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Sessions, Senator Jeff • self is made a fool...
...that the GOP didn't go out of its way to give its base something to chew on. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the committee, wasted little time questioning Sotomayor's objectivity by citing her now infamous comments that she hoped a "wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion" than a white male. "First," Sessions demanded, "I'd like to know, do you think there's any circumstance in which a judge should allow their prejudices to impact their decision-making...
...government in Washington has provided political employment to pest exterminators, grade-B actors and Alabama Senators who think of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as a "piece of intrusive legislation." (I'm talkin' to you, Jeff Sessions.) And I, for one - a Latina who has spent her whole life watching her ethnicity and gender reduced to a pile of red lipstick and high heels - am ready to see a wise Latina in that...
...second and third fattest states, are tied for fifth poorest. With a poverty rate of 14%, the South is easily the most impoverished region in the country. "When you're poor, you tend to eat more calorie-dense foods because they're cheaper than fruits and vegetables," explains Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America. Poor neighborhoods also have fewer grocery stores, even in the rural South. A 2004 study by the University of South Carolina found that most food-shopping options in rural areas fall into the convenience-store category because grocery stores are located too far away...
...over 2 percentage points over the first half of '08, which is a massive undertaking in a very volatile market. We do continue to see them in a position to go after additional share, but it will be a more difficult environment, as the domestics are reawakening," says Jeff Schuster, an analyst with J.D. Power & Associates in Troy, Mich...