It's been a week since the Census Bureau released a report that supposedly predicts white people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by the middle of the century. "Minorities" will form the majority, and one-third of Americans will be Hispanic, we are told. That's 132.8 million...

It was sobering news for some earlier this year when the Social Security Administration reported that the most frequently given name for males born in Texas in 2007 was Jose.

Then this week a new report from the Census Bureau must have shook them up some more, with the...

"I don't do nuance," President Bush supposedly once said to Sen. Joe Biden.

And he didn't, during the past eight years, in ways too disastrous, too numerous, too familiar to list.

If Bush's problem was not doing nuance, Obama is facing the opposite problem: doing too much of it. Good...

Twelve years ago against Bill Clinton, Bob Dole ran a spectacularly inept effort to win Hispanic votes. There was little money, almost no ads and a couple of staffers cut off from campaign insiders. The candidate was an honorable man, a war hero with a dry sense of humor, but...

I bet I know what you're thinking when you read "Al Sharpton" and "Fidel Castro" in the same sentence. Me too.

But no.

On Tuesday, Sharpton stood in front of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York and asked the Cuban government to allow him into...

For the first time since they have been in Congress, Florida's three Cuban-American Republicans find themselves in a brawl to stay in Washington.

A Democratic sweep is unlikely. But taking at least one out of the three seats would signal the collapse of the Cuban-GOP connection, which for three...