Joe Monahan writes about the New Mexico governor’s race,
[S]ome of our analysts see a developing problem for Susana [Martinez] — the strength of GOP lieutenant governor candidate John Sanchez. He is spending heavily on TV and is the favorite to take the prize over Brian Moore and Kent Cravens. But will many GOP voters want [...]
According to the New Mexico Independent, a “quirk” in the Federal Health Care Monstrosity of 2010 will mean higher premiums for thousands of New Mexicans.
Why? It’s complicated. My eyes started to glaze over the first time I read the story and I had to backtrack several times to figure out exactly what was [...]
Adam Kokesh is a candidate in the Republican primary for a New Mexico Congressional seat that Republicans virtually never win. Third District GOP candidates rarely make it onto the radar screens of the Big Guns of the national political scene. To be sure, Michelle Malkin is one of those Big Guns, and the day before [...]
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Posted 12 March 2010
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I just discovered another very cool thing WordPress 2.9 lets you do — embed video right into your blog just by pasting the You Tuble URL. You don’t have to use the “insert video” icon, or even paste in the embed code. Just the URL text, right into the post.
I know, I know. [...]
First we heard that 40-something women like myself no longer need to have mammograms, and women over 50 don’t need them annually. Now we get to cut back on Pap smears to test for cervical cancer as well.
Over the next week or so, presumably, we can expect to hear that prostate screenings can be pushed [...]
Jim Scarantino of the New Mexico Watchdog reports that $6.4 billion in federal stimulus dollars has gone to non-existent congressional districts. Yes, you read that right: non-existent districts.
Ed Pound at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, blamed the apparent disbursement of your tax dollars into non-existent congressional districts
on the recipients not knowing in which congressional [...]
Just a quick note to let my readers know I haven’t taken leave of the land of the living. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks. I’ve done some reassessment of priorities, and have really focused on getting our schooing routine in order and, to a lesser extent, getting my exercise regimen going again. [...]
My posts have been few and far between lately, compared to my output a few months ago, say. This business of educating one’s own children is a responsibility that’s been weighing heavily upon me of late. When you homeschool, and your kids turn out to be ignorami, there’s nobody else to blame. That’s some pressure, [...]
The personal — On the bright side, no one in my house has swine flu yet. On the not quite so bright side, my washing machine died with a load full of sopping wet, not-yet-clean clothes inside.
The political — I’d say Chris Christie is going to win a big, fat gubernatorial victory, wouldn’t you?
Ricardo Leon [...]
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Posted 30 October 2009
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Tagged: 1990 pages, Chris Christie, CNN, Facebook, fat, health care bill, hotel, Inez Russell, laundry, Nancy Pelosi, New Jersey, Rename Rick Sanchez, Ricardo Leon Sánchez de Reinaldo, Rick Sanchez, Taos
That’s the headline emblazoned across the sky in this brilliant bit of photoshoppery. It’s done in the style of the “Surrender Dorothy” the Wicked Witch of the West wrote in the sky with her broomstick. I can’t insert it here, because of technical difficulties, but the picture is at Nice Deb and Frugal [...]
I cannot tell you the joy with which I read that headline, via Memeorandum. Newt, digging himself in ever deeper with the party’s conservative base, reiterates his support for Dede Scozzafava.
If Doug Hoffman does defeat the GOP’s appalling nominee in the NY23 race, it just may be the wake-up call the party needs. Or maybe [...]
Via Memeorandum, I read TV Newser’s report that President Obama spent two and a half hours giving an off-the-record briefing to a small coterie of left-wing media luminaries including Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC (which, unlike Fox News, actually is a news organization), Maureen Dowd, best known for overuse of sexy double-entendres [...]
Today I woke up in my own bed again after ten nights in various hotel beds, couches and air mattresses on the floor. My back will take a few days to recover, both from that and from far too many hours in the car. I’d give just about anything to spend the morning at home, [...]
This is the title of my NMI column that ran yesterday. Normally it runs on Tuesdays, but they ran it early. I wanted to leave the Allen Weh interview as the top story on Monday, so I did not link to the column until today.
Coincidentally, a commenter on the Weh interview linked to his [...]
The first time I saw Allen Weh was when he addressed a meeting of the Santa Fe County GOP a little over a year ago. Weh was then chairman of the New Mexico Republican Party, and as he spoke, my husband leaned over and whispered, “I’ll bet that guy’s a Marine.”
Indeed he is. Not just [...]
Update: NMI published this column today, September 27, 2009. Original post (written September 21) below:
You’re all racists — that was to have been the title of my New Mexico Independent column today. But about an hour after I submitted it, I received an e-mail from my new editor (my previous editor, David Alire Garcia, [...]
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Posted 21 September 2009
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I’ve been working on the speech I’m giving at the New Mexico Turn Around conference in Albuquerque tomorrow, so I didn’t have time to write a post today.
I did want to take time to link to Nice Deb’s excellent post debunking the leftist charges of racism again anyone who has the temerity to criticize any [...]
This, apparently, was the line of reasoning at the Santa Fe New Mexican, whose editorial staff elected not to cover the Tea Party held here in Santa Fe at the State Capitol on Saturday, September 12. This egregious example of biased journalismis the subject of my New Mexico Independent column today.
Just a reminder that Santa Fe’s second Tea Party will take place tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at the east side of the Capitol building. Speeches begin at 2:00. More information here.
It’s going to be a very long day for me, with Fiesta, the Tea Party, followed by choir practice for the girls and mass at [...]
I can’t say what I’d like to do to that disgusting lout Mike Duvall because it would be (a) unladylike and (b) illegal. Duvall, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford and a host of other selfish narcissists who do their thinking with the little head act as though they’re trying to destroy the Repubilcan Party just when [...]
My NMI column this week. I have more to say on the topic — and related topics — but I was in Albuquerque with the kids all day and am dead exhausted, so will wait until they’re asleep to write it. Unless I fall into an exhausted sleep the minute they’re in bed, in which [...]
Apparently this journalistic genius has been interviewing politicians (and making asses out of quite a few of them) for some time now, but I hadn’t heard of him until I saw the video of his interview with Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif). After Stark realizes that Helfeld has made his repeated assertion that a bigger national [...]
Used to be when people got mad, they might give you the finger. Apparently, that’s old hat, and now they take the finger instead, in this case, biting it off:
California authorities say a clash between opponents and supporters of health care reform ended with one man biting off another man’s finger.
When I read the headline [...]
Ah, the New Mexican. I can always count on them for unbiased journalism. The bold headline on yesterday morning’s top story was
‘A real grudge match’
The match is the mayoral race between incumbent David Coss and recently announced challenger Asenath Kepler. The grudge, the paper obviously means to imply, is Kepler’s, since she had served as [...]
A Facebook friend posted the link to this article, and because my friend leans leftward, and the piece is in the Atlantic, and ran six pages, and is entitled “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (here we go with a diatribe about the evils of health care being a commodity not a right, I [...]
Today, Mon. Aug 17 at 7:00 p.m. Northern New Mexico’s Congressman, Ben Ray Luján, is holding a healthcare town hall at the Unitarian Church at 107 W. Barcelona Rd. It will feature a panel discussion with health care professionals — no doubt cherrypicked by Mr. Luján so that they will all say health care reform [...]
My New Mexico Independent column is up.
Update: This is rich. And they accuse us of astroturfing. I guess it’s that old “plank in my own eye” thing. HT: Patterico.
Again and again on the campaign trail, he repeated the same mantra. The words might vary ever so slightly, but the message was the same:
Let me say this again: no family earning less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase. Period.
Every time Old Man McCain would say that Obama was going to raise [...]
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Posted 06 August 2009
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OH Mommy is the moniker of Pauline Karwowski, author of the blog Classy Chaos. She’s listed on my friend MIT Mommy’s blogroll, and I stop by periodically for a dose of something light and entertaining when I’ve had enough for the moment of politics. OH Mommy never writes about politics, or at least not that [...]
My local paper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, is experiencing financial difficulty. Join the club. And no wonder, since how on earth can a print newspaper compete financially with internet news sites that run on a fraction of the cost and provide faster and more diverse content? Some people think this spells doom for us [...]
Jon and Kate Gosselin are getting a divorce (unless it’s the most brilliant publicity stunt ever to boost ratings) and instead of blogging about it, I played Apples to Apples with my kids.
President Obama shot his mouth off about a white policeman arresting a black professor, sparking an endless debate among bloggers and pundits, but [...]
I’m posting the link to my NMI column late, since I was traveling back to New Mexico today, and it wasn’t up yet before I left for the airport.
Since I was in vacation mode, I had no idea what to write for NMI this week. I had been trolling the internet for something other than [...]
That was my title for my NM Independent column that runs today (or ran yesterday, since I’m late posting the link and most of you won’t read this until Wednesday morning) but my editor changed it. There are already 16 comments, but I haven’t read them yet as I just arrived at my friend’s house [...]
The confirmation controversy over Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the subject of my New Mexico Indpendent column this week.
Someone just did a keyword search for “my doctor said I had to agree to selective reduction in order for him to implant 3 embryos” and found my blog. I hope she comes back again and sees this post, because honey, this one’s for you.
This doctor is lying to his patient in the hope [...]
That’s what people have been asking me on Facebook and in e-mail. They don’t bother to add her last name, since Sarah Palin has now joined the ranks of celebrities who can be referred to by first name only — at least in the highly politicized circles in which I travel.
I wanted to, I [...]
Today my NMI column discusses northern New Mexico’s Congressman, Ben Ray Lujan, was one of a small House minority voting against an amendment to prevent federal money being used to employ illegal aliens. The issue was such a no-brainer that the Democrat-controlled House voted 349-84 in favor of the amendment, with both other New [...]
I promised a Jon & Kate post today, but I had to write my NMI column, so I didn’t get around to finishing it. The rest of the day was taken up with kids, kids, kids, all the time kids. I’m ready to collapse. Jon & Kate will have to wait.
Other random [...]
Yesterday I was writing about Mark Sanford when practically everyone else in the world was writing, talking and at times crying about Michael Jackson. I wonder what infinitesimal percentage of Americans is like me in finding politicians more interesting than celebrities. Today, in order that my readers can be reassured that I’m not [...]
William Saletin at Slate is a lone voice crying out in the wilderness in support of Mark Sanford. Saletin quotes the meae culpae of Bill Clinton, John Edwards and John Ensign, each of whom followed “the first rule of adultery redemption: minimize the affair” by blaming errors in judgment and speaking of his wife [...]
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Posted 26 June 2009
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Just watched Mark Sanford run on at the mouth about his extramarital affair. If that guy said one more time that he met his Argentine lady friend 8 years ago I think my head would have exploded. It was like he just couldn’t stop talking, as though if he stopped talking for a [...]
My NMI column this week isi a response to last week’s piece on socialized medicine, which generated over 100 comments, breaking the NMI record. The comment war on today’s column has already begun.
My editor at NMI tells me I’ve broken their record for comments — 100 so far on my health care column. Many of these, naturally, are from leftists insulting me, telling me I have no idea what I’m talking about, that there are no facts or evidence in the column (um, it’s an opinion [...]
This week’s NM Independent column. It’s already been up long enough for teenage commenters to begin calling me ignorant.
Because I know Dave Maass reallly, really misses reading my thoughts on Sarah Palin:
I’m a little puzzled as to why people are demanding David Letterman apologize for making a joke about Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter getting knocked up by Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez.
Are there really people who still don’t understand that making lewd jokes about the [...]
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Posted 11 June 2009
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Tagged: A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, David Letterman, hottest conservative women, John McCain, joke, knocked up, Meghan McCain, racist, Sarah Palin, slutty flight attendant, Willow Palin
My NMI column today explores how a Santa Fe elementary school’s reprieve from closure — thanks to Governor Bill Richardson’s spreading around some of the New Mexico taxpayers’ wealth — illustrates a very big problem in American society as a whole.
A few weeks ago, I predicted that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee would definitely be a solid liberal, and would probably be a female Hispanic.
I also promised that I would not pillory the nominee. And I won’t. Because there is no point. Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed. If some [...]
My New Mexico Independent column today is partly a rehash of this post on the Block scandal, but goes farther in meditating on the differences between our purportedly enlightened system and that of the Roman Republic, where the linkage between money and power was straightforward and uncomplicated.
Father and son mug shots. That’s something you don’t see every day. Forgive the Schadenfreude. Normally I’m such a nice lady, but today I just can’t seem to help myself.
The story in the online New Mexican only has the picture of Jerome Block père. Such a pity. [...]
The GOP is not dead. It’s not a damaged brand. It’s taken a hit, but it’s not down for the count, despite the liberal media’s attempts to convince us it is. And when I see passionate, articulate young men like Marco Rubio of Florida on our team, I am content to ignore [...]
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Posted 23 May 2009
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Tagged: Charlie Crist, Florida, future, GOP, John McCain, Marco Rubio, NRSC, nuclear war, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, senate race, Soviet Union, vilification