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...factor in the race, since Bonilla's vote for a 700-mile border fence was not popular among the district's Hispanic voters. But Hernandez attributes the victory more to the Democrats' national wave of enthusiasm, buttressed by party organization and money. Still, the result could signal a swing in support among the state's Hispanic voters away from the Republicans. "We are blowing it with Hispanics," said Masset, arguing that the Republican leadership "have been focusing on Terri Schiavo, one white woman, rather than the 12 million Hispanics living and working here...
...skin," chided Justice Anthony Kennedy, during the Supreme Court arguments last week over the legality of school-integration plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle. "And it seems to me that that should only be, if ever allowed, allowed as a last resort." Kennedy is the court's probable swing vote on this issue, and he has a clear track record on racial preferences: he doesn't like them. "It appears Kennedy is going to stick with his long-held position that affirmative action is unconstitutional," says Paul Gewirtz of Yale Law School. If so, the Roberts court is embarked upon...
...believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. But it took the needlessly spilled blood of too many young Americans to do it. Tragically, Reagan's "Morning in America" has become mourning in America. Russell Kussman Los Angeles...
...voting to convene a constituent assembly that would allow the House to push through the measure without the Senate's consent. The same day, the President appointed Reynato Puno as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, just hours after his predecessor retired-leading to speculation that his vote could swing the Court's view on charter change in Arroyo's favor...
...Rich Girl” video featured pirates. She sampled Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Her shit is, indeed, bananas. “The Sweet Escape” begins with Stefani in full, crazy swing. Those of you who once struggled to understand exactly why she was singing that song from “Fiddler on the Roof” can now puzzle further by listening to “Wind It Up” and wondering why she is sampling that song about the goatherd from...