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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Civil-rights groups are dismissing President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship, calling it an unconstitutional election-week stunt to appeal to his base. Trump said in an interview Monday October 29 that he’s planning an executive order revoking the right to...
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Shelly Palmer For about 200,000 years, modern humans have relied on our eyes and ears to separate truth from lies and fact from fiction. Even if we ignore the rise of fake news (and how difficult it is to do anything about it), technology (like deep learning) is on...
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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana Cuando parecía empezar a tocar fondo la guerra del presidente Donald Trump contra los inmigrantes indocumentados, su administración decidió intensificar las hostilidades a menos de dos meses de las elecciones, con una iniciativa draconiana contra los migrantes legales que busca negar la residencia...
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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana “La verdad no es la verdad”. Con esa frase lapidaria, Rudolf Giuliani, el ex alcalde de Nueva York y actual abogado sui generis de Donald Trump, resumió la filosofía detrás de la embestida del presidente contra los medios informativos, contra el fiscal...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR This presentation is about the ‘distrust damage’ Mr. Donald J. Trump is responsible for creating whenever he invokes ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ and declares that news media and its journalists are ‘the enemy’. Trump is an individual who disparage others whenever it suits him...
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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana El tufo antiinmigrante y, en gran medida, antimexicano, de Donald Trump no es cosa nueva. Fue uno de los pilares de su ideario xenofóbico durante la campaña presidencial del 2016 y sigue siendo una muletilla retórica recurrente para exacerbar los ánimos entre un...
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Don Boudreaux Special to El Observador When President Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports America’s largest nail manufacturer had little choice but to raise prices. Mid Continent Nail Corporation lost 50 percent of its orders as customers opted for cheaper suppliers. Within weeks, the firm laid...
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EFE Washington D.C.- US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his controversial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was even better than the annual NATO summit in Brussels, at which he demanded a greater contribution to defense funding by America’s allies. “While I had a great meeting with NATO,...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Biologist Margaret Mead (1901-1976) observed, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” If ‘We, the People’ ever become fully engaged, committed, and involved in our governance at all levels, it...