Racism

John Avlon at The Daily Beast has been all over the Young Republicans’ election of new Chairwoman Audra Shay, an Iraq War veteran whose Facebook feed was cited for racist comments by friends and seeming messages of agreement from Shay. According to Avlon, some YRs are angry enough to talk about quitting:
Calls for party unity [...]

The saga of the Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo employee who pleaded guilty to a hate crime is over, for now.
At about 10 am on July 8th, in the District of Columbia Superior Court, Judge Anderson dismissed the case against Marcus Epstein, who had pled guilty to a class 6 felony hate crime; the prosecutor [...]

Banned in Tysons Corner, Va., actually, where Pat and Bay Buchanan’s The American Cause will hold its conference on building a new Republican majority. An email just in from the organizers:
I am sorry but we are not going to grant you a press pass due to the disparaging things you have said about our organization [...]

If the GOP has any interest in regaining its status as a national party and shedding the legacies of Jesse Helms and the “Southern strategy,” its leaders might want to instruct members — particularly those who hold public office and the people who work for them — not to do things like this, or this, [...]

The white supremacist Website Stormfront.org has been getting unwanted attention since the Holocaust Museum shooting, and it’s prompted something you don’t often see on hate sites: the editor stepping into a thread threatening to delete “toxic members.”
Anyone condoning what Brunn did is not welcome here. You’re entitled to your opinions, yes…elsewhere.
Brunn may have been admirable [...]

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a broadside against the — wait for it — “lynching” that ensued.
The stories about Marcus were for the most part inaccurate and incomplete.  Yet, the left wing bloggers ran with this little factoid [...]

Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich admitted on Fox News’ “Hannity” that maybe Sotomayor herself isn’t a racist. Still, he insisted, her statements are.
“In my newsletter I went a step too far in saying that she is a racist because I don’t know her and there’s no evidence [of racism] in her court decisions,” Gingrich [...]

The 172-pages of answers (not including the appendix) provided by Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday reveal, as one would expect, a long resume replete with the academic credentials and professional honors we’ve already heard about, plus lots of details of key opinions and the varied list of publications and speeches [...]

Recent revelations that a Tancredo and Buchanan staffer pled guilty to assaulting an African-American woman makes their Sotomayor attacks a tough sell.

Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA Law’s Senior Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, has emailed TWI about Marcus Epstein’s law school plans.
Mr. Epstein is not currently enrolled at the University of Virginia School of Law, and I do not expect him to be an enrolled student in the future.
Trujillo told the same thing to Brian [...]