Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to deny millions of refugees admission to...
One of my friend shared this with me this morning and it seriously made my day. This video is of a Mexican-American Mariachi band singing our National Anthem. My friend's comment was the best: "One of...
A series of deportation raids targeting Central American asylum-seekers led immigrant rights activists and even fellow Democrats to harshly criticize the Obama administration. The Washington Post had already revealed plans by the Department of Homeland Security to...
This week, the Trump administration tested the limits of its anti-immigrant stance by admitting (after denying) and reaffirming its practice of divorcing refugee children from their parents crossing into the United States from the southern border. Public...
By now, we are well aware of 32-year-old Heather Heyer's death at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12. But there were other violent skirmishes that day that have received far less media...
Soon to retire, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois could handle no more of  Pres. Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday before standing up and leaving. Quickly. I'd say "stormed out" but...
Schadenfreude. It's a German term meaning enjoyment obtained through others' misfortune. With each passing week of Donald Trump's presidency, I become more convinced schadenfreude is the new administration's guiding principle. Think about it. Trump targets a religion...
“Blood and soil!” “Jews will not replace us!” You know where people chanted these slogans, don't you? Berlin, circa 1938, right? Technically, yes. But we don't need to take a trip in the way-back machine to hear this chilling rhetoric....
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning, and she quickly walked into a line of questions she clearly wasn't prepared for. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) asked Nielsen about President...
school and other hate crimes
The election of Donald Trump has sparked a wave of bullying and hate crimes across the country, as racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, and hate mongers of all stripes feel empowered. His ascension to the highest...
Upon assuming her role as the nation's education advocate, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decided to rescind support requiring the U.S. Education Department to investigate loan servicing companies’ past conduct before the government awards lucrative contracts. Interestingly, these are the...
Shakira and Jennifer Lopez Super Bowl halftime show
At Sunday's Super Bowl, Latina singers and entertainers Shakira and Jennifer Lopez wowed the world with a stunning and age-defying performance. J-Lo is 50 and Shakira is 43 and the ladies brought it home exactly...
If you've been at all paying attention the past year, you know the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't really care much about us--unless we're rich, or part of the 34 percent still holding...
In the wake of the tax bill, President Donald Trump shifted his confrontational tactics. After the president signed the partisan legislation, the White House changed its tone. To that end, the administration announced it will...
Seeing as how he knows virtually nothing about how the federal government works or the powers of the different branches--executive, judicial, and legislative--it may come as one hell of a surprise when President Trump learns...
Not long before the Trump administration announced their decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program instituted by President Obama which protects some 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the United...
Arizona State Capitol (image courtesy 2candle, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
There have been some pretty shameful and disturbing displays of out-and-out racism since Donald Trump's upset victory. But one of the worst to date may have taken place on Thursday at the Arizona State Capitol....
President Donald Trump's immigration policies have sparked outrage from an unlikely source - Texas. This week, The Dallas Independent School District passed a resolution stating that its schools would be "welcoming and protective" of all...
There was no fight, no resistance, no struggle. Andres Magana Ortiz, 43, accepted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s decree, and volunteered to return to Mexico, which he left at age 15 after being smuggled into the United...
Fernando Franco is the founder and owner of Di Frabo Italian restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, and recently two patrons left a message on their receipt which was clearly aimed at him. Franco recalls: "The manager...