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Being Latino readers probably already know that Latin America is an interesting mixtureof both progressive and oppressive laws concerning same-sex relationships. We’ve covered before how several countries allow sax-same marriages in at least parts of the individual countries. But now news coming from Uruguay has tipped the scale a little further towards the progressive side. Read More
Gun control. Treatment of undocumented immigrants. Police brutality. Voting rights. These are issues of great concern in most U.S. Latino’s minds these days. Even sovereignty in our mother countries. But drones? We hadn’t heard about those. Rand Paul’s recent filibuster and national theatrics have raised awareness about the potential dangers this new sophisticated weapon called Read More
Slammin’ Sammy talks about being cheated for cheating: “Sammy Sosa thinks he and fellow steroid-era baseball star Mark McGwire belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He also said the Chicago Cubs should retire his number, and he left open the possibility of running for president of the Dominican Republic during an interview Wednesday on Read More
The not-so-surprising results of a study conducted by the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the polling firm Latino Decisions shows that what you watch on TV largely affects what you think. Research was conducted in two parts. In the first part, 900 non-Latino Americans were asked about how they received their news and entertainment and Read More
This week the Chicago Public Schools enacted their first strike in 25 years prompting both a local and national debate on the place for unions in the modern labor workforce. Chicago’s mayor has called the action a “strike of choice,” while public school teachers united across the city staying out of the classroom and keeping Read More
Ever since Romney won the nomination, I’ve been wondering how the GOP would be able to still court Christian Evangelicals. Santorum was the leading candidate for the Christian right, and his loss left many faith-based Republican voters shaking their heads. The problem centers around Romney’s Mormon faith and a GOP voting bloc that has, for Read More
Like any sport, politics is an offensive and defensive game. Like any game, you can usually tell who is winning by who is attacking and who is defending. When you’ve been attacked over and over, you might have the tendency to start cheating, and in politics, this is done by lying about your opponent. This Read More
While others may be focused on everything from swimming to gymnastics, my new favorite Olympic sport is dressage. I thank Mitt Romney for opening my eyes to the elegant “sport” of horse ballet. If you haven’t guessed, those two sentences are pure sarcasm, yet part of a juicy political story that has been brewing that Read More
On Tuesday, New York City’s top cop chided the city’s black and Latino communities for not showing their utter condemnation of the levels of violence in their communities. “I think there should be an outcry that 96 percent of the shooting victims in this city are black or Latino,” Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a Read More
by Lee Anthony Nieves Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts surprised everybody last week with his ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, otherwise known as Obamacare. In Roberts’ decision, he threw away the argument that Congress can impose health insurance on all Americans using the commerce clause and the “necessary Read More