When Sen. Pete Domenici announced his retirement a year ago and triggered a domino effect that has made New Mexico one of the most hotly contested...

Many Washington politicos have spent the last two weeks putting politics above solving the nation's financial crisis. In doing so, they have provided...

A couple of weeks ago, one Mountain West scribe announced "A...

In a recent conversation, my dad summed up the current financial crisis better than I could have: We're trying to figure out how to engineer a...

We're getting to weird time here in the good old US of A, that quadrennial festival of banality in which anyone who has a soapbox steps up to bemoan...

I didn't originally think Barack Obama did much damage to his campaign when he said at an April fundraiser in San Francisco that many rural...

The whole prospect of a "Western" convention was intriguing. Because, up until now, we've seen quite a lot of lip service given to the...

Enough change already. Two days into their national convention in Denver, Democrats proclaimed a need for change with a passion seen only from the...

Talking tough on issues like campaign-finance reform and trying to create an appearance of independence is the current trend in Washington. This...

Liberals sure have figured out how to use the blogosphere to their advantage.
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