A closer look at the case that has Sonia Sotomayor under fire

St. Petersburg Times by Wes Allison | May. 31, 2009 (News Analysis)

In 2003, New Haven, Conn., offered a test to determine firefighter promotions. When no black firefighters scored high enough to make lieutenant or captain, the city scrapped the results. And the white firefighters who scored highest didn't get promoted either.

Those are the facts behind the federal court case known as Ricci vs. DeStefano, and you're going to be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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 by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jun. 1, 2009

Excellent journalism which goes beyond the radically right-wing’s favorite habit of obfuscating with mendacious smearing by taking bits of stories out of context. Here we have the entire story, which again is an embarrassment for radically right-wingers. Although oblivious to anything akin to reality, they continue negative attacking, hoping half of the public is too stupid to catch on and the other half too lazy to do basic research.

Is it true that RNC stands for “Rush, Newt, and Cheney”? And GOP actually means “good old prejudices”?

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