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Why Gay Marriage is Good for America

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Andrew Sullivan - Jul. 18 (Opinion) - You can have as many debates about gay marriage as you want, and over the last 22 years of campaigning for it, I’ve had my share. You can debate theology, and the divide between church and state, the issue of procreation, the red herring of polygamy, and on and on. But what it all really comes down to is the primary institution of love. The small percentage of people who are gay or lesbian were born, as all humans are, with the capacity to love and the need to be loved. These things, above everything, are what make life worth living

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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Kerry Kennedy: Tucson, King and Kennedy

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Kerry Kennedy - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - "What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black..."

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Glenn Beck's Horrific Lie -- He Must Be Fired

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Cenk Uygur - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - I think Glenn Beck should be fired. He has told a lie so grotesque that it goes beyond the pale of even dirty politics. Just when I thought he couldn't shock my conscience anymore, he has done it. Let me explain.

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Judge orders reinstatement of gay officer fired under 'don't ask, don't tell'

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Sep. 25 (News Report) - The U.S. military violated the constitutional rights of a decorated Air Force Reserve flight nurse when it discharged her under the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays in the armed forces, a federal judge said Friday in ordering her reinstatement. U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton's order applied only to Maj. Margaret Witt, but the judge in Tacoma, Wash., made it clear that a blanket policy of dismissing openly gay military personnel from the armed forces violated an appeals court holding that such action was justified only if it advanced important military objectives.

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Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair, Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Marc Ambinder - Aug. 25 (Special Report) - Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.

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Same-sex marriage is about equality, not religion

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By O. C. Allen - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - I am a product of the "The Black Church." It shaped me into who I am today: a Christian pastor aware of God's amazing grace and love. When I announced I was gay, the church limited that grace and love. Although I had no doubt that God loved me, I discovered that God's love and the church's love can be two different things. To be Christian is to be inclusive of people who love one another. This is why I support same-sex marriage.

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How racial profiling cases changed Arizona policing

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By JJ Hensley, Michelle Ye Hee Lee - Jul. 26 (Special Report) - Arizona's new illegal-immigration enforcement law has raised a host of concerns from critics, but none more prevalent than the pervasive fear that the law will lead police officers to target those who look Hispanic. Those concerns are not unfounded.

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The silver lining of Arizona's immigration law

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Michael Barthel - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - The harsh and discriminatory law certainly warrants condemnation. But, in a perverse way, it also reflects progress – an ugly but seemingly necessary step toward assimilation for Hispanics.

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What is the Tea Party? A growing state of mind

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Susan Page, Naomi Jagoda - Jul. 02 (Special Report) - A year and a half after the idea of a Tea Party burst into view, three of 10 Americans describe themselves in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll as Tea Party supporters — equal to the number who call themselves Republicans — though many of them acknowledge they aren't exactly sure what that allegiance means.

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Record number of Indian-Americans seeking office

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Meet Reshma, Surya, Manan, Raj, Ami, Ravi, Nimrata and Kamala — a new wave of Indian-American politicians. At least eight children of Indian immigrants are running for Congress or statewide office, the most ever. The star of this trend is Nikki Haley, born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa, who is favored to win the election for governor of South Carolina.

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Minority population growing in the United States, census estimates show

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Santa Cruz - Jun. 11 (News Report) - Across the nation, the number of minorities continues to rise and the white population continues to decline, according to U.S. census estimates released Thursday.

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Ringworm and Radiation

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The People's Voice - By Barry Chamish - Jun. 06 (News Report) - In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army. They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health budget was 60 million liras. The money paid by the Americans is equivalent to billions of dollars today.

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Toward Freedom - Reading The Grapes of Wrath in 2010: Capitalism and Immigration

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TowardFreedom.com - By Alex Knight - May. 31 (Opinion) - John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath, following the Joad family as they migrate to California during the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, sheds light on these questions in a way that perhaps every American can relate to. One of the most popular and well-written American books of all time, The Grapes of Wrath gives a very human perspective on the harsh lives of migrants, personified by the Joads – a family of poor sharecroppers from Oklahoma. Evicted from their family farm, just as the millions of Mexicans who have suffered enclosure from their land and become homeless and jobless because of NAFTA, the Joads travel to California in a desperate search of work, only to encounter the harassment of authorities and the hatred of the local population.

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Rand Paul won't answer Civil Rights Act question

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - May. 20 (Comment) - Paul has suggested in the past -- and been attacked for suggesting -- that the federal government has no place regulating private business decisions, even on issues like race and accomodations for the disabled, and was pressed on the question -- three times -- on NPR just now:

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The GOP's harsh immigration stance will cost it

Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael Gerson - May. 14 (Opinion) - t would be absurd to deny that the Republican ideological coalition includes elements that are anti-immigrant -- those who believe that Hispanics, particularly Mexicans, are a threat to American culture and identity. When Arizona Republican Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth calls for a moratorium on legal immigration from Mexico, when then-Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) refers to Miami as a "Third World country," when state Rep. Russell Pearce (R), one of the authors of the Arizona immigration law, says Mexicans' and Central Americans' "way of doing business" is different, Latinos can reasonably assume that they are unwelcome in certain Republican circles.

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The White House's Kagan talking points are wrong

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Guy Uriel Charles, Anupam Chander, Luis Fuentes Rohwer, Angela Onwuachi Willig - May. 07 (Opinion) - We questioned Harvard Law's diversity record under Elena Kagan. The White House pushed back. To their way of thinking, it does not matter if you don't hire people of color and it does not matter if you only hire one-in-five women because no one is going to care.

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Arizona immigration law could drive Latinos out of state

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Arizona Republic - By Daniel González - Apr. 28 (News Report) - More than 100,000 undocumented immigrants have left Arizona in the past two years because of the bad economy and earlier enforcement crackdowns. Now, a new wave of Latinos is preparing to leave. And it isn't just illegal immigrants: Legal residents and U.S. citizens also say they will leave Arizona because they view the state as unfriendly to Hispanics.

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Arizona immigration law: Hispanics vow, 'We're going to fight'

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Daniel B. Wood - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Through rallies and angry comments like Rodriguez's, the Hispanic community is giving the first signs that Arizona's immigration law could stir a similar response today to the one that greeted California's Proposition 187 more than decade ago.

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The return of Indian entrepreneurship

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

indiancountrytoday.com - By Jack Stevens - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - America’s newest entrepreneurs are successfully launching products and going after international markets from the least likely of places – remote, hardscrabble Indian reservations.

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Energy development for Indians: Harvesting the air

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Tribes in the Dakotas and Montana alone have enough wind to generate more than 886m megawatt hours a year. Even if only one per cent were developed, this would bring in $3.6 billion over 20 years, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Now a growing number of tribes on the plains hope that wind will bring prosperity, at last. They are not alone. Indian nations across the country are exploring renewable energy, from solar to geothermal. A new bill would speed development. But tribes may have to wait a while yet.

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The Rage Is Not About Health Care

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by President Obama or Congress — a change that can’t be repealed.

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Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Kara Miller - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Take 1,623, for instance. That’s the average score of Asian-Americans, a group that Daniel Golden- has labeled “The New Jews.’’ l, much like Jews a century ago, Asian-Americans tend to earn good grades and high scores. And now they too face serious discrimination in the college admissions process.

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Facebook releases first-ever demographic look at users

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By Mike Swift - Dec. 17 (News Report) - Illustrating the growing diversity of online users as the Internet matures, a study by Facebook researchers found that about 11 percent of the social network's approximately 100 million U.S. members were African-American, about 9 percent were Latino and 6 percent were Asian, according to a blog Facebook posted Wednesday evening — a much higher share for blacks and Latinos than four years ago.

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Change at the Top of the World

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - By Charles Annenberg Weingarten - Dec. 08 (Advocacy) - Steeped in history and tradition, the arctic is a cold, vast and astonishing expanse of land and sea at the top of the planet. Join philanthropist and filmmaker Charles Annenberg Weingarten and Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik as they meet the region's people, learn about Inuit culture and explore how their fragile ecosystem and time-honored way of life are faring in the face of global warming.

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