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Why the Border Crisis Is a Myth

NewsTaco July 28, 2014

*It’s taken a while for reason to surface through the muck and misunderstanding flowing around this child immigrant story.  I think there is a crisis, but it’s a crisis in […]

Is Libertarianism anti-Community?

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Latina Running For Lieutenant Governor In Texas, One Of The Biggest Races In The Nation

NewsTaco July 25, 2014

Examining the Terrorist Threat from America’s Southern Border

NewsTaco July 24, 2014

*A large part of the argument to secure the U.S. Southern border comes from the idea that terrorists could enter the country, in the guise of undocumented migrants, with bombs […]

Stanford law professor named to California Supreme Court

NewsTaco July 23, 2014

*These are the stories that aren’t shared enough. A Latino rises from the border between Texas and Mexico to teach law at Stanford, and from there to the highest court […]

Good sense?

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*The late Molly Ivins called him “Governor Good Hair,” it was her way of pointing out Rick Perry’s postcard politician character. This week Perry reminded me why Ivins held him […]

Border Fences Make Unequal Neighbors

NewsTaco July 22, 2014

*Interesting read from the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. It draws a comparative line between the unaccompanied-minor crisis at the border and the Israel/Gaza crisis in the Middle East. At […]