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Obama’s weekly address: Judge Sotomayor’s qualifications
June 1, 2009Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, May 30, 2009 Washington D.C. This week, I nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals to replace Justice David Souter, who is retiring after nearly...
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COMMENTARY Psychopaths wanted for high court appointment
May 31, 2009Wow, is Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, ever in for it! Mark Kirkorian of the anti-immigrant “Center for Immigration Studies” told the press this week that it is incorrect to pronounce...
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Little relationship between immigration and unemployment, studies show
May 31, 2009The current economic crisis has intensified the tendency to cast immigrants as scapegoats for this country’s economic problems. Mexican and Latin American immigrants are portrayed as inveterate job thieves who take “American jobs” from “American workers.”...
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Ronald Takaki, 70, pioneer of multi-cultural studies
May 31, 2009Original source: BERKELEY — Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California's first Black history course, died...
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Is New York’s Mayoral race in the bag?
May 31, 2009NEW YORK—If you were to believe the hype, of which there’s no shortage, you would think that this city’s Republican-now-turned-independent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has the November elections in the bag. But how many people actually believe...
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