This article originally appeared as the weekend lead for Friday, June 26, 2009. Five months later, it was chosen for inclusion in Opposing Viewpoints, America's Prisons, vol. 2. The inclusion is a special honor for me. Not only is the Opposing Viewpoints series in nearly every high school library in the country, but it provides an invaluable service: fairly representing conflicting views on an … [Read more...]
Sotomayor’s Racialist Judicial Activism
June 26, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, Bill Clinton, Constitution, FrontPage Magazine, History, Obama administration, Obama appointees Tagged With: Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BlackLetter Law Journal, California, capital punishment, Civil Rights, Constitution, cultural bias, death penalty, Department of Justice, disparate impact, disproportionate impact, felon disenfranchisement, Founding Fathers, Fourteenth Amendment, FrontPage Magazine, Harry Blackmun, Harvard, Hayden v. Pataki, Institutional Racism, Jason Schall, Jeffrey Reimen, John Roberts, Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, judicial activism, LatinoJustice, Legal Left, Maine, meritocracy, Minnesota, minority racism, negative liberties, NYPD, Obama appointees, Ohio, Opposing Viewpoints, Oregon, Pericles, Princeton, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Reagan administration, Rep. Ephraim R. Eckley, reparations, reverse discrimination, Ricci v. Stefano, Richardson v. Ramirez, Sonia Sotomayor, stare decisis, Supreme Court, testing bias, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, Vermont, Voting Rights Act, Warren Burger, wealth redistribution, William Rehnquist, Yale Law School
Socialism We Can Believe In
October 29, 2008 By Ben Johnson
Now that a 2001 public radio interview has surfaced to confirm The One has plotted to redistribute middle class wealth since the beginning of his political career, the media are in overdrive to save their savior. In a burst of “news” stories culled directly from the talking points of the George Soros-funded Media Matters, a string of reporters have accused the McCain/Palin campaign of … [Read more...]
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