Nullius in verba
New Mexico’s impoverished economy received a devastating blow last week when the extremist Republican establishment, fronted by the Trump administration, finally did what it has longed to do – begin the down and dirty process of eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for […]
Federal appeals judge Neil Gorsuch, the current President’s Supreme Court nominee, is apparently a gentleman Coloradoan, cordial, cultured, profoundly conservative, an all around charming guy, a witty writer, a fly fisherman, and a man who espouses a curious judicial philosophy known as originalism. He shares this view with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, in which […]
American political thinking is being infected by a mind-eating form of philosophic sadism sold as something called a rational virtue, the virtue of selfishness. It arises from the writings of a cult author of the 1940s and 1950s with the pen name of Ayn Rand whose ideas were conveyed into popular culture via her two […]
Water, land and respect – those are three imperatives for a life worth living in New Mexico and in the desert Southwest. All three will be under attack from arch-conservative Washington over the next four years. A climate change waffler with no management experience will run the $21 billion budget of the Department of the […]