Wealthier Asian American and Latino voters in Orange County may be pivotal in upcoming elections

Orange County Republican Reps. Young Kim, left, of Anaheim Hills and Michelle Steel of Seal Beach are seen on the House floor before a vote last year. Both represent districts that will be hotly contested in the 2024 election. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call Inc./Getty Images) Robert Baca’s political compass has always pointed toward the … Read more

The Truth About Illegal Immigrants

No issue jerks the knees of Californians — indeed, all Americans — as much as illegal immigration and its effect on the state and the nation. One reason that it tends to elicit pre-programmed responses across the political spectrum is that the information available on the subject has traditionally been of two kinds: bad and … Read more

House Votes to Reprimand Frank for Ethics Violations

After three hours of uncommonly rancorous debate, the House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to formally reprimand Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), one of two openly gay congressmen, for ethics violations stemming from his relationship with a male prostitute. The 408-18 vote came after the House easily turned aside attempts by some Republicans to impose the harsher penalties … Read more

GOP Rejects Its Past in Courting Black Support

The chairman of the Republican Party on Thursday renounced the GOP’s racially polarizing “Southern strategy” of the late 1960s, under which Richard M. Nixon used such issues as desegregation and forced busing of schoolchildren to woo white voters and win the presidency. Republican National Committee chief Ken Mehlman made the comments in Milwaukee to the … Read more

She’s lighter ‘in a lot of ways’

Poking around Google a few weeks back to see how various television reporters were playing the healthcare debate, I searched for “Candy Crowley.” Back came the expected raft of citations: government stories, pieces from Election 2008, a link to Crowley’s award-studded bio. There was a mention of her elegant obituary of Ted Kennedy. And this: … Read more

Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela are not at the Summit of the Americas — but their dissidents are

Carolina Barrero, 35, said she has been threatened with expulsion, imprisonment and torture due to her activism and involvement in demonstrations against the Cuban government. (Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times) It took two Cuban intelligence officers to carry art historian and activist Carolina Barrero, her hands and feet cuffed, from the protest she was … Read more

THE JUDICIARY : Clinton’s Big Bench: Judges of All Stripes and Colors Appointed : Blacks, Latinos, women, even Republicans fill federal vacancies. It is the most diverse group named by any President.

They are a Baltimore prosecutor whose husband was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, a renowned civil rights lawyer here who is legally blind, a veteran prosecutor who became the highest ranking African American in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, a Latino activist in Chicago who worked as a U.S. attorney and … Read more

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