Why Are Some Republicans Afraid To Say Sotomayor Is Not A Racist?

Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Tom Tancredo have called Sonia Sotomayor “racist”, and Senator James Inofe (R-OK) has strongly implied it.  To his credit, Republican Texas Senator John Cornynhas repudiated these remarks, as have Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama and South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. But there are other Republicans lack the will to renounce them; or they truly believe Sotomayor is racist and lack the courage to say so.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the highest ranking elected Republican in America, said he had better things to do than to renounce this kind of language, when asked about …

RNC Attacks Obama For Going To A Broadway Show

Haven’t the Republicans yet learned to pick their battles?  Forgetting how many days George W. Bush was off at his Texas ranch clearing brush (490) or at Camp David (487), the Republican National Committee has decided to go after Obama for having a Saturday night date with his wife in New York.

The Republican National Committee slammed the outing in an “RNC Research Piece”: “As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show.

GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay …

Mother Finds Son Lost For 27 Years On Facebook

The Hungarian Embassy in London couldn’t do it; the British Embassy in Budapest couldn’t, either; nor could Margaret Thatcher who was Prime Minister at the time.  But Facebook was able to reunite Avril Grube and her son Gavin, who hadn’t been together since Gavin was 3 years old.

…last October, her sister, Beryl Wilson, typed the name Gavin Paros into Google and found a link to someone of that name on the social networking site Facebook.

A frustrating wait followed. With more than 200 million users, there was a possibility that the Facebook member merely shared the name with Mrs …

Sotomayor: The Race Is On

The pathetic and sickening display of racism and sexism against Sonia Sotomayor is accompanied by either ignorance, to be benign, or willful smears at non-whites.  The latest attacks involve her involvement with the group “La Raza”, which former Congressman Tom Tancredo compares to the KKK.

La Raza, which takes its name from a 1925 essay, La Raza Cósmica(The Cosmic Race), by the late Mexican philosopher and Secretary of Education José Vasconcelos Calderón, refers to the concept that we are all one race, one humanity, the very opposite idea from the one its detractors attempt to portray.  Al Giordano puts …

Did The Bush White House Commit Sex Crimes Against Detainees?

Scott Horton at The Daily Beast confirms that torture photos from Abu Ghraib do contain explicit sexual images, and are as bad as the London Telegraph said thay are.  Furthermore, the Pentagon is denying the facts here.

The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, which President Obama, in a reversal, decided not to release, depict sexually explicit acts, including a uniformed soldier receiving oral sex from a female prisoner, a government contractor engaged in an act of sodomy with a male prisoner and scenes of forced masturbation, forced exhibition, and penetration involving …

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G. Gordon Liddy On Sotomayor’s Conferences “Let’s Hope She’s Not Menstruating”

I’m trying to decide whether the anti-Sotomayorites are more racist than they are sexist, or more sexist than the are racist.  In addition to Limbaugh comparing her to David Duke and insinuating she hates white people, you have G. Gordon Liddy saying:

Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.

So this is how the Republicans are going to win back Congress and the presidency? This is how they’re going to expand their party?  They can’t even form …

London Telegraph: Banned Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos Show Rape

The London Telegraph, which already published abuse photos, is now reporting that censored photos include images or rape and sexual abuse.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

The paper quotes Major General Antonio Taguba, who conducted an inquiry into Abu …

LA High School Elects Male Prom Queen

Meet the new prom queen from Hollywood’s Fairfield High.  Sergio Garcia, an 18-year-old senior, is heartened that his willingness to do this has inspired other to be themselves.  Garcia, being gay,  didn’t feel right going for prom “king”.

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On Friday’s Radio Show…

• Will Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) challenge Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic Senate Primary? The Pennsylvania Congressman discusses his plans with Alan.

• Judge Sonia Sotomayor says she regrets her “poor” choice of words in the “wise Latina woman” speech. So should Republicans forgive and forget?

• It’s the Friday Night Free-For-All!…

Senator Carl Levin: Cheney Lying

Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says the committee’s investigation into detainee abuse “gives the lie to Mr. Cheney’s claims.” Levin spoke at the annual dinner of the Foreign Policy Association.

The Michigan Democrat told the crowd that the two CIA documents that Cheney wants released “say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques.”

“I hope that the documents are declassified, so that people can judge for themselves what is fact, and what is fiction,” he added.

Memos released in …