Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization in Sterling, Va. Linda Chavez 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 Linda Chavez's newest work, "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal" (Basic Books 2002), as a "brilliant, provocative, and moving book." In 2000, Linda 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, Linda Chavez was President George W. Bush's nominee for Secretary of Labor until Linda Chavez withdrew her name from consideration. Linda 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 Linda Chavez was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986). Linda Chavez was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1986. In 1992, Linda Chavez 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. Linda Chavez was also editor of the prize-winning quarterly journal American Educator (1977-1983), published by the American Federation of Teachers, where Linda Chavez also served as assistant to AFT president Al Shanker (1982-1983) and assistant director of legislation (1975-1977). Linda Chavez serves on the Board of Directors of ABM Industries Linda Chavez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was Co-Chair of the Council's Committee on Diversity (1998-2000). Linda Chavez was born in Albuquerque, N.M., on June 17, 1947, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. Linda Chavez is married and is the mother of three sons. Linda Chavez currently lives in Reston, Va. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Democrats are having a hard time explaining away their big losses on Tuesday. First, the White House let it be known that President Obama wasn't actually watching election returns, choosing instead to tune into HBO's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/11/06/blueprint_for_gop_victories 637a2d85-5ba2-4091-8726-8b7860577a9a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT It's a good thing Larry Whitten isn't in charge of the editorial page of this publication; otherwise, I might be forced to write under the name Pretty Keys -- which is how Linda Chavez roughly translates from (old)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/30/whats_in_a_name a3850ef5-bc8e-49a7-bccb-8b5d4650366b Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT No doubt many will cheer executive pay cuts ordered by the Obama administration at companies that received U.S. bailouts last fall, but the celebration will prove short-lived. Obama pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, who has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/23/politics_of_envy 73b9961c-d459-46e7-8492-50a5c18661f5 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "That's not the change America voted for." The implied criticism of President Obama comes not from Rush Limbaugh or Fox News but from the AFL-CIO in a newspaper ad this week letting the president and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/16/unions_calling_in_their_chits 0e7aac23-1d7a-4abf-8ad8-50d3b65f3b85 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If there's one thing Barack Obama learned back in his community organizing days, it was that numbers count. The more people you can claim to represent, the bigger your political base. So it should come as no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/09/disenfranchising_citizens 3fef288e-71cf-4c0b-b056-122c9675d3a1 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardly seems a likely setting for rampant sex discrimination in state hiring, but apparently the Obama administration doesn't agree. The Justice Department this week filed suit... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/02/common_sense_not_sex_discrimination 55f02d6d-e431-432d-8bc1-36c8954be74e Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:07:27 GMT For the first time in decades, the number of foreign-born individuals living in the United States declined last year, according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The drop was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/25/immigrant_values 68c7c575-c7ef-492c-9c39-c0f48e3e9da6 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Instead of a debate on the merits of President Obama's health care proposals or congressional Democrats' failure to produce a bill that has any chance of bipartisan support, we've been diverted this week by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/18/diversionary_tactics_on_both_sides fe21665d-1f73-469b-a397-4d6869082706 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT More prescient words were never spoken by a politician than Barack Obama's to the American people Wednesday evening on the issue of health care reform: "I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/11/americans_arent_buying_what_obama_has_to_sell 28010058-1662-47ef-b69c-44591032d02b Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT When it comes to politicians' foibles and faux pas, the mainstream media's double standard is nothing new, but the Washington Post's recent coverage of the Virginia governor's race takes the cake. Republican... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/04/mistrusting_the_media 5e315130-cefb-44c0-ae90-d8668aaf4c7a Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Liberalism lost its most reliable champion with the passing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy this week. The senator virtually defined American liberalism for his 47 years in public office and it is not easy to see who will... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/08/28/kennedys_legacy 4c64a2b4-912d-4acc-93ac-f3b1655af4ea Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Afghanistan was supposed to be the good war -- the one Democrats said we should be fighting instead of Iraq. We heard it over and over again during the presidential campaign, as if to exorcise the image that a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/08/21/the_good_war 64c37e4e-67bb-4eb3-bfa1-4397fcf6e138 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Afghanistan was supposed to be the good war -- the one Democrats said we should be fighting instead of Iraq. We heard it over and over again during the presidential campaign, as if to exorcise the image that a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/08/21/the_good_war e9a99aa8-f17a-4497-beb9-a70c28e430ce Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Like most epithets, the u-word says more about the person hurling it than it does about the object of disapproval. So when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called opponents of Democrats' health care reform "un-American" this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/08/14/whos_un-american b4161621-9764-4b9e-b34c-7092164d007a Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Senate negotiators moved a step closer to a comprehensive health care package this week, but the American public seems increasingly wary of what "reform" might mean. The latest polls show that the majority of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/08/07/the_cure_thats_worse_than_the_disease c70f9d4e-e661-4bd0-8fa6-a22661888e3d Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT