When MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Texas State Senator Kirk Watson, who is an Obama supporter, to name a “specific legislative accomplishments” of Senator Barack Obama, our poor state senator looked like a deer caught in the headlights. He was stunned and had nothing to say. (h/t to Tayor Marsh)
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Last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States because the intention of ExxonMobil to freeze assets of state-owned Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as part of a US government backed “economic war” against his government.
On his weekly TV show ‘Alo Presidente,’ President Chávez described ExxonMobil:
“Más [...]
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James of The Mahatma X Files has decided to pay me back with this little meme.
The rules are very straightforward and go as follows:
Grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long).
Open to p. 123.
Go down to the 5th sentence.
Type in the following 3 sentences.
Tag five people.
The following three sentences comes from Earl [...]
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We are half way through February which means we are half way through Black History Month. For Black History Month, I would like pay tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson. Few political figures in America today arouse as much passion as Jesse Jackson. While there are some who credit Obama for breaking down barriers to political [...]
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Hillary Clinton talked about issues of special interest to South Texas and the border region at a news conference in McAllen, TX (h/t to Rio Grande Guardian). Those issues were relations with Mexico, the border wall, comprehensive immigration, a veterans’ hospital, and the Superfund site in Mission.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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