A new report released by Politico this week added to the mountain of data about the absurdity of the term "Latinx." The word, which came into fashion as a gender-neutral term to describe Latinos, is favored by activists and a growing crew of Democrats , consultants and media pundits—just not by Latinos. The new report found that just 2 percent of Hispanics use the word—while 40 percent are actually offended by it. Of course, for those of us from the Latino community, this is not news. Latinos like other Americans care less about academic activist terminology than the economy, the pandemic, and healthcare. And Democrats who want Latino votes need to learn how to talk to Latinos where they are at. Where they are at is often the working class—which also explains why they are offended by phrases like Latinx. Let me explain why. My father came to the United States as an illegal immigrant, fleeing extreme poverty and a grotesque civil war in El Salvador. My mother was born and …
Pecresse a danger to Macron in French election run-off, if she can get there -opinion poll
PARIS (Reuters) - Valerie Pecresse, who this weekend won the centre-right ticket for the 2022 election, earned a bounce in support and would give President Emmanuel Macron the closest challenge in an eventual run-off, a Harris Interactive opinion poll showed on Monday. However, the survey showed Pecresse still lacked the backing to reach April's second round, underlining the challenge she faces galvanizing supporters of her fractured Les Republicains party in a crowded space on the political right. The poll, conducted over the weekend when Pecresse won her party ticket and the campaign launch of far-right writer Eric Zemmour was marred in violence, saw the conservative climb three points to 14% voter support. That left her level with Zemmour but still four points behind Marine Le Pen, leader of the traditional far-right Rassemblement National party, and further still behind centrist Macron who has yet to formally declare a re-election bid. Pecresse, 54, who has described …
Here’s who should (and should not) replace Chris Cuomo at CNN
Chris Cuomo Chris Cuomo Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses Cuomo brothers' delayed downfall Cuomo quits radio show to 'focus on what comes next' Cuomo absent from SiriusXM radio show following firing from CNN MORE got his walking papers from CNN on Saturday after text messages revealed he was working with the staff of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses Cuomo brothers' delayed downfall Cuomo quits radio show to 'focus on what comes next' Cuomo's firing from CNN came amid allegation of sexual misconduct: report MORE (D-N.Y.) to discredit credible sexual harassment accusations against his embattled brother. Yet the telling blow to Cuomo's career may have been not only the damning texts but a report in the New York Times over the weekend, stating that the former anchor may have #MeToo allegations of his own on his ledger after a younger female staffer leveled sexual harassment allegations against him. Add it all …
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Biden, Putin summit: 4 things to know
close Video Biden is playing right into Putin’s hands Victor Davis Hanson: You don’t want to be loud and carry a twig like the Biden admin is doing. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Ukraine’s borders are a parking lot for Russian tanks, trucks, and artillery ready for a three-pronged blitzkrieg. President Joe Biden will see updated imagery of those military vehicles and snowy parking tracks before his video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. PRESIDENT BIDEN COULD MAKE RUSSIA PAY IF IT INVADES UKRAINE It’s Putin’s move. Russia can invade Ukraine "on short order should he so decide," Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Dec. 1. Don’t forget over 13,000 have died in the fighting in eastern Ukraine since 2014, according to the UN. Here’s what Biden must understand. Putin’s tactics come straight from Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin who said in 1917: "Probe with a bayonet; if you meet steel, …
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What voters actually want levelling up to achieve is pretty simple
Just what is “levelling up”? The question of how to reduce the profound differences between the affluent southeast and more deprived areas of the north of England and West Midlands has been the biggest policy challenge – Covid-19 notwithstanding – since the 2019 election. After nearly two years of dithering, Boris Johnson used the last cabinet reshuffle to finally focus his government on the problem. It now falls to Michael Gove , he of the famously wide-ranging education reforms, and Neil O’Brian – surely the best ministerial team Johnson has at his disposal – to come up with something tangible before the " red wall " gets to decide whether double down on its 2019 electoral gamble – or to flip back to Labour at the next election. Although another delay in publishing the White Paper on levelling up until January 2022 is not encouraging. Surely answering the “what” question before the “how” would be sensible for Gove et al. Best to ask what would success for …
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Conservatism has wrecked this country – just as it was designed to
It isn’t often that life presents us with second chances. Whether it’s not breaking up with that girl who in hindsight you could have married, not flunking that crucial exam, or not crippling your country’s economy and health services with your mismanagement of a pandemic, there are lots of things we would do differently, given the chance. Well, Stacy married Craig, and you didn’t get into Oxford, but for one man, Boris Johnson , that second chance may have just presented itself. The omicron variant is here , but unlike its older cousin it hasn’t taken us by surprise. We haven’t been caught on the back foot this time; no, the omicron variant has announced its presence with all the fireworks and spectacle of an American gender reveal party. The conditions for this new variant to wreak havoc on the UK are close to perfect: it’s winter, right before Christmas, most places are open, and the anti-mask crowd have really stepped up their game in the past few months. But …
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Curt Schilling deletes Twitter account after Bubba Wallace remarks draw ire
Former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling deleted his Twitter account on Wednesday after comparing NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to disgraced actor Jussie Smollett. Schilling was trending on Twitter in the MLB community after the comment, which had many netizens calling him racist. Jussie Smollett was slammed by the public for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself in January 2019. In March, all charges against him dropped in exchange for his bond money and community service, though the FBI is still examining the case. This week, a NASCAR crew member reported a noose hanging from the side of driver Bubba Wallace's garage stall. Though the FBI reported it was not a hate crime, Wallace and many others remain unconvinced. Schilling's Twitter was last active on Tuesday before it disappeared completely. Twitter users who visit the page of @gehrig38, his former handle, are now met with a message that claims the account doesn't exist. It was Tuesday when the baseball legend made the …
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Comedian loses radio show after calling Black public health director a racial slur
Jason Robo, a 39-year-old comedian, lost his radio show after he hurled a racial ly charged comment at San Diego County Public Health Director Wilma Wooten, who is Black. "You should resign, [Nora] Vargas. I can't wait for your arteries to clog. They're not doing it fast enough. And Nathan [Fletcher], you should kill yourself, a dishonorable discharge would be you blowing your brains out. [Terra] Lawson-Remer, I like to call you a little monkey. I'd like to see you hang from a tree. And [Dr. Wilma] Wooten, you're a f**king Aunt Jemima," Robo said during a Tuesday meeting held by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors concerning the COVID vaccine mandate. The vice chairwoman and board supervisor at San Diego County, Nora Vargas, immediately interrupted Robo after he insulted Wooten and demanded that his microphone would be turned off. Lauren Schmitt, the news director at KMUD radio station, confirmed to Newsweek on Thursday that Robo lost his radio show in Humboldt County …
End the impunity: On Nagaland killing
Notwithstanding the rationale provided by the Union Government and the armed forces for the horrific killing of six coal miners and the deaths of nine civilians and a soldier in the aftermath of the incident in Mon district, the residents of Nagaland, and indeed many in North-east India, will only read this incident as an outcome of impunity accorded by the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA . It is no wonder that two Chief Ministers — Conrad Sangma of Meghalaya and Neiphiu Rio of Nagaland — have immediately demanded its repeal; the Act remains in place in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, three districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and areas falling within the jurisdiction of eight police stations of the State bordering Assam, with the authority to use force or open fire to maintain public order in “disturbed areas”. The firing on the vehicle carrying the coal miners in Oting village, home to the Konyak Naga community, was carried out by soldiers of the ‘21 Para Commando Unit’, and …
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Cricket | Time to get rid of the baggage and modernise the LBW law
The 12th century French thinker and theologian Peter Abelard is credited with the saying, “Only god can judge the intentions of an individual.” Human beings can only judge actions. Yet, when the leg before wicket law was codified, in the 18th century, it stated the batsman was out if he “put his leg before the wicket with a design to stop the ball…” Umpires were thus called to judge intention. Law 36 has remained a bugbear, calling for judgement of line, intent, and recently, predictive path decided by a robot. It requires the impact to be between wicket and wicket. The batsman could be out even outside the off stump, according a later refinement, if he made no attempt to play the ball. But a ball pitching outside the leg stump, as every schoolboy knows, cannot get an LBW decision. The Don’s take In the 1930s, Don Bradman wrote to the Marylebone Cricket Club, custodians of the Laws, suggesting that a batsman be given out to a ball pitching outside the off stump if in the opinion …
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