Category Archive: Politics
The White Elephant in the Room
May 2, 2013This post originally appeared on NBCLatino. Drugs. Whether we want to admit it or not, any discussion revolving around the U.S. and Mexico must start and end with drugs. However, these next two days President Obama and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto will do everything in Continue Reading →
New York City?!?! Get a rope!
April 10, 2013This post originally appeared on MSNBC.com The cowboy finishes off the last of the Pace Picante Salsa. He is handed another brand of salsa and looks skeptical. His cowboy buddies crowd around to read the label and discover this “stuff’s made in New York City.” Continue Reading →
MSNBC’s Politics Nation: Filibuster threat in gun legisltion
April 9, 2013Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Virginia’s voter ID law – a backdoor poll tax
March 28, 2013This post originally appeared on NBCLatino. Pretty much anything we do is taxed. Whether it’s flipping on our cable, making a call on our cell phone or biting into a Snickers bar. Taxes are inescapable. The one tax-free haven, at least in theory, is voting. Continue Reading →
MSNBC’s Politics Nation: Second Term Agenda
March 19, 2013Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
George P. Bush preps for 2038
March 14, 2013This post originally appeared on NBCLatino. Here in Texas we keep our Bushes straight with some simple shorthand: George H.W. Bush = 41 George W. Bush = W. George P. Bush = P. (We don’t have one for Jeb Bush but he hangs his hat Continue Reading →
MSNBC’s Politics Nation – Jeb & the Bush Dynasty…
March 12, 2013Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The Tea Party’s last stand at the Capital
March 7, 2013This post originally appeared on NBCLatino. It was a fierce battle. One that the Texan underdogs knew they would likely not survive let alone emerge from victorious. But the men who were holed up in the Alamo, led by William Travis, Davy Crocket, and Jim Continue Reading →
MSNBC’s Politics Nation – CPAC snubs Christie
February 27, 2013By alienating Christie the GOP not only further alienates the moderate wing of the party, it also shuns Independents. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The ‘suicidal’ Republican resistance to compromise
February 15, 2013This post originally appeared on MHP’s blog. From an early age, around the time we learned ourSchoolhouse Rock!, we were taught that our system of checks and balances is a pillar of American democracy. The different branches serve to check each other so that no Continue Reading →