by altha-admin | Sep 14, 2014 | Articles
Carmen Velasquez Illinois Latino immigration activist Carmen Velasquez is fed up. Her hopes have been dashed, and the changes she was expecting never arrived. President Obama has been one big disappointment. In her latest column to Politico.com, Velasquez mulls...
by altha-admin | Sep 13, 2014 | Articles
Continuing my exploration of the Congressional districts, locating where Torrance fit within the California delegation, I found that in the 1980s, the state legislature gerrymandered districts so monstrously, one wonders how anyone put up with such distortions. Once...
by altha-admin | Sep 13, 2014 | Articles
After spending lengthy efforts researching the history (and slow decline) of the California Republican Party's Congressional delegation, another set of questions emerged: Who represented Torrance in the House of Representatives during these trends? I am well aware...
by altha-admin | Sep 12, 2014 | Articles
Rhode Island, the most liberal state in the union, had two Republican governors in a row. Sixteen years of conservative values (for the most part) at the helm, in spite of the liberal, spendthrift Democratic legislature, now entering its ninth decade. In 2010, Lincoln...
by altha-admin | Sep 12, 2014 | Articles
September 9 was the primary date for New England, and the outcomes were interesting, to say the least. In the Democratic camp, General Treasurer Gina Raimondo won the nomination, taking in 42% of the vote. Providence mayor Angel Taveras had hoped to capitalize on his...
by altha-admin | Sep 12, 2014 | Articles
"Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core." (Jude 11) In previous posts, I had explained the three woes which afflict the world: 1. The Way of Cain:...
