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The census estimates that the US will become majority-minority by 2042. My projection is that many currently non-White ethnic groups will become or will be absorbed into Whiteness to keep the numbers up.
ICE has detained 42 suspected illegal immigrants working at Dulles Airport, stressing that their is no indication of terrorist activity.
An Egyptian Muslim women writes in the Washington Post: If Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women on its Olympics teams by 2012, tell them to not bother showing up in London.
A dispute over whether a school can prohibit its students from wearing the confederate flag has moved to an (all-White) jury.
A former convict turned inmate's rights advocate is proving remarkably adept at slowing down one of President Bush's District Court nominees (the chief lawyer with Corrections Corporation of America).
A Federal Judge said he was "shocked and disturbed" upon reading reports about mistreatment in the case of an immigrant detainee who recently died in ICE custody.
Unions are asking the FEC to investigate whether Wal-Mart violated the law when it allegedly attempted to persuade its workers to vote Republican.
Up to 600,000 Ohio voters are at serious risk of being purged from the voting rolls.
Can electronic voting be trusted?
Several Thai workers who were held as slave laborers in California have now become US citizens.
When Fox wants to talk free speech, it knows exactly who to turn to: anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers!
Marcia McCormick of the Workplace Prof blog has some good thoughts up about Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson's (R-TX) alternative to the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
The brewing conflict in the North Forest Independent School District took another turn.
A Mexican man was shot by a US officer on the US/Mexico border during a confrontation.
Nevada judges mete out harsher sentences to Black defendants than Whites. The study, however, does not take into account prior criminal activity.
I'm surprised that the Confederate flag case even went to a jury. Surely it should have been decided in the school's favor as a matter of law under Morse v. Frederick. There is no right to in-school speech that can be interpreted as advocating drug use (even if it was actually off school grounds, during school hours, and is not *intended* to advocate drug use). There is no right to in-school speech that can be interpreted as advocating secession (even if it was not intended to send such a message).
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