Muslims replace blacks as new front line minority in America
In the wake of 9/11 the national lens shifts from a black white paradigm to Muslims as the new front line minority. The piece discusses how civil rights discourse now centers on Muslim Americans, contrasts with past racial struggles, and cites examples like private Muslim schools and gender segregation proposals.
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Merica
America
Americas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Andrew Hacker
Jonathan Kozol
American Civil Liberties Union
Hollywood
Academia
Council onerican-Islamic Relation
Ulate
The
Chicago Tribune
Universal School
Illinois
Bush
United States
L.A
France
Denmark
Oscar predictions with political correctness and gay films
A columnist mocks the Academy Awards predicting winners by PC bias and public reception. He jokes about Brokeback Mountain and lists nominees for best picture best director actor actress supporting roles and foreign film while quipping on Hollywood politics and Theo van Gogh.
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Hollywood
Capote
Munich
Texas Rangers
Pat Buchanan
John
Ang Lee
Lee
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lcon
Judi Dench
Mrs. Henderson
Felicity Huffman
Keira Knightley
Charlize Theron
Reese Witherspoon
Gather Witherspoon
Huffman
Rachel Weisz
Michelle Williams
Ledger
Weisz
Williams
George Clooney
Italy
Joyeux
Noel
France
Palestine
Sophie Scholl
Germany
E “Tsotsi
South Africa
Yale
Al-Jazeera
Air Syria
Theo van Gogh
Amsterdam
Administration incompetence and costly Halliburton debts
Critique of U S policy failures from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina and health care. Notes Halliburton overcharges paid by the Pentagon while audits flagged excessive costs. Calls for accountability and recognition of mistakes, urging restraint and policy reform.
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Iraq
Army
Halliburton
Pentagon
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George “Looney Co-wrote
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Rick Barton
Center For Strategic and International Studies
New York Times
Bunnatine Greenhouse
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Kellogg, Brown & Root
Greenhouse
Henry Waxman
D-Calif
KBR
PRI
George W. Bush
Michael
Crichton
White House
Saddam Hussein
Molly Ivins
Earlibiston
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