It’s not exactly the southern headline the Romney campaign wanted to wake up to the morning after. But a win is a win in–American Samoa, where it’s not true Romney got to count the big Samoans twice.
At least now maybe Romney, who has already sung a tune on the campaign trail, can adopt a theme son...
Lady Gaga is all gaga about bullying, which she’s trying to elevate in our consciousness as tantamount to human rights abuse.
A bit far-fetched for some, but not for me.
What is bullying but racism without color?
To a bully, race doesn’t matter. The name of the game is the expression of power and...
The most hateful rhetoric of Tuesday night came from the mouth of a white male, probably late 20s-mid 30s, who was part of a CNN focus group in Ohio, a key state in next week’s Super Tuesday voting.
The man seemed to be a Santorum supporter, but he was more adamant about one thing: electability.
O...
Once again I watched the Oscars waiting for a Sacheen Littlefeather moment. You’ll remember her (unless you think Christopher Plummer is the name of someone to call to fix that problem in the bathroom).
Littlefeather is the Native American activist enlisted by Marlon Brando to accept his Oscar the ...
We were all having so much fun, too. But that’s no excuse for racism.
I was wondering when someone would use a “Chink in the Armor” reference.
I’m sure many Asian Americans thought about it too. But only the most screwed up Asian American self-hater would use it in public to describe the basketbal...
Maybe they should take down all the “NO MSG” signs in Chinese restaurants around New York.
MSG officially stands for Madison Square Garden, and MSG is saying “YES!” in a big way to our new national Asian American hero, Jeremy Lin.
Playing in the NBA on a hapless Knicks team with all its injured mi...
A prior engagement on the West Coast meant I couldn’t get to the AALDEF dinner in New York City last week. So let me give my own award to AALDEF honoree Fareed Zakaria for an excellent interview Sunday with George Soros on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show.
It’s not every day you see someone elicit suc...
A Super Bowl victory means New York is now home to a world-class football team. (It’s primarily in Jersey, but who’s to quibble?)
Coach Tom Coughlin, the man everyone wanted fired mid-season, is now seen in a new light–as a victorious leader.
As the former NFL analyst and coach John Madden liked t...
In politics, when the going gets rough, the tough get dirty and divisive. Even though voters say they don’t like to see it, when a campaign is desperate to have a victory, going negative really works.
Florida was so nasty, we can’t even call what they were throwing mud. It was fecal.
And now that ...
After all the countless GOP debates, last night we really needed to see someone act presidential and remind us why this whole campaign process is important.
And who else but a president can reassure a nervous country about its well-being, its economic stature, its place in the world?
In an address...
I don’t care about Romney’s taxes. If H&R Block didn’t do them for him, he made too much money, and he likely paid less tax proportionately than any of us.
Indeed, to make $43 million over two years, paying $6.2 million in taxes, with $7 million to charities, puts Romney at an effective rate of 14%...
Now that we are in primary season, it’s pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have a real answer to President Obama.
The party’s once and future front-runner Mitt Romney is imploding. His hair is in place, but he’s imploding.
And the new momentum guy is the retread Newt Gingrich. Gingrich so undeniably re...
Jerry Yang, Chief Yahoo and quintessential Asian American internet entrepreneur, is no longer wildly shrieking the brand.
Instead, the words from Yang’s lips are whatever you say when something doesn’t work out, or you don’t find something.
What’s the opposite of “Eureka” that rhymes with Mitt?
T...
The first GOP primary was a bit like musical chairs, except when the music stopped, there were still the same number of chairs and the same number of candidates.
No one wants to leave, though surely the gig is up.
Mitt Romney’s still sitting up-front with the others slightly re-arranged though sti...
An 8 point win in Iowa as we approach the Year of the Dragon would only be a good omen for an Asian American.
Just not for Mitt Romney.
Romney, the candidate who could be anchorman, hardly can be called a winner in a contest that’s a statistical tie. (Right, all ye math mavens?) But in a democracy...
I’ve always thought it strange that the two bellwether states that really begin the political season are Iowa and New Hampshire.
Bellwether for what? Certainly not diversity.
In Iowa and New Hampshire, it may as well be America in the 1950s, impregnable to immigration and minorities. It is pre-Ame...
With the death of Kim Jong-il comes a sliver of hope. Will the family franchise of famine and daredevil nuclear gamesmanship continue? Or, for the sake of its people, is there any chance of real change in North Korea?
In other words, does this emotional period of public mourning offer enough of an ...
As of this week, I’m not buying my screws from Lowe’s anymore, though there must be a surplus of loose screws back at the home office.
The home improvement chain sure has a strange way of celebrating America’s diversity.
“Duck and cover” may have worked in the 1950s for air raids and earthquakes. ...
December 7th will live in infamy for a different reason in the history of the Occupy movement.
In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee gave the OK for a brutal pre-dawn raid of the OccupySF encampment, with police moving in around 1 a.m., tearing down tents, seizing property, and arresting 80 people.
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Who would have thought the person to jumpstart an all-but-dead national immigration debate would be none other than the gringo’s gringo, Newt Gingrich?
Gingrich, the ethically challenged politico, proud philanderer, and insistent historian (never a–gasp–lobbyist), is truly someone to whom, say, a H...
