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911 call on Conn. shooting shows racial disparity

911 call reveals racial disparity at Conn. beer distributor where driver went on fatal rampage. A woman hiding under her desk tells an emergency dispatcher that a co-worker is in the midst of a shooting spree. The dispatcher presses for any information about the man. “I don’t know anything,” the…

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Justice gives AZ sheriff deadline in civil rights probe

The Justice Department says an Arizona sheriff known for his efforts against illegal immigrants has refused to cooperate with a civil rights investigation and the department is threatening to sue. Since March 2009, the U.S. Justice Department has been investigating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office in Phoenix for alleged…

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UN experts says Arizona law violates international human rights treaty

Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday. The basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S. and many other nations, regard issues such as discrimination and the terms under which a person can…

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Arizona vandals smear swastika made of refried beans into Capitol doors

Mexican president calls Arizona law on immigrants ‘racial discrimination’ Vandals smeared a swastika made of refried beans into the glass doors of Arizona’s State Capitol building, police in Phoenix told local media Monday. “While it first looked like mud on the doors, it turned out be refried beans,” reported the…

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Virginia AG orders colleges to stop protecting gays

Officials and student leaders at Virginia colleges are reacting mutedly, so far, to an order from state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that the schools stop protecting LGBT students. In a letter (PDF) sent to the state’s public colleges and universities and obtained by the Washington Post, Cuccinelli declared that the…

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Maddow: Christian ignorance revives discrimination in Virginia

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday assailed a series of recent moves in Virginia under new Gov. Bob McDonnell, citing the rising influence of the Christian right in exacerbating “discrimination” against gays and women. Maddow was dumbstruck by state legislator Bob Marshall (R-Manassas), who declared Monday that children born with…

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Virginia gov. curtails protections for gay workers

Gays and lesbians in Virginia have lost specific protection from discrimination in the workplace after Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) reissued the state's non-discrimination policy with one group conspicuously absent from the list.…

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Gingrich openly says let’s ‘profile’ and ‘actively discriminate’

WASHINGTON — Another prominent Republican has joined the chorus of conservatives championing open discrimination against Muslims after the failed Christmas terror plot. In an op-ed published Wednesday for the conservative magazine Human Events, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich forcefully slammed the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism policies as insufficient and said…

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Video homobigot of the day – Pastor Leroy Swailes

UPDATE: The transcript is below the fold. Holy crap, I don’t know how I missed this beauty. During testimony in DC before the Board of Elections and Ethics regarding the District’s law that recognizes out of state marriages (it was upheld), Minister Leroy Swailes comes untethered from reality to condemn…

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