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Boss Distributed Premarked GOP Ballots on Day Republican Senator Toured Plant, Employees Say

John Byrne, Raw Story. October 18, 2010.

Five black employees of an Alabama-based trucking firm say they were given pre-marked Republican ballots on the day a sitting Republican senator came to visit their facility.

Memo to the Media: "Puerto Rican" Is Not a Race

Alisa Valdes, Alisa Valdes Diary. July 16, 2009.

There is no more a Puerto Rican race than there is an American one.

Will GOP Senators Defend Right-Wing Ad Calling Sotomayor the Leader of a Terrorist Group?

Victor Zapanta, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. July 15, 2009.

The right-wing Committee for Justice, which put out the ad, has many ties to GOP Senators.

The 10 Dumbest Things Republicans Have Said About the Sotomayor Hearings

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. July 15, 2009.

A list of the most ridiculous questions, jabs and rants by GOP lawmakers and other conservatives.

Sotomayor Confirmation Circus: Jeff Sessions Says Baffling, Stupid Things About Race

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2009.

If I didn't know better, I might think Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has a preoccupation with issues related to race and ethnicity.

The GOP's Pathetic Wailing Against Sotomayor's Confirmation

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 14, 2009.

Sotomayor will be confirmed. But the drama stirred up by Republicans reveals some interesting things about race in the age of Obama.

GOP Lawmaker: 'We Should Be More Like the Taliban'

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 5, 2009.

The Republican Party tries to learn a thing or two from those original comeback kids, the Taliban.