In the pantheon of American history, old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms. In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who [...]

Republicans are having a victory party and it will be on an undisclosed Caribbean island. Agenda items are: (1) celebrate beating the Democrats (2) make plans to get rid of Obama in 2012 and (3) be entertained by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Fox News celebrities.

The costs are expected to run $200 million a day and some 3,000 party goers are expected. Naturally, the funding sources are undisclosed.

“About 200 people protested against Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday by jeering and staging a gay “kiss-in.” The protest by gays and lesbians took place as Benedict was being driven in his bullet-proof popemobile to celebrate mass at the city’s iconic basilica, La Sagrada Familia (Holy Family). The Pope did not [...]

It was just a matter of time. I saw it coming. Fox, the totally biased, race-baiting channel, the dung-pit of bigots preaching loudly to a thoroughly racist and delusional Tea-Party America — finally snared the mother of all xenophobes, anti-Obama “birther,” Lou Dobbs — recently fired from CNN for reckless, extortionist anti-immigrant hate. The Minister [...]

   By: Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezUttering the word Arizona anywhere in the world nowadays creates a visceral reaction. For some, it evokes the specter of Nazi Germany; for others, a totalitarian regime. For some, legalized and mandatory racial profiling represents a return to the Jim Crow south, and for still others, it conjures up apartheid South [...]