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January 18, 2012

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Davenport's Affirmative Action Committee Needs Members
February 06, 2012 | WQAD ABC 8 Quad Cities

The Need for Affirmative Action
October 07, 2011 | KRIV FOX 7 Houston, TX

UC Berkeley GOP Hold 'Diversity Bake Sale'
September 28, 2011 | Associated Press

Affirmative Action Wikipedia Information

Affirmative action refers to policies intended to promote access to education or employment aimed at a historically socio-politically non-dominant group (typically, minorities or women). Motivation for affirmative action policies is to redress the effects of past discrimination and to encourage public institutions such as universities, hospitals and police forces to be more representative...

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Ann Coulter: Gingrich spreads fairy tales
December 24, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
Every few years, heinous Democratic policies - abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, Hillarycare, Obamacare, to name a few - compel previously uninvolved Americans to...

Our View: Affirmative action comeback?
July 18, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
Proposition 209, the voter initiative passed in 1996, is under attack. It stipulated that the state cannot'' discriminate against'' nor'' grant preferential treatment to''...

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Richard Cohen: Product of a restless mind
January 24, 2012 | indystar.com
He's an unscrupulous man, a one-car demolition derby, but if he goads Obama to unaccustomed bravery and other Democrats to rethink outdated liberal dogma ( affirmative action,...

Affirmative action suit gets Brown's support
January 17, 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area News -- -- SFGate
More than 15 years after California voters approved a ban on affirmative action based on race or gender preferences, a new challenge to Proposition 209 has reached a federal...

THE MORALITY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: "The students at a university are always the...
September 16, 2011 | Instapundit
THE MORALITY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:'' The students at a university are always the students who were admitted. They feel hurt or outraged if they think the message is...

MICKEY KAUS: Why not debate affirmative action?
April 28, 2011 | Instapundit
MICKEY KAUS: Why not debate affirmative action?'' Were Obama a magnificent president in all respects, Trump's charge would have little resonance. Who cares how Obama got...

Brown weighs bill challenging ban on affirmative action
September 29, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
The measure could put race and gender back into the admissions process at California's public universities 15 years after the state's voters banned affirmative action ... voters banned affirmative action ...

Eugene Robinson: Still occupied
November 20, 2011 | indystar.com
For example, white working-class voters are supposed to be riled up against Democrats for policies such as affirmative action and gun control. They're not supposed to get angry...

Affirmative Action on twitter

	Federal court to hear renewed challenge to California's affirmative action ban http://t.co/rnimFKZS Twitter: @LA_Herald
	Federal court to hear renewed challenge to California's affirmative action ban: The latest lawsuit specifically ... http://t.co/1up2jKs6 Twitter: @OaklandBistro
	Appeals court to hear affirmative action challenge: By TERENCE CHEA AP SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 15 years after... http://t.co/amV7QgNJ Twitter: @PrtnrsinPrsprty
	RT @E_P_W: Emergence of the Indian Constitution - Affirmative Action and Cultural Fault Lines http://t.co/3UcIaUS8 #EPW #IndianConstitution Twitter: @jamewils
	Emergence of the Indian Constitution - Affirmative Action and Cultural Fault Lines http://t.co/3UcIaUS8 #EPW #IndianConstitution Twitter: @E_P_W
	Appeals court to hear affirmative action challenge http://t.co/6F744KzU Twitter: @Baselaziz