Sonia Sotomayor, what have you done to earn this?

How does a Hispanic woman, who has used her race and gender to factor into many court cases, get nominated to the Supreme Court? Easy. Barack Obama wanted more diversity on the court. I don't think Barack Obama even took a look at Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record on the bar. If he did, it might show something like these:

• The most controversial case she ruled on was in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano. In it, she ruled against a group of New Haven, Connecticut, firefighters, who were arguing that the city threw out test scores because too many white firefighters scored high on the exam and not enough minorities. This case has been bumped up to the Supreme Court and will probably be decided in June.
• She has a horrible record on the bench. Of the six decisions that she was a part of that were appealed to the Supreme Court, five were reversed. Let me start over. She successfully won 1 of 6 cases that were appealed to the Supreme Court, for an astounding winning percentage of 16.67%. That should not even be permissible. If you perform that poorly in your normal 9-to-5 job, you won't be working that 9-to-5 job much longer.
• In 1999, she dissented on a decision in which a school sent a black student from 1st grade to Kindergarten halfway through the school year, because she felt that the student was not given an equal chance.
• Earlier today, at her appointment, she stated that the judicial branch makes the laws. Ummmm........ Where do I start? This is US Government 101. The legislative branch makes the laws and the judicial branch carries out the laws. And she got this far how?
  

In the New Haven case, they all took the same test. It's not even a good enough reason to say that the minority firefighters were somehow discriminated against. This is a classic case of the abomination that the Liberals like to call affirmative action. I am strongly against this policy. If I am looking at two candidates, one white who scored 100% on a test and a minority who scored 85%, damn right I'm going to take the white person. The minority had the same opportunity as the white person, but in the end I will always take the one that knows more, whether he be white, black, green, purple, whatever.

In the case in 1999, the plantiff clearly states that he was transferred from 1st grade to Kindergarten because of academic difficulties. Academic difficulties. Nowhere in there do I see race being an issue. The same opportunities are given to everyone. It's the kid's fault if he doesn't do everything he can to reach out and tell someone that he needs help in school.

Overall, I think Sonia Sotomayor is a horrible candidate for the vacant Supreme Court seat. Her track record speaks for itself. And if Barack Obama and the Liberal Congress can't see through that, then this could be a long 25-30 years while Sotomayor is on the Court.

Stand tall, Carrie Prejean

What happens when someone answers a question truthfully and it happens to go against popular opinion? Ask Carrie Prejean.

Prejean, the 22-year old Miss California, answered a question from gossip blogger Perez Hilton about same-sex marriage and her beliefs at the Miss USA pageant earlier this month. She answered truthfully, saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Afterwards, she was ripped to shreds by the liberal media and Perez Hilton in his blog, calling her a "dumb bi**h." In all honesty, her answer cost her the Miss USA title no matter how you look at it.



The past week Prejean has been ripped to shreds for saying that she is for gay marriage and talk began that she might be losing her crown as Miss Califonia. Donald Trump, the leader of the Miss USA pageant, said that she should keep her crown for speaking her mind.

Kudos to Donald Trump. He definitely got this one right. If you take away her crown for this, you are denying her her First Amendment right to free speech. It is what this country was founded upon, that you could say whatever you want without consequence.

What really gets me, though, is that this is the same belief that President Obama and many people on his staff share. Why is noone going after Obama? Why didn't anyone question his opinions, but rather the opinion of a conservative 22-year old? Thats your answer right there. The liberal left wing media made a frenzy by attacking a conservative for coming out and having her say in such a public setting. There is such a double standard going on in todays media, its disgusting. Apparently, liberals can say whatever they want (see Wanda Sykes) and not get in trouble for it, no matter how bad, but if a conservative says something slightly wrong (see David Feherty) the world seems like it will end. What happened to free speech?

FYI, this was not the only political question asked of the finalists. Other topics of choice included bailouts, healthcare for aliens, domestic violence, and donating money to Afghanistan for elections. A pageant shouldn't be political in any way.

Racism, apparently, is alive and well...

So for those of you that don't know, April 15th is Tax Day here in the United States. This year, however, conservatives everywhere held protests called "Tax Day Tea Parties" to protest Obama's ridiculous spending and bailout bills that have been passed through Congress in his 1st couple months in office.

If you remember, a few days after those Tea Parties, a story broke that Janeane Garofalo, a known Hollywood Liberal, blasted the Tea Party movement on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show, saying that the Tea Parties are "about hating a black man in the White House" and that "this is racism straight up." She also resorted to calling the party-goers "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," all of which Keith Olbermann agreed with.

Last night, on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show, he showed a clip where one of his reporters found Janeane Garofalo outside of Boston leaving a Starbucks. What follows is the complete transcript. Thanks to Fox News Network and CQ Transcriptions.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And tonight in "Your America," now you may remember when the left-wing liberal actress Janeane Garofalo had this to say regarding the attendees of the anti-tax tea parties.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JANEANE GAROFALO, ACTRESS: It's not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about.

KEITH OLBERMANN, "COUNTDOWN" HOST: That's right.

GAROFALO: They don't know their history. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Our own Griff Jenkins recently confronted Miss Garofalo just outside of Boston and asked her if she stood by those ridiculous insane comments. Let's take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GRIFF JENKINS, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: What do you think of calling just honest protesters racists?

GAROFALO: Well, because they're not just honest protesters. They were indeed motivated a lot by racism. You saw some of those signs. Did you not? And if they are upset about fiscal imprudence, where were they for the last eight years?

JENKINS: But you don't know they're racist.

GAROFALO: I haven't had a good — what about that one sign that said, "What you talking about, Willis?" What do you think about that sign?

JENKINS: I didn't see that sign, I was just asking you.

GAROFALO: Right.

JENKINS: What do you say to the people that say, all right, you owe those people an apology?

GAROFALO: I don't. So they're going to have to wait a long time. So I'd say I don't.

JENKINS: And what about to the people who say that NBC should not let — you know, your comments go unchallenged?

GAROFALO: How do they go unchallenged? They're being challenged all the time. And why — I would say, why do they not challenge anything that FOX says?

I don't want to talk to you about this because you're obviously trying to provoke something here. If you don't want admit the truth about the racist element to those people that were there then I would say that you are in deep denial.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's not what you said. You said everybody involved was a racist.

GAROFALO: Sure.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You hate conservatives. That's the bigotry that you condemn.

GAROFALO: They are not conservatives. Barry Goldwater is a conservative. The conservative party has not been the conservative party since 1980.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right.

GAROFALO: There is not tenets of the conservative movement — why are you even here? What do you guys — I'm going to get — you guys are ridiculous.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, that's what we are.

JENKINS: You saying what the movement was about.

GAROFALO: Where are you guys running? What's your thing? Yeah, it was racist.

JENKINS: How so then? That's all I'm asking.

GAROFALO: Because if it's about fiscal imprudence why were they not protesting for the last eight years under the Bush spending? Where were they? Why did they have no problem with that?

JENKINS: Again. No need to apologize?

GAROFALO: No. No. I'm not talking about this anymore. I stand by my words. I do not apologize.

JENKINS: Everybody at a tea party are racists?

GAROFALO: Yes. Everybody I saw at that tea party are racists.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amazing.

GAROFALO: It is amazing, isn't it? How dare I?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Um..... where do I begin?

Okay, I was at the Cleveland Tea Party on April 15th. I can't recall ever seeing a racist sign, anyone saying anything racist about President Obama, or anything like that. To be honest, it was a crowd of mixed backgrounds, so I don't know where she's getting that it was a racist protest.

Ms. Garofalo, it was about how Obama is spending his way out of a problem which another Democrat started (Bill Clinton) by bankrupting our kids, our grandkids, and our great-grandkids. If you think the way to get out of a recession is by printing more money and giving that money back to America, therefore decreasing the value of the dollar, you must be living in a Hollywood-type setting, where nothing is real.

In the article, the reporter, Griff Jenkins, states that he was at the Washington DC rally on April 15th and only saw "honest American protesters protesting the billions spent, the bailout, the trillions, and the budget deficit, and I didn't see any pointy white hats, I didn't see any racist signs." Well, Ms. Garofalo, according to these two accounts and a bunch of others I have read online, I do not see how this was taken as a racist riot protesting a black president.

According to Ms. Garofalo, Conservatives "probably couldn't tell you thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston tea party, the British imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to be." As best I can remember, American history or American government is a required course in all high schools, and the things she is talking about, aren't they some of the core topics of these American history classes? Just so you know, Ms. Garofalo, I invite you to ask me what the Boston Tea Party is, what British imperialism is, even what taxation without representation is. We wouldn't be a country without these three important steps along the road to revolution in the 1700's.

Jeneane Garofalo, you are on perhaps the most conservative of any of the sitcoms on TV, 24. I'm surprised you yourself haven't noticed this and said something about it. Do us all a favor and think before you talk. The tea parties were not about racism, they were about standing up against a soon-to-be socialist government who will take all our money and put our country in debt for generations to come.

God bless America.

Credits: Fox News: "Garofalo Stands By 'Racist' Remarks", May 12th, 2009