Year: 2006

School Admissions Standards Based on Race and Ethnicity are Discriminatory

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Project 21 has issued a press release on the arguments before the Supreme Court Monday on the legality of plans that limit the ability of public school students to attend the school of their choice so that schools meet government-mandated ...

Senators Rockefeller and Snowe: Please Name the Infamous 29

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West Virginia journalist Don Surber comments on Monday's Wall Street Journal op-ed, "Global Warming Gag Order: Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up," with a memory: As a West Virginian, I am not surprised by the intemperate tone of ...

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservative Speaks Out on Today’s Supreme Court’s Arguments Over Racial Quotas

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The United States Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments regarding two cases that could decide the constitutionality of school desegregation policies.  At issue is the legality of plans that limit the ability of public school students to attend the school ...

DeSmogBlog: A Wrecked Train Under the Big Top, Or Why I’m Not Taking Twenty Bucks from an Anti-Skeptic Attack Site

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For more than a week now I have had a #10 envelope perched on my desk lamp. It has a little sticky on it, with "???" written in inch-high red letters. Someone in my office opened my incoming mail and ...

Right or Rich? How About Both? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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It's common to believe more is better. More money. More fame. More power. While having more might be nice, isn't it better to be right? Being right and rich is much better than the alternative. Consider the benefits of being ...

The Gift of Good Health, by Bishop Council Nedd II

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There are several passages in the Bible suggesting that much is expected from those to whom much is given. One of the greatest gifts that God has given to his people on earth is the gift of good health. Like ...

What Parents Don’t Know Can Hurt Them and Their Children, by Djana Milton

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This past August 4, Lemuel and Julia Redd took their daughter Julianna shopping, but they bypassed the local mall and drove 240 miles from Provo, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado. Julianna's parents never planned to take her shopping. Instead, it ...

What Minorities Really Want, by John Meredith

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Like many Americans, I've heard the pundits prognosticate over what the new leadership in Congress will do. How will they change things, will they succeed, and will they keep their majority beyond 2008? Some of these predictions specifically have addressed ...

Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post Team Losing to a Bunch of Teachers?

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The Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post v. National Science Teachers Association kerfluffle continues, with the Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post team losing ground fast. Watch for the drive by media to lose interest in this story any minute ...

BBC Reports on UN “Peacekeeper” Rapes

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An excerpt: Soldiers serving with the UN have immunity from local laws and it's up to their home countries to discipline them. More often than not, they're simply repatriated and the UN has little information about what, if anything, happens ...

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