By JOSE DE LA ISLA, Hispanic Link

What will you be doing in 2050? I expect that I will have hit the canvas before then. After all, that's two full generations away. Nonetheless, the Census Bureau is thinking ahead. It has projected how many of us will be around that year.

It's probably true that journalists like nothing better than to talk about themselves. Another popular truism comes from the Washington Post's publisher Philip Graham who said, "Journalism is the first rough draft of history."

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You have to feel sorry for the panelists at Howard University. The group, moderated by NBC News anchor Brian Williams, recently discussed the documentary, "Meeting David Wilson."

Wilhelm Scholz, a photographer, and I meet up with Wilkin Sherris, who is selling folk paintings along the seawall on George Washington Avenue in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo. Sherris tells us his parents came from Haiti, that he has relatives scattered throughout the Caribbean and others in Miami.

Political insiders don't make good comedians. James Carville -- the lethal-mouthed one-time Bill Clinton campaign strategist -- was often a naughty exception.

Take his classic quip. "Pennsylvania has Philly on the east, Pittsburgh on the west and Alabama in between."

HOUSTON -- "Change" is certainly the password among the candidates. But what does it really mean? Is it "the few loose coins in my pocket," like someone told me? Or is it more than that?

HOUSTON -- Once the Democrats decide what to do about the Michigan and Florida kerfuffle, who wins the Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico primaries, how the superdelegates weigh in and whether or not the issue goes to a brokered convention, they will have a nominee.

HOUSTON -- So tell me again, what's wrong with this?

The national economy has grown 54 percent since 1993. More than 25 million jobs have been created. Average unemployment dropped from 7.1 percent in 1994 to 5.1 percent in 2007. And U.S. manufacturing averaged nearly 4 percent gains during that period, almost double the previous 14 years.

AUSTIN, Texas -- In the two-minute lead-up to the Texas Democratic primary debate, Lou Dobbs was spewing his usual agit-prop comments on CNN against the so-called NAFTA highway.

D'Vera Cohn and Jeffery Passel authored a new Pew Hispanic Center study projecting U.S. population growth for the next four decades. At the end of their press conference announcing the findings, they declined to draw conclusions from their report.

That is not a constraint here.