Apparently the drug dogs that sniff your car and get all excited when they smell your dope are not so good. Or maybe too good? "A Tribune analysis of three years of data for suburban departments found that only 44 percent of those alerts by the dogs led to the discovery of drugs or paraphernalia. For Hispanic drivers, the success rate was just 27 percent." To be fair to the dogs, the Chicago Tribune is working off some fairly lousy data here—the Chicago PD and the Illinois State Police don't even collect data, apparently, about drug dog alerts. But going through suburban police departments in Illinois, they found [...]

Sonia Sotomayor has only been a Supreme Court nominee for two-and-a-half hours and she's already proving divisive among Hispanics, Jews, and Talking Points Memo readers.