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Our new Attorney General has already disgraced himself. Aren’t broad-based, stereotypical statements the sort of thing that are frowned upon? Like, if I say that Mexicans are lazy, white people are fat, and black people are criminals - wouldn’t that raise a red flag? I hope so!

But our own AG, Eric Holder - the first black Attorney General, goes out and says we are all a bunch of cowards about race.

What a despicable and embarrassing thing to say.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” said Holder, nation’s first black attorney general.

Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but “we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.” 

I thought we were all equal? What are you suggesting I do? Call up all my black friends and ask them what it is like to be black? “Uh, hey Mike. How are ya? Yea thats great…. So what’s it like to be black?”

Yea, brilliant idea.

Today’s cartoon by Sean Delonas in the NY Post:

We have lost our @#$%ing minds in this country. We truly have. I don’t think illegals should be able to sue for ANYTHING in this country (hello, they shouldn’t be here to begin with), but to sue and win against a guy protecting his land (and our nation) is a disgrace. A true slap in the face of justice.

A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who claimed that he detained them at gunpoint in 2004.

The eight-member civil jury also found Roger Barnett wasn’t liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment.

But the jury did find him liable on four claims of assault and four claims of infliction of emotional distress and ordered Barnett to pay $77,804 in damages — $60,000 of which were punitive

I have a feeling this will not hold up on appeal. Who are the blood-sucking lawyers that fight for illegals?

Hotair has some good commentary on this.

The idiot Houston Chronicle newspaper, in an obvious attempt to spin the story, titled it “Jury backs rancher…..” and makes it sound like a victory for him, even though he was ordered to pay them the money.

Here is an excerpt from the best Op-Ed piece I have read in, well, maybe ever!

John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate set off a fiercely contemptuous reaction. The chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party said Mrs. Palin’s sole qualification for high office was that she had never had an abortion. The comedian Bill Maher scoffed at the idea that “this stewardess” would be first in the line of succession. The scorn moved The Atlantic Monthly’s Clive Crook to write that “the metropolitan liberal, in my experience, regards overt religious identity as vulgar, and evangelical Christianity as an infallible marker of mental retardation. Flag-waving patriotism is seen as a joke and an embarrassment.”

The denunciation of Palin took place 45 years after William F. Buckley Jr. wrote: “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” From Richard Nixon’s invoking the “silent majority” to Mrs. Palin’s campaigning as a devout, plainspoken hockey mom, conservatives have claimed that they share the common sense of the common man. Liberals—from Adlai Stevenson to Barack Obama to innumerable writers, artists and academics—have often been willing foils in this drama, unable to stop themselves from disparaging the very people whose votes are indispensable to the liberal cause. The elephant-in-the-room irony is that the liberal cause is supposed to be about improving the prospects and economic security of ordinary Americans, whose beliefs and intelligence liberals so often enjoy deriding.

Read more at the WSJ

Great find from my friends over at HotAir. Check this crap out.

Check it out at HotAir