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The Natives are Restless. Or is that Nativists?	AmEx – The credit card face of greed and abuse AmEx double crossed the government, the taxpayer and, their own customers
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com April 30, 2009 Last November US nativists were handed their lunch, and they didn’t find it easy to swallow. To their shock Barrack Obama was elected President of the United States, and that was only part of the bad news for them – the champions of Nativism lost seat after seat in Congress and the Senate. They were so sure that America thinks like them. After all in their mind, they are the true patriots, the true defenders of the holy grail of Americanism.	By Sal Osio, JD From the Publisher’s Corner April 30, 2009 American Express converted itself into a chartered bank from the financial services company that they were in late 2008 in order to qualify for the bank stimulus package. They pocketed $3.4 billion in bailout cash from tax payers. The objective of the government was to loosen credit constraints in order to assist the consumer and the businessman whose credit lines were frozen by their lend
Misusing Words or Simple Lies?	Memo to President Obama
By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com April 30, 2009 Mona Charen, in a recent column called "Wordy" writes on some subtle common misuse of words in the English language. In addition, she points out that according to the Economist, the English language will pass one million words, more than any other language. While I do not pretend to have Charen's deep knowledge of the language, it does give us lots of words to play with.	By Raoul Lowery Contreras April 30, 2009 Subject: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Mr. President: Some in your administration have indicated that you will tackle the question of Immigration reform this year. If they are right, may I make some suggestions?
Obama in Mexico ... Rolling Up His Sleeves to Tackle Many Hard Issues	Now who's dividing America?
Commentary By Carlos Luken Apr 17, 2009 Mexico City was in a virtual state of siege as it prepared for U.S. president Barak Obama's first official visit to Mexican president Felipe Calderon. Mexican press reported that a 4,500 member protection task force was deployed from all local and federal police agencies, the Mexican Army and president Calderon's personal military escort guard (Estado Mayor Presidencial) . This small army was tied to dozens of	Ethnic minorities have long been targeted as divisive, but it's white Americans who seem to be taking up the cause. By Gregory Rodriguez April 27, 2009 I wonder what the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. would have made of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's pandering to Lone Star secessionists on April 15. I'd love to hear what he'd say about Sarah Palin's flirtation with the Alaskan Independence Party and its disdain for the rest of the United States.
Discrimination By Any Other Name	Latino Education: Progress?
By Linda Chavez There was a time in America when the color of your skin determined whether or not you could get a job or promotion. Thankfully, Congress outlawed such practices in 1964, and we are a better country for it. But just this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that could determine that discrimination is OK, so long as its victims are not black.	By Manuel Hernandez Carmona There have been claims of progress in the education of Latinos in the United States, and there is indeed power in the declaration of words made by the outgoing administration. Who can deny the good intentions of those interested in making a positive contribution to the education of Latinos? But statistics speak for themselves,
Key Facts about Swine Influenza (Swine Flu)	Can Health Insurers Whine Louder Than Bankers?
Questions & Answers Centers for Disease Control and Prevention What is Swine Influenza? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930. How many swine flu viruses are there?	By Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t \| Perspective The Wall Street bankers have impressed the world with their ability to take or borrow trillions of taxpayer dollars and then complain about excessive government intervention into their business. This display of audacity is extraordinary even by the standards of US politics. However, the health insurance industry is gearing to give the bankers a serious contest for top spot as the biggest whiners on the national stage. At the moment, they share a common complaint over the Democrats' plan to leave open the possibility of including student loan and health care reform measures in a budget reconciliation bill.
Economy May Force Obama to Abandon Plan to Overhaul Immigration	Immigration: They come illegally because they can't come legally
By Nicholas Johnston Bloomberg.com April 24 (Bloomberg) -- The long campaign to overhaul U.S. immigration laws may be derailed for yet another year -- this time by the deteriorating economy. Lawmakers, lobbyists and advocates on both sides of the issue said the highest unemployment rate in more than 25 years would make it difficult for President Barack Obama to push legislation that would legalize millions of immigrants in the country illegally and create a new guest-worker program.	By Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, guest opinion OregonLive.com April 21, 2009 They break the law, damn it. They are criminals, and they need to be treated as such. If they get sick, let them suffer like dogs. If children who have been socialized and brought up as Americans in our public schools want an affordable college education, tough oats. This riff-raff of undesirable "illegal aliens" needs to head south of the border and the sooner the better.
Immigration and the Unions	What do we want?
Editorial New York Times April 20, 2009 The very idea that unions would endorse legalizing illegal immigrants, as the country’s two big labor federations did this month, strikes some as absurd. Americans have a hard enough time competing with cheap foreign labor. Why undercut them within our own borders? Especially with millions of citizens losing their jobs?	By Macario Schettino, El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) April 18, 2009 We are more than 120 million Mexicans. A hundred, or a bit more, in Mexico, and 20 in the rest of the world. Almost all in the United States. In the next 20 years, we’ll possibly be 120 million just in the country, and perhaps 35 million outside. Together with other Latin American immigrants, Mexicans will constitute the largest minority in the United States, with a voting power near 20%. In a country where the presidency is decided by some few percentage points.
Plan Would Deploy Guard Near Mexico	And still, Mexicans come
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Spencer S. Hsu and Steve Fainaru Washington Post 25 April 2009 The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military's role in the drug war, according to Obama administration officials.	By Brady McCombs *Arizona* *Daily Star* Tucson, Arizona \| NOGALES, Sonora — 04.19.2009 - Tiburcio Cuba Diaz has heard all about the dismal state of the U.S. economy. "Everyone says the crisis is very bad," Cuba, 34, a father of five from Puebla, Mexico, said in Spanish, "that they are firing people and there is very little work." But Cuba is still determined to cross the border illegally and make it to New York, where relatives say he'll be able to find work at a restaurant. His decision boils down to simple economics.
Raids disrupt cocaine pipeline into Minnesota	Conservative Leaders Announce Creation of Resurgent Republic
By Paul McEnroe and Tony Kennedy Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune April 29, 2009 A high-volume cocaine pipeline that authorities said couldn't keep up with the demands of Minnesota drug users was severed in early morning raids by federal agents who arrested high-level traffickers allegedly connected to Mexico's Gulf Cartel, one of that country's most violent crime syndicates.	*Non-Profit Group to Serve as Public Policy Resource* Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2009) – As the White House and Congressional leaders seek to move the country dramatically left, some of America’s most prominent conservative leaders, strategists, academic voting behavior experts and professional pollsters have come together to form Resurgent Republic, an independent, not-for-profit organization that aims to shape the debate over the proper role of government.
Obama's liberal arrogance will be his undoing	Youth and the Myth of Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama
The hubris and overreaching of the left sets the stage for the political correction sure to come. By Jonah Goldberg April 28, 2009 The most remarkable, or certainly the least remarked on, aspect of Barack Obama's first 100 days has been the infectious arrogance of his presidency. There's no denying that this is liberalism's greatest opportunity for wish fulfillment since at least 1964. But to listen to Democrats, the only check on their ambition is the limits of their imaginations.	By: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t \| Perspective 27 April 2009 With the election of Barack Obama, it has been argued that not only will the social state be renewed in the spirit and legacy of the New Deal, but that the punishing racial state and its vast complex of disciplinary institutions will, if not come to an end, at least be significantly reformed.[1] From this perspective, Obama's presidency not only represents a post-racial victory, but also signals a new space of post-racial harmony. In assessing the Obama victory, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein wrote, "It is a place where the primacy of racial identity - and this includes the old Jesse Jackson version of black racial identity - has been replaced by the celebration of pluralism, of cross-racial synergy."[
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