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 [...]
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 one of Jerome Block fils (today’s [...]
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 too long on what [...]
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Posted 12 May 2009
† Brigette Russell
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Economy § New Mexico Independent columns § Politics
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Also tagged: Balanced Budget Amendment, campaign finance, constitutional amendment, corporate bail-outs, corruption, DNC, Founding Fathers, fundraising, human nature, John Adams, McCain-Feingold, media, reform, Republican, RNC, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire
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 [...]