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Conservative Mag Worries Rand Paul Is 'Already Selling Out' On Earmarks


Rand Paul, Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Kentucky

Sen.-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) is making some of his supporters nervous, after an interview with the Wall Street Journal this weekend where Paul appeared to walk back his bright-line opposition to earmarking, a centerpiece of his tea party campaign for Senate.

"Is he selling out already?" National Review's Veronique de Rugy asked yesterday.

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Topics: 2010 elections, Earmarks, National Review, Rand Paul

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National Review's Wise Latina Caricature Inexplicably Asian

As part of a cover package called "The Wise Latina," the folks over at the conservative National Review--apparently flummoxed by the very idea of a "wise Latina"--have caricaturized the Puerto Rican-descended Sonia Sotomayor as an Asian Buddhist.

Good times.

Also featured on the cover in the current issue: "Jonah Goldberg On His Critics." That better be a long article.

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Topics: National Review, Sonia Sotomayor

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