Just because the state legislature isn’t schedule to meet again until Jan. 7, doesn’t mean our elected elves are not hard at work. In anticipation of opening day, they are giddily churning out proposed Constitutional Amendments in the hope that this might be the magical year for change. Each amendment needs a two-thirds vote in the state senate and assembly in order to appear on a statewide ballot for possible passage.
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Lawyers for 46 minority students and a civil-rights group asked a federal appeals court in San Francisco to allow them to go forward with their challenge to a voter-approved ban on affirmative action in University of California system admissions.“We’re asking that you give the students in this case their day in court,” attorney Shanta Driver on Monday told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Roger Clegg over at NRO points out that Chris Christie isn't about to let political corectness get in the way of doing what he wants to do
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Dismissing as racists Republicans, tea partiers and conservatives who disagree with the liberal agenda has become the default position for more than a few Democrats and their allies in the media, nonprofit activism communities and the academic world. Such knee-jerk responses to honest criticism only magnifies the ugliness that so quickly envelopes many of the racially tinged controversies that regularly erupt in American politics.
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Governments at all levels award contracts for billions of tax dollars every year using Affirmative Action preferences for businesses and individuals based on their ethnicity, gender, income status, or other characteristics having nothing do with the skills or services being provided.
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