From The New York Times: By agreeing to hear a major case involving race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, the court thrust affirmative action back into the public and political discourse after years in which it had mostly faded from view. Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action said…
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From TPM: Mitt Romney’s never exactly set the grassroots on fire. But his latest fundraising numbers drive home just how weak his small donor appeal is compared to his rivals — and especially President Obama. One good measure of fundraising strength with the masses is contributors who have given less…
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From The Guardian: The 62-year-old socialist politician turned himself in at 8.55am on Tuesday in the northern French city of Lille and is being held for questioning over allegations that he aided the procurement of prostitutes and benefited from fraud. Detectives want to ascertain whether Strauss-Kahn, a former French presidential…
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From The Institute for Southern Studies: ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, gets 98 percent of its funding from top corporations like British Petroleum, State Farm Insurance, Walmart, and, of course, Koch Industries, one of the nation’s largest private companies with vast holdings that include a relatively close chlorine-dioxide…
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The Washington Post has an in-depth roundup of five common myths about mardi gras. Here is the abbreviated list: Mardi Gras is all about beads, booze and breasts.[F]or locals, and visitors who look below the surface and venture deeper into the real New Orleans, the Carnival experience is entirely different…
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Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. This is…
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Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution is an excellent study and read about social justice movements posted at The Kasama Project. From The Kasama Project: “How black radicals came to see China as a beacon of Third World revolution and Mao Zedong thought as a guidepost is a…
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From AP: One autumn morning in Buffalo, N.Y., a college student named Adeela Khan logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto. Khan clicked “forward,” sent it to a group of fellow Muslims at the University at Buffalo, and promptly forgot about it.…
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