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Water Mismanagement and Other Tricks of the Grifters

Water Mismanagement and Other Tricks of the Grifters

April 27, 2026 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

Is Trump’s targeting of the West an act of political revenge?

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A Middle Finger Gift to the American Public: Turning Chaco Canyon Into an Oil and Gas Sacrifice Zone

A Middle Finger Gift to the American Public: Turning Chaco Canyon Into an Oil and Gas Sacrifice Zone

April 12, 2026 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

Threatening Chaco is a mean-spirited political attack.

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Ignorance or Knowledge? Who Harms? Who Helps?

Ignorance or Knowledge? Who Harms? Who Helps?

March 29, 2026 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

How to make sense of the Trumpian wing of American political life?

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Insist the Open Sore of LANL Finally Gets Swabbed Out

Insist the Open Sore of LANL Finally Gets Swabbed Out

March 8, 2026 By V.B. Price 2 Comments

LANL’s proposed increase of plutonium pit production continues a legacy of public endangerment.

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Climate Change, the Lost Reality in the Sick World of All-Trump-All-The-Time News

Climate Change, the Lost Reality in the Sick World of All-Trump-All-The-Time News

February 22, 2026 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

The GOP has chosen to disparage responsible and compassionate precaution in favor of profit and unholy greed.

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Traumatizing Children for Political Gain Is Child Abuse at Its Despicable Worst

Traumatizing Children for Political Gain Is Child Abuse at Its Despicable Worst

February 8, 2026 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

The numbers are staggering and beyond shameful. The American Immigration Council reports that during Donald Trump’s first term in office more than 4,600 children were separated from their immigrant families, turning them into what’s been called “state-created orphans.” Human Rights Watch estimates that by as late as 2024, some 1,360 of those children still had […]

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Republican Bullies Attacking Freedom of Speech

Republican Bullies Attacking Freedom of Speech

January 26, 2026 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

In our country, it is illegal and morally deranged for officers of the federal government to threaten American citizens with political reprisals and terrible punishments for exercising one of their most sacred freedoms, their freedom of speech. The leadership of the Republican party, however, is doing just that, using the full force of the Department […]

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