tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759953Thu, 07 May 2009 04:04:03 +0000leaning right in a brown world...http://www.dgonzalez.com/noreply@blogger.com (DPG)Blogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759953.post-5903755973881863482Thu, 07 May 2009 03:48:00 +00002009-05-06T23:04:03.384-05:00Allright, first policy post. Time is pretty tight this week, but I wanted to comment on William McGurn's WSJ article yesterday on school choice.One of the prime beliefs of this blog is more liberty and more choice. When people control their own destinies instead of the government, good things tend to happen. Governments are good at: protecting the common defence, settling contract disputes and (http://www.dgonzalez.com/2009/05/allright-first-policy-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DPG)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759953.post-6980510351589950550Thu, 07 May 2009 03:33:00 +00002009-05-06T22:47:50.684-05:00I never knew Jack Kemp personally, but he had a huge impact on my life. He was the first guy I saw (even prior to Bradley, for me) that was a jock made policy wonk. He made me realize that I could blaze both paths; that I didn't have to be a jock OR a nerd...I could be both!He was a big influence in my thinking. I grew up in the shadow of my (then) fairly liberal father, working for NGO's and http://www.dgonzalez.com/2009/05/i-never-knew-jack-kemp-personally-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DPG)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759953.post-2369691990386993490Tue, 05 May 2009 00:50:00 +00002009-05-04T20:18:08.957-05:00backgroundThe corner of Right and Brown is a strange place. Without a doubt, the empirical evidence shows that Latinos tend to vote Democrat. Why?There's a few reasons, most having to do with the numbers of early generation Latino immigrants vs. 3rd+ generation. First, early generation Latinos tend to live in poorer neighborhoods (often crowding out African Americans in their traditional neighborhoods), http://www.dgonzalez.com/2009/05/corner-of-right-and-brown-is-strange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DPG)