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The reaction to a student inadvertently bringing a deer-hunting rifle onto school property in Montana, and zero-tolerance policies for guns, show an ignorance of what really does make us safe in society. Continue Reading
The recent elections say Americans want new eyes on the problems old leaders got us into. We can start by electing a new speaker of the New Mexico House. Continue Reading
The NMAA may be glad to see me go like the Western Athletic Conference is glad I do not care any longer about them. But if enough people join me, where will these sports be without fans? Continue Reading
I hope you have received things for which you are thankful. Not deserving gifts, rather, surprise gifts. They make for the very best Thanksgivings. Continue Reading
Our country has spent too much time on the concept of a right to bear arms and too little on our right to defend ourselves from attack. Our right of individual defense seems the core argument in our Constitution. Continue Reading
We need a neutral organization with impeccable credentials to tackle deciding the exact moment the first candidate goes negative, and then we must have the resolve to punish that first person going negative by withholding our vote and money. We might get their attention with that. Continue Reading
Perhaps it is time to do away with all cash so that every transaction is visible. How would drug lords run their lives when everything they own is within the eyes of the authorities? Continue Reading
I was thinking it sure would be nice to have a poll where “conjecture” stories were listed and readers could indicate to what degree they were believable. So take this poll, and I will compile the answers to see how each one was believed. Continue Reading
This election season has seen lots of deliberate lies. More insulting than the lies themselves is the fact that in this modern age most of the deliberate lies are easy to uncover and yet they are a constant of the election cycle. Continue Reading
Thinking back to my senior year I thought Alamogordo High School was awful in 1968, a prison. No one learned anything. The cafeteria food was inedible and there was not enough of it. Continue Reading
Parking is always one of those interesting discussions at any university. My preliminary research suggests that the more students are concerned with passing courses and graduating, the less concerned they are with parking. Continue Reading
While some people spend much of their time on this planet concentrating on the designation of titles or degrees of education, there is one designation that I use reverently: A Person Who Is Handy. Continue Reading
We have a rich second-language tradition in our area that could actually make us better than the Monolingual rest of the nation. Are we smart enough to embrace that tradition? Continue Reading
If either my father or grandfather were alive today I suspect they would say that the only way to keep this nation’s freedom is for each subsequent generation to value the freedom that they had purchased in blood and sacrifice in their world war conflicts. Continue Reading
Shuckins! At my gas station this week was the dreaded note on the pump: “This gasoline now contains ethanol.” I have changed stations several times this last year to keep from buying E10, gasoline laced with 10 percent ethanol. Continue Reading