The ghosts of Jim Crow and certain infamous Texas Rangers are certainly dancing in their graves with Gov. Rick Perry’s recent move.
Recently, at a news conference, Gov. Rick Perry announced a special team of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the border. He said the effort was launched in August because of “the federal [...]
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It is election season again here in Texas and Gov. Rick Perry will do anything in the war for voters. According to the Houston Chronicle, Gov Perry, who openly opposed the federal stimulus package, has no problem accepting “one of the biggest pots” of federal stimulus package – crime grants to local law enforcement agencies.
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Last month, I wrote that Chuck Norris was advocating that Texas should secede from the Union on the Glen Beck Show and later on the conservative news website WorldNetDaily. On that post, it said people like Chuck Norris and Todd Palin get a pass from the same right wing pundits who will turn around and [...]
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I think the late columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins would have had a field day with the recent news of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The first time I saw him in the news, the first thing that popped into my head was our very own “Governor Good Hair.”
Rick Perry’s Missing Twin
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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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