By SILVIO CANTO, JR. It was refreshing to hear Texas Governor Greg Abbott of Texas challenge the chaos (and lawlessness) at the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend. The situation has gone way beyond a debate over unaccompanied kids on the border. It is now about encouraging criminal elements in Mexico to come north, as the governor said in an interview
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As the United States is finally beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of novel coronavirus infections, we are reminded how grave the covid-19 situation remains in Mexico, where infections and the death toll continues to rise. (As of Thursday, March 4, there were more than 2.1 million officially confirmed
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. I just saw a note that said that American football quarterback Tom Brady is not planning to retire if he wins another Super Bowl. He is 43 years old and wants to play until 45! That’s amazing and a reminder of Nolan Ryan, who was 46 when he retired in 1993. (By the way, he was
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. On Saturday, Jan. 23, U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke by phone. According to news reports, the Mexican president said that the United Stats has pledged $4 billion to Central America. in development investment programs. I guess that Biden is hoping that money going south will keep caravans from going
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. We all have new year’s resolutions, from weight loss to reading more books. In my case, I decided to get out of the Twitter world. My decision was based on all the crazy stuff I had been reading on Twitter and the obvious censorship of conservative opinions. Now Twitter has deleted U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Did Facebook or Twitter plan to kill the Hunter Biden story? Maybe so, but they accomplished the exact opposite. In other words, more and more people are talking about it and wondering why it was censored in the first place. This is from an article in the Daily Wire by Emily Zanotti: “Twitter’s crackdown on a
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. For the first time in a century, there are no rigs searching for oil in Venezuela. Wells that once tapped the world’s largest crude reserves are now abandoned or left to flare toxic gases that cast an orange glow over depressed oil towns. Refineries that once processed oil for export are rusting hulks, leaking crude that
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Politics aside, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) was an extraordinary woman. She dedicated her life to the pursuit of jurisprudence and carried on a relentless war against whatever she perceived to be social injustices and legal inequities. Her battle against cancer was an inspiration for all who’ve dealt with it, directly or indirectly.
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The latest electoral poll in Texas shows President Donald Trump up by 7 points over Joe Biden, and Senator John Cornyn up by 8 points. I’m not at all surprised by those numbers, but the information about Hispanics in Texas is quite interesting. According to the Dallas Morning News: “Among Hispanic voters who spoke Spanish at home,
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. So who got the National Basketball Association (NBA) to shut up and dribble? Answer: China in its most intimidating ways, as David Whitley wrote in the Orlando Sentinel: “Amid all the preaching, would someone please make a peep about a country that commits more human rights abuses in 10 minutes than the United States does in 10
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