It was the tale of the tape. Ritter had been losing heavyweight status since he threw a one two punch at organized labor and Latinos. In the end a knockout was scored, but it was Ritter who hit the mat.

Ritter, believing that he could be reelected only by pleasing...

While we were doing the last-minute shopping or tasty tamale-wrapping, the leadership in the Colorado Legislature decided to drop the news bomb that there would be no tuition fairness bill in the upcoming session. Currently, undocumented children that were brought to this country have virtually no opportunity to continue their...

In the backrooms of the Colorado Republican Party Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is bowing deeply to Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has threatened to run for the nomination and McInnis is working hard to avoid a party split that would ultimately doom his candidacy. I believe that Tancredo is the Democratic Party's...

I believe that Tom Tancredo should be the Republican nominee for the Governor of Colorado. I hold this belief sincerely.

Tancredo is the most anti-immigrant GOP top gun in the country. While the GOP House majority speechafies against immigrants Tancredo plans! While Dobbs bloviates Tancredo acts!...

The New York Post is reporting that Lou Dobbs was not, lets say, completely truthful about the gun shots fired at his house the other day.

Dobbs had claimed that he has received various death threats because of his immigration position and that his...

Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.

"To be honest with you, I've kept a vote from occurring" Reid stated as part of his response to...

The title of this post says it all. The Baucus Senate bill forces almost everybody buy ever expensive health insurance and provides no real market forces to place prices under control. Max Baucus has gutted health reform yet brings zero Republican votes to the table and zero savings to American...

It is one of those gifts of coincidental timing that my first Huffington Post Denver piece is on the day when the celebration of Mexico's independence from Spain begins. Tonight at midnight an old and tired bell will ring in Mexico City. It is the same bell that rebels rang...

Mr. Wilson, you are a liar. Many are pointing out how disgraceful they believe your actions were last night as you pointed your finger at the President of the United States and shouted "you lie." I, however, will side with those who say that if somebody is lying , especially...

Senator Ted Kennedy died last night and his death brings meaning to the mourner's cliché, "he will be missed." Senator Kennedy will be missed because even though he was a man of privilege he fought for the powerless. As a man of wealth he fought for workers. As a man...

Yesterday, today, and I predict this coming Sunday, pundits will fight over the latest NBC poll that shows that the idea of a public health insurance option is in a dead heat. The hand-wringers from both sides will speak of an "evenly divided public" in regards to the public option....

On Friday I interviewed Steve Forbes. In a quick few minutes he claimed that people in England over 65 years of age could not receive dialysis, that Obama wanted single payer, and that Freedom Works displayed video of the almost violent Doggett town hall on their Web site so that...

This morning I received a call from an old friend. I saw her caller ID , picked it up and heard her smile as she said, "Happy Wise Latina Day!".

It reminded me of a conversation with a young Latina lawyer who I had some wine with on Tuesday night.

The newest tenet in the growing mythology that has replaced conservative intellectualism is that the House health care reform bill will outlaw private insurance coverage. The myth is a double shot of illusion for the Right now addicted to a new religion of conspiracy and paranoia. The belief fits nicely...

I recently read research that indicated that as humans we are more likely to react to immediate threats than we are to long term ones. It seems that when we see a snake our entire brain brightens like a light house but when we are warned about longer term dangers,...

Today the American Medical Association sent a letter to Cong. Henry Waxman announcing its support of the House health care reform bill introduced on Tuesday.

The letter signed by Dr. Michael Maves, the AMA CEO, praises the bill and offers the AMA's support for a "favorable report"...

UPDATE: May 31,2009 - GOP's Sessions walks into phase II of Soto-Strategy. On MTP when asked about Rush and Gingrich's attacks Sessions said "I am not going to use any such words"..... "people on the outside can say what they choose to say"

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While the racist...

While Judge Sotomayor is the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in 100 years she may well turnout be the most attacked as well. The right wing reacted to the first Latina/o to be nominated to the high court in record time. Within 24 hours the attack machine geared...

Ok I was surprised.

Given that Cedillo is struggling for a seat that was once thought to be his to lose, I thought that my question to him yesterday during our interview about the ill-informed and widely distributed slam mailer he sent out against Emanuel Pleitez was a no-brainier. I...

The reverberation of the Obama generation continues to shake up Latino politics. The newest embodiment of the political shake-up is the quiet, stately, determined, and uncannily smart Emanuel Pleitez. Pleitez is the 26-year-old financial professional, turned Obama activist, turned upstart candidate, that is making a major league play for the...