There’s A Red Light Blinking On The NM Political Machine

June 7, 2004

Roman Maes, a powerful Democratic state senator going for a sixth term from liberal Santa Fe, defeated himself by indulging in conservative rants. Your attention, please, Bill Richardson.

WMD’s As A First Casualty Science Kind Of Thing

June 1, 2004

Did the media just go blank on the propaganda that supported the first Gulf War? At least The New York Times and Bob Woodward have published apologies.

Iraq Explained In Terms of the Stanford Prison Experiment

May 22, 2004

The psychological explanation for Abu Ghraib currently circulating in the media doesn’t let the military command off the hook. John Kerry is missing another opportunity here.

Cargo Planes At Midnight. Right. . .

May 10, 2004

Maybe the reason I remember it is I was the only one in the restaurant who didn’t rush outside to see. But they came back. And got me later.

Pork Politics Versus Health Care In New Mexico

April 30, 2004

Sen. Smith goes to Santa Fe. And Gov. Richardson plays hardball. The inside story on the New Mexico governor’s most controversial veto.

Presidential News Conference: Prime Time, Ex Cathedra

April 25, 2004

Look. The authority of George W. Bush to speak for me is probably constitutional. But he arrogates an authority higher than that.

Voter Tech 101: Democracy Is What Truly Counts

April 23, 2004

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

April 3, 2004

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?

March 14, 2004

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.?

March 4, 2004

Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington is bringing his cultural clash model home to the American Southwest, but it could be a clash crash

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