Hispanic Issues

Obama Naming Hispanics To Top Posts At Record Pace

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

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MIAMI — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide rang...

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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GOP: Imploding, Meaningless, and Run by Crazies, But not Dead

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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McCain Wimps Out, Country Shrugs

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Far from the eccentric rebel he likes to portray, McCain is a sad pawn in the religious right's attempt to maintain power in the GOP and over the country.

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