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Will Sotomayor's Judicial Nomination Validate Discrimination?

Sonia Sotomayor is facing scrutiny over her possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Supreme Court Judges serve life-time terms and never have to go up for reelection; therefore, they...

Barak Obama's Anti-Christian View No Friend to Blacks, Church

     Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...

CVS locking up of condoms condemned

Protesters took the streets of the nation's capital Thursday afternoon to protest against drug giant CVS policy of locking up condoms in poor neighborhoods on account of thefts. " The largest US drug store has...

RNC Chairman Michael Steele: GOP Needs Hip Hop Makeover

From the article: Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by...

Hate Crimes Towards Latinos On The Rise

"In July, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by a gang in Shenandoah, Pa. In August, a Staten Island man rammed his vehicle into the storefronts of three Latino merchants. Last month, a gang hunted and stabbed Marcelo Lucero to death in Patchogue, Long Island. This list of hate...

Obama wins with support from women, African-Americans, Hispanics

Obama has won not only the presidency of the United States, but a unique place in history as the first African-American president, and his victory came with overwhelming support from voters who have traditionally...

Sarah Palin, Snake Oil Saleswoman: Part Three of a Joe Six Pack Saturday in t...

Note: In Part One I took you to Collinsville, a sleepy little town in Alabama that is now about half Hispanic in population. In Part Two we met some of the Pit Bull Voters that are going to help decide the...

A Joe Six Pack Saturday Morning in the Changing South: Part One: Mexico, Alab...

I try not to be a redneck... but I know I am one.  Once you are born here it is something that can not be washed out with Tide or Super Bleach.  It's just something I have to accept: that I am the...

Hispanics Fight Foreclosure by Staying Informed

"The worst thing about the mess in the subprime industry is that it left in its wake millions of innocent American families without a home. It has long been established that one of the reasons for the foreclosure...

Clinton says she's open to being Obama's VP

So apparently Clinton is open to being Obama's VP...That would be really interesting!"On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to become Obama's vice...

Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Un-FAIR’ with Facts

The subject of so-called “hate crimes” has been discussed in this space several times during the past 18 months, ranging from proposed federal hate crime legislation to observations that Thomas Jefferson hated “hate crime” legislation and that “love crimes”...

NYC: Home to the Most Marijuana Arrests in the World (but don’t worry, whit...

"With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at a rate ten times greater than before 1997? Marijuana. But they aren't arresting everyone who possesses...

Why Hispanics will miss Bush

"Republicans these days insist that their anti-immigration stance has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's the left, they say, that injects identity politics into everything. I caught the well-coiffed, permanently snarling ideologue Michelle Malkin making that exact...

Stamp to honor newsman Ruben Salazar

"The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to issue a stamp in honor of a Hispanic newsman killed during a 1970 riot in Los Angeles. The stamp commemorating Ruben Salazar, who was news director for the Spanish-language station KMEX at the time of his death, will be issued...

Overcoming the "Woe Is Me" Syndrome

Too often we let our circumstances standing in the way of our success. I was once at a book reading in Coral Gables with Les Brown and some asked, "what if no matter how hard you try, circumstances keep holding you down?", Les replied, "Get over it, that's life! Next...

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