Politics

President Obama this morning will nominate U.S. appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, White House officials said. If confirmed, Sotomayor, 54, would be the first Supreme Court justice of Hispanic descent and only the third woman ever to sit on the panel.…

Obama to Nominate Sotomayor for Supreme Court President Obama likes making history. The Associated Press is reporting that Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor, a US Circuit Judge to succeed Supreme Court Justice David Souter on the bench upon his retirement. Sotomayor, 54, is the first Hispanic to be nominated for a seat on the high court. Should the nomination…

President Obama hit a home run by nominating Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court because the GOP cannot really oppose her on the so-called “merits” without, to be candid, looking ridiculous. Consider this: Sotomayor is from poor working-class roots. Her father died when she was 9. She worked her way to and through the nation’s…

Mom Gets Parenting FAIL, Arrested for Medical Neglect of Quarter-Ton Son From Baltimore, Maryland, CNN reports that a South Carolina mother who was wanted for failure to appear in family court and the medical neglect of her 555-pound son has been arrested. The boy and his mother were spotted at near a laundromat in Baltimore where the two were apprehended—the mother…

Barack is not Spock. I’ve heard so much rhapsodizing recently about the obvious kinship of the “mixed-race” marvels that I had to set the record straight. I saw “Star Trek” last weekend. Good film, but when the Vulcan commander strolled across the bridge of the Enterprise, I was not reminded of the president. Others have…

At Morehouse, to Give Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree, Victim Will Not A Morehouse student who shot another student is on his way to receiving his degree while his victim has left the campus only three bullets richer according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joshua Brandon Norris is catching a wrist slap for…

Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York According to the Washington Post, Four men—James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen—were apprehended while plotting to use C-4 plastic explosives to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx, New York. The men also planned to shoot down Air National Guard planes with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. Stuff like this…

‘Round and ’round and ’round we go with this torture thing, shouting and squawking in a decidedly partisan squabble, quarrelling over waterboarding and whether we should release certain damning pictures, arguing about whether we’re safer now or less safe now and who knew what/when/where. Fingers point and poke, and we talk on and on and…

Graphic storytellers spend their days mired in a world of fantasy and intrigue, where heroes and villains are rendered in black and white. In his book, How to Draw Noir Comics, illustrator Shawn Martinbrough broke down the basic artistic elements used to create these shady characters. So when The Root asked graphic novelist Joseph Phillip…

Jay Mohr Goes in on FLOTUS; Buzz Sees a ‘Missing Person’ Headline in his Future Comedian Jay Mohr of ‘being that guy whose name you don’t remember but who you totally recognize’ fame decided to give Madame Obama an ethering on the Jim Rome radio show, noting, among other things, FLOTUS’ stature and eyebrow game.…