How Do I Explain Negative Topics On TV To My Kids?

How Do I Explain Negative Topics On TV To My Kids?

Mary Mata January 12, 2012

Dear Martha: I live in Houston and I need advice on how to deal with what is happening with my daughters, ages six, three, and two. One day while we were […]

1 Year After Gabrielle Giffords Shot, Aide Says He’s No Hero

Mary Mata January 8, 2012

Daniel Hernandez Jr., the Congressional intern who saved Rep. Gabby Gifford’s life on Jan. 8 last year, still declines to call himself a “hero.” A mentally-ill man fired on Giffords […]

Would-Be DREAM Act Beneficiary Commits Suicide

Mary Mata November 29, 2011

By DeeDee Garcia Blase, Co-President of the National Tequila Party Movement May the death of Joaquin Luna not go in vain. DREAM Act student, Joaquin Luna, recently took his life in Texas. […]

Pepper Spray Cop Meme Gets Spicier

Mary Mata November 28, 2011

So as you may or may not have heard, Pocho.com is back — and not a moment too soon! If you haven’t seen the University of California at Davis pepper […]

Confessions Of A Cartel Hit Man

Mary Mata November 14, 2011

By Susana Hayward THE FIRST TIME HE pulled the trigger, he said he couldn’t even think. He was just following an order that came in code while driving his police car […]

Halloween Is Sex And Violence, But Not On TV

Mary Mata October 28, 2011

By Dustin Mendus It’s almost Halloween. Children will be running around wired on all sorts of sugars soon, houses will be toilet paper’d, and Christmas trees will be up in […]

ICE Agent Uses Genitals For Warrant: Story Must Be Told

NewsTaco October 27, 2011

If ever there was an incident that highlights the reason we started NewsTaco, it’s this, as we reported yesterday: an I.C.E. agent in Tennessee, along with a team of federal […]

Minorities Responsible For Violence On Minorities In Oakland

Mary Mata October 26, 2011

It’s minorities who are most responsible for violence against minority Occupy Oakland protestors, according to a report about the violence at that action yesterday, which resulted in the arrest of […]

Immigration Agent: His Warrant Is His Genitalia

Mary Mata

Nashville, Tennessee residents were the victims of overzealous and perhaps unlawful policing when police there entered their homes to search without warrants. When asked for those warrants, one of the […]

Opening The Pandora’s Box Of Mexican Family Secrets

Mary Mata October 25, 2011

After the piece I wrote about my cruel grandmother, there was a maelstrom on my mother’s side of the family. In short, I have been shunned. Let’s just say that […]