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The University of Vermont is holding a free three-day retreat 'specifically for white students' to 'engage in building a stronger and inclusive campus community.' The program entitled Examining White Identity: A Retreat for Undergraduate Students Who Self-Identify as White, is being sponsored by the university's African, Latino, Asian, Native American and Bi/Multiracial Student Center (ALNA). ALNA's new retreat will take place over a November weekend, nearly a year after it held a similar three-day retreat discussing the topic of white privilege.

No Whites Allowed: Student Booted From Conference Because Of Skin Color: “Because I was white they would feel unsafe?” Mac Slavo May 20th, 2014 Earlier this week First Lady Michelle Obama urged schoolchildren to monitor their parents for racially insensitive comments because Federal laws can only go so far in stopping racism. While we don’t have any racially insensitive incidents against African Americans to report at this time, maybe Mrs. Obama can assist us with the insensitive and racist actions taken by organizers of the annual White Privilege Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin. According to Progressives Today, when a white...

More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for The New York Times by the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic. By contrast, homeowners with less lavish housing are much more likely to keep writing checks to their lender. About one in 12 mortgages below the million-dollar mark is delinquent. Though it is hard to prove, the CoreLogic data suggest that many of the well-to-do are purposely dumping their financially draining properties, just as they would any sour investment.

I've been trying to rearrange my life through prayer. I'm finding that, in an age of instant gratification, miracles are obscured because they tend to unfold at a slow pace. Today I had the strongest realization the prayer is never a duty but it is always a precious priviledge. --Snag

12:10PM Cheney energy task force ordered to turn over documents by Rex Nutting WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney and the energy task force he headed in 2001 must reveal which industry executives helped formulate its recommendations for national energy policy, or else make a more specific case for executive privilege. In a 2-1 vote, the appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that a suit filed by Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club could proceed. The administration had sought a blanket exemption from laws that require federal agencies to conduct their...