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  • IT’S MUH FRANNIVERSARY

    04/12/2022 1:00:34 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 55 replies
    April 12 2022 | Marty f
    WHOSE FRANNIVERSARY IS IT??
  • The yahoos revolt, and bigots vanish

    05/31/2006 12:00:32 PM PDT · by JZelle · 45 replies · 1,461+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 5-31-06 | Wes Pruden
    The House and the Senate are no closer to agreement on immigration reform, but maybe we're making incremental progress on getting a little civility in the debate. Only a few days ago, anyone who wanted the president to enforce the law protecting the nation's borders was "a racist," "a bigot" or a "nativist." The president himself has sometimes thrown the word "nativist" around in the debate over immigration and, before that, in the controversy over outsourcing the security of the nation's ports to suspicious former enemies. "Nativist," like "Hitler," is the slur of the season when you're losing the argument....
  • O'Connor saves affirmative action

    06/25/2003 6:47:40 AM PDT · by harpu · 10 replies · 27+ views
    Fort Worth[less] Startlegram ^ | 6/25/03 | Bob Ray Sanders
    The current U.S. Supreme Court, unfortunately stacked with conservative ideologues, for years has been bent on turning back the clock on some of the most fundamental privileges this nation has ever granted, especially to those who historically were disenfranchised and disadvantaged.Now it seems that on one of the most polarizing issues in modern times, the high court has resisted the call to retreat.Thank God and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.While not advancing the hands on the nation's social timepiece, the narrow majority on the court at least is letting the clock tick at its current pace on that highly divisive and...