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GOP to Reid on filibuster rules: Do you really want to have this fight right now?

Erika Johnsen — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:31:42 +0000

Real talk.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bid to alter Senate rules to limit the tools at the minority party’s disposal is perhaps one of his most hypocritical, ill-fated attempts at ‘leadership’ yet, and that’s saying something. Way back when, during the days of the Democratic minority of yesteryear, he was vehemently opposed to measures that would [...]

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Whither, Pelosi?

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:01:58 +0000

Legacy.

That possible silver lining I mentioned? It’s all still speculation at this point, but hey, we can dream… via Roll Call: The day after elections that were largely positive for the Democratic Party, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s future loomed over leadership races, as lawmakers waited for her to decide whether she will return for [...]

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Eric Holder: Texas voter ID laws are like poll taxes

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:21:43 +0000

Discrimination and indiscrimination.

Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Houston on Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder roundly criticized Texas for the voter ID law that Gov. Rick Perry signed last year in order to combat voter fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice is currently suing Texas over the [...]

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Revealed: UPenn report listed Elizabeth Warren as minority too

Allahpundit — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:01:44 +0000

Deeper.

I don’t know, there might be an innocent explanation. Maybe they’re counting people whose ancestors rounded up Native Americans as “minorities” too? Remember, according to Warren, she never told the schools that employed her that she was Native American. That was something she reserved for those independent faculty directories. And yet: According to Penn’s 2005 [...]

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Elizabeth Warren: I listed myself as minority in order to make friends “with people who are like I am”

Allahpundit — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:41:49 +0000

Faux-cahontas.

Why didn’t she just say so in the first place? After all, who among us hasn’t wildly exaggerated his/her ethnicity for social purposes? Just last week, I joined an Eskimo book club by claiming that I’m 1/512th Inuit. By “people who are like I am,” I take it she means … people who are 1/32nd [...]

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