THE EYES AND EARS OF THE PUBLIC - AT 7:25 P.M. ET:  The Associated Press blesses us with this hard-hitting, probing news story dealing with the very highest echelons of truth, justice, and the American way.  Thanks, Superman:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has bonded with female senators about her childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries and shared war stories with the Senate's former prosecutors about her days in the gritty Manhattan district attorney's office.

Slogging through dozens of personal, one-on-one meetings with senators that amount to a high-stakes job interview, she has impressed her questioners with an engaging personality and life story -- even those lawmakers with big reservations about her views on the law.

COMMENT:  This is the press, ladies and gentlemen, that protects us from tyranny.

June 13,  2009