Showing posts with label prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prejudice. Show all posts

Obama Executive Order Incentivizes Employers To Hire Alien College Graduates Over Native-Born Graduates

by Ali Meyer. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expanding a program that awards businesses bonuses when they hire alien college graduates over native-born graduates, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies. The optional practical training program (OPT) awards alien college graduates a work permit to stay   ... MORE

Starbucks Announces New Effort To Break Law

by Roger Clegg.    A plan to adopt racial hiring practices. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with more than a dozen companies in a commitment to increase hiring of young, minority workers over the next three years.” It’s unclear from the article exactly how race and ethnicity are to be used in the hiring process.    ... MORE

In A Politically Correct World, The Bible Is Hate Speech

by Mike Masterson.  I'm not interested today in unleashing yet another onslaught of name-calling and who-can-outslander-whom. We see plenty of that destructive behavior swirling around us. But the way I see it in this grossly politicized, increasingly divided country we've allowed to manifest, the following issue raises a question that must be asked and     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Selma And Voting Rights

Today's problem not about discrimination.  March 7th was the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," the first attempt by black protesters to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to demand voting rights. Their march was brutally halted by Alabama state troopers acting under the orders of Gov. George Wallace. The protesters weren't     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Prisoner Swap Deal

Obama wins; America loses.     People are arguing about what the United States got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. The key to this deal, however, is less likely to be    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Would They Be Proud?

Those who struggled for civil rights had higher hopes.     One can't imagine the fear in the hearts of the parents of those nine black students who walked past shouting placard-carrying mobs as they entered Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Each day, they were greeted with angry shouts of "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to        ... MORE