Month: January 2008

“We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips, when … they both go together” http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2923 [On a campaign stop in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton and her busload of traveling press […]

The shirt said, “My Day of Silence, Straight Alliance,” on the front and “Be happy, not gay” on the back http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2254 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=644 By Tim Waldorf Staff Writer Bolingbrook Sun Attorneys for a Neuqua Valley High […]

Shafilea Ahmed’s body was found in 2004 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1269 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1449 A teenage girl who feared a marriage was being arranged by her parents was the victim of a “vile murder”, a coroner has said. The decomposed […]

Blacks versus women The stunning political earthquake in New Hampshire on Tuesday and its aftershocks are opening a wrenching fissure in Democratic politics — raising the prospect of a bitter campaign with racial and gender […]

Alliance Defense Fund promises appeal for British Airways employee http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2703 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2392 Allie Martin An attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund says an appeal is certain in a lawsuit on behalf of a Christian employee of […]

The study by Harvard economist George Borjas said hiring illegal immigrants depresses wages because they work for lower pay and sometimes are paid under the table by Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal Illegal immigrants depressed […]

Welfare for Africa From The Unreconstructed Southerner The people of Kenya and other tribes in Africa are said to be fervently praying for an Obama presidency. One must wonder if Obama will act on his […]

Shortage of curry chefs as immigration changes start to bite Back to the haggis. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=133 CURRY restaurants are facing an “unprecedented crisis” due to tough new immigration laws, one of Britain’s leading Asian businessmen said […]

Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them? By Marc Sheppard Iowa Caucus results quickly shifted many Democrats’ sense of Hillary’s inevitability to one of Barack’s providence.  The smooth-talking senator’s surprising […]

A Harvard scholar suggests a new way to think about social relations. By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow IN A WORLD FRAUGHT with ethnic, religious, and sectarian tensions, “tolerance” is a familiar mantra. Diversity training sessions in schools […]