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Co-author of conservative anti-immigration report resigns
The co-author of a conservative think tank’s report accusing Latino immigrants of having a “substantially lower” average IQ than white Americans resigned on Friday. According to The Washington Post, the Heritage Foundation confirmed that Jason Richwine left the organization in the wake of bipartisan criticism of the report, which said…
Conservatives Love Those Racist IQ Arguments, Don’t They?
I hope you all have been following the entire kerfuffle over the Heritage Foundation’s “researchers”, a man named Jason Richwine, who has been outed as a proponent of the idea that Hispanics are genetically inferior people born with a hardwired low IQ. The Heritage Foundation is playing the “how could…
Maddow: Heritage Foundation immigration study is exercise in Republican racism
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow talked about the futility of attempting to do minority outreach when your party’s platform is openly hostile to non-white Americans. She highlighted a study by the Heritage Foundation that said Latino immigrants should therefore be admitted to the…
DeMint complains that ‘unlawful immigrants’ could live ‘another 50 years’
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Monday said that he opposed a bipartisan plan for comprehensive immigration reform because “unlawful immigrants” could live “another 50 years” and take advantage of government benefits that they earned by paying taxes. At a press conference on Monday, the Heritage Foundation released a report…
Utah smoothie shop overcharges liberals, donates money to Heritage Foundation
The owner of a Utah smoothie shop is trying to teach liberal customers a lesson by charging them extra and donating their money to conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation. “I’m very open about it, very public about it, that I’m going to charge them a little bit more, and…
WATCH LIVE: GOP candidates debate foreign policy
Republican presidential candidates were scheduled to debate foreign policy and security Tuesday at an event sponsored by CNN, Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast Nov. 22, 2011. …
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