TODAY'S TOP STORIES

CATHOLIC CONSENSUS:

Fr. Jenkins' welcome to Obama at Notre Dame more sickening than Obama's presence. You be the judge.

Coming in second, so close as to nearly be a photo finish: Judge John Noonan. When did his moral GPS get re-programmed? What was he thinking?

You be the judge? Damn -- HE be the judge.

All in all, a rueful day.


OBAMA RATCHETS UP THE RHETORIC:
NORTH KOREAN NUKE TEST
"SUPER-DUPER UNHELPFUL"

The Nose On Your Face nails it. And in a similar vein, Andy Borowitz reports that Obama will respond to North Korea with "the strongest possible adjectives -- we will consult a thesaurus". So there.


DENNIS MILLER,
FIRST OUT OF THE CHUTE WITH THE BON MOT

New SCOTUS nominee:
"Roseanne Bar-Exam"

The New Republic cross-examines the case for Sonya Sotomayor
As Arlo Guthrie once said, just another case of American blind justice.