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Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Najah Alosaimi, 12/5/08 Several months after the government's decision to allow women to stay in hotels without guardians, businesswomen and other travelers started taking advantage of this new freedom. But many say that they sometimes feel discriminated against by hotel regulations. Nada, 29, works for a media corporation. She told Arab News that the new regulation [...]
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Plunderbund (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hearings on Senate Bill 305 start tomorrow. The goal of the bill is to prevent discriminatory practices on the basis of “sexual orientation”. Besides the normal cast of characters coming out for and against this bill- we also have, for the first time I can remember, the business community getting involved. Big Ohio companies like Cardinal Health, Cleveland [...]
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The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Arlington Host Corp., which formerly owned and operated the BallPark Inn in Arlington, has paid $20,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Federal Court ruled that disabled students are being discriminated against
at Pierce College in violation of the ADA
LOS ANGELES, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Goodman & Metz
filed a motion for permanent injunction in Federal Court to force Pierce
College to comply with The Americans With Disabilities Act, to make the
campus "accessible to and usable by" persons with disabilities, in...
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The Dayton Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Supporters of legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity on Monday released a list of businesses that have lined up to support the law's passage.
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The Business Courier of Cincinnati (Free subscription) | yesterday
Supporters of legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity on Monday released a list of businesses that have lined up to support the law's passage.
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Political Animal (Free subscription) | yesterday
GENETIC DISCRIMINATION....Congress voted nearly unanimously last week to outlaw genetic discrimination by health insurance companies. Michael Kinsley comments:The very appealing notion that genetic discrimination is unfair looks especially odd in the context of insurance. The idea of insurance is to...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
Isn't that another word for life? Kinsley has a spot-on column, with one more reason to love Ron Paul. Money quote: Is it unfair that Yo-Yo Ma can play cello better than I can? Or that people hire Frank Gehry...
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South Dakota Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Intrepid and gracious reader Mondak sends this: Obama's latest win of 56% to 42% over Clinton in North Carolina shows that the controversy surrounding his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has had literally no effect on his campaign to...
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atlas(t) (Free subscription) | yesterday
the effective breaking down of residential discrimination outside a slum, and the less dramatic self-diversification within an unslumming slum, proceed concurrently. If America has now, in the case of Negroes, reached an effective halt in this process and in general...
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Rhymes with Right (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Yeah, that Texas Two-Step process that was so incompetently implemented by the Democrats (who proved that since they can't run their own party they surely aren't competent to run the state), has been deemed by Hispanic groups to be so...
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Stereohyped (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims,” the lawyer told UPI .
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Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senate Votes to Prevent Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace - Via NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS : As research of preventative genetic testing increases, many fear the impact this information can have on employment and health-insurance practices -- leading the Senate to vote Thursday to ban genetic-based discrimination. An expert on genetics examines the issue. ( Read Original Article...
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Slap Upside The Head (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christian Horizons, a government-funded charity organisation, is appealing a ruling that found them in violation of human rights codes. Connie Heintz, a gay Christian, was forced to quit her job after co-workers discovered she was a lesbian. She filed a human rights complaint and won. Since Christian Horizons is funded with public tax dollars, it is [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently found discriminatory a Detroit Police Department policy that denies light duty to pregnant police officers and treats pregnancies as off-the-job injuries, the Detroit News reports. The case involves a complaint filed by police officer Tisha Prater, who was denied light-duty work and placed on unpaid leave in July 2007.
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mrinternet | 04/29/2008
Attacks on him are really attacks on the black church, claims the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday. Throughout his speech—which was more of a sermon to a willing congregation—Wright compared South Africa’s former apartheid to the current treatment of black Americans in the US Wright continued his railing against anyone who questions his
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petercasier | 04/12/2008
The African National Congress (ANC) was designated as a terrorist organisation by South Africa's old apartheid regime. Since that time, things changed. Apartheid is not legal anymore, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and the ANC became the government. But Mandela remains on the US terrorist list.
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Its Not About His Pastor Its About Obama Far & = representaion 4 all of Us
Obama had a responsablty to represent all Americans and failed Us all when He failed to speek for those Controled by "Rich White People"
He Said Nothing...
anthonytampafl - 05/03/2008
Obama's Campaign Wheels come off !
Wow - just like that... the drama ends as fast as Obama previously had soared.
This will effectively end Obama's Presidential run and he will...
mrinternet - 04/29/2008