Yes, there was a time when the Irish were targeted by anti-immigration activists. They were beaten, scorned, characterized mocked and excluded from an opportunity to achieve the American dream. Today it is the Mexicans who are criticized and mocked because they seek the American dream. Many Mexican nationals come to this country to improve their [...]

As a citizen journalist I run into some pretty amazing stuff. Sometimes people quickly deny what a tipster may have let me know about and sometimes they exaggerate. Sometimes they’re simply misinformed and other times they’re simply ignorant that there was ever a problem. Sometimes there was nothing done wrong in the first place — [...]

I was surprised. I am appalled. My wife and I decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood and what I saw was extremely disturbing. Workers from Lowe’s were installing windows in one of my neighbors homes and did not take any precautions what so ever to comply with lead safe renovation. On April [...]

Until recently, I can’t say that I have felt any sense of solidarity for immigrant protesters over the past few years. In fact, they’ve sickened me. Taking advantage of our rights to peaceful protest as American citizens while sporting Mexican flags was the reason for my disdain. After all, if you don’t love our country, [...]

Sometimes I hear things that are so ridiculous that they bear addressing. Such was a poorly written and poorly thought out column I read this morning. The column lambasted liberals and Democrats for playing divisive politics and not working with Republicans. He claimed that while Democrats wanted a cohesive and cordial bipartisan relationship with Republicans, [...]