Well, it has been about a week since the United State Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporate entities have “personhood” in that they can utilize the first amendment to spend in campaigns. Essentially, the floodgates have been opened, and both corporations and unions will get to drown out the smaller individual [...]

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Senator Chris Dodd from Connecticut is scheduled to announce his retirement from the Senate tomorrow. In some ways, he has been a friend of the Latino community in that he supported initiatives to increase diversity, and he also is a Spanish speaker, having served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. [...]

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Per Seneca’s earlier observation about Latino appointments, President Obama is on track to appoint more Latinos to top posts within the administration than did his predecessors, including Presidents Clinton and GWB. The AP has a pretty good article here.
I would like to note this particular part:
“In some ways, Obama is simply following his predecessor’s [...]

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The latest blog post about Loretta Sanchez and her lobbyist friend(s) has inspired a bunch of other Loretta related blog posts, including the uncovering of more pictures of Congresswoman Sanchez and John Saylor.
People are tiring of Sanchez’s antics, especially in light of the dire situation in her district and the general sentiment that she [...]

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MoveOn.org’s “Lieberman Socks” video has been making the rounds, and I think that it is a pretty good summation of the Senator’s attitudes and ability to obstruct the kind of health care reform that so many want here in the US. Unfortunately, the private insurance market has not been able to produce plans or the [...]

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