Friday, November 13, 2009

Yes Virginia...


...There is no God.

Last week, the Freedom from Relion Foundation unveiled 100 such ads on Seattle buses. This ad is a play on the "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" answer given to an 8-year-old girl in the New York Sun newspaper in 1897 when she asked "Is there a Santa Claus?" In addition to the 100 exterior ads, the FFRF is also sponsoring 300 interior ads featuring the quotes of famous atheists from Richard Dawkins to Katherine Hepburn.
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so" -Mark Twain
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose" -Clarence Darrow

Protesting is pointless, they have free speech. So what can we as Christians who believe there is a God do to counter their lies with the Truth?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Bibliography

So my research paper is about race in college admissions...here's the bibliography.

It's a really interesting topic that brings up a lot of interesting questions- do minorities deserve special treatment in college admissions? is affirmative action effective in giving minorities equalizing opportunities? does racial preference unfairly take spots from other deserving candidates???

Stay tuned and find out...

Affirmative action. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2005. Print.

"Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 In support of affirmative action." Web log post. Reappropriate. 14 Oct. 2009. Web. 3 Nov. 2009. .

Clark, Kim. "Do Elite Private Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Students?" U.S. News and World Report. U.S. News and World Report, 7 Oct. 2009. Web. 2 Nov. 2009. .

Jaschik, Scott. "New Arguments on Affirmative Action." Inside Higher Ed. Inside Higher Ed, 21 June 2006. Web. 3 Nov. 2009. .

Kirsanow, Peter. "The Non-Preferred Minority." National Review Online. National Review Online, 19 June 1993. Web. 3 Nov. 2009.

Schmidt, Peter. Color and Money:How Rich White Kids Are winning The War Over College Affirmative Action. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

Takagi, Dana Y. The Retreat From Race. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992. Print.

Wise, Tim J. Affirmative Action. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print.