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The most sense I’ve heard anyone make yet about health care reform

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 [...]

Posted 18 August 2009 † Brigette Russell § New Mexico Independent columns § Politics ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Family portraits, New Mexico Democrat style

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. [...]

Posted 24 May 2009 † Brigette Russell § New Mexico § Politics ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Billions and billions…

I can still hear Carl Sagan’s voice saying it in those old documentaries. He was talking about stars, of course. Today, we think of dollars. Billions and billions of them, swelling our national debt, mortgaging the futures of your children and mine. I get almost physically sick when I dwell for [...]

Posted 12 May 2009 † Brigette Russell § Economy § New Mexico Independent columns § Politics ‡ Comments (17) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Benedict Arlen

Honestly, I don’t mind a bit that the old RINO has finally come out of the closet and stopped pretending to be something he’s not.  Not that I think he’s a passionately committed Democrat, either.  He’s not a passionately committed anything.  He’s just addicted to power and influence, like most of the rest of the [...]

Posted 30 April 2009 † Brigette Russell § Politics ‡ Comments (17) ° Also tagged: , , , ,