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The above pertinent, personal, and principled question will not be asked of the new Supreme Court nominee because no senator has the courage, commitment, and character to ask it, although only a fool or fanatic says the question is illegitimate. Even “conservative” Republicans are silent on this matter. Maybe some of them need a spinal transplant to help them take a stand. I don’t expect Democrats to take a stand since they haven’t stood for anything worthwhile since Senator “Scoop” Henry Jackson died Sept. 1, 1983 and Congressman Larry McDonald was killed the same day when Koran Air Flight 077...

"Liberal cowardice" and "conservative discomfort" are burying the question many privately are posing about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, asserts noted political commentator and blogger Andrew Sullivan, who identifies himself as a gay Catholic.(So is she gay?)"If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing,"Sullivan reasoned. "And yet we have been told by many that she is gay ... and no one will ask directly if this is true and no one in the administration will tell us definitively." [snip] The White House tried to quash the issue last month...

At the moment, on Google Trends, Obama's Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan's name appears twice in the top twenty searches. The second time it appears, the term is "kagan supreme court." The first? "elena kagan personal life." Well. For a while — until today, in fact — we'd been wondering if we'd sounded the alarm bell too soon about the whole "Is or isn't Elena Kagan gay?" story line. After all, no major politicians have come out and asked the question, or even raised it as a point. But after Obama's announcement today that Kagan is, in fact, the...