Yesterday as Sam Nunberg made the talk-show rounds with his refusal to obey Robert Mueller's subpoena to hand over his emails with Trump and various campaign aides, one excuse for his behavior rang out as the lamest of all. Towards the end of his appearance on The Beat with Ari ...read more
Everybody have a good weekend? Awesome. Here are all the different ways the world lurched towards Armageddon while you hopefully cherished your time with friends and loved ones. Or in my case, let my daughter repeatedly win at Scrabble Junior because there probably won’t be ...read more
Tough guy Donald Trump told his supporters that in no uncertain terms that he was going to build a wall to keep dirty Mexicans out of America should he become president. Not only that, he would make Mexico pay for the wall, because that's what tough guys do. Trumps supporters, ...read more
Ford Motor Company announced on Tuesday that they are cancelling plans to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in Mexico. Instead, the company says it will invest some $700 million to expand a plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Small car production will still move south of the border, ...read more
On Monday night, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton finally faced off in the debate we'd all been waiting for. Hillary conducted herself like a person who wanted to be president, laying out detailed policies that she would like to implement if she is elected. Trump, on the other ...read more
Exactly why Donald Trump or anyone in his spectacularly stupid campaign team thinks it is a good idea for him to show up in the country he has insulted at every given opportunity is anyone's guess, but it's pretty safe to assume that his visit to Mexico to meet President Enrique ...read more
This must go down as the quote of the year: “I have a great relationship with the Mexican people...I have many legal immigrants working with me. And many of them come from Mexico...They love me, I love them. And I’ll tell you something, if I get the nomination, I’ll win the ...read more
UPDATE: NBC has now severed ties with Trump over his derogatory statements about immigrants. One of the major problems egotistical leaders have is their inability to accept reality. While ego may get them to the top, lack of self awareness can often lead to their downfall. From ...read more
If you follow boxing, you learn very quickly that Latin fighters are the most respected in the world. America, Britain, and Russia are nations with rich boxing history and phenomenal champions, but none come close to the notoriety of Latin American fighters - a continent that ...read more
Dinesh D'Souza is many things, but for our purposes here it suffices to say that he's an immigrant and a lawbreaker. Which is why it's deliciously ironic that Fox News would give him a platform on The Kelly File two months before his sentencing for campaign finance fraud to ...read more
Glenn Beck is no fan of liberals, and liberals aren't fans of his. But in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, Beck warrants props for doing the exact opposite of what a screaming pack of protesters did last week in California. In that ugly episode, three busloads of ...read more
Some friends of everyone's favorite deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy are raising hell again, according to San Antonio Express-News. Citizen militias in Texas under the names Patriots, Oathkeepers and Three Percenters, some of which helped “defend” the Bundy ranch, are swearing they ...read more
Happy Almost-Friday! Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a ...read more
I spent most of the years I lived in San Francisco in the traditionally Latino but grotesquely gentrified Mission District. Every Sunday morning at 8 a.m., a neighbor of mine would blare that festive, circus-y Mariachi music and hang out his window singing along loudly and ...read more
Foodies rose up in arms when the news broke that there was plan to replace the sugar cane in Mexican Coke (or 'Mexicoke') with American style corn syrup. The Mexican government recently imposed a new tax of $0.08 per liter of soda in response to the country's growing obesity ...read more
We're not sure exactly which section of the U.S. Constitution protects the privacy rights of foreign leaders, but Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden appear to believe it's in there somewhere. The tandem crusaders for the Fourth Amendment have once again extended their reach ...read more
Residents of the Mexican city Xalapa have a new choice for mayor, Morris the cat. Morris has more than 125,000 likes on Facebook and have inspired citizens to sponsor a donkey and chicken for other elected office. His slogan is "cat"chy (sorry). "Tired of voting for rats? ...read more
From the BBC: Mexico's old ruling party, the PRI, is set to return to power as early official results indicate its candidate Enrique Pena Nieto has won the presidential election. Mr Pena Nieto, 45, is on some 38%, several points ahead of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has ...read more
From the BBC: World leaders meeting at a G20 summit in Mexico have urged Europe to take all necessary measures to overcome the eurozone debt crisis. They voiced unease over what one top official described as "the single biggest risk for the world economy". But European ...read more
So says Sec. Clinton. “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers ...read more
They want to beat Team USA badly. The Record sports newspaper is encouraging readers to take part with a headline Tuesday that reads: 'Help end the losing streak so Mexico advances.' Readers are instructed to cut out a page and take it to an electronics store in exchange for a ...read more
