Having listened to Tancredo and R.Limbaugh on Sonia Sotomayor, I can only wince for the stupidity of these Republican fools. Tancredo, much loved by the anti-immigration crowd, had the gall to liken La Raza to the KKK. La Raza, as far as we know, has nev… more »

I saw Obama's impassioned national security speech which sounded law-driven and liberal, revising much of the Bush approach; He condemned as detrimental the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques and he argued the necessity and wisdom of the closing… more »

Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times takes the noisy Cheney to task. The GOP is in total disarray with lots of blame-game infighting, and the talk-show circuit keeps lining up Cheney to argue the usefulness of torture against Obama's resolve to end such tact… more »

On grand tour through alreadly awakened memoryland, first several weeks in California, then here to New Mexico. Viewing fractured land up-close, everyone talking about the difficulties presented with economic recession, jobs, unemployment, and the possib… more »