By JOSE de la ISLA, Hispanic Link News Service
De la Isla: Drugs and 'schadenfreude'
Novelist Sergio Troncoso, in the El Paso, Texas website, NewspaperTree.com, called attention to how Michael Phelps' inhaling from a bong, Whoopi Goldberg admitting smoking weed (in Phelps defense), and Jon Stewart of the "Daily Show'' joking about joints are symptomatic of the hypocrisy.
De la Isla: Right-wing group is out of date
Oh boy, did The Los Angeles Times pull a doozy.
On Feb. 2 it carried an innocuous looking screed by Ira Mehlman. In it he excoriated, without naming it, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a group of 26 top Latino organizations. More than three months ago, the group put immigration at the top of its reform priorities to press on the new Obama administration.
De la Isla: GOP needs fresh start to reach Hispanics
Following the selection of Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee, commentator Leslie Sanchez pondered whether the two political parties would be able to look beyond the stereotypes of Latinos as they vie to attract them.
Latino authors fall into old habits
The perception of Latinos can no longer be ignored. The issue arises with the release of a book of essays, edited by former Clinton-era HUD secretary and former San Antonio mayor Henry G. Cisneros.
de la Isla: Drugs, guns and guts
After Barack Obama and Mexico president Felipe Calderon met on Jan. 13, Obama promised that the United States would take stronger action to stem the flow of weapons smuggled into Mexico that find their way into the hands of drug lords.
de la Isla: Blaming latinos for housing crisis
A Jan. 5 Wall Street Journal story by Susan Schmidt and Maurice Tamman mugged some Latino leaders connected with housing advocacy.
De la Isla: Are Hispanics Obama's best cabinet choices?
President-elect Obama seemed at first to have used a Rubik's Cube to match up the three Hispanics he named to his Cabinet with the three portfolios they will carry in his administration.
DE LA ISLA: A little spat among friends
On the face of it, the rising concern about whether the Obama transition team will deliver just looks like pre-inaugural jitters. But there might be more to it than that.
De la Isla: Latinos reach for top echelons in transition
WASHINGTON -- Names of present and future Hispanic political stars are floating in the capital sky like early winter snowflakes these days. The incoming Obama administration is sifting through them and an avalanche of resumes from other believers anxious to join the ranks of a promised diverse, new national leadership.
