This is what happens when you play diversity politics (from the AP): President Bush's decision to make White House counsel Harriet Miers his second Supreme Court nominee upset Hispanic groups that had hoped to see the nation's first Hispanic Supreme ...
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Project 21 members have actively debated judicial issues and nominations iin the publoc square since the group was founded in 1992. Today's nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court will be addressed by Project 21 in a press ...
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From MSNBC: Only minutes after Bush appeared at the White House Monday to announce the nomination, Manuel Miranda, a conservative strategist and former aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist issued a scathing statement: 'The reaction of many conservatives today ...
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Hugh Hewitt on some of his fellow conservatives being disappointed in the appointment of a Supreme Court appointee whose views on the Constitution are largely unknown, as headlined on Townhall.com: The Miers nomination is turning into a Rorschach test dividing ...
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The White House distributed information on Harriet Miers today that contains these passages: * Like Justice O'Connor, throughout her career, Ms. Miers has been a female trailblazer. * In 1972, Ms. Miers became the first woman hired at Dallas's Locke ...
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Uncertainty regarding the beliefs, affiliations and legal career of White House counsel Harriet Miers has produced a wide array of opinions from conservatives. To follow are comments from black conservatives affiliated with Project 21: Deneen Moore (New York, NY): "Is ...
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The Prime Minister of Turkey's says Europe's decision over the admittance of Turkey into the EU will determine the continent's future: Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Europe would squander the chance to overcome longstanding Christian-Muslim suspicions if it stepped back from ...
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Despite what you read in the papers or heard during the often histrionic 24-hour news coverage, Hurricane Katrina didn't skip over the rest of the Gulf Coast to settle exclusively on the Big Easy. People in Mississippi and other parts ...
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Condoleezza Rice is a bright star in space that contains few African-Americans and even fewer African-American women. Normally, this would be a cause for great celebration in the black community. She is the first black woman and only the second ...
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Irresponsible.  Overwrought.  Appalling. I'm not referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to Hurricane Katrina.  I'm talking about the way print and television media covered the hurricane's aftermath. Americans were told that life in the Superdome and New Orleans's ...
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