“Hispanics are returning to Democrats for 2008″
USA Today – 6/28/2007
SAN ANTONIO — Like no Republican before him, George W. Bush drew Hispanics to the GOP.
In the 2004 election, at least 40% of the voters in the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority group backed Bush, double the share of Hispanics who had supported Republican Bob Dole eight years earlier. But the inroads Bush made are vanishing.
The chief beneficiary for 2008 so far is Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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“After Gitmo?”
Human Events Online – 6/28/2007
The worst-kept secret in official Washington is that the facility for wartime detainees at Guantanamo will soon be shut down. Too much controversy has dogged “Gitmo” and the 275-or-so captured terrorists now housed there. Although Colin Powell, for example, will not get his wish that the Guanatanamo prison be closed “this afternoon,” the closure is sure to come and sooner rather than later.
Swell. The purpose here is not to debate the virtues or detriments of “Gitmo.” But one has to wonder what will happen to the detainees if the facility goes. Do they join Zacarias Moussaoui, convicted of conspiring to kill Americans on 9/11, in the U.S. prison system (Moussaoui is now serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado)? Will there be an attempt to repatriate them to their countries of origin — many of whom are delighted the thugs are going and do not want them back?
At the gaggle (early morning briefing) for White House reporters yesterday, I posed this question to Press Secretary Tony Snow. Has anyone, particularly in light of the Moussaoui business, ever done a feasibility study or at least pondered what would happen if Guantanamo were closed and its prisoners put in the traditional U.S. prison system, I asked.
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“Supreme Court rejects school race plans”
Yahoo News - 6/28/2007
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected diversity plans in two major school districts that take race into account in assigning students but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.
The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricts how public school systems may attain racial diversity.
The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.
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“Racial Issues Top Dem Debate Agenda”
MyWay – 6/28/2007
WASHINGTON (AP) – The struggles of the nation’s blacks – a loyal Democratic voting bloc – topped the agenda Thursday as the party’s eight presidential candidates gathered for their third primary debate.
The debate at Howard University was set to begin just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against public school programs aimed at achieving racial diversity, a certain topic for the event.
The Democrats decried the ruling, saying it turned back the promise of integrated schools that the court laid out 53 years ago in its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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“Senate Drives Stake Through Immigration”
MyWay – 6/28/2007
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush’s immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed in the Senate on Thursday, crushing both parties’ hopes of addressing the volatile issue before the 2008 elections.
The Senate vote to drive a stake through the delicate compromise was a stinging setback for Bush – who had made reshaping immigration laws a centerpiece of his domestic agenda – engineered by members of his own party.
It could carry heavy political consequences for Republicans and Democrats, many of whom were eager to show they could act on a complex issue of great interest to the public.
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