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What Leaders Can Learn from a Baseball Umpire

Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Yankees, Women, Leadership, New York Rangers, Bank of America, Alberto Gonzalez, New York Giants, Umpires, Kenneth Lewis, Women in Business, Tim McClelland, Politics News
Leslie Grossman

After Game 4 of the ALCS, umpire Tim McClelland admitted that he made two bad calls. I was surprised, because we rarely hear those words from people in power, our so-called leaders.

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News
Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latina, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, President Obama and Judge Sotomayor, Kkk, La Raza, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mike Allen, " Immigration, The Minutemen, Judge Sotomayor, Lou Dobbs, G. Gordon Liddy, Newt Gingrich, Glen Beck, Jonathan Martin, Clarence Thomas, Tom Tancredo, Dolores Huerta, Cnn, "Racism, Latino, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Mark Krikorian, Latino Vote, David Duke, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Colbert, Stephen Colbert, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

One thing is clear: President Obama's choice of a Latina woman has sparked the ugliest reaction from the Republican Right we've seen years.

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That's All You Got? The Attacks on Sotomayor Come Across as Desperate

Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Latinos, Gop, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, Ivy League, Hispanics, John Roberts, The Bronx, Latina, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Confirmation Hearings, Racist Comments, Latino Voters, George Will, Perry Mason, Sonia Sotomayor, Hispanic Voters, Supreme Court Nominee, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Diabetes, Newt Gingrich, Thurgood Marshall, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

In the spirit of bipartisanship, I offer the following: Drop the lame attacks on Sonia Sotomayor, because they're not going to work.

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With Liberty and Justice for Some!

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Karl Rove, David Begelman, Alabama Governor Spiegelman, Alberto Gonzales's Justice Department, Alberto-Gonzalez, Alberto Gonzalez, Spiegelman, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

We lost, while those with power won!

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Justice Department Turns the Table on Political Prosecutions

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Stevens, Air America Radio, Alberto Gonzalez, Paul Minor, Don Siegelman, Mike Papantonio, Michael Mukasey, Golefttv, Justice Department, Ring of Fire, Political Prosecution, Eric Holder, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Ted Stevens never should have been prosecuted in 2008. Traditional media has done a pitiful job covering the many political prosecution stories that occurred during the Ashcroft/Gonzales years.

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Eric Holder: Help Save 49 Lives, Please!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Criminal Justice System, Eric Holder, Senator Feingold, Death Row, Capital Punishment, Alberto Gonzalez, John Ashcroft, Texas Death Penalty, Attorney General Holder, Obama Death Penalty, Buddhism, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

If it were up to me, I would withdraw death penalty eligibility in all of the pending cases, and I would tell prosecutors never to seek the death penalty. There is the possibility of saving 49 lives.

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Dicks Cheney and Armey and Other Republicans

Lea Lane | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Dick Armey, Alberto Gonzalez, Rnc, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Barney Frank, Hardball, Obama, Stimulus Package, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Joan Walsh, Politics News
Lea Lane

Without a full accounting, and justice applied, Dicks such as Cheney and Armey will continue sneering and laughing in the face of all of us.

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Rethuglicans

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill O’Reilly, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Matt Drudge, Michelle Malkin, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Michael Medved, Michele Bachmann, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Laura Ingraham, Republican Turncoats, Rethuglicans, Reublicans, Politics News
Ian Gurvitz

Some Republicans praising Barack Obama's election as a wonderful milestone may actually be sincere. While others come off like the sneaky little shit who brings brass knuckles to a fistfight.

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Peas In a Pod: Palin's Troopergate And Bush's Attorneygate

Susan L. Travis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

Read More: First Dude, Vice President, Attorneygate, Troopergate, Sarah Palin, Republican, Walt Monegan, Todd Palin, Election 2008, Alaska, Alberto Gonzalez, Scandal, Vetting, Home News
Susan L. Travis

We have entered the surreal world of Republicangate, where distortions of truth and contempt for the law saturate the Republican brand.

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Contempt for Rove

Don Siegelman | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Judiciary Committee, Don Siegelman, Linda Sanchez, Doj, Politicization DOJ, Department of Justice, Contempt, House Judiciary Committee, Artur Davis, Karl Rove Don Siegelman, Contempt for Rove, Politics News
Don Siegelman

Karl Rove and his right-wing political cronies targeted me through a malicious, unfounded, politically-motivated prosecution. Now is the time to take action.

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Justice Department Report On Politicization: Politicians React

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Doj Politics, Doj, Justice Department, Justice Department Politicization, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalez, Justice Department Report Responses, Patrick Leahy, John Conyers, Politics News

Reactions to the report confirming wide-spread politicization at the Justice Department. Congressman John Conyers: When it comes to the hiring of no...

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Justice Dept Under Gonzales Issued Secret Opinion Authorizing 'Harsh CIA Interrogations'

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Justice, Alberto Gonzalez, Cia, Interrogation Techniques, Home News

When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abando...

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