Obama’s Cairo speech converges on East-West obligation

The BBC News posted a fascinating word cloud visual depiction of President Barack Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today.

Arguing with someone (cough … Rush Limbaugh) that Obama capitulated to Islam over Western concerns? Whip this out.

Musgrave drains campaign fund to train young antiabortion activists

The national antiabortion group, Susan B. Anthony List, is the recipient of a cool 50 grand courtesy of defeated U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s campaign fund. The Fort Morgan conservative, who now works for the List’s Votes Have Consequences outreach effort, will fund the “Young Leaders” training program, an initiative of the group’s separate tax-exempt charitable education foundation.

That organizational do-si-do may allow Musgrave to effectively skirt a federal campaign finance rule that prohibits candidates from donating unused war chests to their employers.

Coffman slams Ritter as ‘terrorist sympathizer’ over Piñon Canyon law

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a “terrorist sympathizer” for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal.

Racism, affirmative action charges fail to derail Sotomayor nomination

Vicious personal attacks leveled by conservatives designed to undermine the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court haven’t yet turned the public against the likely first Latina judge appointed to the nation’s highest bench.

Radical antiabortion forces may rebuild movement around May 31 day of infamy

The May 31 murder of Wichita physician George Tiller may hold a creepy significance for militant antiabortion protesters in the same manner that Adolph Hitler’s birthday has been exploited by white supremacists to wreak racist mayhem.

Dueling Senate health reform plans reveal centrist-liberal split

A show down between competing Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation’s health insurance system is fracturing along ideological lines, writes The New York Times today.

Tweet of the Week: Tancredo, La Raza cage match live on CNN

Well, that ought to be a real Frost/Nixon television moment.

Health care reform endangered by liberal circular firing squad

The risk of long-delayed health insurance reform collapsing under its own weight could come from an unlikely faction — the political Left.

That sinking reality was in full voice Wednesday at a Denver town hall forum featuring Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, ex-Vermont governor and a physician.

Dean in Denver to demand health care reform keep public insurance option

Former 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s visit to Denver today can’t come a moment too soon for the 450,000 Colorado workers who don’t have health care insurance.

Tancredo calls SCOTUS nominee Sotomayor a racist

In yet another offensive statement, for which he will no doubt refuse to repudiate, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo said today that U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a racist.

Crooks and Liars.com supplies the jaw-dropping video of Tancredo’s remarks on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show”: