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I’ve witnessed the effects of diversity up very close and very personal. I’ve been there and seen that. It’s not a pretty picture. I grew up in an expansive, four room, one bath luxury tenement in the South Bronx in the 1950’s, in a neighborhood adjacent to the future Fort Apache and peopled by the working class of Irish, Italian, German, and Polish extraction, and representatives of a number of other, chiefly European, nations. We all got along pretty well. There were gangs, of sorts, but not of the West Side Story variety. Most of us were Catholics, with a...

Milagros Garcia is an alleged Alien and Human inter-species hybrid. The blood DNA from this Puerto Rican woman has yielded analyses so unusual and interesting that the physician involved is now interested in meeting the subject for further study. The DNA is possible in humans but is very rare. Ms. Garcia claims that she is the offspring of an alien encounter. The Doctor is not interested in the UFO/ alien phenomena he wants answers as to why her DNA has such rare qualities. A Case similar to this is being investigated in New Paris Ohio. A woman there has exceptional...

Fred Thompson's campaign named a handful of volunteer grassroots leaders in Miami-Dade to help boost its outreach to Latino voters -- a territory rival Rudy Giuliani is putting great effort in reaching. County leadership positions announced today include co-chairs: Homestead Mayor Lynda Bell and Miami-Dade Commissioners Joe Martinez and Natacha Seijas. The latter two previously endorsed Thompson when he appeared at Miami's Urbeita Oil in October. Other's involved Lois Jones, Chris Miles and Luis Rodriguez.

On a tape of a closed-door meeting with advisers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of "black blood" and "Latino blood." "I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times and made available on its Web site Friday. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it." The six-minute tape was made earlier this year. On it, Schwarzenegger and Chief of...

BETHLEHEM -- A city resident has apologized for calling Puerto Rican drug families "the scum of the earth" in a flier he distributed last week to residents in the Marvine-Pembroke housing development. John Demeter, who's lived near the development on Lebanon Street for 32 years, placed the fliers on several residents' car windshields. In them, he threatens to "take away 23 years" from the Puerto Rican families after claiming they helped get his son addicted to heroin. The flier scared one resident enough that she called police and filed a complaint. The Northampton County Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Human...

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are withholding their party membership dues until they receive assurances from House Democratic leaders that the party will make a concerted effort to engage Hispanic voters and better serve the needs of the Hispanic community. Lawmakers withholding their dues said that their decision was the culmination of several years of frustration with what they view as the Democratic Party’s failure to reach out to Hispanics and include them in the decision-making process. They are also increasingly concerned by results at the ballot box and of post-election surveys showing that President Bush won 44...