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Yes, I'm feeling rather hope-less today...Your English and Spanish lesson for the day: "Latina Woman" is redundant. So is "very liberal Obama nominee" -- but I digress.When Sarah Palin burst on the scene, I often used shorthand and said how great it was to see a woman on the ticket. But what I really meant -- and said at other times -- was how great it was to see a candidate that has stood up to the status quo and worked to make some real progress and is a servant of the people who doesn't bow to party politics (etc, etc)... who also happens to...

White House (CNSNews.com) - Critics of President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court should be careful how they conduct the debate, warned White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday, as he struggled to explain a 2001 comment by Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Obama nominated Sotomayor on Tuesday to fill the vacancy of retiring Associate Justice David Souter. Among the controversies surrounding Sotomayor is a comment she made during a speech at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law in October 2001. In that speech, she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her...

It was a foregone conclusion that The New York Times would love Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. A long-time practitioner of identity politics, the paper is fixated on race, gender and class. With Sotomayor, it has a nominee who satisfies all three. In yesterday’s editorial, The Times trilled, “It’s impossible not to be moved by Judge Sotomayor’s story — born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents and brought up in a city housing project.” The left believes quotas should even be applied to seats on the Supreme Court. At last, we have an Hispanic nominee — hooray,...

The nation's television screens many days recently have been filled with scenes of huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City. It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with....

<p>President Obama's radical new nominee to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, used to serve on the board of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (White House backgrounder), one of the racial grievance groups that helped to sink the judicial nomination of Honduran-born Miguel Estrada in 2003.</p>