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Sotomayor-empathy carping makes Klobuchar ‘put pillow over my head’

By Chris Steller | 08.05.09 | 11:02 am

amy1Updated: U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar woke up today to a colleague’s voice on her clock radio, sounding off against the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor because of “the empathy standard.” On the floor of the Senate she told…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s cancer sounds treatable

By Chris Steller | 02.05.09 | 12:22 pm

News that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pancreatic cancer is in an early stage and has been treated with surgery is encouraging. Although a serious disease, pancreatic cancer can be surgically removed before it spreads beyond the pancreas…

Inaugural panorama: ‘Where’s Waldo?’ for the political set

By Chris Steller | 01.26.09 | 11:35 am

This zoom-able online panoramic photo of the presidential inauguration is a “Where’s Waldo” puzzle for fun-loving political junkies (with slight stalker tendencies). One Minnesotan could school those vain attendees who went sans chapeau: U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar knows…