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Analysis of an almost-150-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision — the Dred Scott case — is important because it helps answer a contemporary question, said Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy: "Why are black people so angry?" Part of the answer is the racism inherent in the foundation of our government, he said, and it's not a historical artifact. "Do we still live in a pigmentocracy? Yeah, we live in a pigmentocracy," Kennedy said Thursday night. "Until it is a (case) that one can read and feel that it is repudiated, it will continue to have . . . a certain potency."...

The Democratic operative (and staffer for Sen. Charles Schumer) who went dumpster diving for Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele's credit report will be charged by federal prosecutors. Good. I wonder if it will ever be possible to find out if Sen.Schumer himself was involved. If you don't recall the details of the event, you can refresh your memory with Michelle Malkin's posts A DESPICABLE DEMOCRAT DIRTY TRICK and CHUCKAQUIDDICK: WHERE'S THE MSM?. Lt. Governor Steele is running for the Senate. He is Republican. He is black. Democrats HATE black Republicans. They hate them...

Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, a key factor in John Kerry's primary sweep and the primetime convention speaker tomorrow, has derided blacks, southerners and easterners as bad speakers because she couldn't understand them. In inflammatory columns for her local newspaper obtained by the Herald, the normally soft-spoken Vilsack tore into several minority and ethnic groups while lampooning non-midwesterners for regional dialects. ``I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires,'' Vilsack wrote in a 1994 column in the Mount Pleasant News,...

On His Own Petard? Release Date: April 23, 2004 In 2002, during the Lott-Thurmond scandal, Senator Dodd of Connecticut lit a petard, an explosive. Remember when Lott said we'd all be better off had Thurmond been elected president in 1948? There was a racist element, since Thurmond ran on a segregationist plank. Well, Dodd said that if a Democrat had said such an insensitive thing, within "several hours" there would have been a unanimous call for him to leave office. Well, a few weeks ago on the floor of the Senate, Democrat Dodd said that West Virginia's Robert Byrd would...

Books Discussed in this Essay: The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South, by Joseph A. Aistrup. The Rise of Southern Republicans, by Earl Black and Merle Black. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994, by Dan T. Carter.A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow, by David L. Chappell.The Emerging Republican Majority, by Kevin Phillips. A myth about conservatism is circulating in academia and journalism and has spread to the 2004 presidential campaign. It goes something like this: the Republican Party assembled a national majority by winning over...

MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President's policy on the beleaguered nation "racist" and his representatives "a bunch of white men." Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. Noriega, a Mexican-American, is the State Department's top official for Latin America. "I think it was an emotional response of her frustration with the administration," said David Simon, a spokesman for the Jacksonville Democrat. He noted that Brown, who is black, is "very passionate...

Is the Rev. Al Sharpton working with Republicans to torpedo Democrat chances of locking up the black vote in this year's presidential election? That's just one of the questions raised by the Village Voice this week, in a bombshell report that details the curious relationship between GOP strategist Roger Stone and the civil rights leader-turned presidential hopeful. Describing Stone as "a longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative," the Voice said he is "financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton." The paper says it has documented "an extraordinary array of connections" and calls Stone's role in the Sharpton...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — Federal appellate nominee Janice Rogers Brown on Wednesday defended her work as a conservative California jurist and said the personal opinions expressed in some of her speeches would stay separate from her role on the bench.

Per Fox News, Estrada has withdrawn his nomination.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN! If someone else posted this then I apologize, I checked a couple times first.

Selective 'racists': Dems double standards http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | During World War II, ex-Ku Klux Klansman, now U.S. senator, Robert Byrd vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." Just a couple of years ago, Byrd lectured us on the floor of the Senate that "there are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time."...

TONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., Dec. 22 — Thad Mayfield, 47, was not happy with the remarks that led to Trent Lott's demise as Senate Republican leader. But as a native of Greenwood, Miss. — just 20 miles from Mr. Lott's birthplace — he says he understands where Mr. Lott was coming from. He also says he believes he understands why the Republicans forced him from his leadership post."It certainly goes against what the president wants to project as the Republican image," said Mr. Mayfield, a black management consultant who now lives in Lithonia, Ga. "Like at the Republican convention, when...

"Politics is about winning the war. If you are not focused on winning, you're in the wrong place. Go look for something else to do -- become a preacher or a missionary. Do charity work. Write books. -- David Horowitz, 2002For David Horowitz, writing books is part of his contribution to the political war for the soul of America. He writes to let Americans know there is a war, who the enemy is, and why we conservatives must change our war strategies....(snip)Click here for the complete review.