No, not “Power,” although that is surely her favorite P-word and she most likely did say it at least once in her speech. Try “Plantation.” Uttered to a black audience, this word is intended to conjure up images of slavery. A Republican doing this would have been run out of town on a rail. But not a... Sign in to see full entry.
Ted Kennedy, known lovingly here as the Old Sot, was certainly exercised about Samuel Alito’s membership in a conservative club that at one point called for an end to reverse discrimination. Never mind that it was years and years ago when Judge Alito was in college. Any violation of equality in the... Sign in to see full entry.