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Defermative Action

By on 3.3.08 @ 9:49PM

Over the weekend, the Guardian carried a short piece by Cato Institute veep David Boaz damning conservatives for favoring antidiscrimination laws for race and religion but not sexual orientation. It seemed to me monumentally wrongheaded, so I jotted down some objections and made them into this slightly longer article.

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