We Serve It, Even When It's Hard To Swallow
It turns out when people figure out the Republican agenda for the country, they want no part of it, and the country ceases to be the mythical “center-right” nation that right-wing apologists like to speak of, and tilts full on to the left. John Kasich got spanked in Ohio for his anti-union overreach, Maine reinstated same-day voter registration…
Mexico held a national census in 2010, with hundreds of thousands of workers going door to door across the nation for one month. Citizens were enthusiastic about the count, and unlike here in the U.S., it didn’t garner the same ‘invasion of privacy’ nonsense spread around by Tea Baggers, despite having far more intrusive questions. [...]
After giving away billions of his fortune to charity, Microsoft’s Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world, according to Forbes magazine. The title is now held by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, whose fortune soared 38% last year to a whopping $74 billion. Slim holds large shares in Telmex (a telephone giant [...]
I wonder if, in Texas, in between lessons on abstinence and intelligent design, their schools teach geography, because I think Governor Rick Perry (R) might need a refresher. During a session with reporters, and in the middle of criticizing the Obama administration for its handling of border issues, Perry laid this one out on a [...]
In a stunning move, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier arrived in Haiti on Sunday after 25 years in exile. He was arrested today and charged with corruption, theft, misappropriation of funds, and other crimes. Why “Baby Doc” returned to Haiti this week remains a mystery. He claims he returned to help the country rebuild, [...]
It seems that if you’re a white male gun shop owner in Las Vegas that you would more than likely be a supporter of Tea Partier Sharron Angle’s ’2nd Amendment’ remedy for winning Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat? You would think. But a member of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show blew that stereotype out off the [...]
A controversial Spanish-language ad, encouraging Nevada Latinos not to vote in the upcoming midterm election has been removed from the airwaves, but not before it was discovered that an Hispanic Republican operative was behind the commercial. Here’s the English-language version of the ad: According to a report on Talking Points Memo (TPM): Robert de Posada, [...]
An anti-Obama billboard in Grand Junction, Colorado, was removed last Friday after sparking controversy and accusations of racism and homophobia because it depicted President Obama as a gangster, a Mexican bandit, a gay man and a terrorist. The owner of the billboard is still unknown, although the artist has been identified as Loma resident Paul [...]
On Friday, U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle spoke to an Hispanic student group at Rancho High School in Las Vegas, and tried to defend her repeated stereotyping of illegal aliens and Hispanics in her campaign ads (video below.) As it turns out, the students didn’t buy her bogus explanation that she wasn’t sure “those are [...]
Federal Judge Susan Bolton has rejected legal motions filed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for dismissal of lawsuits against Arizona’s anti-immigration bill S.B. 1070. In the decision, Judge Bolton found that “race, alienage, or national origin discrimination was a motivating factor in the enactment of S.B. 1070,” ruling [...]
Republican candidate for California Governor Meg Whitman has made history by funding her campaign with $150 million of her own fortune, primarily so that she can avoid the press and the hard questions. But Meg can’t run from the latest accusation that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as a maid and nanny, then unceremoniously [...]
The small South American nation of Ecuador was thrown into chaos Thursday morning when the police, unhappy with a new law that will cut their benefits, declared a strike, and turned on President Rafael Correa during a speech at the police barracks in Quito. Mr. Correa was shoved, pelted with objects, and finally tear gassed [...]
It’s no joke. Stephen Colbert, comedian/political satirist, is preparing to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday during a hearing on “Protecting America’s Harvest.” It all began this summer when Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers Association, issued a challenge saying that if Americans had a problem with immigrants working on U.S. [...]
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the independence of México, which began with a cry (grito) for independence by the Roman Catholic Priest Manuel Hidalgo y Costilla in the town of Dolores Hidalgo, near Guanajuato. Partygoers and patriots around the nation gathered last night for what is quite possibly the largest annual celebration in México. [...]
Hundreds of protesters, angry over the police shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer on Sunday, clashed with Los Angeles Police in riot gear on Tuesday night. In the second night of demonstrations, protesters overturned trash bins, catching them on fire and throwing eggs, rocks and bottles at Police. LAPD responded by using non-lethal weapons to [...]
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