Intellectually Entertaining. Socially Relevant.
Oh, what a difference a day makes. First, on Monday: “Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday he does not support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., a central provision of immigration reform plans being considered by Congress. Bush has long chided the Republican Party to adopt immigration reform and 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
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
Undocumented immigrants and their allies are divided on how to move forward with immigration reform. From Huff Post Latino Voices: “Nearly 600 would-be Dream Act beneficiaries and their allies, who helped in a successful push earlier this year for relief for undocumented young people, gathered in Kansas City, Mo., this weekend to determine their path Read More
There’s been plenty of talk on how Latino voters saved the day on Election Night and how they’re a major reason that the GOP suffered the loses it did. In the wake of the election, some Republican leaders are urging their party to recalibrate its position on issues important to Latino voters — namely, immigration Read More
For those of you maybe living under a rock, news flash: President Obama has been reelected by the American people. Now what? As a supporter of the president, my initial urge is to gloat and rub the win in my conservative friends’ faces. But Obama didn’t win by a landslide, the House didn’t change hands, Read More
Election Day is finally here. We must prepare ourselves for one of two likely scenarios: first, that we’ll be living in a Romney America for the next four years, and second, that we’ll be stuck in an Obama America for the next four years. I say “stuck” because Obama himself is stuck in an Obama Read More
Yesterday the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) endorsed Mitt Romney. If you haven’t heard about these folks, there is an actually a group of LGBT* activists who stand proud as Republicans. I’ll give you a moment to digest that. For years the LCR defense of being Republican has been simple — they have organized in an Read More
There have been many political gaffes this election year, but so far the best/worst award goes to the U.S. representative from Missouri’s 2nd congressional district, Republican William Todd Akin. His gaffe was made on a St. Louis television show where Akin replied that he believed the female body is able to prevent itself from being 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