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- The Right Thing for Border Agents - January 25, 2009
- Bush was also convinced that the men were guilty. That's why he didn't pardon them. Meanwhile, those who want to defend the agents have to ignore the law and...
- California is for Whiners - January 21, 2009
- Some are heading south. For retiring baby boomers hoping to stretch their dollars, Mexico is the new Florida. And with Mexican businesses eager to cater to American...
- With Obama, America Fulfills Its Promise - January 18, 2009
- Now take that experience and multiply it by a million and you might start to get a sense for what it must be like for Barack Obama, who -- when he is sworn into...
- Richardson's Replacement Doesn't Have to be a Latino - January 14, 2009
- Not that commerce secretary is a prominent position. I called the post "chopped liver" and the Obama team suggested that, no, this was a vitally important position....
- Obama Blunders on Burris - January 11, 2009
- As a former professor of constitutional law, Obama should have known this too. Besides, having resigned from the Senate, Obama should have kept his attention on...
- Does Reid Think African-Americans Can't Win? - January 7, 2009
- Yet, now it seems, the master might have met his match in Rod Blagojevich. The embattled Illinois governor took a break from preparing his defense against federal...
- Obama's Diverse Government - January 4, 2009
- "There are no African-Americans in the Senate," Rush told reporters in support of Burris, who is black. "And I don't think that anyone -- any U.S. senator who's...
- GOP Song Boneheaded, Not Racist - December 31, 2008
- During those skirmishes in the culture wars, you would hear liberals defend the creative process, praise the First Amendment, and dismissively tell anyone who was...
- Duncan an A+ Education Pick - December 24, 2008
- Even in a public school system that often tolerates mediocrity, harbors low expectations and puts the interests of adults before those of children, Duncan's reform...
- The Three-Legged Stool of Immigration Reform - December 21, 2008
- Just look at what happened recently when the Bush administration -- which tried to get comprehensive immigration reform through Congress but failed in part because...
- Team Obama 'Clintonesque' on Blagojevich - December 17, 2008
- The sloppy way the Obama transition team has handled things isn't building credibility with anyone but a docile press corps. Columnists, news anchors and liberal...
- The Alberto Gonzales Story - December 14, 2008
- So I called Alberto Gonzales. The former attorney general isn't ready to talk publicly about the U.S. attorney scandal that forced him from office. Although he was...
- Obama the Ultimate Community Organizer - December 10, 2008
- It's not that simple. Chavez's memory might mean something to Mexican-American baby boomers who credit him with bringing dignity to the agricultural fields in which...
- They Didn't Let McCain Be McCain - December 7, 2008
- Part of that strategy was highlighting McCain's record of championing comprehensive immigration reform. Meanwhile, down the hall, another portion of the campaign...
- Napolitano a Follower, Not a Leader - December 3, 2008
- One thing that helped fuel her ascent, her critics say, is that Napolitano rarely takes action without doing the political equivalent of a cost-benefit analysis. She...
- The Richardson Snub - November 29, 2008
- Finally, what if that person had the backing of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, an association of 26 national and regional Hispanic civil rights and public...
- Kids Need More Than 'Happiness' - November 23, 2008
- As someone who has spent more than three decades working with children and families, Cooper has heard the happiness mantra over and over again. "Parents come...
- GOP Tancredo-ing Its Way to Defeat - November 19, 2008
- Obama also had the benefit of GOP mistakes. Republicans who second-guess their party's Hispanic outreach efforts have short memories. The real foolishness occurred...
- Obama's Election Doesn't Eliminate Barriers - November 16, 2008
- Even so, the topic of racial preferences didn't surface much during the main event: the presidential campaign. Nor did the softer concept of affirmative action,...
- Immigration Reform Unlikely with Obama - November 12, 2008
- For Latinos who assume that helping to elect Obama president guarantees them another shot at comprehensive immigration reform, his selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel as...
- Hey Experts, Latinos Can Support An African-American - November 9, 2008
- The experts claimed there was a historical tension between Latinos and African-Americans born of competition that played out everywhere from public schools to...
- Equal Outcome vs. Equal Opportunity - November 2, 2008
- Which argument is resonating with voters? Why, both of them -- depending on whom those voters support for president and how much they earn. And to think it all...
- There's Liberal Racism Too - October 29, 2008
- "This has been a pretty mean campaign," Biden said. "You know, folks ... some of the innuendo is pretty ugly." When I think about mean and ugly, I think about...
- One-Way Political Discourse - San Diego Union-Tribune - October 29, 2008
- How Can McCain Be Losing Latinos? - October 26, 2008
- McCain can defend himself. During a telephone interview the other day as he was traveling between campaign stops in Pennsylvania, he told me that he hopes Latinos...
- Liberals Unfair to Palin - CNN - October 24, 2008
- Border Fortresses Keep Immigrants In - October 22, 2008
- They include Douglas Massey, a Princeton sociology professor and nationally acclaimed expert on immigration who for more than 20 years has monitored the U.S.-Mexico...
- The Democratic Party's Drubbing of Plumber Joe - PJM - October 19, 2008
- Vote for Gay Marriage - October 19, 2008
- Then a gay family member helped me see that the issue wasn't as complicated as I was making it. I now believe we simply can't have a two-tiered system where some of us...
- Obama's Truthfulness in Question - October 15, 2008
- Saying nothing would be smart. And, up to now, with few exceptions, Obama has been pretty smart in dealing with the Ayers issue by trying to deflect questions, minimize...
- The Politics of Likability - October 12, 2008
- Recently, a self-identified Democrat informed me that Sarah Palin was an unacceptable choice for vice president because our elected officials should embody the...
- Latino Vote More Complicated Than Black and White - October 8, 2008
- "Latinos '08" airs this month on PBS. Like his earlier film "Brown Is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream," which explored the intersection of...
- A Hero Shortchanged? - October 5, 2008
- A Mexican immigrant from Tijuana, Peralta entered the United States illegally when he moved to San Diego as a teenager. He joined the Marines on the day he received his...
- Congress Dodges Another Tough One - October 1, 2008
- How could it? In order to tackle a tough problem, it helps to have a history of tackling other tough problems. But, on that score, this Congress is out of practice....
- Are Latinos Being Scapegoated? - September 28, 2008
- That is true of many Americans. However, it's precisely because Latinos -- as with other groups with a strong immigrant tradition -- are known for being optimistic...
- Candidates Flunking Economics & Leadership - September 24, 2008
- Still, call me old-fashioned. But, in times of crisis, I like to know that the man -- or woman -- we are putting in the Oval Office is fully engaged and armed with...
- Joe Biden: The Forgotten Man - September 21, 2008
- Of course, the running mate I'm speaking of is Joe Biden. With so much attention being showered on Sarah Palin -- both good (from the thousands of everyday...
- How Senate Democrats Derailed Immigration Refrom - September 17, 2008
- And it means trying to refute a new Spanish-language television ad from the McCain-Palin campaign that blames Barack Obama and other Senate Democrats for...
- Palin Gives McCain Another Shot with Latinos - September 14, 2008
- The question is whether Obama can dominate the vote tally among Latinos by a large enough margin that he keeps McCain to less than 35 percent of the Latino vote....
- English Only a Bad Move for the LPGA - September 10, 2008
- Sportswriters, television commentators and newspaper editorial pages blasted the idea. A headline in The Boston Globe declared, "LPGA way out of bounds." An editorial in...