At the height of early-1990s conservative backlash over political correctness and "speech codes" on U.S. college campuses, Barack Obama participated in a panel event geared toward denying that restrictions on free expression were problematic, or happening at all.
The Daily Caller has obtained a complete audio recording of the October 19, 1998 Loyola College forum on community organizing and policymaking during which a future President Barack Obama said he favored the government redistribution of wealth. The audio demonstrates the context of that remark and reveals other far-left positions that Obama held as a state senator.
A course description for "Current Issues in Racism and the Law," a class Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School 12 times between 1992 and 2004, categorized race relations in the United States as "institutional racism in American society."
A longtime professor and one-time interim dean of the University of Chicago Law School told The Daily Caller that Barack Obama was never offered tenure, despite the assertions of a New York Times reporter who covers the president and the first family.
In a 1994 interview, then-Harvard Law School dean Robert Clark said his institution was actively applying an affirmative action policy to hiring female faculty, The Daily Caller has learned. The famed law school first offered Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren a professorship in 1992 and granted her tenure in 1995.
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who has made her stated desire for a "level playing field" the cornerstone of her Senatorial campaign, once said she longed to win a contest on the basis of her beauty, physical attributes, and other criteria "unrelated to smarts" -- including "knowing someone who can fix the outcome."
Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama all told a story during the Democratic National Convention about battles the president's mother waged with health care companies as she fought a terminal illness in 1995. But the version of events presented Thursday night differs dramatically from others, including those of at least two biographers and Obama's own previous account.
Addressing the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night in Charlotte, N.C., California Attorney General Kamala Harris told a crowd of 20,000 that she wants an “America where opportunity is open to everyone ... where everyone plays by the same set of rules.” The first big boost to her career, however, came not because of her legal prowess but because her boyfriend was California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown.
John Burton, the California Democratic Party chairman who made news Monday in Charlotte, N.C., by comparing Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, has a history of making vulgar and sexually charged comments both in public and private.
In an academic article published last year, contraception advocate Sandra Fluke made the case that private health insurers should be required to pay for sex change operations.
In a June 25, 2003 interview with the Chicago Defender, an urban newspaper serving the city's African-American community, President Barack Obama praised the U.S. Supreme Court for preserving the practice of affirmative action in U.S. university admissions.
During her third and final year at Harvard Law School, first lady Michelle Obama -- then named Michelle Robinson -- penned an article for the newsletter of Harvard's Black Law Students Association (BLSA), arguing that Harvard and its students were perpetuating "racist and sexist stereotypes" by not intentionally hiring minority and female law professors on the basis of their sex or skin color.
