Today is my birthday, and well, I get to be lazy today.
Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business
Gary Locke – Wall Street Journal
You have probably heard the horror stories about President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals leading to rationed care and bankrupt businesses and governments. Those claims are flat wrong. The real horror story [...]
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If you agree that a public option should be part of the health care reform bill, make sure you let your representatives know!
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To protect the American Empire, the Department of Homeland Security and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the unmanned Predator B drone was deployed to Fort Drum as part of Operation Empire Shield in June.
The unmanned aircraft was deployed as part of a month long exercise to conduct surveillance missions between New York [...]
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And the hits keep on comin’. As you know, last year, I had the opportunity to attend and participate in a panel discussion discussing strategies for communicating both with their Latino and non-Latino audiences. This year I have the fortunate opportunity again to attend Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh, PA. Like last year, I will take [...]
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According to the US Census Bureau, Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country – nearly one out of every four Texans (26%) is uninsured – over 5.5 million people. Among those, 60.4 percent of Latinos in Texas are uninsured. This would include me.
There is no doubt that this is a shocking. However, [...]
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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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