Tucson: When Tea Party, Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Collide

Tucson: When Tea Party, Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Collide

Mary Mata January 13, 2011

[Editor’s Note: This column by Somos Republicans founder DeeDee Garcia Blase is being reposted with permission, for more from Somos Republicans visit their website.] Not all Tea Party members are […]

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz Lampoons Palin’s Tucson Response

Mary Mata

La Cucharacha cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz created a cartoon this week to highlight Sarah Palin’s missteps leading up to, and following, the shooting of Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. As Politico […]

Was First Latina Governor Ignored?

NewsTaco January 12, 2011

The folks over at Fox News, not Fox News Latino-which is the same thing only different, like another hat or the servants’ entrance-have come to the defense of a Latina. […]

Tom DeLay Created Latino Democratic Party In Texas

Mary Mata January 11, 2011

Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge for his illegal fundraising activities this week. In one of his last posts for NewsTaco, Carlos Guerra […]

King Snubbed for Immigration Chair: Pouts

NewsTaco

Pobrecito King. It’s not so much the story in the Hufington Post that caught my attention as much as it was the picture of a pouting Steven King. King, R-Iowa, […]

Latinos in Congress: Diverse, Yet Bundled Together

NewsTaco

Interesting piece in the Houston Chronicle about the balance of Latino numbers and power in the US congress. It’s thorough enough: there are more Latinos in congress today than there […]

King:Deported DREAMers Like Peace Corps Voluteers

NewsTaco January 10, 2011

Apparently, and according to a Fox News Latino post, the new chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spent his childhood reading the US […]

Democratic Arizona Congresswoman, 18 Others, Shot

Mary Mata January 8, 2011

This morning Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot this morning at a Safeway in Tucson. The AP has identified the shooter at a 22 year-old  named […]

2012: A Latina First Lady, Named Bush?

NewsTaco January 6, 2011

Look who popped-up as the Wall Street Journal‘s number one person to watch in 2011: Jeb Bush, son and brother of President’s George and George. Jeb, they say, is worth […]

First Order of Business for New Congress: Exclude Puerto Rico

NewsTaco

The new Republican leaning congress got straight to work after taking their oath of office and listening to a reading of the US Constitution. Their first order of business was […]