Deference

I rushed home from the gym last evening (and probably, no surely, cut a few cars off along the way) to catch what I have loved since the Berlin Wall came down. What is that? A good Presidential address – yep, I’m a sucker. A few comments. Continue Reading

Heterosexual mockery

The warming within the GOP ranks – and, moreover, across the American heartland – to gay marriage is just as much commonsensical as it is generational. Seeing that marriages come and go so whimsically here in America– why should the male-female scenario have a lock on what is defined as marriage? Continue Reading

Guv candidates talk about redistricting

Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez supports the creation of an independent redistricting commission to take the politics out of redrawing the state’s political boundaries, while Democrat Diane Denish is open to considering the creation of an independent committee that would advise lawmakers and the governor. Continue Reading

The draw-down fanfare

The last U.S. Combat Brigade marched out of Iraq yesterday, symbolizing just that – the end of the combat component of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A heartfelt and sincere thank you to all of the troops and civilians, both standing and fallen, who served so courageously over the last seven years in Iraq. Continue Reading