Making the rounds in the Latinosphere is former Florida House Speaker and Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio and his take on President Ronald Reagan’s immigration policy.
I don’t know if I want to hang my head in shame or die laughing at the irony of it all. One thing is for sure, I am awarding Marco [...]
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One thing I learned over the years, there will always be haters. There is not a single thing anyone can do to please everyone. Case in point. Soon after it was announced that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, the haters came out to hate, calling the Nobel Peace Prize a joke.
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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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Recently, the nation’s largest community organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has come under fire with John McCain campaign, the Republican National Committee and the right wing media over bogus allegations of voter fraud.
In jeopardy of losing its eight year grasp on the US Presidency, the Republican Party have launched a [...]
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Recently, political pundits have been asking if the Republican party lost the Latino vote. It is hard to deny that the Latino electorate has become a coveted political force. Between 2000 and 2004 George W. Bush increased his support from the Hispanic population by 7.8 percentage points. In the same period, the Republicans only [...]
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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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