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Sen. Marco Rubio really knows his hip hop: Politically-minded fans of hip hop have known for a while that Rubio is a fan of Tupac and West Coast gangsta rap. I thought he was saying that only to seem accessible to younger voters (well, voters of his generation and younger). Rubio, apple of the Read More
He is the rising star of the Republicans. He is young, ambitious, loved by the tea party and radical conservatives, and he is Latino. He will save the party with the Latino vote in 2016. I wonder if they may be confundidos, a bit foggy perhaps. Rather, Senator Marco Rubio seems to be out of Read More
Given that today the day on which millions of Americans will celebrate their romantic bliss (or at least pretend to), I thought this story appropriate: “Hispanic Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz were among other Senators who voted against the Violence Against Women Act — not because they oppose empowering domestic violence Read More
Pres. Obama’s State of the Union address last night was mostly mundane, except for this part: “It has been two months since Newtown. I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence. But this time is different. Overwhelming majorities of Americans – Americans who believe in the Read More
Let me start with a little background: I live in Kenosha, a city in Wisconsin, which everyone in the media and politics identified as one of the ‘battleground’ or ‘swing’ states in the 2012 Presidential election. I am also a Caucasian, socially-liberal, fiscally-conservative Republican male who is involved in my local Hispanic community as the Read More
Elise Foley, immigration maven over at HuffPo, talks about the president’s new-found urgency on reform: “As of Monday, Obama will have four more years to reshape his immigration legacy. And there’s every indication that he wants it to be different. He doesn’t want the dubious distinction of being ‘deporter-in-chief’ — especially since he was elected Read More
Except for perhaps Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren and especially former President Bill Clinton, Day Two of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, seemed to lurch forward at a snail’s past — kind of like the economic recovery Wait. I feel as though I’m missing something…. Oh, yeah! Cristina Saralegui, the famed Cuban-American TV Read More
Given that last night was Julián Castro‘s nationwide debut, I don’t think a second piece on the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio is entirely unwarranted. It’s just that I can’t help but notice the widespread comparisons to Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida who has stolen GOP hearts ever since his come-from-behind victory during Read More
After Ted Cruz trounced his opponent in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Texas, the Cuban-American politician rode into his hometown of Houston on a donkey while women lay palms at his feet and men discharged their shotguns. Well, not quite. Much is being made of the former Texas solicitor general’s victory over distinguished statesman and Lieutenant Read More
On Monday, Mitt Romney called for an investigation into the untimely death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died in a car crash on the southeastern part of the island on Sunday. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s unofficial Latino mascot, soon echoed the presumptive nominee’s demand for justice, saying it was “critically important that Read More