The Madness of Prez. George?
Is Justin A. Frank’s frightening Freudian profile, “Bush On The Couch” really psychology? Or is it just couched that way?
Year: 2004
Part-time Legislature? Santa Fe Advice For Visiting Schwarzenegger
Part-time legislatures are no better than full-time legislatures, but if New Mexico is any clue, they are more submissive.
Let Us Now Salute Max Cleland
There is a larger band of brothers
The networks were indulging in their “survivor” show fare, but he was impressive on C-Span, with his FDR way of gesturing with his head and neck, this true survivor who called John Kerry “my bother.”
Appreciating The Democratic National Convention As Art
How to survive the tyranny of cliches
Teresa Heinz Kerry was right. The media celebrities intent upon enforcing a sort of high school code of popularity, good looks and cliches should go shove it.
Word From The Mountain: Natural Law And Taylor Ranch
Wood Cutters, Grazers, Loggers. . . Not So Fast There, Peak Baggers
Some rights to use land come, not out of the literal terms contracts, but rather out of “pre-existing and higher authority of laws of nature, of nations, or of the community to which the parties belong,” the Colorado territorial court said in 1872.
Open Flame In House Of Oil
Tired of NM politics, I go to the movies
Why does the White House give special access to an anti-American, royalist, untrustworthy and unreliable foreign power? See the movie, read the book.
Compulsory Union Dues? No Problem
There are worse things, in this age of credit-card penalties, cell phone ripoffs, etc.
The old anti-union bulls of the New Mexico Legislature will bellow their horns off in the pastures of heaven when they hear about Fair Share.
Tim Jennings Is The Man For NM Senate President Pro Tem
Will Bill Richardson fight the move to restore balance to the Legislature?
The New Mexico Senate has operated under a constitutional leadership fiction since Manny Aragon took power. Time to reorganize, but will the senators do it or will Bill Richardson do it for them?
There’s A Red Light Blinking On The NM Political Machine
And Bill Richardson seems content to ignore it
Roman Maes, a powerful Democratic state senator going for a sixth term from liberal Santa Fe, defeated himself by indulging in conservative rants. Your attention, please, Bill Richardson.
WMD’s As A First Casualty Science Kind Of Thing
What is truth anyway? What is mass destruction?
Did the media just go blank on the propaganda that supported the first Gulf War? At least The New York Times and Bob Woodward have published apologies.