Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Mexican-American Soldier in WWII When the United States first entered WWII in December of 1941, there were more than two and a half million people of Mexican descent living in the US, eighty-five percent of whom resided in five states: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California and Texas. But
Editor’s Page – January 2018 Read More »
Breaking Even (Revised and Enlarged Kindle Version)By Alejandro Grattan-DominguezAn Egret BookReviewed By Prof. Michael Hogan* Those readers who have experienced the richness of Chicano culture and life in Alejandro Grattan’s The Dark Side of the Dream already know the power of this author in painting complex and believable characters. In that novel, set against
Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Lincoln and Chronic Depression Professor Michael Hogan’s excellent book Lincoln and Mexico has spurred my interest in both topics but for now I’ll stick with Lincoln, with just a brief word about his one-time counterpart in Mexico, Benito Juarez. A most enjoyable way to learn much more about him (and
Editor’s Page – November 2017 Read More »
Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Greatest Novel Ever Written Hemingway thought Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn was one of the best novels ever written; others have thought it was Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, or Melville’s Moby Dick, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Jane Austen’s
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Justice Deferred But Not Forgotten Note: After a recent meeting of the Ajijic Writers’ Group, I was chatting with Tom Eck, formerly a highly successful attorney and today a frequent contributor to the pages of the Ojo, when we discovered that we strongly disagree about the guilt of OJ
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Normalizing Incivility Once upon a time and so long ago that I am reluctant to mention a specific time-frame, I enrolled at Texas A&M, hoping to someday become an officer/flyer in the United States Air Force, and with any luck at all, a gentleman, as well. For as long
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez (Given what recently took place at the last NATO meetings in Europe, we thought the republication of the following editorial might be especially relevant, in that almost every member country of that organization was with the Allies, one way or another, in the invasion of Normandy.) The Day the
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Tuesdays With Morrie Though it is not our custom to review books in this column, exceptions are what prove the rules. Such an anomaly concerns Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie. The book falls into the category of “spiritual/inspirational,” and ordinarily I would not venture within ten miles of this genre.
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Liberal Or Conservative? (In the 16 peer-reviewed scientific studies summarized below, researchers found that liberals and conservatives have different brain structures, different physiological responses to stimuli, and activate different neural mechanisms when confronted with similar situations. The following results were published in the magazine ProCon.org) · Conservatives spend
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez CELSITO—A Prince Amongst Paupers—An Immigration Story of Sorts— Many, many years ago (and seemingly in another lifetime!), two friends of mine in Los Angeles were thinking of buying some property in Ensenada. My wife and I would occasionally accompany the married couple down on weekends to scout out
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