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<p> During the McCain campaign, as I spoke daily to Hispanic voters, I wondered what needed to be done to win the Hispanic vote, and I quickly realized speaking to them 60 days before the election was a failure, and this was validated on election date. </p>
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<p> How does waiving the Endangered Species Act in Glacier National Park help secure the border?</p>
<p> Simple. It doesn’t.</p>
A Boricua Film Club Review: By Angelo Falcón As I saw Read more…
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<p> Antibiotics, jet travel, the Internet and GPS. </p>
<p> Those are just a few things made possible by military investments that paved the way for mainstream commercial applications benefiting millions of Americans. The same process is going on with the military and renewable energy. And what makes the process today all the more beneficial is the human lives saved and economic gain implementing renewable energy technologies can achieve. </p>
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<p> Repeat after me, GOP: “Marco Rubio will not be our savior with Latinos in the 2012 election.”</p>
<p> It has nothing to do with whether the U.S. senator from Florida lied about the year his parents came to the United States, though let’s pause on that for a moment anyway: It should be fully explored, as it goes to his credibility.</p>
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<p> When Occupy Oakland first started, I was skeptical and frankly unimpressed. I stopped by the rally on that first Monday at 4 pm and was underwhelmed by the turnout. At most, a couple hundred people were there. The rally took place on the corner of 14th and Broadway and the sound system (or maybe just a bullhorn) wasn’t loud enough and it was difficult to hear. I chatted with some friends I ran into and went back to work.</p>
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<p> An electrified fence. On the border. Designed to kill people. Along with “real guns with real bullets.”</p>
<p> This is the immigration “plan” recently proposed by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.</p>
<p> And he’s one of his party’s frontrunners.</p>
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<p><strong>Birmingham</strong><strong>, Alabama</strong> – Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States.</p>
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<p> Earlier this month, the President’s jobs bill failed in the Senate. Now the White House intends to break up the bill and gin up sufficient Republican support to pass key pieces. “We will now work with Senator Reid to make sure that the individual proposals in this jobs bill get a vote as soon as possible,” said President Obama in a statement released shortly after the Senate vote.</p>