Through A Looking Glass, Darkly
Anyone who is concerned about conserving the environment which supports human beings is anti-human, while anyone who happily destroys it, for short-term profit, is pro-human.
Anyone who is concerned about conserving the environment which supports human beings is anti-human, while anyone who happily destroys it, for short-term profit, is pro-human.
Favianna Rodriguez | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
To anyone outside the right-wing echo chamber, it is hardly a stretch to see that racism is alive and well in the US. That is exactly why we cannot let allegations of Sotomayor's "racism" go unchallenged.
Ian Millhiser | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Given Sessions' history of baseless assaults on civil rights, one has to wonder whether conservatives chose him as their leading voice on Sotomayor because they fundamentally agree with his lifelong stance on race.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
Colin Powell, who hails from the same Bronx neighborhood as Sonia Sotomayor, said on Sunday that the Supreme Court nominee was of a "liberal bent of m...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
Oh, the delights of the National Review's cover stories! Earlier this month, I think we all enjoyed ourselves immensely when the magazine, in their r...
Lanny Davis | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
From a surprisingly broad left-to-right spectrum, the Conventional Wisdom punditry seems to have decided that Judge Sotomayor was wrong on the law.
John Ridley | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Take a moment on this June 12th to look at where our nation once was and where we are now, and take solace in knowing that we are headed in a better direction.
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Neither race, gender, should be determinative in any legal judgment. But to assert that one's life experiences do not play a role in how facts are assessed is to ignore reality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
Good gravy, have you all seen the cover that the good people from the Journal of Lowered Expectations known as the National Review have put together? ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
I continue to wonder precisely what ancient ritual the people at MSNBC perform, on a daily basis, that absolves them of the consequences of airing -- and rewarding! -- these sorts of statements by Buchanan.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
According to the new definition of racism -- let's call it neo-racism -- anyone who believes we have not achieved racial equality can be considered a racist.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
The people at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting have run down, from soup to nuts, the way in which the Sotomayor-is-a-racist talking points issued fo...
Les Francis | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
We can hope that the confirmation process will be intense, spirited, and enlightening, and that Sotomayor -- and we -- will be spared the cheap, the tawdry, and the demagogic. We can hope, but we also should strive to make it so.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
Via Crooks and Liars comes this video of Pat Buchanan basically demonstrating why everything he says on teevee about politics should be dubbed out in ...
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Conservative pundits have railed seemingly endessly about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's supposed "reverse racism." But it appears conservative hero Ronald R...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** As far as Sonia Sotomayor is concerned, Sen. Arlen Specter's defection to the Democratic Party couldn't have come at a be...
SCOTUSblog | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
In those 50 cases, the panel accepted the claim of race discrimination only three times. In all three cases, the panel was unanimous; in all three, i...
Media Matters Action Network | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor for being a member of the National Council of La Raza, absurdly likening t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
The attacks on Judge Sonia Sotomayor are growing more vicious by the day, sparking a racial divide within the Republican Party over how best to approa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
The White House hit back at Newt Gingrich on Wednesday for a twitter post made by the former House Speaker accusing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotoma...
David Horton | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics