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Census uses "Negro" on 2010 survey

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(Jan. 6) — As the government prepares to roll out the 2010 Census on March 15, one of the 10 questions on the form already has people cringing

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The 2010 Census’ Existential Crisis

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If only it were as simple to count everyone in America as “One, two… three hundred million.” Nope.

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6.3 Million people who didn’t vote (NYC 2009)

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

UPDATE An estimated 8.3 million people live in New York City.

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RNC mailer designed to look like census survey misleading

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Michele Bachmann may be raising outlandish fears about the Census — but Michael Steele's operation seems to be more than happy to associate its political efforts with the national survey. The Republican National Committee is sending a mailer to GOP voters that aims to gather information and raise money.

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Conservative Bible project cuts out liberal passages

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing. That's the inspiration behind the Conservative Bible Project, which seeks to take the text back to its supposed right-wing roots

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The War Against Census Takers

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The coroner of Clay County, Kansas has confirmed that the word “FED” was scrawled on the dead body of census worker and teacher Bill Sparkman, who was found asphyxiated earlier this month. Here is a video of various popular television news show hosts and elected officials—well, Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann (R-MN)—explaining that the census was part of a plot to round up patriotic Americans and place them in internment camps. Also included: a fun amateur short-film in which a young man in fatigues aims an assault rifle at a census taker.

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Census Worker’s Death: The Next Generation of Lynching?

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We know that the levels of right-wing vitriol have reached psychotic new heights. But could they really be behind the “apparent homicide” of a Kentucky census worker, William Sparkman ? Should we be calling this, as some are, a “lynching?” On September 12, the same day as those wacky protests , Sparkman was found hanging from a tree with the word “fed” carved into his chest

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US will report same-sex couples in the 2010 census

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, July 31 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force was on hand for today's official announcement by the U.S. Commerce Department that the U.S

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