Hispanics mull boycotting 2010 census

Angered by President Obama’s lack of success in legalizing illegal immigrants, some Hispanic activists are urging all Hispanics to boycott the 2010 census as a sign of displeasure.
Other groups have asked the federal government to suspend immigration raids while census takers are in the field, hoping that will make illegal immigrants more likely to respond [...]

Chavez says Obama did nothing to deserve Nobel

Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that U.S. President Barack Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chavez, who has mixed praise for Obama personally with criticism of his government’s “imperialist” policies, said he thought it was a mistake when he read the U.S. leader had won.
“What has [...]

Commentary: Obama drops ball on immigration – CNN.com

President Obama has placed the immigration reform community at the back of the bus.This same president who insists the country can’t wait to fix what he calls a broken health care system tells reformers to wait for him to get around to fixing what they consider to be an equally broken immigration system.The same president [...]

45% Of Doctors Consider Quitting If Health Care Overhaul Passes

It could be reasonably assumed that a great majority of those doctors who would consider quitting, serve Latino communities. Could Washington possibly force a bill that would totally undermine the medical industry in such a way as to make health care for Latinos a potential disaster? If doctors start to leave their practices in these [...]

Anti-Chavez Protesters march in Caracas

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in rival demonstrations for and against President Hugo Chavez.
Opponents held a rally against what they called the president’s growing authoritarianism.
They were concerned about an education law they fear could lead to socialist indoctrination in schools.
Meanwhile, one government minister told Chavez supporters that 29 [...]

Colombia marches against Chavez

Protests against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have got under way in several cities across Latin America.The demonstrations were organised by Colombian activists after Mr Chavez criticised Colombia for allowing US forces access to seven military bases.Organisers used social networking sites to set up “No more Chavez” protests.President Chavez’s supporters have also turned out to show [...]

Problems Money Won’t Solve

President Obama has figured out that, for African-Americans, the next epic civil rights battle will be fought not in the streets but in the classroom.
In a recent interview with black journalists, Obama identified education as the most important challenge facing the African-American community.
“If we close the achievement gap, then a big chunk of economic inequality [...]

Possible Hate Crime In Suffolk County

The leader of a Latino church in Patchogue says his congregation was targeted in a possible hate crime.
It happened at the Iglesia Evangelica Refugio de Salvacion – the Pentecostal Church Refuge of Salvation – on Railroad Avenue.
The pastor says notes targeting Hispanics were found inside the church and on the alter.
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Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated

Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, also found that 68 percent of the workers interviewed [...]

Obama Screws Up Latin American Policy

The lights are going out in Venezuela. The Chavez-controlled legislature passed an education bill on Aug. 13 that will extinguish the last glimmers of free thought in the country’s classrooms. The law is such a caricature of revolutionary legislation that it almost seems like a joke, like something out of Woody Allen’s “Bananas.” But it’s [...]