Redlining Miguel Estrada
To many liberal Democrats, it’s the height of racism for Republicans to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of likely pro-abort Catholic Sonia Sotomayor. But few remember the Dems’ lynching of the first prominent Latino named to a high judicial post-a pro-life Catholic.
He was-and is-Miguel Angel Estrada Castanada, foreshortened by Hispanic custom and known as Miguel Estrada. In 2001, at age 40, he was nominated by George W. Bush to the District of Columbia’s prestigious Court of Appeals, the first Hispanic to be named to this post. Because his …

At the very least you’d think the Vatican’s unofficial newspaper (but whose views are taken as gospel about the Pope’s) would not fall for the same-old, same-old stuff that MSM’s are in the United States-and be fawningly infatuated with Barack Obama. Especially since about 80 U.S. bishops found the guts to stand up to him on abortion. But that’s the way it is-and it would indeed be lovely if Benedict would serve up a pink slip to the paper’s editor.
Item: two articles…on Obama’s first 100 days and his Notre Dame …

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court is possibly the greatest political coup Team Obama pulled off since Nov. 4. With one stroke they (a) named a candidate about as well qualified as any in decades, (b) restored some gender equity, (c) made history by naming a Latina, (d) enhanced the Latino vote and, as corollary, (e) helped the GOP self destruct by circumscribing any potential of regaining that vital constituency.
As to the last point, go back to my column of a few weeks ago wherein I …

Barack Obama is playing paint by the numbers.
With his selection of  Sonia Sotomayor, Obama has validated the philosophy of former US Senator Roman Hruska (R-Ne). Hruska defended the unsuccessful nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to serve on the US Supreme Court by stating: “[T]here are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozoes.”
Hruska’s endorsement speech in support of Carswell branded the senator as a national laughingstock. Carswell’s nomination …

When John Roberts was nominated to be on the high court, Senator Dick Durbin told CNN that he considered it fair game to probe Roberts about his Catholicism. Durbin released a glowing statement yesterday on Sotomayor that never mentioned her religion. When Roberts was questioned by Senator Arlen Specter and Senator Dianne Feinstein, they both asked him whether he agreed with President John F. Kennedy about separation of church and state. Neither even mentioned Sotomayor’s religion in their respective statements yesterday.
When Roberts was nominated, Dahlia Lithwick, legal analyst for Slate, …