In response to complaints from one parent, Rudolfo A. Anaya’s award-winning novel Bless Me, Ultima (1972) was removed from the sophomore required reading list which has been part of the sophomore curriculum at “Orestimba High School” for more than a decade.
Rudolfo A. Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima was spotlighted on former First Lady Laura Bush’s must-read [...]

Reuters – People walk past a Bank of America branch in New York August 13, 2009. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited [...]

Is this even necessary? Ten thousand people marched in Washington, fed up with the government spending. Showing and chanting slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” and “I’m not your ATM.” Now all this is fine and dandy but I do not remember people doing this when then President Bush was wasting [...]

People line up in front an image of Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara before attending a funeral ceremony honoring Cuba’s Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque in Havana, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Almeida Bosque, 82, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, died of [...]

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Writer – 12 mins ago
MEXICO CITY – A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were released unharmed.