March 16, 2020

Bernie Sanders: Mortally Wounded in California, Deathblow in Florida

Seven days after millions of Californians voted by absentee or in person, the hammer of the slow-counted millions of ballots fell on U.S. senator Bernie Sanders's "movement."  He and his followers were convinced that millions of...

January 11, 2020

Congress Can’t Make War

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi misinterprets congressional responsibilities about war and peace. In challenging President Donald Trump’s bold order to kill the world’s number one terrorist, Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, Speaker Pelosi misfir...

May 11, 2019

Should the U.S. be the Policeman of the World?

Ever since the first shots were fired in Massachusetts Colony in 1775 by American patriots demanding independence from England, there have been two American sides to the universal quest for freedom with undecideds in between. This time the focus is o...

March 18, 2019

The College Admissions Scandal Gets Personal for Me

When the college admission scandal broke and the colleges involved in this criminal conspiracy were revealed, I shook my head and said, doesn’t affect me or mine. Wrong! Almost five dozen rich people paid college administrators, co...

September 23, 2018

A political smear and the 6th Amendment

Christine Blasey Ford, PhD, whose accusation of “sexual assault” almost 40 years ago by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has ripped apart what appeared to be smooth sailing through the U.S. Senate’s ...

July 26, 2018

Mexico's New President: Not Your Ordinary Latin Leftist

Andrés Manuel López Obrador – AMLO – received a record number of democratically cast and counted Mexican votes for president on July 1.  The vote count: 53 percent voted for him.  That victory was signaled ...

November 20, 2017

Hispanic Caucus hypocrisy

The all-Democrat Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is refining hypocrisy to its highest level in Washington, D.C.  The CHC has denied Republican U.S. House of Representatives member – and Cuban-American – Carlos Curbelo of Miami...

January 19, 2017

The Inauguration Boycott Is Stupid

The minutes are ticking down to Friday noon, the 20th of January when Donald John Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States. Back on the 20th of January 1961, I was the 20-year-old president of the San Diego State Young Republicans ...

June 3, 2016

Behold: The rare and elusive Hispanic racist!

The North Carolina General Assembly's only Latino member, soon to be retired Senator Tom Apodaca (R), says he finds that his rise from "former bail bondman with a Hispanic last name" to political power is "proof that anything is po...

May 22, 2016

Free Trade, the Leftist Issue and the Truth

Free enterprise and capitalism are being attacked by both presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Both say they are for “free trade” but are against free trade deals negotiated over the past three decades by the United S...

May 9, 2016

Nuclear Terrorism is One Step Away

Western Civilization’s worst fear is nuclear terrorism in the form of bombs, dirty and otherwise, detonated in populated European, Russian, American or Israeli cities by Jihadi terrorists. The idea that Middle Eastern Arab terrorists li...

May 7, 2016

Will Hispanics Defeat Trump?

American history is replete with presidential love and hate involving our next-door neighbor, Mexico. President James Polk invaded Mexico in order to take California and the southwest from Mexico. Objecting was Congressman Abraham Lincoln. ...

April 21, 2016

American Interests, Russian Influence

The interests of Americans around the world are represented by the President of the United States. Where American interests lie is mostly geographical and sometimes political. The interests range from trade, defense of trade and, sometimes, defending...

March 29, 2016

Trump Flunks on Trade

If Donald Trump were elected president, how many Americans would lose their jobs? Millions would. Trump’s war with Mexico would be the reason. Moreover, 318 million Americans, including the millions who would lose their jobs, would all lose mon...

March 21, 2016

Obama Fails Cuban Freedom Again

Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, looked into the television camera and declared that the American 55-year-long trade “embargo with Cuba had failed.” President Obama’s history-making visit this we...

March 14, 2016

Texas, Trump, and Prejudice

It was a typical Texas criminal case: agricultural worker Pete Hernandez was indicted for the murder of another Mexican in 1950; he was convicted quickly by a jury. Here it got complicated. His Mexican American lawyers appealed the jury’s decis...

September 24, 2014

Ken Burns and Hispanics

One wonders if PBS producer Ken Burns will ever show Mexico, Mexicans or any Hispanics in a good light even when they are victims of a monstrous dislike by a President of the United States. Probably not as long as the President involved is a passi...