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To: unclewest who wrote (203936)	4/24/2007 7:42:57 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793822

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged truck into a U.S. military outpost near Baqubah on Monday, I won't speak to the strategic problem, only to the obvious tactical problem that is a old as the Marines in Beruit. The same damn thing happened again. They let the truck get too close. Why? ROE, dammit, ROE. We never learn.

To: unclewest who wrote (203936)	4/24/2007 7:45:52 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793822

Connerly to Colorado [John J. Miller] Behold the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative: Denver Colorado - The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative is moving forward with plans for a November, 2008 ballot measure banning government-sponsored race and gender preferences in the state. The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative will be part of a 'Super Tuesday for Equal Rights' campaign that will offer citizens of several states the chance to end such practices in public employment, public education and public contracting. Similar measures have already passed in three other states, all by overwhelming margins. Colorado Civil Rights Initiative Executive Director Valery Pech Orr, formerly co-plaintiff in the Adarand case, which challenged the constitutionality of preferences in the awarding of federal contracts, said such a measure is long overdue. "It boils down to the basic question of who we are as a people," she says. "Are we really all equal, as we claim, or are we to be judged primarily by our gender and skin color? My family has been in Colorado for generations - my great grandparents homesteaded here in 1883. We in this state are individualists, racial and gender preferences run counter to our most basic values, and we expect that will be made abundantly clear on November 4, 2008." Also attending the press conference will be Ward Connerly, chairman of the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Institute and longtime crusader for a colorblind America. "Getting our nation to the point of applying a single standard to all Americans is one of the most crucial issues of our time," says Connerly, who helped lead the earlier successful anti-preferences campaigns in California, Washington state and, most recently, Michigan, and will be working closely with the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative. Why Stop at Colorado? [John J. Miller] From today's Chronicle: Several prominent critics of affirmative action announced on Monday that they would seek to place a referendum banning racial, ethnic, and gender preferences on the ballot in Colorado in November 2008. The national organization leading their effort — the American Civil Rights Institute — is expected by the end of the week to announce similar campaigns in Arizona, Missouri, and Oklahoma as part of what it is calling a "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights." The American Civil Rights Institute plans within weeks to add a fifth state to its list but has not yet decided which of two — Nebraska or South Dakota — it will be, the group's chairman, Ward Connerly, said. phibetacons.nationalreview.com