Serving the High Plains
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No “world-class” city can afford to be without a professional sports franchise. The franchise of choice appears to be a National Football League team. If you don’t believe the above statements, just ask the commissioner of the NFL. If you can’t get Paul Tagliabue on the phone, ask former Gov. Bill Richardson, who wanted to bring professional football to Albuquerque. Among the many things a pro sports operation brings to municipalities is opportunity for residents to vote themselves a tax inc...
On Nov. 9, the New York Times reported, “Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.” This is an example of “news.” A man described as a “YouTube star and serial prankster” was recently escorted off an airplane for speaking loudly in Arabic to his mom on his cell phone. Adam Saleh, who claims...
What is happening to the president elect of the United States is intolerable. News articles and editorials from major publications are referring to Donald Trump as a “Russian puppet” or as “Putin’s poodle.” They are further implying that Trump “could have an incentive to allow or launch a 9/11-style attack on the United States once in office.” Editorial writer Paul Krugman has written that, “George W. Bush came into office with questions surrounding his legitimacy that were “dispelled” by...
Donald J. Trump continues to interview and select candidates for appointment to cabinet positions. One cannot help but ponder that very few of those Trump has selected have escaped scathing criticism heaped on them by politicians and the media. Sen. Jeff Sessions is pilloried as a racist. Georgia Rep. Tom Price is not only an opponent of women’s health programs, he is an enemy of the poor and the aged. Scott Pruitt is a “longtime enemy of the EPA” and has been a puppet of the fossil fuel industr...
Much is being made of the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote while Donald Trump “only” won the electoral vote. What major media refers to as demonstrators or protesters are in fact rioters who remain angry that they are unable to change the results of the election. Many are carrying signs with Trump’s likeness proclaiming, “Not My President.” One budding comedian on the internet posted a likeness of Hillary Clinton with the notation, “Not Anybody’s President.” News flash, whoever...
At one time in America we had financial crises that were reported as "panics," as in the "financial panic of 1873." Panics were considered too harsh a term to describe a financial decline so they became depressions, as in the "great depression of the 1930s." Once again depressions became too harsh to define a financial downturn so they became recessions, as in "the great recession of 2008." A recession is defined as a financial downturn wherein your neighbor loses his job. A depression is...