I just watched the the State of the Union address and was very pleased to see Daniel Hernandez as an honored guest. This young man showed a kind of bravery that is, in my opinion, an example of the best of America. While people were running away from Jared Loughner as he continued shooting at [...]
Thursday both Derrick Donchack and Brandon Piekarsky were found guilty in federal court on multiple charges stemming from the beating death of Luis Ramirez. Both individuals had previously been acquitted of murder with the help of the local police hiding and distorting the facts and a farce of a jury trial. In addition to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today President Barak Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. This makes her the first Hispanic ever to have received this honor. This is truly a historic day. My thanks to President Obama for his willingness to be diverse in his appointments. To date there have been 110 supreme court justices. Of those 110 [...]
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan came to San Antonio to promote their new documentary. I have to admit that I still bear a lot of resentment against Mr. Burns. For those who don’t remember or just didn’t know Mr. Burns is the producer of “The War” which was a 14 1/2 hour long documentary about [...]
According to an article on MSNBC.com the Archives of Internal Medicine published a study regarding the higher medical costs for a dying black or Hispanic in comparison to a dying Anglo. This cost does not have anything to do with discrimination but rather a difference in the way that minorities regard health care versus the [...]
CNN uses the phrase “say you saw it on CNN.com”. Well let me tell you what I just saw on CNN. There is a series of interviews dedicated to a theme titled Black in America that is being hosted by Soledad O’Brien. As a matter of fact quite a bit of time is being dedicated [...]
According to the latest information released from the CDC Hispanics are dying on the job more frequently than any other worker. One of the main reasons cited is that Hispanics are working in riskier jobs in disproportionate numbers. The main problem area referenced was construction, more specifically highway construction. Workers falling to their death increased [...]
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