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Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The news side of the Washington Times already did a great story on this, and folks like Hans von Spakovsky, Abigail Thernstrom and others have done good commentary on it as well (I'm too short ...
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BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Via NRO, Abigail Thernstrom : Both Hans von Spakovsky and Ben Conery have done splendid jobs telling the Kinston story. The small city had voted two-to-one to get rid of partisan labels on candidates running for local office, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) decided such a move was discriminatory. Blacks are a majority of registered voters in Kinston, but they are usually a minority...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
"The determination of who is a ‘candidate of choice’ for any group of voters in a given jurisdiction is based on an analysis of the electoral behavior of those voters within a particular jurisdiction," he said.Critics on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights are not so sure. "The Voting Rights Act is supposed to protect against situations when black voters are locked out because of racism," said Abigail...
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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Subject: txt edu - islm - As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom's apt description, "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according to how well that speech conforms to existing political orthodoxies. The University's College Republicans and Young...
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Georgia Newsroom (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
All Campus Free Speech Is Acceptable – Except About Islam Richard L. Cravatts | American Thinker As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom’s apt description, “islands of repression in a sea of freedom,” St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according to how well that [...]
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American Thinker (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
As yet more evidence that American campuses have become, in Abigail Thernstrom's apt description, "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," St. Louis University has demonstrated that that free speech on campuses begins and ends according to how well that speech conforms to existing political orthodoxies. The University's College Republicans and Young America's Foundation had invited...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
... that African-American Studies syllabi typically include some white writers, would be Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom, Lawrence Mead, Dan Subotnik and Peter Wood.