Word: connorism
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...Kevin C. O'Connor, an assistant professor of neurology who has worked with Hafler for over 10 years, said that Hafler has expressed interest in taking his senior staff with him to Yale, but that nothing has been finalized...
...President Obama said the actions of the CPD were stupid and linked the event to the history of racial profiling in America," said Sergeant Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association. "The facts of this case suggested that the president used the right adjective but directed it to the wrong party...
...Connor said that Obama and Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78, who has criticized the arrest calling it "every black man's nightmare," should have declined to comment on the matter, especially since they noted that they were friends with Gates and did not know all the facts. O'Connor, who emphasized that the Cambridge Police "deeply resents the implication" that the arrest was racially motivated, added that he hoped they would "reflect on past comments and apologize...
...quite clearly understood that foreign laws are not applicable in the United States, even if she has an interest in studying them. Following a strategy first developed by now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts when, as an aide in the Justice Department, he helped prep Sandra Day O'Connor for her confirmation hearing in 1981, Sotomayor's answers followed a now standard, safe script. Praise Brown v. Board of Ed? Check. Cite Roe v. Wade as "settled law"? Check. Condemn Kormatsu v. the United States? Check...
...July 14 hearing, the nominee explained that "wise Latina" was her attempt to play off a quote by retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who said that "both men and women were equally capable of being wise and fair judges." Sotomayor said that "my play fell flat. It was bad." But Sotomayor is just trying to ameliorate her critics without having to make them look... unwise. She has nothing to apologize for - and neither have other politicians and judicial nominees who have said the same thing in their own words...