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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-06-24-education-usat_x.htm & "None of this is Fair" by Richard Rodriguez
 * Affirmative Action:**

__Questions to think about:__ (which might be slightly swayed towards my point of view...)
 * The Affirmative Action Program separates 'diverse' students from non-diverse ones, which draws more attention to the differences between races; however isn't the point to create a blended society blind to race?
 * Affirmative Action was created to equalize the admission process, why not dispose of the race question altogether?


 * political:**

John Edwards -proposes "[|**truly universal health care**] that will take on the insurance and drug companies, cover every man, woman, and child in America"- john edwards campaign website -universal healthcare ($90B-$120B per year for healthcare) by revoking bush’s tax cut -reverse bush’s tax policies

-Raise the tax rate on capital gains to 28 percent for the most fortunate taxpayers – taxing the investment income of the wealthiest Americans similarly to the wages of the middle class. http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Edwards.htm http://www.factcheck.org/edwards_empty_threat.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pk39puGV7bA -opposes military draft "**One of the things we ought to be thinking about is some level of mandatory service to our country, so that everybody in America -- not just the poor kids who get sent to war -- are serving this country**," he said. Former North Carolina Senator and Democratic candidate for President John Edwards expressed his support for a program of mandatory national service this week. In an Associated Press article by Philip Elliott, [|**Edwards** Touts Plan to End Iraq Conflict] Elliot notes: Edwards also called Monday for spreading the burden of serving the country by mandating national service. (http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:AC2Zuok_IHYJ:everyoneserves.org/edwards_supports_national_service+john+edwards+national+service&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us)

"What is it with John Edwards and making things mandatory? Mandatory military service last May, now mandatory health care. And all this time he’s been calling himself 'pro-choice.' "