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Next Wednesday is National Fist Bump Day

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 On June 3, 2008, Barack and Michelle Obama made a gesture that triggered apoplectic seizures among the pseudo-patriots at Fox News, one of whom wondered aloud if this curious ritual was a “terrorist fist bump.”

 In celebration of the first anniversary of this wonderful event, next Wednesday has been designated National Fist Bump Day. Check out the details HERE.

 Meanwhile, courtesy of Media Matters for America, here’s a gallery of photos to get you in the mood:

 Here’s my personal favorite, from my own collection. It shows President Obama exchanging fist bumps with U.S. troops in Iraq:

Since when are these dubious characters so greatly concerned about racism?

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Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t agree that judges shouldn’t make law

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 It’s an article of faith among right-wingers that judges should not “make law.”

 But Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a favorite among conservatives, takes a different view.

 In a 2002 case, Scalia wrote this:

This complete separation of the judiciary from the enterprise of “representative government” might have some truth in those countries where judges neither make law themselves nor set aside the laws enacted by the legislature. It is not a true picture of the American system. Not only do state-court judges possess the power to ”make” common law, but they have the immense power to shape the States’ constitutions as well.

There’s more on this matter HERE.

Nine myths about Sonia Sotomayor

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Of all the falsehoods and fabrications about Sonia Sotomayor that have arisen this week, THESE are the most popular.

 UPDATE: A new Gallup Poll SHOWS that 47 percent of Americans see President Obama’s choice of Sotomayor as good or excellent, while 33 percent think it’s fair or poor. Twenty percent have no opinion.

Here’s a list of 10 great conspiracy theories

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 Speaking of conspiracy theories (as I was in the post just previous to this), here’s a FUN LIST of the 10 most popular examples.

Wingnuts see political conspiracy against Chrysler dealers who give money to Republicans

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 How weird can these people get?

 There’s a theory going around among conservative bloggers to the effect that the Chrysler dealerships targeted for closing tend to be those whose owners lean to the Republican side of the political spectrum.

 Nate Silver has more about this nonsense HERE.

 UPDATE: Predictably, one of the Fox News dimwits ran with the conspiracy angle at today’s White House news briefing:

Is Sonia Sotomayor a liberal ideologue? Not according to what it says here

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 E.J. Dionne says Sonia Sotomayor “is the most conservative choice that President Obama could have made” to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

 ”It is highly unlikely that she will push the court to the left,” writes Dionne. “Indeed, on many issues of concern to business, she is likely to make the Chamber of Commerce perfectly happy.”

 Read the whole thing HERE.

Transcript of enhanced interrogation completely vindicates Dick Cheney

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Pretty funny satire HERE.

Are you liberal or conservative? It depends on how your brain works

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Nicholas Kristof has a GOOD COLUMN on such matters as the role played by the medial prefrontal cortex in formulating liberal or conservative political values.