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The U.S. Forest Service has apologized for suggesting that campers who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music may be armed marijuana growers, calling it "regrettable" and "insensitive."
A room off the milking parlor of a sprawling farm near the U.S.-Canada border offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the changing face of Vermont's dairy industry.
Rosalee Montoya-Read had hoped fervently that Hispanic women would help propel Barack Obama to a decisive presidential victory. When it actually happened on Tuesday, all she could do was cry.
Democrat Barack Obama gained lopsided support from Hispanics in Tuesday's election, winning solidly among voters with whom President Bush had made inroads in 2004.
On a muggy afternoon, more than 3,000 immigrants, most of them Hispanic, wave flags, cheer and weep as they swear to protect and defend the United States of America as its newest citizens.
As the construction industry has slumped, the unemployment rate among Hispanic immigrants has climbed, an analysis released Wednesday shows.
Armed but alone, Marine Pfc. Guy Gabaldon roamed Saipan's caves and pillboxes, persuading enemy soldiers and civilians to surrender during the hellish World War II battle on the island.
A day after lecturing her presidential rival for not rejecting a controversial minister's support, Hillary Rodham Clinton declined Wednesday to reject one of her Texas backers who commented on Barack Obama's race.
A group focused on Hispanic health issues on Monday was announcing an effort to send more than a million text messages to cell phones to remind and encourage people to vote in the presidential preference contests.
Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at far higher rates than their white and black classmates, says a new federal survey that has the experts somewhat perplexed.
Heartland communities with jobs to offer are becoming magnets for Hispanics, who now account for half the nation's population growth.
Sidney Coal Co. President Charlie Bearse was expressing an opinion that many in these mountains secretly share. Problem was, he put that opinion in writing.
A Skinhead-Collaring Cop, Nazis at the State Capitol, and a Lesbian Nativist Reveals Homicidal Fantasies Toward MexicansThis is a very hard to classify article. It is a story about a dinner, a summation of criminal offenses, a piece about Nazis, about lesbian protesters, and an opinion piece, all rolled into one. Overall it seems to have a legal/political bent to it, so I classify it as such.
The day my name got changedA good commentary on culture, balance and succeeding in the United States.
Prosecutors won't charge cops in LA May Day meleeLOS ANGELES -Criminal charges won't be filed against 30 Los Angeles police officers who fired rubber bullets and pummeled demonstrators with batons at a pro-immigration rally two years ago, prosecutors said Friday. The district attorney's office called the May Day melee an "unfo …
Food racismInstead, the radio host was talking about the latest tempest -- a taco in a teapot.
Commentary: 'But what's a Latino?'While we all may speak a version of our Spanish colonizer's language, contrary to popular belief, we're not all Mexican. Yes, the majority of Latinos in America are of Mexican descent, but we also hail from other countries around the world.
Quinn signs law to highlight Hispanic historyIllinois Gov. Pat Quinn is drumming up awareness of a new state law that's aimed at highlighting Hispanic history in public schools.
Growing Poverty and Despair in America - 38 million impoverished, 36 million food insecureShocking statistics from the richest country in the world: " in (pre-crisis) 2007, 37.5 million people were impoverished; they comprised: -- 12.5% of the population and 9.8% of families ..."
In a Research 2000 poll conducted a little over a month ago, only 42% of Republicans believed that Barack Obama was born in the United States.
Warning on possible pot growers called profilingA federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday.
Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court - washingtonpost.comSonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday afternoon as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic on the court, a historic moment for the nation's fastest-growing minority group.
Sotomayor Confirmed To Supreme CourtSonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics.
Obama's Ignorant Attack On CopsObama's ignorant attack on the police during his July 22 press conference for picking up blacks and Hispanics "more frequently and often time for no cause" jeopardizes the public-safety gains in every city where the police have brought crime down since the early 1990s.
Hispanic population boom fuels rising U.S. diversityIt is likely the strength of the future USA will bubble up from the kind of diversity the article discusses.
The State of Hate: Escalating Hate Violence Against Immigrants - Confronting the New Faces of HateThe increase in violence against Hispanics correlates closely with the increasingly heated debate over Comprehensive Immigration Reform and an escalation in the level of anti-immigrant vitriol on radio, television, and the Internet.
How to Handle Sonia excerpt: ""Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. The chutzpah of this Beltway crowd does not cease to amaze.
BREITBART: Racism's cure found in private sector - Washington TimesThe most unsettling news story of the last week came out of Philadelphia, where a group of black and Hispanic children of elementary-school age paid for the right to swim at a private suburban club and were denied the experience without cause and publicly humiliated in the proces …
More on Immigration and CrimeFollowing up on my story about El Paso’s large immigrant population and low rate of violent crime, the Immigration Policy Center points to a study I missed by the America’s Majority Foundation.
Top Hispanic Legal Group To Jeff Sessions: We Expect BetterA well-respected Latino legal group has written a scorching letter to Senator Jeff Sessions, the leader of the GOP's efforts on Sotomayor, that suggests he's guilty of fanning racism.
The El Paso Miracle: How can a comparatively poor, high-immigration town across the border from violent Ciudad Juarez be one of the safest big cities in the US?By conventional wisdom, El Paso, Texas should be one of the scariest cities in America. In 2007, the city's poverty rate was a shade over 27 percent, more than twice the national average. Median household income was $35,600, well below the national average of $48,000.
Perhaps, the most troublesome aspect of Judge Sotomayor's 2001 speech at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School was not her statement that she, "… would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better c …
We all know that 96% of the voting African-American population cast their ballot for Barack Obama. Some white people made the dangerous assertion that blacks were voting for Obama simply because of his race.
Sotomayor and the Politics of Race Shelby Steele, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, is so enchanted with the ultra-conservative mantra that he defines a utopian world where he can ignore the 30 to 40 years evolution needed in cultural changes in his attempt at vilifying President Barac …
Why do some in the US hate my Mexican heritage? A former Republican congressman described the Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza as a "Latino KKK", and a writer at the conservative publication the National Review argued that Sotomayor was not fully assimilated because she pronounced her surname with the stress …
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