Presidential News Conference: Prime Time, Ex Cathedra
Look. The authority of George W. Bush to speak for me is probably constitutional. But he arrogates an authority higher than that.
Author: Larry Joseph Calloway
I am a writer. I love the Rocky Mountain West. For more than 50 years my primary residence has been in the upper basin of the Rio Grande.
Voter Tech 101: Democracy Is What Truly Counts
How to head off the crisis in November
The arising distrust of electronic voting machines and their makers can be calmed by the simple application Tom Stoppard’s famous quote.
Welcome To Election Night Help Line
If the poll leaders are ahead, call Bombay
Diversity, in the view of the president of the National Association of Election Directors, is the best safeguard against vote rigging. But in New Mexico a few county clerks have taken diversity over the hill.
Max Coll Was A Very Good Citizen Legislator. . . A What?
Everything based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico
You’d think Max and Bill would be allies, having, you’d think, the same enemies. But everything based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico.
What If Spanish Catholics, Not Anglo Protestants, Colonized The U.S.?
Well, we’d just call it New Mexico
Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington is bringing his cultural clash model home to the American Southwest, but it could be a clash crash
Larry King Live with John Edwards And Al Sharpton
And our special guest: a thinking head from Massachusetts
American public life is anti-intellectual as hell. Advice to John Kerry: don’t think in public.
New Mexico And Arizona Are Not The Same
For example, they have different governors
OK. The governor of Arizona is from New Mexico. The northern New Mexico congressman is from Arizona. The two square border states voted the same on the same day. But they’re different, no?
Year In Review: Bill Richardson Changed The NM Constitution
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Trouble with a judge? The highways? The schools? Who ya gonna call? In New Mexico now, you call the governor’s office.
Can A Good Politician Make It Rain?
Keep the faith, New Mexico
New Mexico’s response to the drought is being written by lawyers and political experts. Meteorologists and geologists don’t write that good.
The Struggle To Define What’s Wrong With Talk Radio
A review of two speeches in which national news executives express to their colleagues why paid political diatribes are becoming a threat to their traditional journalism.