March 7, 2025

The most shockingly ‘generous’ government worker pension plan in the USA

Every January, a howling can be heard in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Sometimes, it’s just the wind coursing through the nearby Sangre de Cristo mountains.  More often, the howling is coming from the members of the New ...

February 27, 2025

The most dangerous city in the most dangerous state

Last September, the FBI released its national crime statistics for 2023.  The numbers for New Mexico can be described only as catastrophic. New Mexico had the highest per capita rate for violent crime of any state at 7.8 incidents per th...

January 16, 2024

Can we reduce mass public shootings?

Columbine High School, Columbine Colorado:13 murdered. Lewiston, Maine: 18 murdered. Robb Elementary School, Uvalde,Texas: 21 murdered. Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut: 26 murdered. These are some of the grim statistics...

February 16, 2023

Is it always financially worthwhile to obtain a college degree?

Is it always financially worthwhile to obtain a four-year college degree?  Answer: no. It depends on the return on investment (ROI).  The ROI is calculated by estimating the future earnings from the undergraduate degree less th...

January 20, 2023

Alec Baldwin will be charged in accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins

On October 21, 2021, on the Rust movie set in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, a gun being handled by Alec Baldwin discharged with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.  The gun should have either been unloaded or loaded with b...

November 16, 2022

Key Takeaways from the FBI Whistleblowers Report

On November 4, 2022, the Republican staff of the House Judiciary Committee published a report based primarily on whistleblower testimony, describing how the FBI and the Justice Department have become politically weaponized against conservatives....

November 12, 2022

Another Reason Republicans Didn't Do So Well on Tuesday

Republicans have been bemoaning Tuesday's election results.  As to why Republican candidates did not do better, the two primary reasons given are either that the GOP had a lousy candidate or the Dems are insane and will vote for any Dem...

September 18, 2022

Retaining election records from the 2020 election

Did the number of people who voted in the November 3, 2020 general election equal the number of ballots cast?  A recent research study by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) says the records that would answer the question do not exist...

September 11, 2022

The way to really make E-Verify work

The federal E-Verify program has an online searchable database showing the businesses with at least five employees who have gone to the trouble to make certain that they are not employing illegal aliens.  These businesses need to be rewarde...

August 29, 2022

What if Your Attorney Is an Illegal Alien?

Here's a hypothetical.  Sometime after October 1, 2022, a civil bench trial (no jury) is taking place in state district court in Albuquerque.  The judge will decide both the facts and the law.  The only people in the courtroom are ...

August 14, 2022

How to break up the FBI

I suspect that August 8, 2022 will live in infamy.  Historians may conclude that it is the day that the United States became a banana republic.  It is the day that a politically weaponized FBI raided the Florida home of former pre...

June 27, 2022

Is the US Forest Service our most inept federal agency?

One would assume that after more than 100 years of practice, a federal agency would be able to do its job correctly.  However, that is not the case with the U.S. Forest Service.  At least in New Mexico, it has been unable to ...

June 10, 2022

Who's still wearing a mask these days?

From my daily walk in my neighborhood in Albuquerque, I have come to the conclusion that only leftist loons, AKA Democrats, are still wearing masks outdoors.  Does the same apply to indoor mask-wearing? New Mexico was one of the most Wuh...

May 28, 2022

This state is an object lesson in how to have fraudulent elections

In New Mexico, it’s almost impossible to prove voter fraud – and that’s exactly what the Democrat-controlled state legislature wants. I’ve previously written about what a joke American voter ID and absentee ballot laws are ...

May 12, 2022

Twitter beats Trump, for now

Last July, President Trump filed separate lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.  On May 6, the lawsuit against Twitter was dismissed for failure to state a ...

January 21, 2022

The US has banana republic–like voter ID laws

Most Americans are simply unaware of how weak and haphazard our voter ID and absentee ballot laws are compared to those in other countries.  I want to do a quick overview of U.S. laws and then compare them to those in Europe, Canada, and Me...

August 14, 2021

Illegal immigration insanity, and how to stop it

It is madness for the United States not to control its borders and who lives here. In The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman notes that misgovernment is of four kinds: (1) tyranny or oppression, (2) excessive ambition, (3) incompetence or decadence, ...

July 12, 2021

Trump v. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, et al

On July 7, 2021, President Trump’s legal team filed three major lawsuits in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The suits named as defendants: Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg (21-cv-22440), Twitter and Jack Dorsey (21-cv-2244...

March 26, 2021

New Mexico Breaks Bad

This is a mostly multiple-choice pop quiz to test your knowledge of the fictional characters on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and some real-life characters in New Mexico. 1.) Which one of the following never pled guilty to a felony? a....

March 15, 2021

Time to Review the 25th Amendment

It is no accident that Joe Biden has not given a State of the Union address or had a press conference since his inauguration.  He is simply not mentally capable of doing either.  I predict that Kamala Harris will become president ...

March 3, 2021

Why I had to drive 250 miles to get my COVID shot

It's a long and boring 247-mile drive from Albuquerque to Muleshoe, Texas.  You drive east on I-40 to Santa Rosa, N.M. and then head south on U.S. 84.  The trip "highlight" is the sign directing you to Billy the Kid...

February 25, 2021

Is this the dumbest state Legislature in the country?

This is a pop quiz. You will first be asked to identify the state. After identifying the state, you will be asked to vote on whether the state’s legislature is the dumbest in the United States. Place your hand or a piece of paper over the botto...

January 15, 2021

How can states control insane health care costs? Here's one suggestion.

In 2018, the State of California filed major litigation against Sutter Health, alleging causes of action for price-fixing, price-tampering, unreasonable restraint of trade, and combination to monopolize.  Sixty Minutes recently had a segmen...

October 21, 2020

The Terrible Ten

As of September 18, 2020, these are the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates in the country: NE; UT; ID; SD; VT; ND; AL; GA; MT and OK. The 10 states with the highest unemployment rates, all in excess of 10%, are: PA; NJ; IL; MA; NM; CA; HI; ...

July 18, 2020

Corona Insanity in New Mexico

Recently, I was hiking with four friends in the Sandia Mountains, just east of Albuquerque.  I didn't think about it at the time, but because there were five of us, technically, we were a "mass gathering" under one of New Mexi...

June 25, 2020

Space travel from New Mexico? Don't hold your breath

On October 22,2010, a smiling Richard Branson spoke to the crowd at the runway dedication for Spaceport America located in New Mexico's forbidding Jornada del Muerto desert.  Two years before, his company, Virgin Galactic, had signed a ...

March 9, 2020

Monday Schadenfreude: Plame flames

Whoever wins the Democrat primary on June 2 for New Mexico's Third Congressional District will be an overwhelming favorite to win the general election in November.  It is very unlikely that Valerie Plame will be that person....

January 28, 2020

Guess the State: Democrat-Run Fiasco Edition

The last time Republicans held a majority on this state's Supreme Court was in the 1920s.  Its Court of Appeals has never had a Republican majority. The last time Republicans held a majority in both houses of the state Legislature at...