Comments on: More on Goodwin Liu’s Supreme Court nomination

By: John W

John W — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:59:05 +0000

And this sort of thing is unique to the “Left?” I could go into a long list of the Right not letting facts get in the way.

I’m no expert on Mr. Liu, but I do know he was strongly endorsed for the U.S. Court of Appeals nomination by Ken Starr.

By: RR, Senile Columnist

RR, Senile Columnist — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:56:44 +0000

OK, here goes. The killers in Tucson and Oslo were immediately identified by the Left as extreme “Right” who were influenced by hate rhetoric. Islamist killers are portrayed as feeding upon “genuine” grievances of the Islamic world which have been ignored by the West. The shooters in Tucson and Oslo had ideologies which were coherent only to themselves, that bore only superficial resemblance to any established philosophy however extreme. Their actions could only have been prevented by police work. Sept. 11 2001 was widely viewed in Left circles as an indictment of U.S. foreign policy in addition to being the product of intelligence failures. In the matter of Mr Liu, he is said to view himself as naturally sympathetic to minorities because he isn’t White. This stance is laughable in California.

By: John W

John W — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:07:52 +0000

Re: #3

“Perceptions matter more to the Left than facts.”

What does that mean? Example(s)?

By: RR, Senile Columnist

RR, Senile Columnist — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:49:11 +0000

Liberals should take heart from the idea Mr Liu identifies with members of disadvantaged minorities. Perceptions matter more to the Left than facts.

By: Josh Richman

Josh Richman — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:59:31 +0000

From other parts of our conversation, I gathered Assemblyman Alejo meant that Latinos are underrepresented in California’s judiciary and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did little to address that.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:57:01 +0000

“will Gov. Brown make a concerted effort to appoint a record number of Latinos to the bench.”

A record number?

Why, exactly, should he do that?