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What Is The "National Origin" of Apple Pie?

Gregg Easterbrook | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Maybe having Sotomayor on the Supreme Court will cause the US and Puerto Rico finally to resolve the nutty relationship they have had since 1898. I'd say give the island a star and make it a state.

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A Supreme Sotomayor: How My Country Has Caught Up to Me

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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What President Obama has done for men of color, Sonia Sotomayor will do for Puerto Rican women. She will forever and profoundly change the image of what a "Puerto Rican girl" really is.

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Director Of Tancredo's Anti-Immigrant Group Assaulted African-American Woman

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor for being a member of the National Council of La Raza, absurdly likening t...

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NYT Recycles 'Sharp-Tongue' Criticism Of Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

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I don't think I mentioned it previously, but when President Barack Obama announced that he would be submitting Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge S...

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The Plan Behind the Sotomayor Attacks

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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The right has clearly decided that a wedge issue that will work for them in the 2010 election cycle is affirmative action and this is the opening salvo for yet another mean spirited divisive GOP campaign cycle.

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Bill O'Reilly: "The Left Sees White Men As The Problem" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

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As you have probably experienced for yourself, it's so hard for most white dudes to get a leg up in America, a nation that has historically both hated...

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Karl Rove Needs a Dictionary: Get Your Definition of Empathy Correct

Caroline Presno | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Empathy is an objective understanding of the subjective experience of another. In the process of empathizing, you're actually putting your ego aside in order to see what it is like to walk in another person's shoes.

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Newt Limbaugh's at it Again

Lowell Thompson | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

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Conservatives have perfected the cynical but amazingly effective tactic of calling victims of American racism 'racists.'

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The Supreme Court: New Face, Old Arguments

Stanley Kutler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

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Sotomayor has the "right" gender, ethnicity, and experience; nevertheless, we can expect the Republicans to mount an "ideological" opposition.

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Abortion Rights Backers Reassured On Sotomayor

Washington Post | Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering s...

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Why Sotomayor's Confirmation Debate Is the D.C. Equivalent of Rock of Love

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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Listening to conservatives play the race card in attacking the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, I've been marveling at just how self-destructive they've become. Republicans have to know how bad this is for their party

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Scritti Politti: May 28, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

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Karl Rove isn't worried about how attacking Sonia Sotomayor might alienate Hispanic voters! And why is that? But what damage did Democrats suffer wh...

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Adios a el Hispano Voto

Sam Greenfield | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

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The Latino vote should be the exclusive property of the Republican party. Religiously faithful,socially conservative, family oriented,they are a poste...

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Supreme Cynics: Slamming Sotomayor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy

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A behind-the-scenes look at a secret meeting of the conservative opposition to Sonia Sotomayor

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

Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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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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WaPo's Cillizza Claims Sotomayor Gives GOP A Winning Election Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media

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Chris Cillizza, writing for the Washington Post, believes that he has discovered the pony for Republicans in opposing the nomination of Sonia Sotomayo...

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Karl Rove: We've Already Had A Hispanic Justice

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, former Bush adviser Karl Rove made his case against Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Along with the sta...

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First GOP Senator Pledges Vote Against Sotomayor

The Hill | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) became the first senator Thursday to go on the record to say that he would vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination...

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Scalia, Alito Quotes Blunt Conservative Attacks On Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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What's odd about the body of opposition to Sonia Sotomayor is that it includes so many items that seem to have been previously deemed acceptable for S...

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Is Sotomayor Bad For Business?

Fortune | Roger Parloff | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- If there had been a secret-ballot vote among appellate lawyers who argue business cases, it is most unlikely that Judge Sonia So...

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Forgetting Sonia Sotomayor

Shaun Casey | Posted 06.27.2009 | Comedy

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White people, as usual, are taking credit for this momentous nomination, congratulating themselves on what a great a job they did finally considering having a lone Latino Supreme Court Justice.

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Despite Sotomayor Nomination, Latino Academic Gap Still Huge

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Latinos have the highest high school dropout rates and the lowest college attendance rates of all racial/ethnic groups, making Judge Sotomayor's biography all the more inspiring.

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Sotomayor's Reasoning

Linda Martín Alcoff | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Judge Sotomayor has simply stated upfront what most of us know full well: identity affects experience, and experience makes a difference in our judgment.

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Tom Tancredo Calls Sotomayor Racist (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and radical anti-immigration activist, called President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a ...

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Welcoming the First Latino Supreme Court Justice

Gabriela Lemus | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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The Latino community is at the heart of a number of highly politicized issues and attacks on its civil liberties. Someone like Sotomayor could help bridge the gap between fear and understanding.

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