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Anti-discrimination law hasn't been controversial for years, but recently it has returned to the public debate. In Kentucky, GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul touched a nerve by suggesting that the government shouldn't have forced southern businesses to desegregate. And in her new book The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law, Stanford Law School's Deborah L. Rhode says quite the opposite: that today we should expand anti-discrimination law to outlaw bias based on appearance.
"Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head." - Warren Buffett
Debating whether fears over the U.S. deficit are overblown, with James Galbraith, University of Texas economics professor, and Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital Inc. president.
"Christopher Dodd got over $10,000,000 from the financial institutions between 2005 and 2010. This is just another episode in the Presidential reality show to make people feel like they're doing something"
