Delivering the GOP response to President Obama’s speech to Congress, Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal had his first chance to impress a national audience. Did he do it? No! He didn’t even go down in a blaze of glory. I wish I could say he crashed and burned, but can’t. It even left Rachel Maddow dumbfounded.
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Back in December, I publicly addressed my concerns about being overcharged from Amigo Energy. Never in my wildest dreams did I think my little post would get so many hits in such a short time. To date the post has been visited 546 times from 195 network locations; one of those visitors is the [...]
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Netroots activists from across Texas have joined forces to launch CensureLeo.com, urging the Texas House of Representatives to censure State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) for his conduct following an immigration summit last week.
CensureLeo.com urges Texans to contact their State Representative, House Speaker Joe Straus, and House GOP Caucus Chair Larry Taylor, urging them [...]
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I am still putting the finishing touches to my series, I decided to report on the latest Wall Street scandal involving Texas billionaire and cricket entrepreneur, Sir R. Allen Stanford.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Texas billionaire Sir Robert Allen Stanford, his offshore bank, Antigua-based Stanford International Bank (SIB), two of his [...]
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The is a two part series on the home foreclosure crises affecting the Latino community.
In 2008, more than 2.3 million American homeowners who thought they had attained the “American Dream,” saw it shatter into a nightmare once they began defaulting on their loans. In American society, home ownership has always symbolized the triumph of moving [...]
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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.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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