I’ve never been comfortable with the designation, “Hispanic.”  I see myself as being of Latin origin, a descendent of those who spoke a romance language — in my case, Spanish rather than French or Italian.  I have no knowledge of any language known as “Hispanic.”  H

The saying has been around for a long time:  “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.”  A number of people seem to be angry on Facebook, lately. A group of women dumped on Ivanka Trump the other day for defending her father when she was Angela Merkel’s guest at t

When politics gets  tough, American’s cope by using laughter. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert lead the way, of course.  Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow get in a few good licks, as does Garrison Keillor.  But for street genius, there’s nothing like a protest sign. Here, I’ll

Around the world, people seem to be taking up the cry from the film, Network:  “ I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”  Whether it’s Bernie’s Millennials or Trump’s unemployed, Tea Party members, or Black Lives Matter folks, people are rising their voi

As technology shrinks our world, rubbing differing cultures together with the force of colliding tectonic plates, human beings are facing an overwhelming question: Is it better “to give wide freedoms to differing subcultures to live as they wish, or to assert a universal standard of

 Kade Crockford, Director of Technology for Liberty with the ACLU points out Americans spend billions of dollars each year fighting the war on terror with failed systems. In the meantime, the only disagreement between the two political parties  is about “how quickly we should disp