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Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes emergency surgery

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone surgery for an apparent early stage pancreatic cancer, the court’s public information office is reporting.

The 75-year-old Ginsburg underwent the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Her attending physician, Dr. Murray Brennan, (ed note: Dr. Brennan is one of the premiere surgeons in the country) said Justice Ginsburg would probably remain in the hospital for between seven and 10 days.

Ginsburg reported having no symptoms prior to the discovery of a lesion during a routine annual check up in January at the National Institutes of Health. A scan found a small tumor, approximately one centimeter across, in the center of the pancreas.

Ginsburg has served on the Supreme Court since being appointed by President Clinton in 1993. The graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School is one of the most liberal members of the court.

What's Going On: Evening News Round-up

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit just outside Los Angeles. There was no major damage or injuries reported.
Senator Barack Obama talked about immigration in front of an Asian American and Pacific Islander group.
Now, even the Washington Post is questioning Senator John McCain’s ad. Once they get into the act, you know that the ad stinks.
One of the saddest stories that I have seen in a while is this Extreme Makeover house in Atlanta. If you don’t know the story, I summarize. While this family was sent on vacation to Disneyland, this TV show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, destroys their home and builds a bigger, newer one on the same spot. The family was given enough money to pay the taxes on the home for decades. Since then, the family borrowed against the house and now can’t afford payments. The home will be auctioned on Tuesday as another foreclosure.
Senator John McCain’s health needs to become a serious topic of this campaign. We really didn’t see his records. Some selected reporters were able to peak at selected records. Now, McCain had another “spot” or lesion removed from his right cheek. We, the American people, should get a detailed history of his melanomas. How deep were they? How large were they? What are his chances for recurrence? None of these questions have really been answered.
David Brooks writes an interesting article on education in today’s New York Times. He discusses how America became an economic powerhouse as a result of investment in education. He then points out that we have been stagnant in this area since 1970. What he doesn’t mention is that his Republican party has done everything that they could think of to retard and destroy our public education system. The two best examples are No Child Left Behind, which has been great at dumbing down our students and teachers, and charter schools, which suck needed funds out of our public school system. I doubt if David Brooks will call out President Bush in his next article for Bush’s disasterous educational policies.
Finally, bombings in Iraq yesterday killed 61 people and wounded 238 people. In Pakistan, the U.S. bombed a suspected Al Qaeda training camp. Now, we are going on the offense. Where was this over the past four to five years?