Okay, first, the documents from her days as a clerk:/a>

On abortion, Kagan wrote a memo in a case involving a prisoner who wanted the state to pay for her to have the procedure. Kagan expressed concern to Marshall that the conservative-leaning Court would use the case to rule against the woman--and possibly undo precedents protecting a woman's right to abortion.

"This case is likely to become the vehicle that this court uses to create some very bad law on abortion and/or prisoners' rights," she wrote in the 1988 memo.

She also expressed strong liberal views in a desegregation case. Summarizing a challenge to a voluntary school desegregation program, Kagan called the program "amazingly sensible." She told Marshall that state court decisions that upheld the plan recognized the "good sense and fair-mindedness" of local efforts.

"Let's hope this Court takes note of the same," she wrote in the 1987 memo. Just three years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a nearly identical plan.

Kagan also wrote a memo that senators could use to question whether she believes there is a constitutional right to gay marriage.

That memo summarized a 1988 case involving a prisoner serving a life sentence in New York. He argued the state of New York was required to recognize his marriage-by-proxy in Kansas - even though such marriages were illegal in New York.

The basis of his argument was that New York had a duty under the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause to recognize his Kansas the marriage as valid. Kagan told Marshall his position was "at least arguably correct," and recommended asking for a response from New York officials.

Then there was the recently disclosed memo on gun rights. In a case challenging the District of Columbia's handgun ban as unconstitutional, Kagan was blunt: "I am not sympathetic." The Supreme Court took the opposite approach two years ago, striking down the D.C. gun ban as unconstitutional.

Taken together, these documents are certain to provoke considerably more questions than the less controversial papers unearthed before her confirmation hearings for solicitor general.

Now, for the likely-to-be-suppressed documents. These were written when she was in the executive branch under Clinton.

“President Obama does not intend to assert executive privilege over any of the documents requested by the Committee,” Bauer writes.

“Of course, President Clinton also has an interest in these records, and his representative is reviewing them now,” he adds.

Hence, Clinton could say "suppress" and Obama would suppress on Clinton's behalf.

Gee, they're making a lot of use out of Clinton as whipping boy of late, aren't they.

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The NY Post confirms the exit.

This guy reduced NBC to rubble and he's still getting a $30-$40 million compensation package? What, rape victims now have to pay off the rapists?

I don't get this whole aspect of corporate culture, or why conservatives so fetishize laissez-faire that they can't see if stuff like this is going on then something is wrong, and we're not really dealing with working, rational markets. We seem to be dealing instead with a corporate class with a vested interest in keeping this ludicrous system in place, over the objections of shareholders.

I can't believe that shareholders really would vote in favor of crap like this if they had a genuine say.

Anyway.

As to MSNBC:

There is also widespread chatter inside MSNBC that their days of being a propaganda machine for Obama are over....

The thinking is that Phil Griffin wonÂ’t have time meet the new bosses before finding himself out on the street. And without Griffin to protect The Stalker [Olbermann] from the new corporate bosses, he can cross another network off his list of places he can never work again.

I kind of doubt that, but it's fun to think about.

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Obama really likes this song.

From Ed Driscoll, with more.

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His name is "Stefon." He just resigned from his position as Andre Bauer's fashion consultant.

He was compelled to make this confession due to sacred honor, and a near-overdose combination of Red Bull and Gila Monster poison.

I find this one the most credible.

More Stefon.

Reached for comment about his alleged affair with Nikki Haley, Stefon replied, "New York's hottest club is Scent...!"

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Here's the saving grace of this stupid story: It's borderline plausible.

Larry Marchant just emailed me to say, "Oh dear me, I am so overcome with heterosexual desire. I wouldn't mind getting to "Third Base" with her, if you know what I mean. (PS: What do I mean? I've always been curious. Curious in a strictly intellectual sense, you understand.)"

Like a Deer in the Headlights! I mean, I'm like a deer in the headlights.

Now what on earth is inappropriate about this?
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What's amusing to me isn't that this guy is gayer than Liberace's boyfriend's hairdresser.

So, does a too-precious hairline and effeminate manner prove he's gay? Well, in legal terms, it doesn't prove it per se, but I would say the burden of proof has shifted to him.

This guy having a torrid one-night hook-up -- with a woman -- isn't fiction so much as it's science fiction.

Infidelity, sure, I buy that.

But I think this is one of those cases where a wife hears "I had an affair with a woman" and sighs with relief.

For legal reasons, let me say, I'm not saying he's gay. What I'm saying is, like commenter "conscious, but incoherent" says, If he's not gay, he really missed a golden opportunity.

But anyway. Okay, that does amuse me. (Liberace joke lifted from Alec Baldwin, either on SNL or 30 Rock, btw.)

But what really amuses me is that he, like Will "Integrity Kills" Folks before him, has such honorable reasons impelling him to things the rest of us would think are dishonorable.

Marchant said Wednesday: “I had to ask myself the question, when I was watching the press statements going back and forth between Ms. Haley and Mr. Folks, I had to ask myself whether I would be able to look at myself in the mirror every day knowing what I know. If I did not say anything, if I stood on the sideline and watched this happen, could I face myself in the mirror every day? And the answer was no.”

1, I get that, because he obviously looks in the mirror quite a bit, but 2, what about those times he's looking in the mirror with a video camera and a prostrate cabana boy?

Is that just jake? That doesn't tug at the Sacred Honor tripwires?

Marchant, who made headlines in December when he was charged with driving under the influence, said he told his pregnant wife last week about the one-night encounter with Haley.

Wednesday, his wife, Jennifer Marchant, told The State that she believes her husband.

First we had a wife-beater/cheater who told us that suddenly sacred honor compelled him to come forward with allegations of sex with Nikki Haley; now we have a drunk driver with a late-in-life kid on the way who claims an evidence-free liaison with Nikki Haley, and he, too, has come down with a bad case of sacred honor, his temperature, I'm told, reaching a dangerous 106 degrees F.

Doctors tried the ice-bath to cool his temperature, but in the end they ordered him to cool his conscience by babbling about one-night stands to the press.

Dan Riehl endorses Nikiki Haley on the theory that this is the only way to fight back against this programmed hit:

Folks' allegations never held up, as his claimed motivation didn't wash. How would it protect his wife for her to know that for years after ward, Folks has been praising a woman he allegedly slept with once, while going out of his way to point out how "hot" she was? That's total BS, as is much of what comes from the Daddy's basement dwelling misanthrope that is Will Folks.

Actually, what facts are known point more toward Folks getting cold feet after agreeing to push a smear he couldn't support, so a Bauer campaign consultant decided to take one for the team to try and put a failing campaign into a run-off. Any reward could come later, so I count the firing as BS, too.

We are never going to take government back by giving in to smear merchants and rumor mongers. The people of SC should base their decision on the candidates' records and statements of what they've done and would do going forward as regards South Carolina government.

And by that measure, Nikki Haley is the genuine reform candidate, wanting to accomplish good things for her state, bringing much needed changes. I've no intention of giving in to semi-connected wannabe king, or queen makers, simply desperate to put themselves on the map, no matter the cost to a good person and fine family.

I have a different take -- it does really matter to me, more than I thought it would, if she did cheat. It's the husband-serving-overseas part that really bothers me. And of course the can't-win-a-general-if-it's-true part.

But, that said, Larry "I Break Bitches" Marchant's story seems fake to me.

Not only is he, well, you know, let's say highly unlikely to lose all sense of reason due to the charms of a woman. And not only does he work for Haley's competitor.

But -- see, let's go back to Will Folks. If Will Folks had the goods -- if he was about to drop a Proof Bomb on Haley -- then there would be no reason for Marchant to come forward. Let us just ignore the claim he did this out of conscience, as it's incandescently false. He did this as part of his work for the worm-ridden scumbag Andre Bauer.

But -- why should it have been necessary? Why should Andre Bauer damage himself by having one of his political consultants engage in this sleaze if it weren't necessary to do so? See, if Folks had a Smoking gun, Bauer would know that, and he would know then to stay out of this mess, let it damage Haley while he rides to victory.

But apparently Bauer seems to think that Will Folks isn't going to be able to prove an affair at all, thus necessitating the high-risk play of sending forth Hot Lips Marchant here out to the press.

My reasoning goes:

1. If Haley had an affair, there should be proof.

2. If Haley had an affair, Bauer knows that, and knows there's proof.

3. If Haley had an affair, Bauer can avoid getting involved in this tawdry hell and just go on to the primary, knowing that Folks will play the You Lose card in time to save him.

4. But Bauer didn't avoid getting involved.

To me, then, that suggests that there is no proof, and, ergo, there was no affair.

I'm not really exactly confident of that reasoning but this Marchant cat is lighting up my gaydar even more than the time I watched volleyball scene in Top Gun in Boy George's sex dungeon while RuPaul was giving me a hands-free pedicure.

And Folks seems like a pathetic loser with nothing left to lose.

So: Provisionally, until there really is conclusive proof -- and Will "Conscience Compels Me" Folks and Larry "Conroy Compels Me" Marchant really ought to have it -- I'm just not crediting this as possibly true any further.

Maybe it is possibly true. Fine. Then let those who have proof produce it.

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Fake, you say? A blogger at the Dallas Observer says you're wrong and he's got the police report to prove it.

Thanks to tmi3rd.

Sound Effect: Now with the General Lee's horn added, thanks to "Uncle Jesse."

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Above The Post Update:

Selig does the right thing

MLB Commissioner says he will not reverse umpire's call that cost Detroit's Armando Galarraga a perfect game

Original Post:
If you haven't heard about this, here's the post from late last night.

Before we get to the idiocy of changing the call read this series of Tweets via someone at the game

Det Tigers Class Act. Gallaraga hands Jim Joyce line up card at home plate. Joyse is sobbing!

Det fans applaud ump Jim Joyce as he sobs. Makes me so proud of baseball and fans

OMG! Det tigers class act! Pitcher hands ump line up card at home plate. Ump is sobbing. Makes me cry!

I just saw video of this on SportsCenter. Absolutely amazing.

Added: Here's the video

Now baseball commissioner Bud Selig is considering making it an official perfect game. more...

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What heartless brutes! Now this poor Taliban fellow has joined the ranks of the unemployed and will likely be defaulting on his mortgage.

...The newly appointed Taliban shadow governor of Baghlan province was captured May 31 by an Afghan-international force as he prepared to leave for Pakistan.

His predecessor was killed in a coalition airstrike the previous day, and this capture marks the third time in as many weeks that the Taliban have had to replace named shadow governors for Baghlan province because of coalition operations...

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By two points! Some within the margin-of-error movement, getting him all the way up to thirty-nine percent!

Meanwhile, Sharon Angle is now ahead of Sue Lowden. The Tea Party Express (advocacy group) crows:

According to a brand new Suffolk University Political Research poll, Angle has now jumped to an 8% lead over former front-runner Sue Lowden.

The previous two polls conducted in this race had Angle trailing Sue Lowden by 1% (Mason-Dixon) while a Public Policy Polling survey had Angle actually ahead of Lowden by 3%.

The Tea Party Express endorsed Angle on April 15th at a National Press Club news conference in Washington, D.C. At the time Angle was at 5% in the polls and badly trailed Sue Lowden who was at 47%.

After a nearly $500,000 advertising blitz by the Tea Party Express (and a new $400,000 ad campaign by the Club for Growth which began advertising for Angle last week) Angle has now erased that deficit and has taken the lead.

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