A prior engagement on the West Coast meant I couldn’t get to the AALDEF dinner in New York City last week. So let me give my own award to AALDEF honoree Fareed Zakaria for an excellent interview Sunday with George Soros on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show.
It’s not every day you see someone elicit suc...
A Super Bowl victory means New York is now home to a world-class football team. (It’s primarily in Jersey, but who’s to quibble?)
Coach Tom Coughlin, the man everyone wanted fired mid-season, is now seen in a new light–as a victorious leader.
As the former NFL analyst and coach John Madden liked t...
In politics, when the going gets rough, the tough get dirty and divisive. Even though voters say they don’t like to see it, when a campaign is desperate to have a victory, going negative really works.
Florida was so nasty, we can’t even call what they were throwing mud. It was fecal.
And now that ...
After all the countless GOP debates, last night we really needed to see someone act presidential and remind us why this whole campaign process is important.
And who else but a president can reassure a nervous country about its well-being, its economic stature, its place in the world?
In an address...
I don’t care about Romney’s taxes. If H&R Block didn’t do them for him, he made too much money, and he likely paid less tax proportionately than any of us.
Indeed, to make $43 million over two years, paying $6.2 million in taxes, with $7 million to charities, puts Romney at an effective rate of 14%...
Now that we are in primary season, it’s pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have a real answer to President Obama.
The party’s once and future front-runner Mitt Romney is imploding. His hair is in place, but he’s imploding.
And the new momentum guy is the retread Newt Gingrich. Gingrich so undeniably re...
Jerry Yang, Chief Yahoo and quintessential Asian American internet entrepreneur, is no longer wildly shrieking the brand.
Instead, the words from Yang’s lips are whatever you say when something doesn’t work out, or you don’t find something.
What’s the opposite of “Eureka” that rhymes with Mitt?
T...
The first GOP primary was a bit like musical chairs, except when the music stopped, there were still the same number of chairs and the same number of candidates.
No one wants to leave, though surely the gig is up.
Mitt Romney’s still sitting up-front with the others slightly re-arranged though sti...
An 8 point win in Iowa as we approach the Year of the Dragon would only be a good omen for an Asian American.
Just not for Mitt Romney.
Romney, the candidate who could be anchorman, hardly can be called a winner in a contest that’s a statistical tie. (Right, all ye math mavens?) But in a democracy...
I’ve always thought it strange that the two bellwether states that really begin the political season are Iowa and New Hampshire.
Bellwether for what? Certainly not diversity.
In Iowa and New Hampshire, it may as well be America in the 1950s, impregnable to immigration and minorities. It is pre-Ame...
With the death of Kim Jong-il comes a sliver of hope. Will the family franchise of famine and daredevil nuclear gamesmanship continue? Or, for the sake of its people, is there any chance of real change in North Korea?
In other words, does this emotional period of public mourning offer enough of an ...
As of this week, I’m not buying my screws from Lowe’s anymore, though there must be a surplus of loose screws back at the home office.
The home improvement chain sure has a strange way of celebrating America’s diversity.
“Duck and cover” may have worked in the 1950s for air raids and earthquakes. ...
December 7th will live in infamy for a different reason in the history of the Occupy movement.
In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee gave the OK for a brutal pre-dawn raid of the OccupySF encampment, with police moving in around 1 a.m., tearing down tents, seizing property, and arresting 80 people.
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Who would have thought the person to jumpstart an all-but-dead national immigration debate would be none other than the gringo’s gringo, Newt Gingrich?
Gingrich, the ethically challenged politico, proud philanderer, and insistent historian (never a–gasp–lobbyist), is truly someone to whom, say, a H...
It was the spritz heard round the world. Or rather, make that spritzes, unfortunately. There were way too many of them.
But I think it couldn’t have come at a better time.
I had just been yearning for the halcyon days of campus protest in the ’60s after seeing that pathetic display recently at Pen...
Before we get on to juicier matters, it’s still worth trumpeting Ed Lee’s victory as the first elected Asian American mayor in San Francisco and what it means to our country, isn’t it?
I admit, it would be a much better story if he were the first elected Asian American mayor of State College, PA. T...
If it weren’t for Ranked Choice Voting, we’d have a runoff in San Francisco between the top two vote getters, interim Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor John Avalos.
How conventional.
Instead, Lee gets to drop the “interim” tag, becoming the “presumptive” mayor after garnering more first and second choic...
If you are one of the 17.3 million Asian Americans living in the U.S. with even a slight interest in any kind of politics, besides the Herman Cain sexual harassment allegations, it’s hard to imagine you don’t have at least one eye on the San Francisco Mayoral election this week.
The Tuesday vote fe...
For nearly 24 hours, Occupy Oakland had contributed another chapter to the ongoing national Occupy Wall Street movement with mostly peaceful demonstrations on Wednesday, powered by a general strike, the city’s first since 1946. More than 7,000 people joined in several marches through the city, inclu...
San Francisco’s mayoral election was supposed to be a showcase of Asian American political empowerment never before seen in the continental U.S.
A bevy of Asian American politicians to choose from may be old hat in a place like Honolulu, where the Asian Pacific Islander population is at more than 5...
