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... denied students their choice of schools because of race, said school authorities had failed to provide the necessary support for the proposition that there is no other way than individual racial classification to avoid racial isolation in the districts.. Unless a district's assignment practices are totally race-neutral, they are unconstitutional.. As Justice Roberts pointed out, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race." .. Breyer is party to the deliberate or ignorant equating of integration (racial balancing) and desegregation.. As Justice Thomas points out, "Every time government uses racial criteria to'bring the races together,' someone gets excluded, and the person excluded suffers an injury solely because of his or her race." Thomas points out that exclusion based solely on race is precisely the sort of government action that pits the races against one another, exacerbates racial tension and provokes resentment among those who believe they have been wronged by the government's use of race. In 1954 the Supreme Court in the case of Brown v. Bd. of Ed ...

... Council on Foreign Relations.- Rockefeller Fellow.- Staff, MIT Center for International Studies.- Dir. Global Issues, National Security Council.- Asst. Sec. of State for Political-Military Affairs. Richard A. Falk:- Past advisor, World Federalist Institute.- Past member, American Movement for World Government.- Member, World Order Models Project.-- Member, Council on Foreign Relations.- Chair, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.- Member, CFR.- United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine. Thomas C. Schelling:- Past Foreign Policy Advisor, White House.- Former member, Office of the Director for Mutual Security.- Past negotiator, European Payments Union.- Past member, RAND Corporation.- Past President, American Economic Association.- Founder, Center for Arms Control.- Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Arthur I. Waskow:- Senior Fellow, Peace Research Institute.- Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies.- Fellow, Public Resource Center.- Founder, The Shalom Center. ...

... Book of Kings. Avery's grandfather, Allen Macy Dulles, had been a Presbyterian pastor and a co-founder of the American Theological Society. John Foster Dulles-coming to believe that only the Gospels and international organization could preserve world order-gained wide notice as an expert on international affairs by chairing a 1941 peace commission for the Federal Council of Churches. Still, Avery Dulles described himself as an agnostic when he arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate, in 1936. The subsequent decade was a time of prominent Catholic conversions, particularly intellectual and literary ones. Thomas Merton gave the classic account of those days in The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), the tale of his progress from Columbia University to a Trappist monastery. But even for his generation, Dulles's conversion was curiously intellectual. It began when he decided that Catholic philosophy provided a more complete account of the world than others did. Acceptance of the philosophy compelled acceptance of the theology, which in turn compelled acceptance of the faith-except, of course, that intellectually accepting faith isn't the same as actually having faith. http:/ ...

... Augustus Tulk (1786-1849). A leading early English Swedenborgian and a founder member and chairman for many years of the Swedenborg Society. He was a friend and patron of John Flaxman, another founder member of the Society and also of William Blake.." Walt Whitman (1819-1892). ... James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-1899). Homoeopathic physician, translator and biographer of Swedenborg.. He edited the first letter-press edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. His many friends and correspondents in the literary world included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Coventry Patmore, and George MacDonald. His greatest friend was the American Swedenborgian thinker Henry James senior.." Did you notice the references to William Blake? Because his writings became a major source of inspiration to George Mac Donald (and therefore to C. S. Lewis as well), it's important to understand what he believed. The article," William Blake and the Radical Swedenborgians, tells us that- "In the late 1780s and early ...

... and America is becoming poorer as a nation every single day. One way that we have been making up the difference is by going into almost unbelievable amounts of government debt. When the government debt bubble pops, the pain is going to be enormous. If you do not believe this right now, you will believe it soon enough. Not that we should keep going into huge amounts of debt. Every dollar that we "borrow" is actually being stolen from our children and our grandchildren. In fact, that is what Thomas Jefferson believed. According to Jefferson, when the federal government borrows money in one generation which must be paid back by future generations it is equivalent to stealing: "And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."[ Thomas Jefferson] We have got to stop stealing from future generations. If they get the chance, they ...