I swear if I had a nickel for every time someone has mentioned bitcoin to me in the last month, I would be really, really rich.
Not Trump rich. But who wants to be that?
So on the last business day of 2017, I found myself buying into all the bit business.
A bit at a time.
I know about these thin...
Donald Trump, our president of tweets and low ratings, is capping off the year spearheading the drive to bribe–or, ahem, give you a Christmas gift–that’s more like a ticking time bomb.
Or is that what a tax cut is supposed to sound like?
The ticking should only last until 2025, as the individual t...
Vivian Cheng-Khanna had an intellect refined at a top college and law school, but the easygoing manner of a friend who had all afternoon to hear what was on your mind. While practicing law in some of the most competitive arenas, Vivian always found time for family, friends, and community service. ...
Off and on, throughout the years, I knew Ed Lee.
His death at age 65 leaves me in shock.
Roy Moore? Special election? Alabama? On this election day, if you’re an Asian American who follows politics, Lee’s passing eclipses it all.
You can’t overstate the importance of the death of Ed Lee.
He wasn...
According to a nonpartisan exit poll of 2,538 Asian American voters in the 2017 elections, Asian Americans strongly supported Democratic candidates in four states–Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York–with 3 out of 5 voters disapproving of Donald Trump’s performance as president. The mult...
When you heard the news that General Michael Flynn had flipped, I just wanted to assure you that those of us of Filipino heritage aren’t upset by the use of that phraseology at all.
We’re ecstatic. At least, I am.
Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to Trump, is no flip, but he most assure...
Matt Lauer kept losing his hair, but he never lost his job–not until he lost his sense of judgment, self-control, and credibility. Too bad he’s not president of the free world. He’d still have his job.
But now, no one cares to ask “Where in the world is Matt Lauer?”
And before this week, no one wo...
We’ve got some great Thanksgiving topics this year at our Asian American family table, but did anyone figure the first course would kick off with, “So anyone thankful they didn’t get harassed this year? How about the last 30?”
It’s prime for a bunch of “me too” moments, and in a bit I will share mi...
AALDEF is among the 18 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant advocacy, labor, civil rights, community health, service provider, and undocumented youth groups calling for a new organizing coalition to secure swift passage of a clean DREAM Act.
On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administr...
I couldn’t help thinking about the Charlottesville, Virginia chant that racist white nationalists spewed last summer. They marched through the University of Virginia campus as they carried tiki torches and chanted, “You will not replace us.”
It’s the lament of white males in particular, and somethi...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to document voter problems and the availability of language assistance on Election Day, November 7th, in New York City and Boston for the Mayoral ...
My Uncle Mel was a great American. As a barber, he cut my hair. As a soldier, he was a corporal in the U.S. Army, a recipient of a Purple Heart. And now, a Congressional Gold Medal winner.
I couldn’t make it to DC for the big Congressional Gold Medal event this week. I’ll be in the area next week...
In his 100th year, life is finally looking less absurd for Filipino WW II veteran Celestino Almeda.
On Wednesday, he will be a speaker at the special ceremony honoring all Filipino Veterans of World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.
And while that is quite an honor, it comes on the heels o...
India West - The New Jersey elections site has expanded its reach by now featuring a Gujarati language option.This year during the November general election, the state’s Division of Elections began publishing candidate statements…
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sitting in her Mount Laurel home, Sharmista Patel does not fully comprehend the conversation unfolding in her living room, but she nods in agreement with her husband as he toggles between English and Gujarati…
This year, I made a pilgrimage to a special landmark that you may miss unless you happen to be looking for the only public restroom at a particular vista point in Morro Bay, California.
For Filipinos, maybe even for all Asian Americans, maybe it should be considered our mecca.
Or perhaps our blarn...
Filipino Reporter - Filipino-born American businesswoman Loida Nicolas Lewis, widow of TLC Beatrice Founder and CEO Reginald F. Lewis, will receive The Phoenix Lifetime Achievement Award at Womankind’s 35th Anniversary Benefit Gala…
These are hazy, smoky times in the most Asian state (by population) in America.
Most of California is essentially an orchard paved over to varying degrees, and I am on the edges of the rural and urban–the ruburbs of the great Central Valley, a few hours away from the gourmet grapes of Napa and Sono...
AALDEF seeks volunteers to defend Asian American voting rights in the November 2017 elections in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia.
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote, including segregated “Asian” voting lines. When...
October is Filipino American History Month for a number of reasons, but probably not because it’s my birthday month. The Filipino American National Historical Society chose October because it’s the month when the first Filipinos are said to have landed in California, at Morro Bay, Oct. 18, 1587.
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