It really wasn’t government; it was the people who gave this decade away.

By Roberto Rodriguez 

It has been said that the march of history, particularly in the realm of human rights, is always forward. Embedded within this concept is the idea that despite tragedies and war, the human condition always progresses. Unquestionably, whoever created the expression did so long before our just completed decade.

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<p>With a national debate on the impact of foreign workers on jobs and the economy heating up for 2010, it’s time to brush up on some relevant policy jargon. Two words in particular – “complementarity” and “circularity” – seem to have caught the attention of experts, as legislators prepare to consider a new immigration reform bill introduced by Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill.</p>

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<p>The buzz word for the first of the Year, 2009, was change. From an economic point of view, change was required the country could no longer travel down the road headed for a second economic depression. Change was inevitable and with the election of Barack Obama the first black President in American history change was underway. For the Hispanic community change was going to be a little more subtle throughout the year, joblessness, home foreclosures, scams, and immigration reform were common issues for the Hispanic community in 2009.</p>

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<p>As the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar, who died on March 27, 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, I consider it my moral duty to share my thoughts with you today.</p>
<p>As you surely know, 929 brave young Americans have died so far in Afghanistan, as well as thousands of innocent Afghan civilians.</p>
<p>In Iraq, 4,367 of our sons and daughters have died together with tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis.</p>

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<p>Only those intelligent people blinded by liberal ideology or partisanship or lack of political sophistication expected President Obama to really shine in foreign policy. He did, after all, get a majority of the vote of people with high school or less than McCain did.</p>
<p>The rest of us knew that he had absolutely no background in foreign relations and that the nations most important to the USA were complete strangers to this man as were the people of those countries, Canada and Mexico.</p>

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<p>Todo tema es&nbsp; importante para los latinos, y ya es hora que los latinos tomen su muy merecida posición en el debate sobre el cambio climático. Con las negociaciones en Copen-hague comenzando esta semana, los latinos pueden ayudar que la respuesta global al cambio climático gane impulso y velocidad.</p>

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<p>Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration beginning on Dec. 26; but this time, the occasion is different than in past years. This Kwanzaa, we have a black man in the White House.</p>
<p>Kwanzaa, which was first observed more than 40 years ago and is often mistakenly called the “Black Christmas,” is undeniably about race. But it is also about cultural heritage, as it recalls the fact that millions of Americans came to this country from Africa as slaves.</p>