Yesterday, Rep. Joe Barton, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, apologized to BP for President Obama’s “shakedown” of the company.
Barton, a former oil company executive, called BP the victim of a “$20 billion shakedown;” he was referring to the $20 billion compensation fund for the victims of the Gulf Coast’s [...]
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Mr. President, We Have Shed Enough Tears
By Samuel Freeman
On Wednesday, 10 February, Pfc. Adriana Alvarez of San Benito died of a gunshot wound in Baghdad, Iraq.
The exact circumstances of her death remain unclear, so we do not know whether her death is combat related. Pfc. Alvarez enlisted in the military at age 18, [...]
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The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs.
As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda Chavez-Thompson was rumored to be running for [...]
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There are many problems we are currently facing; they range from a faltering economy, a health-care crisis, and the continuing war in Afghanistan. However, the debate over immigration policy, the one issue that stands above all others, has uncovered deep divisions within the United States over the treatment of undocumented immigrants.
Recently, Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduced [...]
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Mayor Bill White will enter the race for governor. It was quite obvious, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison not going to step down, and that would mean he would have to wait until 2013 when she is up for re-election. With a paid staff in the Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio and the Valley, he would have [...]
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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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