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Matter of Opinion archive for April 1, 2008

TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008

The end of racism?

If you haven't yet, treat yourself to a read of the guest column we ran today, already referenced in the post below.It begins:On March 26, noted conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza presented a lecture titled "Racism is not the Problem" at Washington State University's main campus…

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Intellectual diversity on racial diversity

The director of the Foley Public Policy Institute at WSU contributed today's guest column, which I thought was a wonderfully written admonition to those who in practice (if not in theory) seek to eliminate the accommodation of minority opinions in the booking of guest speakers.…

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Letter: Planned Parenthood and federal funding

On Saturday we printed a letter from Leonard Johnson regarding Baby Nevaeh and her mother's boyfriend:Planned Parenthood, our nation's leading abortion purveyor and profiteer, has an effective pre-emptive remedy for children in risk of being harmed by their mothers' rotating companions: Kill it in utero.…

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