Victor Carrillo recently learned how welcomed he was in the Republican party. He had previously been appointed to the Railroad Commission here in Texas by Governor Perry. He was the chairman of the three member panel. On Tuesday, Mr. Carrillo was defeated in the Republican primary. Republicans are madly scrambling around trying to explain the [...]
I understand there’s a lot of anger and fear regarding our economic situation right now and that a lot of people may be looking for a new group to join that they feel will ‘fix’ the problems. The main group that has emerged has been the Tea Party. Before any Hispanic decides to become a [...]
In Texas we have a grocery store chain known as H.E.B. They are probably the main chain here. Recently I’ve noticed an aisle in their stores that is dedicated to grooming products for males. This targeted marketing strategy was the idea of the Proctor & Gamble Co. and was implemented in San Antonio, Boerne and [...]
Congratulations Felix Gutierrez, Jr. for winning the Marconi Young Scholar Award! The Marconi Society was established in 1974 by the daughter of Gublielmo Marconi, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1909. It is a non-profit organization that recognizes and honors leading figures in telecommunications. According to Robert Lucky, chairman of the Marconi Society, “Marconi [...]
Well I just published an article on the stupidity of allowing police officers to decide if someone speaks English sufficiently, and the abuses that can come with this law, when a police department comes to light for abusing it. Why, Why, WHY does it always have to be Texas!?! The latest embarrassment to my home [...]
Orbitz is a company that helps people with their vacation plans. You can book hotel rooms, book air flights and rent cars. They have rather silly commercials but that’s the way they chose to promote their company, whatever. I did, however, see a commercial by Orbitz focusing on their price guarantee. A couple was going [...]
I read an article several months back on one of the online news sites that disturbed me somewhat. Apparently there is a federal regulation that says people with a commercial driver’s license have to speak English at a sufficient level to communicate with the police. I don’t have a problem with this. The article went [...]
On July 12th of 2008, Luis Ramirez, an illegal immigrant, was beaten to death by a group of Anglo high school football players. This horrendous attack occurred in the small town of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, population 5000. Six football players beat and kicked a man to the point where he was lying on the ground shaking [...]
One of the biggest civil rights cases to affect Hispanics began in 1950 when Peter Hernandez was accused of murdering Joe Espinoza. This incident occurred in Edna, Texas, the county seat of Jackson County. There was no doubt in any Hispanic’s mind that Hernandez would be found guilty, after all no Hispanic had been allowed [...]
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