Bob McCarty Writes

Uncle Jay Explains the News for the first half of 2009 in a July 4th special edition this week.
Topics range from Bernie Madoff (i.e., bars and stripes forever) to Latina judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first  nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court (one of his first nominees to have paid all of her taxes!).
The [...]

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Thanks to Nice Deb, I’ve discovered “Uncle Jay.”  Every Monday, he provides a recap of the news in a video segment he calls, “Uncle Jay Explains the News.”
This week, Uncle Jay tackles a wide range of subjects, ranging from automakers and the automobiles they make to the Supreme Court, Hot Wheels and  John & Kate [...]

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By Lloyd Marcus
Guest Blogger
Coming from the projects, the story of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is inspiring. Ironically, the success of Obama, a black, and Sotomayor, a Latina, epitomizes the availability of the American Dream to minorities as well as the greatness of America. And yet, both harbor resentments and seek to [...]

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In an article at BeliefNet.com yesterday, Steven Waldman wrote about Sonia Sotomayor’s entry in the 1976 Princeton University yearbook. Not surprisingly, President Barack Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter had — and, perhaps, still has — a “thing” for communist politicians.
Before waxing poetic about her college experience, Sotomayor used her yearbook [...]

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In a bombshell tonight, Supreme Court Justice David Souter (above left) announced he will retire at the end of the Court’s current session, according to Greta Van Susteren.
Coupled with the fact that his colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (above right), is battling pancreatic cancer, a disease that has a high mortality rate, tonight’s news likely means [...]

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