Hatuey's Ashes

This is the blog of José G. Pérez. It is named in honor of the Taíno cacique Hatuey who led a guerrilla against the Spanish conquest of Cuba. After refusing baptism, he was burned at the stake in Yara, Cuba, on February 2, 1512.

Sunday, March 25, 2018

PA congressional contest: it wasn't about 'moderation' but about class

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The usual TV talking heads and dead-tree scribblers from the liberal commentariat are all bloviating about the just-concluded contest to rep...
Friday, January 26, 2018

One more iteration of "X" is ruining America and poisoning its youth

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One advantage of being on Medicare but not yet senile is that you're old enough to remember previous iterations of "whatever...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Ping-Pong diplomacy revisited: The two Koreas Olympic love-fest

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The lightning negotiations and cooperation between North and South Korea for the Olympics is being compared to the emergence of a bromance b...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Late Season's Greetings: No Merry Christmas, no Happy New Year

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[I wrote this on December 25. I didn't post it then, but after shithole and Hawaii ... ] There was no Christmas in my house this yea...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Fidel and I, and a nation unforgiven

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[I wrote this on Facebook a year ago, right after Fidel's death, and meant to publish it here, but never did. Reading commemorations fr...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

The tax cut that's really needed --
but neither party will talk about it

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No one --including the Schumer-Pelosi Democrats-- is talking about the one tax cut that should be made as a matter of basic fairness: exclud...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Puerto Rico is not 'America' -- it is the victim of American colonialism

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All the liberals and news commentators keep stressing that Puerto Ricans are American citizens, and that Puerto Rico is part of the United S...
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