by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 17, 2009 | Opinion
What is the difference between President Obama and President Bush when it comes to how we, as a nation, deal with the plight of undocumented immigrants? Unfortunately, there really is no difference. If anything, an undocumented Latino or Latina under Obama is worse...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 31, 2009 | Opinion
The nation is in the midst of struggling to find a solution to a national health care system that continues to be beyond the means of average Americans. As I write these words, many congressional factions representing different ideological perspectives or special...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jun 18, 2009 | Opinion
No sooner did President Obama nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court than racists began to make derogatory remarks based on her ethnicity. Judge Sotomayor should not be confirmed just because she is a Latina. She should be confirmed using the same...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | May 29, 2009 | Opinion
I always find it curious that those who have spent most of their lives advocating legislation and policies detrimental to communities of color are usually among the first to accuse people of color of being racists. Take the recent example provided by former Speaker of...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | May 28, 2009 | Opinion
It is not surprising that a hyper-individualistic culture would reduce sin and salvation to the personal. For many Euro-American Christians, sin is an action, or omission, committed by an individual who now stands guilty before God. This individual action (or lack...
