Talk about wedge tactics. Take a look at this line of New Haven firefighters filing into the Sotomayor confirmation hearings Wednesday morning. (If you…
Posts Tagged ‘White’
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Reaching The High Court On The Backs Of White Heroes
July 16th, 2009 |
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William Bradley: Hillary’s Back! (Or Not)
July 16th, 2009 |
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Hillary Clinton’s notorious “3 AM” TV ad ad attacked Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries as being unprepared on geopolitics. But President…
David Weinberger: Senator, would you be ok with an all white Court? Really?
July 15th, 2009 |
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Here’s what I’d ask the Republican Senators who are questioning her about that line in her speech: Senator, would you be ok with an all…
White Men Can’t Judge: Stewart Takes On Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings (VIDEO)
July 15th, 2009 |
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Jon Stewart managed to make Sonia Sotomayor’s fairly dry confirmation hearings hilarious last night by calling out her questioners on issues of race, self-aggrandizement, and general ridiculousness. The only person who didn’t look like a caric…
Sally Kohn: Race-Colored Glasses: Seeing What’s There
July 15th, 2009 |
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Even if it’s a fairly done deal that Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, Republicans are explicitly using her nomination as a…
Obama’s Economists Slammed By Liberal Dems
July 15th, 2009 |
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Frustrated liberal Democrats are increasingly concerned that White House economists are too centrist and “theoretical” to fix the economy.
President Obama’s economic thinkers have baffled some House members, who see more unemployed constituen…
Rick Horowitz: At Sotomayor Hearings, Some Like it Simple
July 14th, 2009 |
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Any judgment that differs from mine, to the extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality.
I am White Guy.
Nathaniel Frank: Can White Men Shed Their Prejudices Better Than Others?
July 14th, 2009 |
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The implication of Sessions’ inquisition was that, as a white male with no distinguishing “heritage” to speak of, he and his ilk can make judgments totally free of feelings, belief, or experience.
Grueling Schedules Taking Their Toll On West Wing Staffers
July 13th, 2009 |
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The White House mess — the military-inspired term for the West Wing cafeteria — opens at 7 a.m. each day. And each day, there is a long line of hungry staffers who have already been at the office for well over an hour.
More on…
Stephen Kaus: Fighting Sotomayor, Republicans Falsely Advance Fire Fighter Ricci as the White Man’s Rosa Parks
July 12th, 2009 |
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On Ricci, Sotomayor is in line with four of the nine current members of the U.S. Supreme Court. It is not she who is starting a race war.
Andy Worthington: Will Eric Holder Be The Anti-Torture Hero?
July 12th, 2009 |
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In an important article for Newsweek, “Independent’s Day,” Daniel Klaidman manages not only to present a convincingly intimate and sympathetic first-hand portrait of Eric Holder,…
Noelle Cigarroa Perese: Will Our Progressives In Congress Fight For The Public Option?
July 11th, 2009 |
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If more than 40 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus take the pledge to support a public option, then we know they’re serious about health care reform and aren’t just spouting words.
Sybil Adelman Sage: Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Didn’t Pick Up on Ensign’s Affair
July 11th, 2009 |
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How inept was the Bush White House that with all their warrantless wiretapping, they never picked up on the ever-growing group of married, Republican politicians…
Allison Kilkenny: Why Did President Obama Choose Ghana as His Africa Destination?
July 11th, 2009 |
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A quarter of US oil imports are expected to come from West Africa by 2015. That could explain why Obama chose Ghana over, say, his father’s homeland of Kenya.