Is it Texas Uber Alles, Governor?
A few years ago I was giving a lecture before a group of students about US Presidents and wars of aggression. After I had dealt with James K. Polk and the US-Mexican War, a student asked me if I would give up the conquests of the war, the contemporary US Southwest.
Dear Mr. President: You Really Need to be at the Conference on Racism
People keep telling me not to expect President Obama to make it to tommorow's Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR). I'd like to believe otherwise but I know better.
African Americans and the Economic Crisis
Biden was quite out front about it. On the same day the newspapers were trumpeting the news that President Obama had felt a 'glimmer of hope' in the economic situation, the Vice-President was telling CNN that we can expect unemployment to increase each month for the rest of the year.
What Does Carbon-neutral Mean?
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, which made carbon neutral its 2006 “Word of the Year,” it involves “calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions, often by purchasing a carbon offset.”
Obama Tries to Clean US Image at Summit of the Americas
HAVANA, Cuba, April 18 (acn) US President Barack Obama asked participants at the Summit of the Americas not to keep blaming his country for all the problems facing the western hemisphere, in times when a current global economic crisis emerged in the North is threatening the nations of the region.
Rep. Nadler Asks for Special Prosecutor for Torture
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, praised President Obama and the Department of Justice for releasing four legal memos on the torture of detainees that had previously been concealed by the Bush administration.
More Fuel-efficient Diesel Cars Coming to the US
Different countries do have differing standards in regard to how much pollution gasoline and diesel automobile engines are allowed to emit, but the reason you see so fewer diesel cars in the U.S. is more of a choice by automakers than the product of a decree by regulators on either side of the Atlantic.
No Hoax: Pass Employee Free Choice Act To Revive Economy
Americans are paying big time now for decades of buying into a hoax. And it wasn't sub-prime mortgages. It was the conservative contention that government is evil and inept.
En busca de señales
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Con la visita del presidente Barack Obama a México esta semana continuó el escrutinio de lo que dijo o no sobre el tema migratorio en busca de más señales sobre su compromiso de avanzar la reforma migratoria comenzando este año.
Does Rick Perry Want to be an American?
It's unclear whether or not Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) wants to be an American. Earlier this month Perry signed a bill declaring Texas sovereignty. More recently, Perry told a crowd at a 'tea-bagging' party in Austin that he felt Texas has a right to secede from the union.
