Dressed for a later dinner, President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy smile as they greet guests in the grand ballroom. A mariachi band plays behind them. Men and women, the latter wearing the bouffant hairstyles of the time, shake their hands.
"Pandering." According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to pander is to: "provide gratification for others' desires." So is that what John McCain and Barack Obama are doing with Hispanic voters?
With Hispanics being the nation's largest minority group, the general assumption among many political and social pundits is that they will align themselves with African-Americans to represent a potent political force on the local, state and national level.
Almost 60 percent of American adults do not have an individual retirement account or own any investment product such as stocks or bonds, according to a study published Friday.
The rhetoric of some Hispanic leaders might make you think that the government must treat low-income Latinos as though they are somehow different from earlier waves of immigrants, that without such...
Hey, whatever happened to the Rainbow Coalition? Yes, yes, we know that Jesse Jackson never got anyplace trying to sell the coalition in 1984, but the idea behind his pitch -- that minorities natur...