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August 27, 2008
A lot has changed in the world since 1990, and over the past 18 years, the Latino population has grown exponentially. The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new report titled "One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students" which, as its name suggests, shows that one in e...
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Wonder if George W. Bush will be able to give John McCain as rousing an endorsement as Hillary Clinton gave Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Or will it be a case of Republican twins at the Twin cities, as Hillary suggested. This is an animated version of the image in...
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I've arrived in Denver and slowly finding my way around the city. Tomorrow, I am speaking at a UN Foundation event in "The Big Tent" about Americans, foreign policy and international perceptions. Come say hello! “New American Consensus on International Cooperation” Location: Bi...
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Back home in England, two sets of good friends got married on Sunday. I chose to be in Denver and with the Democrats at this time, but it still makes me a little sad to be missing these happy occasions and time spent with friends. So mazel tov and I’m thinking of you Danny, and Arry & Keith.B...
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Michelle Obama was absolutely fabulous last night. Just listened to her speech again and can see why we were all loving it so much at the time. I'll hopefully catch her live this afternoon, at an Emily's List event.You can read my daily round-up of my Convention experiences at www.sixfiftyblog.comS...
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WaPo reports that Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki demands U.S. forces out of Iraq by 2011. The newspaper charactarized the comments as "an attempt to extract further concessions from American officials, less than a week after both sides said they had agreed to remove all U.S. combat troops by the end...
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Don’t we all love Teddy Kennedy? But I want to start off by asking another question. Why the hell did Caroline Kennedy get a standing ovation when she came out to speak? I know she revolutionized the Democratic Party in the 60’s, wait that was her Dad. Caroline doesn’t deserve such admirat...
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No, I'm not talking about America Ferrera I’m talking about the great Senator of New York Hillary Clinton. Yesterday, she surprised DNC Hispanic Caucus goers and gave a heart felt speech filled with commitment for the issues that matter the most for Hispanics. She spoke about comprehensive immigra...
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To those who are anxious to declare Iraq a permanent disaster, slow down. The United States is not as unprincipled as you claim. Of course, it's perfectly reasonable to read failure into some analysts' interpretation of today's news reports about the withdrawal agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.A...
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Though he dropped out of the race in February for a lack of support -- even from his own family -- Chaim Sugarman's candidacy may be back from the dead. A local news station in an unnamed city is reporting an organic movement to support the one-time candidate.Following the Obama campaign's nominatio...
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