THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

An activist group for German-Americans, eerily reminiscent of Aryan Nazi racism. How about an Armenian Studies Program at a major university? Or a “wise Pakistani” on the Supreme Court? Yet few seem to question The National Council of La Raza, the Chicano Studies Program, or the “wise Latina” —all eligible for Affirmative Action originally intended [...]

BLITZER:  Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants? CALDERON:  Of course! Of course! BLITZER: If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico and they wind up in Mexico, they can going get a job? CALDERON:  No, [...]

The Gulf oil spill, which British Petroleum is now trying to cap, so to speak, at the wellhead five thousand feet below the surface with a steel and concrete box, is puny compared to a Pemex one back in the early 80s 1979. That sucker was spewing even more oil than BP’s until it finally [...]

After complaining about how ignored the drugs wars in Mexico have been in Big Media, I stupidly misssed a recent, pretty complete look at the issue in Rolling Stone. It even addresses the notion (really the only solution) of legalizing heroin/cocaine/marijuana. But regulated and taxed, as alcohol is now. It would stop the war in [...]

It’s official, size ten flying shoes to the contrary notwithstanding: "The police are generally helpless, hundreds of thousands of middle-class Mexicans have fled the border region, often to the United States (if they had dual-citizenship, which many do). Those without money must hunker down and wait for someone to win this war." We could put [...]

The narco wars continue to rock in Old Mexico, but don’t expect Big Media to get too exercised. Hey, it’s dangerous down there on the border. Somebody with a reporter’s notebook might get hurt.

The narco wars continue to rock in Old Mexico, but don’t expect Big Media to get too exercised. Hey, it’s dangerous down there on the border. Somebody with a reporter’s notebook might get hurt.

Well, not quite, but almost. Couple of good notices lately, one at the Small Wars Journal and one from Stratfor, of the increasing drug wars going on in Mexico, corrupting their government and spilling over our southern border. If the Mexican government becomes thoroughly, instead of merely traditionally, corrupt, then what do we do? It [...]

The Mexican government, which, among other things, promotes illegal immigration to the U.S., is far more exercised about the Texas execution of convicted rapist and murderer Jose Medellin than your average Mexicano. Gee, I wonder why? Via Baldilocks

Next Cinco de Mayo, it should be remembered that, without the help of American Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, it might have taken Mexico years longer to oust the French army and their Austrian puppet-monarch Maximillian I. Grant considered the 1860s French invasion of Mexico (accompanied, at first, by the Spanish and British) to [...]