Why I Want a Wise Latina

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Wednesday July 15, 2009 · 7:43 PM PDT

2009/07/15 · 19:43

Cross-posted from Anonymous Is A Woman and Blue Virgina

Republicans have been aggressively fixated on the "wise Latina" phrase that judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor used in a speech to a group of Hispanic students at Berkley in California, in 2001. And Democrats have been trying to separate themselves and Judge Sotomayor from her own words ever since she was nominated to the Supreme Court. But I think that’s the wrong tactic. Instead, they should be embracing it. It was an appropriate phrase in a speech whose purpose was to inspire young Hispanic women to achieve success and nothing more. It did not reflect her judicial philosophy, which appears to be very much in the mainstream if you judge it by the countless opinions she has rendered from the bench.

But what if it actually had reflected her understanding of her role as a judge? Would that have been a bad thing?

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Sunday July 12, 2009 · 6:11 PM PDT

2009/07/12 · 18:11

Note, this was cross-posted from Blue Virginia

The Washington Post has lost its moral compass as well as its sense of what good journalism should be. Before getting to how their reporting standards have slipped, here’s a recent example of their losing their moorings completely when it comes to journalistic ethics.

As reported by Politico, the Post’s publisher, Katharine Weymouth, agreed to host a series of salons for lobbyists and industry executives to meet with officials from Congress and the administration, and with Washington Post reporters. The ostensible reason for the gatherings was to put business leaders together with government officials and journalists for collegial evenings discussing the important issues of the day. The first salon was to feature the topic of health care reform.

Well, for the $25,000 a pop for lobbyists and business executives to attend, it really turned out to be the Washington Post’s clumsy attempt to raise funds by selling access. Journalistic paygo.

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 5:10 PM PDT

2008/04/30 · 17:10

The rich are different. Or so said the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. As that chronicler of the messy life of Jay Gatsby and his wife Daisy found out, the main way the fabulously wealthy are different from you and me is that they are insulated in a bubble that protects them from having to be accountable for their actions. It’s a gilded bubble to go with a Gilded Age. In The Great Gatsby, it was the Jazz Age of the 1920s, the original Gilded Age of the history books.

Times haven’t changed.

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 19:15

Cross posted from Anonymous Is A Woman

If John McCain were a product being advertised, you know he’d fail the truth in advertising test. He’s peddling the same old failed Republican economic orthodoxies wrapped up in brand new Arizona maverick garb. Here’s the picture painted in today’s Washington Post of his visit to one depressed town in coal mining country.

INEZ, Ky., April 23 -- Sen. John McCain stood before a small crowd in this tiny Appalachian town with the same mission he has had all week: convincing what he calls "forgotten" voters who are traditionally hostile to his party that he is a different kind of Republican.

"You just expect us to show a decent concern for your hard work and initiative, and do what we can to help make sure you have opportunities to prosper from your labor," he told a packed courthouse Wednesday, not far from the coal mines that provide most of the jobs here

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 6:36 PM PDT

2007/08/23 · 18:36

Cross-posted from Raising Kaine

Well, as I promised yesterday, here’s an update on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement middle of the night raid on Smithfield employees yesterday in Tar Heel, North Carolina, and four other counties surrounding the plant.

To start with, the scenario was not nearly as dire as I originally reported, but it’s heartbreaking nonetheless. In the confusion that often occurs when an eyewitness calls in, excited, scared, and confused, some of the facts got garbled. To clear up those earlier distortions, as far as I can tell from reading multiple accounts in North Carolina papers (here and here), there were no dogs and doors were not kicked down.

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Wednesday August 22, 2007 · 6:00 PM PDT

2007/08/22 · 18:00

Cross-posted from Raising Kaine

Exactly one week before a major protest was planned for the Smithfield Annual Shareholders' Meeting, which moved to Williamsburg, Virginia from its traditional Richmond location, reports are surfacing that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has somehow gotten the addresses of supposed undocumented workers for the company. At 4:30 this morning, they kicked in doors and used dogs to round up as many as 30 people in an effort to intimidate workers trying to organize a plant.

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Monday January 22, 2007 · 6:08 PM PST

2007/01/22 · 18:08

Note: This is being cross-posted from Anonymous Is A Woman and Raising Kaine

Kansas senator, Sam Brownback, formally threw his hat into the Republican presidential ring with yesterday's announcement. On the surface, he's the ideal candidate for the pro-life, religious values voters. But his real agenda goes far beyond what even a lot of them want to see for our government.

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