The ‘Wise Latina’ Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

At the annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at UC-Berkeley in 2001, Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Those words were …

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Holding Biden Accountable

There has been a lot of talk in the past few months about holding the Biden Administration accountable.  The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the crisis at the border, the inflation with printing of trillions of dollars from thin air, the war on energy, with no more pipelines, no drilling on public lands, and the ending of …

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A Too Common Threat

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A quick introduction to the deterioration of our once great cities. The Precarious, Terrifying Hours After a Woman Was Shoved Into a Train Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy has been partially paralyzed and is in critical condition…Her story embodies New York’s post-pandemic fears and challenges. For days after Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was shoved against a speeding subway …

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SCOTUS: Twitter v Taamneh

The Supreme Court has released their decision in Twitter v. Taamneh. This decision was a unanimous decision authored by Justice Thomas with one short concurrence by Justice Jackson. In this case, Twitter was defendant and victim is plaintiff at the lower courts. The facts of this case are fairly straight forward. A terrorist committed a …

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Will We Keep Our Republic?

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Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it.

America, A Nation Of Grievances

America has become a nation of grievances. Is anyone else but me tired of the whining? In 1911, Booker T. Washington wrote, “There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able …

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