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Some politicians just need to go away. For example, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who went on the Laura Ingraham Show yesterday to spout this nonsense:

SANTORUM: Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists.

A friend mentioned this book and I thought I’d probably be worth my while to pick it up and give it a read.

I’m musing over how to “handle”, if I handle it at all, discussing with my children the whole Spanish Basketball Team making slant-eyes for an advertisement thing.

Sarah Moore takes issue with the charges of racism leveled at Grover Norquist for his description of Barack Obama as “John Kerry with a tan”:

Tennessee's Left Coast Congressman Cohen can surely afford and benefit from a visit by the San Fransisco's Speaker that is unable to shut or even blink her eyes.

Marsha Blackburn on John McCain’s Veep choice:

Brooklynite, one of our sometime commenters here, has been working on a great essay on white anti-racism - the work that white people are obligated to do to reduce the impact of racism on society, and the difference between that - being actively anti-racist - and being “non-racist”.

Don Williams pens an open letter to Hillary Clinton reporters:

I’ve heard people–surprisingly progressive people–characterize Obama as too liberal, too white, vapid, insincere, a plagiarist, spoilt, a puppet, ordinary, a sad half-black, a conniver with slum-lords and worse.

Sharon Cobb has just about had it with all the talk of race and gender in the Democratic primary:

Mind you, it’s obviously newsworthy to discuss the first potential black or woman President, but that should have been over a year ago.

Yet over a year into this endless campaign, it’s all about blacks and educated whites for Obama, Hispanics and Asians for Clint

Most Americans think we've made so much progress since the 60s regarding race. In fact, many of us even have black co-workers, and dare I say, black friends.

Yet somehow, no matter how much progress this country thinks it has made since the 60s, while some strides have been substantial, there's been more window dressing than substance.

Yesterday the Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are