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06/15/2010 Immigration Causes Political Impotence
People on both sides of the issue are demonstrating on U.S. streets — perhaps more passionately and riskily than ever before. All over the country, there is growing impatience over illegal immigration. Our ethnic, cultural and racial ...
02/23/2010 Their Venom Is No Longer Hidden
In the old days, when bigots wrote me anonymous letters, it was hard to believe that people could be so ignorant and vicious. The way they described new immigrants as welfare leaches and criminal invaders was a painful lesson in the reality of racism ...
03/16/2010 To Fight for Immigration Reform, Don't Show Up in the Last Round
They seemed almost embarrassed to acknowledge it. Yet one after another, the same immigrant rights leaders who encouraged us to vote for Barack Obama were telling us that the president had betrayed them — and all of us who believed that he would ...
07/29/2008 Are Latinos Voting for Obama or Against Republicans?
The dramatic surge in Latino support for Sen. Barack Obama may be the last straw that tips the scale and puts America's first black president in the White House. When many Latinos were voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries,...
02/26/2008 Obama Is Naive About Havana
Just as the ruthless regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro declared that it was gasping for its last breath of air last week, Sen. Barack Obama shamefully was sending oxygen to Havana. In his most recent debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton, only ...
06/23/2009 On Immigration, Bush and Obama Are No Different
In one extreme corner, we have the immigrant haters, with their never-ending list of excuses for denying some form of amnesty to foreigners living in this country without proper documents. And in the other corner, just as extreme, we have the ...
05/19/2009 Hugo Being Hugo
Say you saw Hugo Chavez shaking Barack Obama's hand and you thought the Venezuelan president was a different person. Say you no longer saw him as an arrogant, anti-American socialist dictator but as someone who could be swayed to rule by democratic ...
04/14/2009 Obama Could Disarm Them
He rules a country from the left, yet he doesn't have any need to be totalitarian. He has been called a socialist, yet he doesn't jail his political opponents, censor critical media, or try to amend the Constitution to prolong his time in power. <...
02/10/2009 Running for Dictator
Imagine what would happen if President Barack Obama started campaigning to end presidential term limits and if he told us we should amend the Constitution so he could run for re-election indefinitely. We would think he went crazy, right? ...
12/09/2008 Obama's Election Didn't Cure Racism
Remember when, just a few weeks ago, we thought the election of Barack Obama had dealt a major blow against racism in this country, when we temporarily were swept by a tidal wave of interracial harmony? Remember how some people were actually naive ...
11/25/2008 Looking for Brown Faces
As President-elect Barack Obama takes his time to make his first Hispanic appointment, the Latino leaders who supported him are beginning to squirm — not because they all expect job offers, but because they fear they could end up with egg on ...
11/18/2008 Blacks and Latinos: Natural Allies
When Barack Obama was losing the Hispanic vote to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries, some people automatically assumed that racial discrimination had something to do with it. There was widespread speculation that Hispanics wouldn't vote ..
11/11/2008 The Punching Bag Strikes Back
Latinos flipped the vote in four battleground states and gave Barack Obama free passage to the White House. But did Obama earn the Hispanic vote, or did he win it by default? More importantly, will President-elect Obama repay his debt to ...
10/28/2008 'Locos' About Obama?
He never has traveled to Latin America. He opposes free trade with Colombia, turning his back on one of the only U.S. allies in the region. He wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada. He insists on meeting &...
09/30/2008 Beating Around the Bush Bailout
With leaders such as Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, what's there to worry about? Did you see them in their highly anticipated first debate? Didn't you feel reassured that the nation's financial crisis soon will be in good hands? Not!...
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