in the documentary. For example, all those congressional junkets to posh resorts [...]

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