January 30th is the birthday of a true Asian American hero, Fred Korematsu.
Since 2011, it’s been a designated holiday in California and a few other states. It doesn’t get you a day off. In fact, it’s a day that reminds you to fight.
It’s a a day set aside specifically to remind us that when it
It’s been just a week, and Donald Trump’s use of executive orders, even when the GOP has full control of both the House and Senate, is the clear sign of an insecure authoritarian comfortable with bypassing democracy.
It’s also a showboat move from the reality star. With a single stroke, he creates
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27), chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, isn’t at the Trump inaugural. In my phone conversation with her, Chu said Trump’s attack on civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis was the last straw.
But it’s not the only thing that makes her doubt Trump’s fitness for t
The transition I call the “Trump Creep,” aptly describing the process and the man, is about to end. The inaugural is here and now the show really begins.
For some, these days since Nov. 8 have been like the “Twilight Zone.”
But just wait.
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
The man who likes his politics
Presidential historians will note this was the week the words “Trump,” “prostitutes,” and “urination” somehow found themselves used publicly in the same sentence.
While the implied acts in the sentence aren’t verifiable, the words are, and they appear in the dossier U.S. intelligence chiefs present
As Congress got back into action last week, there was one clear-cut enemy to the American public, but it wasn’t Vladimir Putin.
For some reason, Trump and the GOP love Putin.
But this thing called Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, Trump and his ilk uniformly hate with a passion.
A
Where do you stand politically on anything in 2017? Judging from the first days, no one knows for sure, not even the professional pols.
If you’ve been following what a Trump World would be like, we all got a taste of how chaotic politics will be as we witnessed the quick about-face of Republicans w
As we end the year and prepare for the dreaded 2017, I must thank you for reading my weekly musings on the pressing Asian American issues of the day.
Based on your clicks, the election and general representation issues were among the most-read columns of the year.
Leading the way was a piece on Be
With the inaugural in less than a month, and Christmas just days away, this is a special year.
Despair looms ahead.
And that requires a special holiday treat.
In the spirit of solidarity, I feel compelled to offer you the gift of perspective!
Look at it this way. What’s before us won’t be all th
If you don’t have enough to argue about during the holidays with your family and friends (I mean, the Trump thing might get old before the inaugural), maybe it’s time after Pearl Harbor Day to dredge up the controversy over “Allegiance.”
Just a musical? Or a dangerous revision of history?
George T
This year on the day before Pearl Harbor Day, President Obama, said in his final address on national security that terrorists can kill innocent people, “but they don’t pose an existential threat to our nation.”
He wasn’t talking Jean-Paul Sartre.
Before Trump-Think becomes official, the outgoing p
Filipino Americans in California are wondering about real estate transactions being initiated by Filipinos on tourist visas, who are selling retirement condos in Manila as unlicensed sales agents.
It may even be a case of human trafficking.
The story is important because of the man whose propertie
President Obama may not be able to place Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. But he’s doing what he can in his final days. Like giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to luminaries like Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And of course, he pardoned his last turkey the day
If you haven’t noticed, we live in a time where the political trend is quite simple.
Things that would never happen before, that were once thought to be downright “inconceivable,” are happening right now, and with stunning regularity.
And it’s not fake news, it’s real.
We’re seeing it in the U.S.
The attempt to bridge our country’s great divide has begun with the first meeting in the White House between President Obama and his one-time birther tormentor, President-elect Trump.
It’s like we’re in some disconnected time and place after that hate-filled scorched earth campaign of the last 19 m
As an early bird, my vote is in the mail.
If you haven’t voted yet, vote now.
Now is always the best candidate.
Better than later.
And maybe that’s what finally got to FBI Director James Comey when he gave everyone his November surprise.
He’s not the patron saint of voter suppression or electio
Addison Russell is an Asian American name.
And now he’s a newly minted World Series Champion, the first Asian American of Filipino descent to become one since Tim Lincecum, three-time World Series winner while with the San Francisco Giants.
After an epic World Series Game 7, Russell, the all-star
Earlier in October, my dogs tore up a nerf-like facsimile of a Donald Trump head, thinking perhaps it was more nutritious than it looked.
Many of my social media followers liked it. Maybe it helped them to design dog-proof Trump Halloween masks? More on that in a bit. In the meantime, the Trump h
Donald Trump can’t help himself. Even after the third presidential debate, he stood Thursday before an Ohio rally and couldn’t give in.
Instead, he said he would “totally accept” the election results.
But then added: “If I win.”
That’s a version of the Trumpian catch-all clause that is probably i
I confess Trump’s admission for his predilection of the Trumpian sexual offense known as the “pussy grab” distracted me so much in the last week I plumb forgot about Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct. 10.
Sorry.
I wasn’t even able to appropriately dis that overreaching Genoan sailing for Spain, Christop
