The recession has caused many Americans to lose their jobs, and the result is that there is now a new class of homeless bums facing terrible predjudice from hobos who have been sleeping under bridges for years.

You can sum up the Republicans' argument against Sonia Sotomayor with two words describing the "wise Latina woman".

In this news report from Al Jazeera, xenophobia gives a big kiss to the 2008 presidential election. We begin with an elderly woman residing in rural Ohio expressing her fears that with an Obama victory - gasp! - "the blacks...