Sonia Sotomayor

Former USG president Connor Diemand-Yauman '10 has been awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University announced this morning. The prize is the highest general distinction awarded to an undergraduate by the University, given on the basis of scholarship, character and leadership. Past winners include late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. Goheen '40, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes '54 and current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor '76.  

One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right -- made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama and the Democrats is overwhelmingly unpopular and that Democrats are simply getting their comeuppance for having pushed such a liberal set of reforms forward. These claims, however, rely on selective evidence, invariably citing policies like health care and the GM bailouts which are indeed unpopular (strongly ...  

Managing IP readers can share their views via our online poll , where you can cast your vote as to what the Court should decide. In November last year, inventors Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw brought their case challenging the USPTO's rejection of their business method patent before the highest court in the US. The Supreme Court justices asked counsel for both parties some tough questions about patent-eligible subject matter that left the IP community wondering whether the Court may uphold the Federal Circuit's machine-or-transformation test.  

Once upon a time, gay activists hated Vaughn Walker for legally squashing the Gay Olympics. But this weekend The San Francisco Chronicle definitively revealed that the Prop. 8 judge is gay. Judge Walker's sexual identity has overlapped with his public life before.  

When President Barack Obama made a campaign stop at MU five days before his election, he said he'd work to turn around the economy and pass health care legislation. Although those two topics have dominated the headlines in Obama's first year as president, he's accomplished some things and faced a bevy of challenges. "They have the greatest opportunity to get things done right when they get into office because they're the winners," political science professor Marvin Overby said.  

Under pressure to pick a Hispanic to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, Gov. Charlie Crist said Friday that U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and former U.S. Attorney Bob Martinez are on the short list. Mel Martinez, the first Cuban-born U.S. senator, announced last week that he would step down as soon as Crist chooses a replacement. Both the congressman and former U.S. attorney live in Miami and were born in Cuba. Crist, who is seeking election to the Senate himself in 2010, recently drew criticism ...  

(Oct 12, 2009) I founded Connecting to Advantages to help increase the number of low-income New Yorkers eligible for public and private assistance who actually receive that financial help. I work with poor clients, and I work with volunteers – most often peers of the low-income clients – who become community leaders by dint of their service. Although I've assisted these populations for years through jobs with other social service agencies, my involvement with them of late has made me angry.  

It's Black History Month. Jim Crow laws and slavery are long gone. Only one former leader of the Ku Klux Klan remains in the United States Senate.  

The Garden City Republican Club invites residents to join them this Wednesday, February 10, at 8 PM at the Garden City Senior Recreation Center, corner of Eleventh Street and Golf Club Lane to hear from Frank Scaturro who is eager to have community support in his quest to represent Garden City this November as the candidate for the 4th Congressional District now represented by Carolyn McCarthy. Frank Scaturro was raised in New Hyde Park following his family's move to that community in 1973. His ...