As in 2008, Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith is still an issue. Last month, Romney visited America’s most-famous evangelist, Billy Graham, and son Franklin. Romney received an endorsement. This endorsement, and the way it was handled, is a source of controversy in some evangelical circles.
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Blog post by Allan Wall, published Nov. 4th, 2012, on VDARE.COM.
Tags: 2012 Election, Christian Doctrine, Mormonism
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, was the runner-up in the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections, though he refused to concede either election.
AMLO has recently endorsed Obama in the U.S. election, and has excoriated Republicans for “racism against the immigrants”.
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Blog post by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM, Nov. 3rd, 2012.
Does the Maya calendar really prophesy the end of the world on December 21st, 2012? There’s been a lot of hysteria about this topic.
However, even the purveyors of the hysteria are not in agreement on what it entails. Is it the end of the world, the end of life on earth, or “just” the end of human civilization or “widespread catastrophe”? Or is it a new “cosmic consciousness” or “global harmony”?
What’s the evidence, anyway?
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Article published Sept. 8th, 2012, on the Mexconnect.com website.
Tags: Archaeology, Maya Culture, Mesoamerica
Last July 1st Mexico held elections, choosing a new president and electing an entirely new Congress. Two months later, the transition is proceeding on schedule.
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Article published by Allan Wall, on Mexidata.info, September 10th, 2012.
Mexico sent 102 athletes to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and they competed in 23 sports.
By the time the Games were completed, Mexican athletes had earned one gold medal, three silver medals and three bronze medals. It was Mexico’s second biggest Olympic medal count in history. And the gold medal was in soccer!
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Article by Allan Wall, published on Mexidata.info, August 27th, 2012.
Tags: Sports
The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, have ended. Over 200 teams competed, and one of them was the Puerto Rican team. Puerto Rico, though it is a U.S. territory, has had its own Olympic team since 1948. This year’s Puerto Rican team brought home two medals, which taking into consideration Puerto Rico’s population (less than 4 million) is commendable. After all, the majority of countries competing in London won no medals at all, and Puerto Rico tied for 63rd place with Estonia, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia. Indonesia, at 238 million is the world’s fourth-most population country!
What does the existence of the Puerto Rican team, and its support on the island tell us about Puerto Rican nationalism? What about Puerto Rico’s future status? How would its Olympic team situation change if it became the 51st state of the United States? These are questions worth considering, for the good of the U.S. and of Puerto Rico.
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Article by Allan Wall, published on VDARE.COM, August 25th, 2012.
Tags: Puerto Rico, Sports
In the recent Mexican elections, held on July 1st, Mexicans went to the polls and elected a new president and an entirely new congress. In addition, gubernatorial elections were held in six states while legislative and municipal elections were held in twelve states.
In Mexico City, the Federal District, voters selected their next Jefe de Gobierno, Miguel Angel Mancera of the coalition PRD/PAN/MC. Mancera is scheduled to take office on December 5th, replacing current Jefe Marcelo Ebrard.
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Article by Allan Wall, published on Mexidata.info, August 20th, 2012.
In a rather bizarre twist in the by-now-familiar quest to win Hispanic voters for Romney, a group of Hispanic Republicans is attacking Obama for – deporting too many illegal aliens?
As Stephen Dinan reports in the Washington Times in “Conservative Ads in Spanish Tell a Different Story to Hispanics” (Aug. 9th, 2012):
Polls show President Obama holds a clear advantage among Hispanic
voters this year, but a new Spanish-language television ad, running
in Nevada and sponsored by a conservative group, aims to peel
away those supporters by arguing that his administration set records
for deporting illegal immigrants. It’s a message that could backfire
if it were in English — deporting illegal immigrants is a popular stance
in many conservative communities. But English-speaking voters likely
will never see the ad, which is running on two major Spanish-language
networks in Las Vegas.
This is what happens when politicians run ads in a foreign language. It closes out the mainstream English-speaking population from knowing what’s being promised to a minority group.
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Article by Allan Wall, published Aug. 18th, 2012 on VDARE.COM.
Tags: 2012 Election, Demography, Language Politics
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was a candidate for president of Mexico for the PRD (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) and two smaller parties. AMLO was the election’s runner-up, but he didn’t accept his defeat and is now disputing the election results.
Wait a minute. Are we talking about the 2006 election, or the 2012 election?
It could be either, because the same thing happened both times. Déjà vu? Or just another Mexican presidential election involving AMLO?
Yes, AMLO is indeed disputing another election, as he did six years ago.
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Article by Allan Wall, published on Mexidata.info, August 13th, 2012.
The food stamp program, run by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) is now referred to officially as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The food products are now purchased with an electronic debit card known as an EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer). However, the old name stuck and the benefits received are still commonly called “food stamps”.
According to the USDA, in fiscal 2011 a record 44.7 million U.S. residents received food stamps, at a cost of 75.3 billion dollars. The number one SNAP-receiving state was Rick Perry’s Texas, followed by California and then Florida. By June of 2012 , the figure was at about 46.4 million.
About a seventh of the U.S. resident U.S. population is now on food stamps, but to the federal government that’s not enough. There are still folks who are eligible for the program who but aren’t collecting, so the feds are trying to convince more people to apply for SNAP.
The majority of food stamp recipients are not Hispanics. But, the government would like to get more Hispanics on the program. The USDA even has a page on its website entitled “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance”.
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Article published on VDARE.COM, on August 9th, 2012.
Tags: Welfare State