Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

by Sam Stein (Huffington Post)
March 7, 2010

Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) “brave” on Sunday for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the Texas Republican said that Bunning’s fiscal responsibility was commendable, [...]

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Leaked documents reveal GOP plan to use scare tactics to raise money

by Brett Michael Dykes (from Yahoo News)
March 4, 2010

National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party’s plan to tap voters’ “fear” in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in [...]

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Mitt Romney says Bush ended recession, ‘took down’ Taliban

from Politico.com
February 18, 2010

Mitt Romney offered an unusual tribute to George W. Bush in his speech today, making him one of the few speakers at CPAC to even mention the former president:
I am convinced that history will judge President Bush far more kindly — he pulled us from a deepening recession following the attack of [...]

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Dana Perino – No terrorism occurred during Bush’s Presidency

Streetgangs.com
November 30, 2009
Did Dana Perino claimed that during the 8 years of George Bush as President that there were no terrorist attacks against the United States? She forgot that September 11, 2001 did indeed occur during President Bush’s tenure. She also believes that the Ft. Hood shooting by which killed 13 persons, was a [...]

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Hyperbolic Attack of Illegal Citizens through a Misinformation Campaign

By Alex Alonso
September 9, 2009
As a gang researcher the issue of illegal immigration comes up often when being interviewed or asked to opine on the subject of Los Angeles gangs. For some, illegal immigration is a major reason why street gangs exisit, but the reality is that most gang members, including Hispanics, are US [...]

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Laura Ling and Euna Lee confirmed they did cross North Korean border

Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
August 7, 2009
Today the two journalist, Laura Ling and Euna Lee confirmed that they did cross into North Korea, as North Korean President, Kim Jong-Il stated. On March 21, 2009, the North Koreans stated that two Americans were detained while illegally intruding into the territory of the DPRK by crossing the [...]

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The great divider, Glenn Beck, exposed his deep rooted racialized view of President Obama

Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
July 29, 2009
Glenn Beck, revealed his true feelings about Barack Obama, by calling him a “racist” on the Fox and Friends morning show on July 28, 2009. Although President Obama was raised by white people, has hired white people to run his cabinet, and grew up with white people, Beck believes [...]

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Doug McIntyre Claims Smear Campaign against Jamiel Shaw

Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
May 15, 2008
I wrote an article about the murder of Jamiel Shaw to emphasize that the conflict between the Bloods and 18th Street is the primary reason why the shooter targeted Jamiel and not race. The main point is that Pedro Espinoza, was not on 5th Avenue looking for a random [...]

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Kevin James puts his foot in his mouth on Hardball with Chris Matthews

By Alex Alonso
May 15, 2008
For the last few years, Kevin James has been spewing his hyperbolic rhetoric on Los Angeles radio, while offering no intelligent dialogue on the issues that are most important to Angelenos. His views on street LA street gangs, Special Order 40, and the Mayor are almost always wrong, and he [...]

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Ben Baeder, writer, exaggerates in article on gangs

By Alex Alonso for StreetGangs.com
July 11, 2007
A writer for the Whittier Daily News published an article on gangs that included my name and website in an appalling fashion. I found an excerpt of that article below:
…The LOTT (Living On The Top) gang is based in Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. It started in the [...]

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Illegal Alien incarceration rate measured in flawed FAIR report

By Alex Alonso
April 7, 2007
On April 6, 2007, talk radio host, Larry Elder was talking about the argument that Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera had about an illegal alien drunk driver that killed two other persons in the commonwealth of Virginia during O’Reilly’s FOX cable show, The O’Reilly Factor. Elder stated that Rivera was [...]

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Doug McIntyre on Illegal Alien Gang Members in Los Angeles

By Alex Alonso
April 6, 2007
Radio commentator Doug McIntyre of 790 KABC Radio hosts the morning show from 5am – 9am and does a great job, but I heard a comment from him that I have to address. On April 6, 2007 he stated that illegal aliens are “an enormous component of the gang bangin” problem [...]

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