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Video: Sonia Knows Nunchucks

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Even for a legal nerd like myself, Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings have been fairly dull. So our friends at The UpTake took the liberty of spicing up the day's most interesting back-and-forth—between Sotomayor and Utah's Orrin Hatch.

So, there you have it: Sonia Sotomayor is Michelangelo.

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These things are best left

These things are best left alone. A free society is a risky proposition at best, and involves a degree of discomfort for everybody. The right to bear arms is a fundamental part of our ability to maintain power over our government, regardless of political affiliation. To assume otherwise is extremely naive, and potentially disastrous. The world would be a much better place without weapons, or violent tendencies, but to think that it is possible to regulate ourselves to utopia assumes too much control over human nature. The degree to which we are capable of resisting will dictate the degree to which we will be free. America needs to learn to "live and let live" in our social policy, and abandon our self righteous restriction of each other. A divided population makes for easy pickings for a would-be aristocracy.

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Show trials

When totalitarian governments put someone on "trial" for political reasons, for example dissent, the American media and the American public fall over themselves in condemning these "show trials," the verdict of which is known before the trial starts. None the less, the rulers want a spectacle to impress the public that these rulers are in charge. The interrogation of Sonia Sottomayor is pretty much the same thing, part of the inane game that is American national government. When senators are present mostly to score points with their base for the next election, the subject is wise to be subdued and patient while saying nothing of any real substance. Judge Sottomayor is doing that well, so the show goes on, Meanwhile, our real problems lie ignored and neglected, quietly festering.

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