Opinion Archive: Linda Chavez
- Coulter's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy — Friday, December 30, 2011
- Home for Christmas — Friday, December 23, 2011
- Tebow Critics Put Their Own Bigotry on Display — Friday, December 16, 2011
- Obama Is No Teddy Roosevelt — Friday, December 9, 2011
- Egyptian Elections Pose Danger for US — Friday, December 2, 2011
- New Deportation Rules a Cynical Move — Friday, November 18, 2011
- Arizona Bids Adios to Illegal Immigrant Basher — Friday, November 11, 2011
- GOP Should Quit Stirring the Anti-Immigrant Pot — Friday, October 28, 2011
- How Do We Care for the Elderly? — Saturday, October 22, 2011
- A Colorblind America — Friday, October 14, 2011
- Steve Jobs -- a Relentless Visionary — Friday, October 7, 2011
- GOP Can Learn From Reagan on Immigration — Friday, September 30, 2011
- Standardized Testing Under Attack ... Again — Friday, September 23, 2011
- Racial Preferences in Wisconsin — Friday, September 16, 2011
- The Clean Energy Crash-and-Burn — Friday, September 2, 2011
- How to Fix the Housing Depression — Friday, August 26, 2011
- Bilingual Ballots Are a Bad Idea — Friday, August 19, 2011
- Ingratitude, Insolence and Entitlement — Friday, August 12, 2011
- A Clash of Visions — Friday, August 5, 2011
- Obama's Leadership Deficit — Friday, July 29, 2011
- Making Things Worse by Trying to Do Better — Friday, July 22, 2011
- Drop in Illegal Immigration Opens Door for Real Reform — Friday, July 15, 2011
- Goodbye, Washington — Friday, July 8, 2011
- Wal-Mart Case Is a Victory for Consumers — Friday, June 24, 2011
- Exhibitionist Nation — Friday, June 17, 2011
- Killing the Housing Market — Friday, June 10, 2011
- Putting Children First — Friday, June 3, 2011
- We're the Problem — Friday, May 27, 2011
- Obama's Abandonment of Israel — Friday, May 20, 2011
- English for Immigrants — Friday, May 13, 2011
- Reward, Don't Punish CIA Interrogators — Friday, May 6, 2011
- Democrats' Hispanic Problem — Friday, April 29, 2011
- Trump, Birthers, and the Truth — Friday, April 22, 2011
- Spare Us the Hypocrisy, Mr. President — Friday, April 15, 2011
- Unanswered Questions — Friday, April 1, 2011
- Hispanic Boom — Friday, March 25, 2011
- Leadership From Gov. Kasich — Friday, March 18, 2011
- Caution on Wisconsin Vote — Friday, March 11, 2011
- Obama Irrelevant on World Stage — Friday, March 4, 2011
- Union Backlash — Friday, February 25, 2011
- End Racial Preferences Now — Friday, February 18, 2011
- Slaying Sacred Cows — Friday, February 11, 2011
- Happy Birthday, President Reagan — Friday, February 4, 2011
- Why History Matters — Friday, January 28, 2011
- Civility Not Censorship — Friday, January 21, 2011
- Uniting Congress — Saturday, January 15, 2011
- Rejecting Extremism — Friday, January 7, 2011
About Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization in Sterling, Virginia. She also writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country, is a political analyst for Fox News Channel, and hosts a syndicated, daily radio show on Liberty Broadcasting. Chavez authored Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (Basic Books, 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that "should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike." National Review describes Chavez's newest work, An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Basic Books, 2002), as a "brilliant, provocative, and moving book." Her latest book, Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics, exposes the connections between Big Labor and the Democratic Party. And she is currently working on a book on immigration.
In 2000, Chavez was honored by the Library of Congress as a "Living Legend" for her contributions to America's cultural and historical legacy. In January 2001, Chavez was President George W. Bush's nominee for Secretary of Labor until she withdrew her name from consideration.
Chavez has held a number of appointed positions, among them chairman, National Commission on Migrant Education (1988-1992); White House Director of Public Liaison (1985); staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983-1985); and she was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986). Chavez was the Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Maryland in 1986. In 1992, she was elected by the United Nations' Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
Chavez was also editor of the prize-winning quarterly journal American Educator (1977-1983), published by the American Federation of Teachers, where she also served as assistant to AFT president Al Shanker (1982-1983) and assistant director of legislation (1975-1977).
Chavez serves on the board of directors of ABM Industries Inc., as well as on boards of several non-profit organizations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was co-chair of the Council's Committee on Diversity (1998-2000).
Chavez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 17, 1947, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. She is married and the mother of three sons. She currently lives in Reston, Virginia.
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