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The Mormons are not strangers to attacking civil liberties in the name of God. They were openly discriminatory against African Americans until 1978. “No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood. It does not matter if they are one-sixth Negro or one-hundred and sixth, t ...

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1 hour ago by Craig Bosley

by Craig L. Bosley, MD Who are the men and women we honor each year on Veterans Day? An anonymous person offered the following description - "A veteran is someone who at one point in life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' ...

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3 hours ago by Heather Aronno

I saw something that bothered me today. It’s not something I see every day, but something that I’ve seen and heard about often enough to recognize that it wasn’t unusual. Leaving the Fred Meyer on Northern Lights, my husband and I saw a Native woman sitting in the lobby, the left side of her face re ...

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3 hours ago by Kevin

The biggest news this weekend from Arcadia, CA was Zenyatta coming from behind to clinch her 14th win at the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the Santa Anita Race Track. It was actually quite an amazing feat considering how far behind she was. But lost beneath the headlines was the opening of the race track ...

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4 hours ago by James

A few months back, I posted about an article that claimed former female employees of Lehman Brothers were being made to serve tea after their company was taken over by Nomura Holdings. The article implied that women used to the Lehman’s treatment of female employees found the conditions at Nomura to ...

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5 hours ago by Ariel Goldring

According to a new paper by Antonio Filippin (University of Milan), yes: The paper explains how workers’ expectations of being discriminated against can be self-confirming, accounting for the persistence of unequal outcomes in the labour market even beyond the causes that originally generated them. ...

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8 hours ago by timvalentine

The Black Card? But I can guarantee he would say that he’s not a racist. I believe he may not intentionally be racist, but his silence and especially his comment allows question of his unconscious views on racial discrimination and intolerance. OK, I’m trying not to be insensitive towards the woman ...

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8 hours ago by Rafik

BBC News Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques – three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets. Muslim organisations say they hope their open day will counter what they say are fears and prejudices. The conservative group that initiated ...

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11 hours ago by TVIWealthExpressTrain

The Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, was enacted to prevent dicrimination by employers against handicapped, or to use a new phrase, differently abled, persons. This enactment confers certain rights to the handicapped, whether it be hiring, wages, promotion, or layoffs. ((In addition, employers ...

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12 hours ago by Scriptamus

A dramatic dialog of an American Moslem father and his son with two imams in Detroit. The boy has been at the Univeristy of Michigan and the father had visited for the first time and was somewhat shocked. He asked his old friend and imam to talk with them as he was not sure that he was being a good ...

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