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Decline of the “White non-Hispanic” No Big Deal 23 Aug 2008 | 01:39 am
It’s been a week since the Census Bureau released a report that supposedly predicts white people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by the middle of the century. “Minorities” will form the...
Where Have All the Josés Gone? 15 Aug 2008 | 11:24 am
It was sobering news for some earlier this year when the Social Security Administration reported that the most frequently given name for males born in Texas in 2007 was José. Then this week a new rep...
Obama Needs Nuance Without Ambiguity 8 Aug 2008 | 11:31 am
“I don’t do nuance,” President Bush supposedly once said to Sen. Joe Biden. And he didn’t, during the past eight years, in ways too disastrous, too numerous, too familiar to list. If Bush’s problem ...
Is McCain the New Dole? 2 Aug 2008 | 11:28 am
Twelve years ago against Bill Clinton, Bob Dole ran a spectacularly inept effort to win Hispanic votes. There was little money, almost no ads and a couple of staffers cut off from campaign insiders. T...
Al Sharpton for Human Rights in Cuba? 25 Jul 2008 | 11:35 am
I bet I know what you’re thinking when you read “Al Sharpton” and “Fidel Castro” in the same sentence. Me too. But no. On Tuesday, Sharpton stood in front of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations ...
CANDIDATES TRIPPING ALL OVER THEMSELVES FOR THE HISPANIC VOTE 22 Jul 2008 | 01:22 pm
Barack Obama and John McCain have been running hard after Hispanic voters the past three weeks. Speeches by each candidate before three different Hispanic national groups, trips by McCain to Colombia...
Colombian Rescue Reveals Latin American Struggle 16 Jul 2008 | 02:22 am
The spectacular rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 Colombian soldiers has given Latin American leaders the opportunity to speak up — and show the world that the political battle in th...
Immigrant Obsessive Lou Dobbs 27 Jun 2008 | 09:53 am
Lou Dobbs was singled out by a Media Matters study as the talk-show host “most obsessed with the topic” of illegal immigration. Said the report, issued in May, “cable news overflows not just with vitr...
Obama’s Affirmative Inaction 19 Jun 2008 | 11:13 am
People are asking: If Barack Obama can really transcend race, is he going to transcend race preferences? The answers he has given to that question have elicited commendation, disappointment and, for ...
McCain’s Hispanic Dilemma 19 Jun 2008 | 11:11 am
A John McCain commercial intended to air in South Florida radio stations features Roberto Martín Pérez, who was a political prisoner of the Castro regime for 28 years until released in 1987. “While s...
