White Privilege and Black Gold: From Ali to Gabby Douglas
According to The Nation’s, Dave Zirin, “There are two kinds of political athletes. The first, and most memorable, are athletes who engage in the explicit politics of protest. This tradition is marked...
View ArticleOlympic Athletes, U.S. Immigrants and World Affairs
We face a global energy crisis, a global economic crisis that began in 2007, a global climate crisis of which humans are almost entirely the cause, a transnational organized crime network financed in...
View Article#VoiceYourVote: Day One, Florida 2012
I’ve been in Florida for 24 hours, but I’ve already seen ads galore. Incumbent Senator, Florida Democrat, Bill Nelson, leads 14th District Congressional District Representative, Connie Mack by seven...
View ArticleBecause the GOP Lacks Vision: The Case for Obama’s Re-election
TAMPA, FLA. — I am grateful that Wisconsin Congressman, Paul Ryan, the Republican tapped for the number-two slot on the GOP campaign team determined to make Barack Obama a one-term President, did not...
View ArticleElection 2012: Are You Female? The Battle for Single Moms
(Note: Part two of this piece can be found here.) Way back in June, on the 12th day to be precise, Joshua Baca, the National Coalitions Director at Mitt Romney for President sent an email blast to...
View ArticleLatinos: Romney Can’t Win Unless Your Vote is Suppressed or You Stay Home
Please allow me to once again state the obvious (as I did yesterday here): In this election, Democrats and Republicans alike care deeply about the answers to these two questions: Are you a woman? Are...
View ArticleSoldiers, Students, Seniors and Single Moms: Why Women Are Most of 47%
Note: This is part one of a two part series. Read part two here. I know you want to talk about Mitt Romney’s weekend release of his 2011 tax returns, but bear with me: Way back in 1971, Philosopher and...
View ArticleRomney Thinks Being Latino Is Easy? He Should Try Driving While Brown In AZ
This is the second part of a two part series. Read part one here. When Mitt Romney jokes that if his father had been a Mexican immigrant, he’d have, “a better shot of winning this [election],” because...
View ArticleVoter Registration Fraud in the GOP: Where do Romney-Ryan Stand?
To quote the GOP, “Oh sh*t!” Strategic Allied Consulting, a right-wing voter registration and get out the vote (GOTV) firm run by veteran GOP consultant Nathan Sproul, has been fired the Republican...
View ArticleWhy the Media Needs to Drop the I-Word
In the 19th Century, the growing demand for newspapers led to the creation of wire services, cooperatives between large city-based newspapers, the most famous of these, the Associated Press (AP)...
View ArticleLikability Matters: Why Obama Needs to Stop Praising Romney
One of my favorite episodes of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, is entitled, “The Two Bartletts.” It contains the following dialogue: Toby Ziegler, (Toby) “Sir, I don’t think I need to tell you that the...
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César Chávez Was a Man; The National Monument is a Symbol
I was not surprised when Ruben Navarrette Jr. went after Civil Rights Era labor leader, César Estrada Chávez, and President Obama for honoring him, in yet another outlandish, sensationalist,...
View ArticleIn Nevada, Romney Goes All In, But Silver State Latinos Will Call His Bluff
In the swing state of Nevada, 45.8% of registered voters are Democrats, 37.3% are Republicans. If solidly blue California’s voter rolls parallel these numbers with 44% Democrats, and 35% Republicans,...
View ArticleProverbs 29:18 — The Case for the GOP Laying Out a Vision
It’s been one week since the election. Those who cannot breathe without the contact sport aspect of politics have turned their attention to the fiscal cliff, lame duck session of the 112th Congress,...
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