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
While watching this week’s Western Republican Debate in Las Vegas via CNN, I kept looking for Asian American faces, if not content.
After all, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing minority group in Nevada, rising 116 percent since the 2000 Census to more than 242,000 people
Sometimes I think the biggest barrier to democracy is the franchise itself, voting.
I mean everything from the physical act of casting a ballot (whether it be using a black marker, an old fashioned voting machine, or the infamous pinpricking of chads), all the way to the reading of the directions a
Watching on TV this weekend, I saw a video clip of the 700 arrests made on the Brooklyn Bridge. In a quick five-second shot, I saw at least one Asian American face among the protestors.
Was it yours?
Prior to this weekend, the “Occupy Wall Street” protest had received scant treatment in much of th
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s blessing and curse is he’s George W. Bush’s protege.
If you liked the cowboy boots on W., you’ll love them on Perry. He’s got real dung on those Tony Llamas.
On the other hand, if you regret eight years of deceitful leadership under an intellectually-challenged W., you’
Any time government-sanctioned discrimination ends in America is cause for celebration.
That’s the real reason for the big hurrah over the official death of the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
But the military is trying to undersell it. “I will be astonished if this is a disruptive chan
Where’s the Flip Cam when you need it? Imagine this scene: 78-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sliding down an emergency chute as she evacuates a troubled jet at D.C.’s Dulles Airport.
On her way down, do you think she said, “Weeeeeeeee….”?
We need something like that chute to es
I had dinner there a number of times. I’d seen the view. I just can’t imagine people leaping from the World Trade Center towers.
For me, that’s the lingering and most horrific image of 9/11. A distressed person in silhouette, taking wing, dropping from the sky in free fall, praying for a soft landi
There’s a hard way and an easy way.
And in the end Goodwin Liu took the easy way.
Who could blame him after the nearly two years of being a political football in Washington?
Today, Liu, the embattled yet eminently well-qualified Asian American legal scholar who couldn’t get a fair shake at the U.
This week began with rebels taking Tripoli. From the sound of it, President Obama loves a revolution:
“Your courage and character have been unbreakable in the face of a tyrant,” Obama said to the Libyan people on Monday. “An ocean divides us, but we are joined in the basic human longing for freedom
