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
† Brigette Russell
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New Mexico § Politics
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Also tagged: Adam Kokesh, anti-war, Ben Ray Luján, Bill Redmond, Congress, Iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Marine, Michelle Malkin, New Mexico, patriot, protest, Third Congressional District, Tom Udall, unpatriotic
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, Democrat, DNC, Founding Fathers, fundraising, human nature, John Adams, McCain-Feingold, media, reform, 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 [...]