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Republicans Fail To Overturn Order Targeting Voter Intimidation In New Jersey

AP | BILL NEWILL | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York

Read More: Voter Fraud, Gop, Rnc, Voter Intimidation, Ballot Security, New Jersey, Voting Rights Act, Republicans, Minority, Voting, New York News

TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey has denied a request by the Republican National Committee to dissolve a 27-year-old court order ai...

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Marriage Rights Should Not Be Determined By Popular Opinion

Fred Silberberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Tyranny-of-the-Majority, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection, Discrimination, Full-Faith-and-Credit-Clause, Minority, Constitution, Separation of Church and State, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Activist Judges, Inside DC, Politics News
Fred Silberberg

Allowing marriage to become the subject of a popular opinion poll, as has taken place in this country, disturbs the very principles upon which this nation was founded.

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2010 Election: Trouble Brewing For House Democrats

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Approval Ratings, House Democrats, Bailouts, Election 2010, Health Care Reform, Gop, Obama, Majority, Minority, Politics News

NEW YORK — Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping...

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Sotomayor Was Right the First Time: A Wise Latina Does Know More

Charles H. Green | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Minority, Gates, Trust, Ideology, Sotomayor, Politics News
Charles H. Green

People observe and believe very different things based on whether they are members of a minority, or of a majority. One group, I suggest, notices more, and knows more, than the other.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Education Reform's Big Stake

Marc Lampkin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Failing, Education, Achievement Gap, Reform, Minority, Teacher, Status Quo, Union, Classroom, Lampkin, Politics News
Marc Lampkin

As we approach the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the reality is there are still great inequities in the quality of education delivered to students.

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The Silent Minority

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Religion, Non-Believers, Non-Religious, Silent Minority, Minority, The Program on Public Values at Trinity College, Study, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

There is a minority group in America that is a bigger percentage of the country than blacks or Hispanics. Almost no politician would ever admit to being one, and they are given no voice in the public arena.

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Mr. Obama, Start Walking Your Bottom Up Talk

Rob Kall | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Automaker Bailout, Bottom-Up, Bailout, Potus, Barack Obama, Walmart, Poverty, Hank Paulson, Obama Stimulus, President Obama, Clintons, Stimulus, Obama NAFTA, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Nafta, Stimulus Package, Tim Geithner, Cafta, Poverty and Health, Henry Paulson, Economic Stimulus, Timothy Geithner, Minority, Minorities, Politics News
Rob Kall

Bottom up approaches work because they do something different than usual, or because they support bottom up community, cooperation, sharing and community.

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It's Time to Rethink Our Welfare Policy

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Helping the Needy, Poverty, Money, US Poverty, Welfare Reform, Economy, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, The New York Times, United States, Race, Detroit, New York Times, Aid to Families With Dependent Children, Safety Net Organizations, Minority, Welfare Policy, Michigan, Minorities, Politics News
Seth Freed Wessler

A society cannot survive without a safety net and we don't have one during the worst economic crisis in decades.

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Decline of the "White non-Hispanic" No Big Deal

Roger Hernandez | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, White Hispanics, Hispanic Population Growth, Majority, White Non-Hispanics, Minority, Cameron Diaz, White People, Politics News
Roger Hernandez

Our national confusion about Hispanics begins with the system of classification taken for granted, which incorrectly classifies "Hispanics" into a race apart, exclusive with whites, blacks, Asians or Native Americans.

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Imminent Death of Down Payment Assistance for Minorities

Jeff Johnson | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Subprime Mortgages, Housing, Minority Vote, Payment Assistance, Minority, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, Politics News
Jeff Johnson

It is bad enough that homeownership rates for blacks and Latinos are close the 30 percentage points below that of whites, but the housing crisis affecting cities is threatening the vitality of neighborhoods.

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