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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) believes he can call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” because Thompson, like Thomas, is black.  Thompson initially called Thomas an “Uncle Tom” over the weekend because, he said, his decisions on the Supreme

In a debate on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives, Alabama Democrat Alvin Holmes claimed that white parents would force their daughters to have an abortion if their daughters got impregnated by a black man. Possible new regulations on

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth ten thousand views. Here are 3 videos you must watch and connect the dots.  These individuals are the most recent national disgrace on race and cultural dinosaurs. They are

I don’t care which side of the political aisle a bigot stands on. The explanation or the apology has never been, and is no longer good enough.   In this case it involves the silent NAACP and the Democrats. Alabama State Representative Alvin

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) attacked Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Wednesday over Thomas’ vote in favor of striking Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, stating that Thomas’ offense against the country was worse than NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s.

The media aren’t all that interested in Bill Maher calling an innocent five-year-old child a “retard,” and seem to be even less interested in a Democratic lawmaker hurling a racial slur at Justice Clarence Thomas yesterday. But pounding away at

Washington Times: A Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota criticized Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act by calling Justice Clarence Thomas “Uncle Thomas,” then saying he didn’t know “Uncle Tom” was a racist epithet. On his Twitter account

The Supreme Court ruled today in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council that federal law does not allow states the option of requiring voters to prove they are American citizens when they register to vote. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA,

Nobody can claim a patent on genes naturally found in human DNA, but you can patent them if you created them in a lab, the Supreme Court ruled today. Molecular biology is on the cutting edge of modern technology and

CNN published an article by John Blake entitled “Three questions for Clarence Thomas” that allows them to not only distort the black conservative judge’s opinions, but also to tip-toe on the edge of racism, referring to Justice Thomas as a

As a newly-minted U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil, Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev will get the full range of constitutional protections from the Bill of Rights, as we explained yesterday, except one: Tsarnaev wasn’t read his Miranda rights. In 1966,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, addressing students at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, said that conditions in the black community break his heart. Thomas acknowledged that these communities suffer from persistent poverty and social dysfunction. He spoke to an

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides a right to have an abortion in one of its most controversial decisions in history. More than 50 million unborn children

(Reuters) – The silence is broken. For the first time in nearly seven years, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday spoke to a lawyer presenting a case during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. While his utterance was not in

The Boston Globe’s review of “Django Unchained” stands as a prime example of stellar movie criticism. Critic Wesley Morris clearly spent hours crafting his thoughts, likely in tribute to the film’s artistic excellence. Yet Morris’ column contains a paragraph that

President Barack Obama’s lawyers are claiming vast and sweeping powers in arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Justice Samuel Alito in an address to the Federalist Society last week. Celebrating its 30th anniversary as America’s premiere conservative and

Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court precedent requires that “there has to

As I explained after the Obamacare decision came down, it is one of the most unfortunate decisions ever handed down by our highest court. This tragedy is only compounded by the fact that the main dissent in the decision was

One week after the Supreme Court handed down its most consequential decision in decades (if not more than a century–upholding almost all of Obamacare in NFIB v. Sebelius–constitutional lawyers are just beginning to wrap their heads around the Court’s 193-page

In July 2005, against the objections of many conservatives, I penned a column excoriating President Bush for selecting Judge John Roberts as his candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “President Bush’s Roberts pick disappoints,” I wrote: On Tuesday

In a complex ruling, the Supreme Court has largely upheld the controversial Obamacare law. The Court struck down the individual mandate as an unconstitutional penalty under the Commerce Clause, but upheld it as a permissible tax. It also limited the expansion

MSNBC Host Chris Matthews: “Does anyone wonder like I do what this Supreme Court – the one personified by Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — would have done with the landmark decisions in the post-World War II era? I wonder

It’s constitutional for a city to adopt a new policy that lets you pay 30 times more taxes than your neighbor for the same service, a divided Supreme Court held this week. Indiana law previously allowed cities to impose the

The stereotype often painted by the left of the right–whether Republican, conservative or libertarian–is of old, rich, white men. The left does this deliberately to corner those in favor of limited government and individual liberty into a defensive, racially divided

Andrew Breitbart was: “The man in the arena…face marred by dust and sweat and blood…strives valiantly, …knows great enthusiasms, …great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who…knows…the triumph of high achievement,…if he fails…fails while daring greatly…his place shall

–Edmund Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac When I first met Andrew Breitbart just a few years ago, it was in passing. We walked through the hallway of some swanky hotel where a small group of conservatives gathered. Everyone else was in

Obama: “Open your hearts and open your minds to the words of Prof. Derrick Bell.” Clarence Thomas was “promoted to the Supreme Court because any black that is willing to say in public that welfare is the fault of lazy

Andrew and I first met three years ago at a party. We would run into each other everywhere: at parties, functions, and left-wing protests we both happened to be crashing. I was at the time a lesser-known 22 year-old freelance

Throughout my lifetime, one historical question I’ve heard raised over and over again involved the Nazi Holocaust: How was it possible that ordinary Germans participated in the genocide of millions of perfect nice, loyal German citizens, simply because they were