Editorials

Enabling the Perpetual Political Pendulum
(Part One of Three)

Excerpted from The Unfounding of America
by Michael Russell
TheSecondDeclaration.org

The principles responsible for the creation of
America are, and have always been, required in equal
measure to sustain America. Only an independent-minded
citizenry can preserve a free independent nation.

While bicycling alone from California to New Hampshire in the summer of 1982, I contemplated and learned at the age of 25 what it meant to be an American and what America was founded to enshrine and protect. Such was not the purpose of my self-propelled expedition, but it was a life-affirming consequence. Two years later, during a university debate between calmly articulate capitalists and rabidly emotional "democratic socialists," I observed via audience response America's likely future and understood that the singular hope for my country was not political, but educational, and that public "education," by producing massive numbers of citizens unable to think conceptually, was ensuring the destruction of America. It would take another 27 years before I grasped with equivalent certainty that the authoritarian-collectivist Left's patient program of indoctrination had all along been bolstered by a perceptual counterpart: corporate-media manipulation of what Americans are "allowed" to see and hear.

[Editor's Note: This is posted with permission to place in editorials on the Beat.]

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A couple of weeks ago a writer at the Federalist blog faulted Dolly Parton for ascribing her loving attitude toward all her fans, including her LBGTQ+ ones, to her Christian faith. 

I am not going to defend Dolly Parton here. She doesn't need me to. The legendary songwriter and

By: NM House Republican Leader Rod Montoya

On June 10, House Republican leaders sent a letter to Governor Lujan Grisham explaining why her desire to rewrite highly complex behavioral health laws during the upcoming July 18 special session was not possible due to numerous unanswered questions. Instead, Republican leaders called on the governor to set a special session agenda that focuses on fixing our state's violent crime problem, reducing the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across our southern border, and reforming the problem-plagued Children, Youth and Families Department.

These unanswered questions, which have been raised by both Republican and Democrat legislators, include, how much will the governor's proposals cost, how will these proposals make New Mexicans safer, and how will all these newly required behavioral health services be provided when the state is already facing a critical shortage of mental health professionals? Spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars to bring legislators back to Santa Fe to pass legislation that is not fully vetted and will have no immediate impact on the state's violent crime and drug trafficking problems is not what special sessions are for.

The link to the full podcast is below this summary.

On this week's Tipping Point interview Paul talks to independent researcher Leanna Derrick. Derrick has been working to uncover and highlight the outsized influence of "progressive" group Emerge New Mexico which recruits, trains, and funds left wing women in public office throughout New Mexico. They discuss the "Emerge" group which operates in two dozen states. Who funds them? What do they do and what has been happening here in New Mexico with Emerge-recruited and backed candidates?

Check out this important conversation.

New Mexico the Hoarder
By Paul Gessing

Occasionally the evening news reports on people keeping more animals than they can handle. Other times children of deceased parents are astonished by how much "stuff" their parents or grandparents hang onto only to leave piles of unwanted things to be thrown out.

The State of New Mexico is a hoarder. It hoards cash. One might think this is a good thing because, after all, isn't keeping cash for a "rainy day" (such as a downturn in oil and gas) a good thing?

By Larry Reagan, President of New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau

As a fourth-generation cattle rancher and president of the grassroots agriculture organization New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, I can't stress enough how vital it is that Congress swiftly pass a farm bill this year. I am not alone in this sentiment. In light of global disruptions to the supply chain and high inflation, the majority of Americans believe it is a national security priority to ensure we have a safe and abundant food supply, according to a recent American Farm Bureau Federation survey.

If you value property rights and sensible federal rules, this is for you to read. It's about a group trying to rein in federal overreach and over regulation. They point out how efforts "sound good," but take away the public's rights to public lands.

Federal Overreach: Making the West Wild and Lawless Again (land use and climate news from the Right perspective) 
http://www.liberato.us/property-rights-report-2405.html 

By Paul Gessing

Left, right, or center, economists tend to agree that "corporate welfare" is not good public policy or good economics. A recent Rasmussen poll found that approximately 65% of Americans (regardless of political philosophy or affiliation) oppose corporate welfare. Definitions of what constitutes such "welfare" vary, but generally relate to policies that involve politicians picking winners and losers in the economy.

Sadly, New Mexico has a long history of picking "losers" and one of those losers appears to be in its death throes. Specifically, New Mexicans have spent hundreds-of-millions to construct, expand, staff, and maintain Spaceport America in Southern New Mexico.