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Weekly Pulse: Kagan Hearings: Gags, God, Guns, and Gays

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings kicked off on Monday. Her nomination has been met by...

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Thurgood Marshall Attack: New Wrinkle in GOP Hit Plan on Kagan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP goal: to bully, cow, and badger Kagan to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench. The plan also senda a firm message to the Obama administration about conservative politics.

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America's New Face of Terrorism

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Yvonne R. Davis

Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.

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