The American dream

had a dream the other night that we had just one political party – the American Party. It was a party ignored special interest influence peddling, balanced a budget, believed in reduced taxes, less government, free enterprise and was free of corruption, but I was only dreaming.

Texas, California and New Mexico

New Mexico, while a Territory and never a republic, shares many similarities with Texas and California; technology, natural resources, energy production, vast land mass and similar demographics. Yet New Mexico’s population has never grown at the rate of her sister states. New Mexico seems never to have found the formula for economic prosperity and never adopted an economic model and quest for prosperity and growth.

Monarchy or democracy?

The United States is a republic, run by representatives who are democratically elected and to whom we assign authority to represent us. That doesn’t mean they do what we want in all cases of legislation and there is no better example than what is happening right now with health care reform and cap and [...]