Keeping with her race-conscious and activist judicial philosophy, Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made her Supreme Court debut by introducing a pair of new terms aimed at describing illegal immigrants in a more friendly and politically correct way. A former top policy maker at the leftist Puerto Rico Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), Sotomayor used

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A scandal-plagued Nevada judge removed from the bench for sleeping during trials, tainting juries and abusing her position has been ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars for defaming her legal assistant who claims she was bullied and terrorized. The saga of ousted Las Vegas District Court Judge Elizabeth Halverson, who also made headlines

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In the latest of numerous examples of the pervasive fraud and abuse in stimulus spending, nearly $6 million in federal funds went to Hillary Clinton’s longtime confidant and chief campaign strategist with a cut of the money going to one of President Obama’s top Florida advisers.  Clinton’s close friend and campaign guru Mark Penn received

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In a much-needed victory for immigration enforcement, an Ohio judge has ruled that the state can proceed with its plan to cancel the registrations of tens of thousands of vehicles driven by illegal aliens. Issued this week in Franklin County, the decision will affect nearly 50,000 vehicles fraudulently registered by U.S. residents on behalf of

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The four-term U.S. Senator, who recently threatened the largest newspaper in his home state for publishing his many wrongdoings, has compared opponents of President Obama’s health care reform to supporters of slavery. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, famous for his embroilment in a series of corruption scandals, actually said that lawmakers who don’t support the

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Though it months ago banned the phrase “war on terror,” the Obama Administration reluctantly admits that the threat of deadly Muslim extremism is rising sharply in the United States. Perhaps, then, the nation is in fact engaged in a war on terror. Regardless of what the president and his politically correct group of czars and

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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee surreptitiously nominated his girlfriend to be the top federal prosecutor in his home state and though she didn’t get that job she still got a treasured political appointment at the Justice Department. Montana Democrat Max Baucus has been exposed in several news reports for trying to get his

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The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, is being investigated for bullying credit card companies into giving him political donations by threatening to impose strict security standards that would cost millions. Even though his committee doesn’t deal with credit card issues, Thompson actually held a hearing earlier this year

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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved, along party lines, President Obama’s nomination of a highly controversial liberal activist judge twice rejected by Wisconsin voters for a spot on that state’s Supreme Court. Regardless, the president is shoving the notoriously leftist judge (Louis Butler) down the collective throats of Badger State residents by giving him

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While Speaker Nancy Pelosi praises herself for ordering the unprecedented online release of House members’ expense reports, the much-ballyhooed disclosures actually provide far less information than in the past because key details have been intentionally erased. The new online books, posted this week, are being touted as a milestone in congressional transparency, but an analysis

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