The recently released Pew Global Attitudes Project poll shows that President Obama has lifted America’s image around the world to pre-9/11 levels. “Opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office,” according to the Pew project. That’s the good news.

However, opinion in the Muslim world—while showing some positive movement, particularly in Indonesia—remains largely unfavorable. Ultimately, Pew concluded “the perception remains widespread among many Muslims that the U.S. could pose a military threat to their country.” Moreover—with the

La recientemente publicada encuesta del Proyecto Pew sobre Actitudes Globales muestra que el Presidente Obama ha levantado la imagen de Estados Unidos ante el mundo a los niveles que tenía antes del 9/11.

An editorial in this month's 2009 AARP Bulletin repeats the same bromide heard almost nightly on the MSM news: That there are currently 47 million Americans without health insurance. The AARP editorial goes on to argue that this situation is disgraceful, that all Americans should have "affordable health care choices," and that in terms of reform, "the time to act is now."

I don’t know about you, but I am getting a little tired of the drumbeat repetition of the “wise Latina” quote (which may be the point of inundating us with it: everyone is bound to soon say “Enough already! We heard it!”), so I decided to see what Sonia Sotomayor’s oft-quoted speech looked like in context. The address was delivered at a symposium held at Berkeley Law School in 2001, “Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary