pajamasmedia.com - 5/30/2009
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MEGAN MCARDLE: Sotomayor and the Problem of Affirmative Action.
thinkprogress.org - 5/29/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
On MSNBC yesterday, Pat Buchanan repeatedly attacked Supreme
Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor as an “ affirmative...
action candidate ,” echoing right-wing claims that she has “been the recipient of preferential treatment for most of her ...
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Barnes: Sotomayor ‘benefited’ from affirmative action ...
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 5/30/2009
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com —
HL Mencken once defined Fundamentalism as "the terrible,
pervasive fear that someone , somewhere , is having...
fun" . I've been thinking of this a lot watching some of the attacks on Sotomayor, but I'd frame the critics as suffering from the ...
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The Problem of Affirmative Action
obsidianwings.blogs.com - 6/2/2009
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obsidianwings.blogs.com —
by hilzoy Megan McCardle has a rather peculiar
response to my last post : "Listening to the...
debates about abortion, it seems to me that really broad swathes of the pro-choice movement seem to genuinely not understand that this is a debate about ...
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In Which I Disagree With Megan McArdle Some More
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Racial preferences and Judge Sotomayor
TigerHawk —
... was born in Honduras. Forty-four of 48 Senate Democrats voted to filibuster Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with congressman and professional Hispanic Raul Grijalva assuring them that just because "he happens to be named 'Estrada' does not give him a free ride." Quiz her respectfully but relentlessly, stay away from the suggestion that she is less than fully qualified, and then vote to confirm her because she is going to get confirmed anyway. CWCID: Glenn Reynolds . 0 Comments: ...
Affirmative Reactionary
Daily Pundit —
... And the fact that you seem to think it is a minor problem underlines just how major a problem it really is, because, while everything I’ve written here should be obvious to most rational folks, it seems to escape folks like you entirely. And that really is a problem. (via Glenn Reynolds). ...
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Sotomayor: Affirmative Action Sent Me to Princeton - Political News
foxnews.com 6/30/2009 — Judge Sonia Sotomayor says she is a "perfect affirmative action baby," and that she was accepted to Princeton and Yale despite her lackluster test performance compared to other applicants. She made these comments in a video dating back to "early '90s" ...
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Affirmative action in the Ivies
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