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• Who are these “Christian Converts”?

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 126
  Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians . Is this not discrimination on the basis of religion?” I decided to dig further. Here is what I unearthed…courtesy the Budget ...
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• Jacob Zuma on plans for economic transformation – full text

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 427
  This from President Jacob Zuma’s weekly online newsletter on the even of the Alliance Summit:The Tripartite Alliance meets in Kempton Park from today until Sunday 15 November, to take stock of progress made since the 52nd ANC National Conference in Polokwane, and also since the elections in April 2009.We committed ...
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• Didn’t Obama graduate from Columbia?

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 521
  =They’re always wondering why we can’t have a “conversation about race” in America. Well, here’s one good reason. A black affirmative action “professor” at the Ivy League’s Columbia University sucker punched a white woman in the face because she disagreed with his rants about “white privilege” ...
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• Affirmative action and PC ideology smite the military

  
  Bookworm Room — Authority: 618
  I remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal.  If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off.  Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from our academic ...
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• Should Colleges Favor Guys?

  
  College Candy — Authority: 656
  Is gender equality in college that important? According to NPR, colleges are favoring male applicants ahead of female candidates, in order to keep schools from becoming overwhelmingly female. Other than being a seemingly blatant violation of Title IX, I can’t quite figure out if this is good or bad. So I took a ...
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• Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  In the current issue of Books & Culture, Professor Paul Harvey (not to be confused with the late radio icon) takes aim at my “imagined” (read: invented) tradition of classical liberalism on race. You can read his full review here . Harvey concedes that Race and Liberty in America rediscovers ...
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• There is nothing new under the sun

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 491
  ... except that the Jews, unlike Asian Americans, made a fuss about it. About The Chosen : ... But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and ...
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• UTMBS MELVIN WILLIAMS ELECTED TO AAAA POST

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 130
  Image by Ivy Dawned via Flickr Mr. Melvin Williams, the former director of UTMBs disbanded and quite independent Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (OEO&D) and current director of the toothless Diversity and International Affairs office, has been elected treasurer of the American Association for ...
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• Army knew Ft. Hood killer tried to contact al Qaeda

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 521
  That’s what two anonymous officials told ABC News. One Congressman is looking into it, but the CIA is refusing to say what they knew about Hasan and when they knew it. - U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated [...]
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• Great Honour for Distinguished New Zealander

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 133
  New Zealand Punches Above Its Weight--Again It has just hit the headlines on Drudge that the US Army Chief of Staff, General George Casey has made a secret, but urgent request of the New Zealand Government. In a sign that Prime Minister, John Keys stature was growing within the Obama administration, it is ...
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• General Casey: diversity shouldn’t be casualty of Fort Hood

  
  theblogprof — Authority: 671
  Good grief man! Have these people lost all sense of reality? Instead of being conserned for the troops and keeping them safe from future terror attacks, Casey - a general and top army official - is more worried about "diveristy." Diversity? You have got to be kidding me! Is there no institution that the scum of ...
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• Gender Expert Vacancy

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) is a not-for-profit sub-regional organization of the National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) of ten countries: Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. ...
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• Affirmative action for males

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 612
  With women earning 58 percent of bachelor’s degrees, some private liberal arts colleges are practicing affirmative action for male applicants to preserve a gender balance in enrollment. Private colleges have the legal right to discriminate against women, but don’t like to publicize it.  Now the U.S. Commission ...
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• Admissions angst

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 491
  More coverage of elite college admissions in the links below. Inside Higher Ed on the Espenshade study (see comments!). NYTimes blog on "merit" and admissions angst. Whistle blower report by a UCLA professor Timothy Groseclose on administration attempts to circumvent Proposition 209. If you read this ...
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• Military jihadists fill ‘every branch’

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 498
  Islam is on a worldwide rampage while the Marxists are opening the gates for it to penetrate our defenses. Let’s face it Islam, embodied in the Muslim Barry Soetoro, has entered our Whitehouse, and don’t we dare saying it as if do we are branded racists and what not. Our brave Military are being willfully exposed ...
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• Behavior Change and Communication Officer, Gender Based Violence Program, Nimule

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  ARC International JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Behavior Change and Communication Officer, Gender Based Violence Program, Nimule ARC International Southern Sudan Program is inviting applications from qualified and motivated persons to fill the position of Behavior Change Communication Officer for ...
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• Affirmative Action Kills

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 134
  Army Major with three Arab names goes on a shooting rampage at Ford Hood, killing 12 other soldiers .  The U.S. President, also with three Arab names, has been briefed about the matter.  And I’m supposed to feel comforted? The media are saying that it’s not terrorism, so that’s my first clue that it’s ...
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• Upper Nile Women welfare Association ( UNWWA) Career Opportunities: Camp Manager (1 position)

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  Camp Manager (1 position) Based in Yuai Uror County Jonglei state, Southern Sudan reporting to the Field Coordinator. The successful candidate will support the team in Juba in the day to day management of the Yuai Base Key responsibilities Manage the day to day operations of the camp ...
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• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (19): Fun With Percentages

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  Affirmative action cartoon ( source , cartoon by Rob Rogers) This instalment in the series on “ how to lie with statistics ” deals with an example of “honest mistake followed by conclusions based on prejudice” rather than “outright lie”. (At least I hope. It’s often extremely difficult to ...
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• Response to University Race Quotas Row in Brazil

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 537
  The BBC news has a report about pressure to end redressive racial quotas in Brazil .   To understand this controversy, it is important to know something about the context of skin color in Brazil. The color hierarchy in Brazilian society is obvious. With few exceptions, the Brazilian middle class and above is ...
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