Donald Trump: The rape apologist
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
Donald Trump thinks it’s a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers. This week, when the increase in these crimes is the subject of a Senate hearing, Trump tweeted: “26,000 unreported sexual assults (sic) i...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
Donald Trump thinks it’s a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers. This week, when the increase in these crimes is the subject of a Senate hearing, Trump tweeted: “26,000 unreported sexual assults (sic) i...
Arrest of alleged U.S. spy in Moscow has elements of farce
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
Russia's propaganda apparatus may need an infusion of fresh talent to impart a much-needed touch of realism for what movie theaters used to call "selected short subjects."
This arcane branch of Russian cinematography began with a regular series of p...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
Russia's propaganda apparatus may need an infusion of fresh talent to impart a much-needed touch of realism for what movie theaters used to call "selected short subjects."
This arcane branch of Russian cinematography began with a regular series of p...
CCSSI is government takeover of our children’s education
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
To the Editor:
I was sick as I read that Farmington schools are implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, or CCSSI, and that all of New Mexico is falling in step as well. It takes little research to understand why Common Core is such ...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-16-2013
To the Editor:
I was sick as I read that Farmington schools are implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, or CCSSI, and that all of New Mexico is falling in step as well. It takes little research to understand why Common Core is such ...
Limbaugh, Kurtz and the bum’s Rush
By: superuser
last updated: 05-09-2013
Big news for those who think there aren’t consequences in our media when professional talkers cross the line, or when famous reporters mess up and don’t fix their mistakes without qualification, or do so begrudgingly. We now see proof of the law ...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-09-2013
Big news for those who think there aren’t consequences in our media when professional talkers cross the line, or when famous reporters mess up and don’t fix their mistakes without qualification, or do so begrudgingly. We now see proof of the law ...
With Plan B contraception: What’s right age limit?
By: superuser
last updated: 05-09-2013
The Food and Drug Administration this week announced new rules that would make Plan B emergency contraception available on an over-the-counter basis to all teens and women age 15 and older.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration prepared to challenge a...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-09-2013
The Food and Drug Administration this week announced new rules that would make Plan B emergency contraception available on an over-the-counter basis to all teens and women age 15 and older.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration prepared to challenge a...
Reverse psychology vs. the nanny state
By: superuser
last updated: 05-02-2013
Get this: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban the sale of cigarettes — now legal to people at age 18 – to people younger than 21.
Yeah, that ought to work!
Bloomberg, as you may know, has become the nation’s poster child for na...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-02-2013
Get this: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban the sale of cigarettes — now legal to people at age 18 – to people younger than 21.
Yeah, that ought to work!
Bloomberg, as you may know, has become the nation’s poster child for na...
How well is U.S. balancing security and liberty?
By: superuser
last updated: 05-02-2013
How well is the United States balancing security versus liberty? More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American commitment to both security and liberty came under scrutiny again with the deadly bombings at the Boston M...
By: superuser
last updated: 05-02-2013
How well is the United States balancing security versus liberty? More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American commitment to both security and liberty came under scrutiny again with the deadly bombings at the Boston M...
Unhappy Myron Ebell spoke at Farmington oil and gas business
By: superuser
last updated: 04-25-2013
To the Editor:
The April 12 article by Debra Mayeux on the visiting presentation of lobbyist Myron Ebell to Merrion Oil and Gas raises the question: What was this company, which supports all forms of education locally, thinking when they decided to ...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-25-2013
To the Editor:
The April 12 article by Debra Mayeux on the visiting presentation of lobbyist Myron Ebell to Merrion Oil and Gas raises the question: What was this company, which supports all forms of education locally, thinking when they decided to ...
Marathon bombings reveal vulnerability, strengths
By: superuser
last updated: 04-18-2013
The festive national flags at the finish line of the Boston Marathon had barely stopped flapping from the force of the bombings when the crowds did something noble and unexpected.
Instead of fleeing from the site of the bombings or staring numbly at...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-18-2013
The festive national flags at the finish line of the Boston Marathon had barely stopped flapping from the force of the bombings when the crowds did something noble and unexpected.
Instead of fleeing from the site of the bombings or staring numbly at...
Boston horror shows we must be prepared
By: superuser
last updated: 04-18-2013
Homegrown or foreign-directed, it was terrorism – a coordinated act meant to kill, maim, confuse and frighten at a major American event – that we saw at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
There are lessons here. They are not as explicit as they will...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-18-2013
Homegrown or foreign-directed, it was terrorism – a coordinated act meant to kill, maim, confuse and frighten at a major American event – that we saw at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
There are lessons here. They are not as explicit as they will...
Margaret Thatcher set fine example
By: superuser
last updated: 04-11-2013
Margaret Thatcher is dead, the great Margaret Thatcher, the woman who saved Great Britain – not the way Winston Churchill did it earlier, through wartime leadership, but domestically, through reform.
To be sure, she did help end the Cold War and p...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-11-2013
Margaret Thatcher is dead, the great Margaret Thatcher, the woman who saved Great Britain – not the way Winston Churchill did it earlier, through wartime leadership, but domestically, through reform.
To be sure, she did help end the Cold War and p...
Monsanto’s influence grows, creates bad law
By: superuser
last updated: 04-11-2013
You know something is bad when it’s the target of first-tier jokes on “The Daily Show.” The “Monsanto Protection Act,” as opponents have dubbed it, is bad indeed.
The otherwise-named Farmer Assurance Provision, which is now law, takes away...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-11-2013
You know something is bad when it’s the target of first-tier jokes on “The Daily Show.” The “Monsanto Protection Act,” as opponents have dubbed it, is bad indeed.
The otherwise-named Farmer Assurance Provision, which is now law, takes away...
Let New Mexico’s natural gas go!
By: superuser
last updated: 04-04-2013
Natural gas could revolutionize New Mexico’s economy.
The fuel, of which New Mexico is among the nation’s leading producers, has seen incredible growth in production with the advent of horizontal fracking and new drilling techniques resulting in...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-04-2013
Natural gas could revolutionize New Mexico’s economy.
The fuel, of which New Mexico is among the nation’s leading producers, has seen incredible growth in production with the advent of horizontal fracking and new drilling techniques resulting in...
Considering women shows intelligence
By: superuser
last updated: 04-04-2013
If the Chinese were doing the naming, they could call this the Year of the Woman, or perhaps the Year of the Doe.
With a bountiful crop of females occupying Congress, a first-ever woman director of the Secret Service and the possibility of another w...
By: superuser
last updated: 04-04-2013
If the Chinese were doing the naming, they could call this the Year of the Woman, or perhaps the Year of the Doe.
With a bountiful crop of females occupying Congress, a first-ever woman director of the Secret Service and the possibility of another w...
Iraq invasion, decade later, offers mixed lessons
By: superuser
last updated: 03-28-2013
Ten years ago this week, then-President George W. Bush ordered American troops to invade Iraq, an act preceded by months of assertions that Saddam Hussein was building up his weapons of mass destruction to use against America. In the wake of the 9/11...
By: superuser
last updated: 03-28-2013
Ten years ago this week, then-President George W. Bush ordered American troops to invade Iraq, an act preceded by months of assertions that Saddam Hussein was building up his weapons of mass destruction to use against America. In the wake of the 9/11...
How I got busted by my children
By: superuser
last updated: 03-28-2013
Call it self-imposed exile. Or solitary confinement. Or witness protection.
Or whatever.
Three days ago, I flew from my home in Las Vegas, to Monterey, Calif., to visit my children and grandchildren.
It had been two months since my last visit, and...
By: superuser
last updated: 03-28-2013
Call it self-imposed exile. Or solitary confinement. Or witness protection.
Or whatever.
Three days ago, I flew from my home in Las Vegas, to Monterey, Calif., to visit my children and grandchildren.
It had been two months since my last visit, and...
Should government set limits on soda size?
By: superuser
last updated: 03-22-2013
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was dealt a defeat this week, when a judge struck down his law limiting soda sizes in the city to no more than 16 ounces. He defended the measure as an anti-obesity effort; his numerous, loud and vocal critics decried...
By: superuser
last updated: 03-22-2013
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was dealt a defeat this week, when a judge struck down his law limiting soda sizes in the city to no more than 16 ounces. He defended the measure as an anti-obesity effort; his numerous, loud and vocal critics decried...
For me, Easter really came early this year
By: superuser
last updated: 03-22-2013
Sometimes life takes you full circle back to someone you thought you’d never see again.
Long ago, when we were little girls running barefoot around our grandparents’ house, trying to stay out of our mothers’ permed hair, I used to call my cous...
By: superuser
last updated: 03-22-2013
Sometimes life takes you full circle back to someone you thought you’d never see again.
Long ago, when we were little girls running barefoot around our grandparents’ house, trying to stay out of our mothers’ permed hair, I used to call my cous...
Newly elected Catholic Father fills emptiness, brings hope to his Church
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last updated: 03-14-2013
There was an emptiness in the Roman Catholic Church after its leader former Pope Benedict XVI resigned his position. It was unheard of among Catholics, who were used to their popes serving until death, but Benedict was firm in his decision that he wo...
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last updated: 03-14-2013
There was an emptiness in the Roman Catholic Church after its leader former Pope Benedict XVI resigned his position. It was unheard of among Catholics, who were used to their popes serving until death, but Benedict was firm in his decision that he wo...
If you want to see spring, don’t look for it
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last updated: 03-14-2013
Things are not always what they seem. I know this.
I’ve known it all my life, ever since that cold December night when I was 5, and noticed that the man who came pounding on my grandmother’s door in a tacky red suit with a fake white beard, procl...
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last updated: 03-14-2013
Things are not always what they seem. I know this.
I’ve known it all my life, ever since that cold December night when I was 5, and noticed that the man who came pounding on my grandmother’s door in a tacky red suit with a fake white beard, procl...
Girl Scout cookies and monetary policy
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last updated: 03-07-2013
Boxes of thin mints and Samoas conjure up warm memories for most New Mexicans, in addition to tasting great. The educational opportunity afforded to young girls, parents and we cookie purchasers, cannot be lost.
Girl Scout cookie sales began in 1917...
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last updated: 03-07-2013
Boxes of thin mints and Samoas conjure up warm memories for most New Mexicans, in addition to tasting great. The educational opportunity afforded to young girls, parents and we cookie purchasers, cannot be lost.
Girl Scout cookie sales began in 1917...
End-of-life decisions and cherishing life itself
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last updated: 03-07-2013
I listened with fascination to the news story this week about a nurse at a retirement home in California who called 911 on behalf of a resident who had collapsed. While waiting for the medics, the nurse refused, even at the behest of the 911 operator...
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last updated: 03-07-2013
I listened with fascination to the news story this week about a nurse at a retirement home in California who called 911 on behalf of a resident who had collapsed. While waiting for the medics, the nurse refused, even at the behest of the 911 operator...
Hackers chip away at U.S. national security
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last updated: 02-28-2013
This is how World War III is likely to start: with cyberwarfare.
The Chinese – government, military, commercial companies, random hackers, take your pick – have been hacking into the computers of our aerospace companies, financial institutions, ...
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last updated: 02-28-2013
This is how World War III is likely to start: with cyberwarfare.
The Chinese – government, military, commercial companies, random hackers, take your pick – have been hacking into the computers of our aerospace companies, financial institutions, ...
A sequestration only a Sasquatch could love
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last updated: 02-28-2013
Most of us go through life with certain expectations, and it is a fair bet that being threatened by sequestration is not one of them. Annihilation in romance, possibly; demoralization at work, perhaps; infiltration of baldness, maybe; but victimizati...
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last updated: 02-28-2013
Most of us go through life with certain expectations, and it is a fair bet that being threatened by sequestration is not one of them. Annihilation in romance, possibly; demoralization at work, perhaps; infiltration of baldness, maybe; but victimizati...
The Riverfest Fine Arts and Crafts Fair opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 24, at the Red Lion Hotel, 700 Scott Ave. The art fair continues from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, ...
Dogs and cats may transmit potentially dangerous worms to you and your family.
Worms – not a terribly popular topic, but one that could cause you and your pet a stay in the hospital. Veterinarians see the problem every day, but most dog and cat ow...
Several former Farmington High School coaches and student athletes have left an imprint on the school’s athletic history and will be honored next Friday, May 24, as they are inducted into the FHS Hall of Fame.
The FHS Hall of Fame ceremony will be...
A used car dealership on East Main Street in Farmington underwent a year and a half renovation that gave the business a more appealing look for its clients.
AutoMax, located at 5220 E. Main St., had its grand opening after the renovations were compl...
