Immigration reform? By executive action? The thing Asian Americans have talked about for nearly a year now?
Yes, yes, yes.
According to media reports, the plan would provide deportation relief for up to 5 million people. It would expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program fo
The national midterm narrative so far has been about how voters repudiated President Obama and his policies.
But this isn’t the Asian American narrative.
Neither is it Elaine Chao standing next to her husband, the presumptive new Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
No, the Asian American na
Pardon my October. I’ve been busy being American Filipino during Filipino American History Month. And in the moments that remain, I’ve been nervously watching the San Francisco Giants break and unbreak my heart, until they finally decided to win the World Series and give back my life.
(Pablo Sand
I was too busy watching baseball this week to catch Bill O’Reilly on “The Daily Show,” where he defended his belief in the Model Minority myth and how it’s evolved into a sense of “Asian American Privilege.”
Who needs that bunk when there was a very special Asian American event happening at the San
These days, in the internet era when Bush’s NSA policies continue under Obama, it must be presumed that everyone is under some kind of surveillance.
Even innocent Asian Americans.
And given the global nature of things, it would take a real leap of faith to believe foreign governments of our ancest
October means new TV shows, the best baseball, and my favorite ethnic heritage month–Filipino American History Month.
Or, as I like to call it, “American Filipino” History Month.
I flip it. On purpose. It’s my linguistic revolution to force others to see the community with new eyes and get beyond
I’m a big believer in art when justice fails. I’m doing an excerpt of my solo performance show, “Emil Amok,” at the San Francisco Public Library on Oct. 9 at 6 pm. It’s part of “Compositions,” the Alvarado photo exhibit that is the anchor of the library’s Filipino American History Month activities.
Forty-seven tomahawk cruise missiles in fighter bombers were sent to bomb 14 targets in Syria, the Department of Defense told NBC and other news media, which this morning released a DOD tape of some of the action.
And now you can go about your business. Everyone else seems to be.
Members of Cong
Thirteen years later, we all have learned at least this key lesson: Al-Qaeda is not Iraq.
But after President Bush’s faulty logic used the terror attacks of 9/11 to justify war in Iraq, it seems President Obama is willing to make a similar mistake again.
By announcing to the nation on the eve of t
I found this in my hamper today.
It was a reminder of an event I covered on one of the coldest days I’ve ever experienced–January 20, 2009.
That’s when “Hope and Change” supposedly had come to Washington.
Five years later and we’re still out in the cold–especially this weekend when President Ob
Andrew Peng, 20, looked like any other Asian American student. Only deep in his heart, he knew he was a chicken.
Especially with his special virtual reality goggles on.
At UC Berkeley, one of the most Asian American campuses in the nation, students were lined up for a unique demonstration–to exp
As we approach Labor Day, I ponder the map of my labor life, my resume, and realize it is the history of the boom and bust of the American economy.
Hired in good times, reduced in recessions. And, because I’m an Asian American, it all works in conjunction with that time honored employment lament, “
The spectre of the U.S. Justice Department coming down on the First Amendment rights of reporter James Risen should have been bad enough. (See my blog post on Risen here.)
But as the Asian American Journalists Association convened in Washington, DC this week, the situation in Ferguson, Missouri was
In a time when all the world could use a laugh, we got a shocker.
Robin Williams, who had spent so much time entertaining the world, had forgotten to leave something for himself.
As someone who had covered Williams as part of the Bay Area’s entertainment scene while the arts and entertainment repo
In my California, home of the severe drought, I grew up listening to the Beach Boys and the dream of an “endless summer.”
I can’t imagine this summer in Israel and Gaza, home of what appears to be the “endless war.”
Actually, thanks to the media reports, I don’t have to imagine the war. I see it p
When Richard Nixon died in 1994, 20 years after he left office, I can recall how almost all the news stories about him in Washington were like a gigantic free pass. I suppose if you deserve a free pass, the time of your death would be the best time to get one. Out of respect, no one wanted to kick o
On Fox News’ “The Five,” there’s a move afoot to make it “The Four.”
That’s because the show’s co-host and token liberal Bob Beckel used the racial slur “Chinaman” while ranting about Chinese hackers, whom Beckel says are the “single biggest threat to the national security of the United States.”
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On the current immigration issue, President Obama is doing what a politician with no real direction can do: Throw money at the problem.
Asking Congress for $3.7 billion is actually a puny response in a world where $600 billion goes to defense spending.
But it still could end up being a fight anywa
How about some fireworks to start just to cheer us up?
After a week in which Hobby Lobby made reshaping democracy a new form of conservative arts and craft activity, and residents in a small California town blocked innocent refugee families seeking safety, I worry for America.
And on its birthday,
