BY Editor, ON DECEMBER 29, 2009

Marines Under Fire In California?

It's pretty rare when The Daily Show does a bit that a conservative would find very funny. Yes, it's always healthy to be able to laugh at yourself, but when poking fun is almost always only thinly veiled propaganda for the extreme left. It's odd to see Jon Stewart poke back at the left with any vigor. But from time to time liberals acknowledge that they have a bunch of kooks on their side of the fence.

You'll have to excuse the fact that Myspace forces you to watch an ad to see the video, but it is worth the wait. It turns out that even people who don't necessarily like the military know way down deep that protecting our country, is something that really must be done.

Healthy Families Heal America

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 18, 2009

Government Is Not The Answer - Good People Are

People always ask what it will take to cure this great country; I think it is far simpler than government programs and great tax increases, more prisons or more spending.
I believe when we as individuals and when we as families begin to live correctly then the country will heal. The country is nothing more than the cumulative sum total of all of us and our ills or health.

Yesterday, I had the chance to celebrate one of those lives. The Memorial service for John Elliott Johnson commemorated one of those lives that heal a family, community and nation.

He and his wife, Virginia, made their home in Hobbs, having come here from Kansas. His lovely wife was quoted by one family member as having said, "Elliott was pretty wild in high school." You would not know it to see him raising his family.

Voting System In Need Of Changes

BY Editor, ON DECEMBER 17, 2009

Enact Voter Photo ID System To End Voting Fraud

By Victor S. Contreras Jr. - Chairman, Hispanos Unidos

(Hispanos Unidos is a non-partisan PAC based in Dona Ana County, formed to address election reform issues in New Mexico.)

New Mexicans know our election system is broken. I have learned this first hand as I have traveled the state for more than a year giving presentations on voter fraud. Only members of state government have spoken out against election reform. Citizens ask me, "How can we help?"

Some highlights of what happened in Dona Ana County during the 2008 election:

Steve's Record On War Veterans

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 16, 2009

Steve Pearce is a Vietnam veteran who flew combat missions. Veterans' issues are of the utmost importance to him. Steve was a pilot in the Air Force, serving in the Philippines and flying missions into Vietnam. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. Returning to the US, he was assigned to the Strategic Air Command at Blytheville Air Force Base, Arkansas. He separated honorably with the rank of Captain.

While in Congress, Steve Pearce worked tirelessly on behalf of Veterans to ensure they would have the benefits they were promised. To get work done for veterans Steve has always used a two front strategy: (1) fighting for important legislation and funding, and (2) working directly with Veterans and the VA here in New Mexico to hold the VA system accountable. Steve is the only veteran in the race for Congress, has always supported our troops, and has the record to prove it.

Scientists And Whistle Blowers Thrash Global Warming Alarmists

BY Volunteer, ON DECEMBER 10, 2009

Hurricane Expert Rips Climate Fears:

"There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination"

Climategate revelations 'are but the tip of the iceberg'

While reading the above story we also found the iceberg. This won't get any more press in the US than the entire climategate scandal did, but the spin doctors must have gone into full force within minutes of the leaked emails. Interesting that the truth is always found out - even if it is never reported by the media. Thank goodness that for every Lord Stern there is a Lord Monckton.

Senate Debate On Health Care

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 10, 2009

Harry Reid And His History Lesson

The majority party doesn't like it when people tell them what they think. It seems they just want everyone to roll over and play dead and let them do whatever they want to do regardless of whether their constituents agree with them or not. I've found two very good examples of this over the last day and a half alone.

The first is a comment from Representative Pete Stark from California. Apparently some senior citizens voiced their skepticism about the Democrat's' budget math - to which Mr. Stark responded:

“I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine.”

As distasteful as that is, it isn't an isolated case of poor verbal tactics. Below is a story from John Fund about how Harry Reid chose to frame the healthcare debate on the senate floor:

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Majority Leader Harry Reid tarred opponents of his health care bill yesterday as the equivalent of those who opposed equal rights for women and civil rights for blacks.

The Government And Health Insurance

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 09, 2009

Public Option Will Leave No Other Options

I met with insurance underwriters a few days ago. These are the people who sell you your health insurance, explain your benefits to you and take care of documenting the details about your claims.

In other words, they are your neighbors and people who employ a few people in your town. They pay taxes, support the local soccer or little league teams. They serve in the local chamber of commerce, volunteer through Lions clubs and Rotary clubs, and teach your Sunday school classes.

They are just like you and me

This morning, they were afraid. They told me that "The health care bill will take our jobs away," and that "The health care bill will kill our small business." And they're absolutely right. If a national healthcare plan with a public option is passed, these jobs that used to be in your community will disappear and there will be fewer soccer teams next year. There will be less money deposited in the local banks. The jobs that used to provide local and state taxes will be transferred to the government run insurance-the so-called public option.

Cooperation Greater Than Tolerance

BY Steve Pearce, ON DECEMBER 08, 2009

Progressive Dinner

I sat beside a Progressive Democrat from Oregon last night at dinner. We got along pretty well.

One thing I learned growing up, especially from mom, is not to see people from the outside but for who they are. I can't remember her ever saying those words. I just saw her live that lesson.

In 1957, when I was 10, we moved from an oil company camp in Eunice to Hobbs. I tell people we ran out of money 5 miles outside Hobbs and grew up there in Nadine. The truth is that Dad wanted to have his own 5-acre plot of ground. He wanted to farm that ground, to raise vegetables, to have a milk cow and a few chickens. He wanted to be self-sufficient. Mom wanted to get us out of the 'camp' environment. It was her dislike of "seeing things or people go to seed". A lot of things in that oil camp influenced us kids, very few of them positive.

So when we got to our little rancho, Mom immediately started a 4-H club. She drove our old '54 Mercury up and down the dusty roads around Nadine looking for other poor families trying to escape the town environments. Soon she had a club composed of 10 or 20 local kids-only 3 or 4 families. We had bigger families back then.

A Poem For Christmas

BY Editor, ON DECEMBER 07, 2009

A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

 My wife was asleep, her head on my chest

My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, 

Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, 

Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

 My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, 

Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. 

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, 

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near

but I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,

then the  sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. 

Climategate Gets Worse For Global Warming Crowd

BY Administrator, ON DECEMBER 04, 2009

There Are More Than Emails In The Pile

A lot more, in fact. I turns out that the worst of the evidence for falsifying and hiding poor facts or just flat making stuff up that supports their agenda is only briefly touched on in the email correspondence. There is a much larger body of evidence that can actually give a time line of exactly how and when one of the men manipulated, changed or flat out lied by inserting data that wasn't ever there before.

We've been telling you that the Global Warming crowd is making all of this up. It wasn't too long ago that we were catastrophically hurtling toward the net major ice age, but there wasn't enough funding for that. You see, you always need to follow the money. We're not talking chicken feed either. These guys are generally set up in very fancy labs with big, fat salaries to match. Below is a quote from the EPA looking for a couple of people to work as a policy analyst in the Climate Change Division's Program Integration Branch (makes you wonder just how many 'branches' of this we are funding with our tax money doesn't it)?

"For these positions, the salary range is from GS-9 to GS-13 ($48,108 to $107,854), dependent upon qualifications."