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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Americans have often wondered what possible use there is for Canada. If not for ice hockey, Pamela Anderson and Moosehead beer, they could forget it even exists. In the old cartoon map depicting life after the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was labeled “manufacturing.” The United States was “retail.” And Canada? “Parking.” But for growing numbers of Americans, our neighbor to the north now shimmers like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It has what they want — inexpensive prescription drugs — and they ai... Full story
Feminists champion a woman’s right to choose. They have always taken the position that the right to privacy includes the right to decide what happens to their own bodies. They think such a personal decision should be made by individual women and their physicians, free from meddling politicians. As Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt puts it, “We stand for the principle that women — in consultation with their families and their physicians — should make their own reproductive and health decisio...
The California recall campaign was a noisy, raucous and often vitriolic affair. But the most striking feature of the final days was the silence. That was what you heard from conservatives on the subject of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sexual escapades. Here was a guy who, voters learned, told a skin magazine in 1977 that he had a stripper girlfriend, hung out with prostitutes, and engaged in group sex. Then last week, The Los Angeles Times reported that six different women said he had forced himself on them, grabbing breasts a... Full story
The costs of occupying Iraq are growing more obvious and more imposing every day, and Democrats bridle at forcing Americans to bear them. During a recent presidential debate, one candidate after another assailed President Bush for his $87 billion request, which includes $20 billion for rebuilding the country. Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri demanded to know how we can afford to upgrade the electrical grid in Iraq but not in the United States. North Carolina Sen. John Edwards criticized the portion allotted for reconstruction,...
Wesley Clark is a presidential candidate whose campaign rests on two rationales: his soldier’s biography and his opposition to the war in Iraq. His biography is still intact, but within 24 hours of entering the race, he had managed to turn the Iraq issue into his own personal exploding cigar. For those of us who are generally skeptical about plunging into optional wars, that’s not the only reason to wonder if Clark offers a real alternative to the incumbent. His pratfall came in an interview with The New York Times, when he...
Back when the occupation of Iraq was expected to consist of a victory parade and a glorious flowering of democracy, the Bush administration was content to handle the job alone. But this week, it finally acknowledged that the only thing worse than being mired in a catastrophe is being mired there all by yourself. So it is planning to solicit the United Nations for volunteers to share its misery. This is quite a reversal for a president who previously thought the reason you need allies is so you have someone to alienate....
On political issues, it’s been said, where you stand depends on where you sit. Bill Clinton can vouch for that. He finds that some things look different to a sitting president once he’s an ex-president, who in this case is not sitting but pacing. Clinton recently expressed a desire to alter the 22nd Amendment, which contains a proviso he finds unfortunate: “No person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice.” There are two people in the universe currently constrained by that limitation, and Clinton is one...
Back in 1993, a Democrat was in the White House, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and liberal thinkers had an idea to make it easier to get what they wanted. They proposed to abolish the Senate filibuster — which allows a minority of senators to block action by the whole body. One prominent Democratic Washington lawyer, Lloyd Cutler, went so far as to argue that the rule permitting filibusters was flatly unconstitutional. The idea went nowhere, Democrats managed to get their way much of the time over the next few...
