If Mary Kay Papen wanted to align herself with the Republicans, she should have run as a Republican in recent Senate elections.

With the new bishop at the Catholic Dioceses, maybe now the parishioners will find out what happened to all that missing money that was reported. It seems that Bishop Ramirez never gave an answer to anyone.

I was as amazed as Jim Harbison at the Pew poll showing that Dems favored socialism over capitalism, except I was amazed enough to actually read the poll, which is actually about people's attitudes about different political descriptions. Embarrassed again, you would think he would learn.

That was a great column by Jim Harbison today, and so true. I can just imagine that the liberals are burning up the hot line right now, demanding that Harbison be taken out of the editorial page of the Sun-News and probably run out of town.

Mr. Harbison assures us that an increase in (his perceived level of) socialism will certainly lead to poverty and "Third Word" status. Thirteen of the 16 countries richer than the U.S. are more socialist than the U.S ... so another fine theory without a reality to match.

In his anti-Hagel/Obama rant, Mr. Krauthammer calls the second intifada a "relentless campaign of indiscriminate massacres of Israelis." In the four-year long uprising, 865 Israelis were killed and 3,135 Palestinians.


But, who is one to believe, Krauthammer or the Israli government?

There should be taxpayer outrage at the misuse of funds at Doña Ana Community College. Do you know that they are going to have a talent show and free lunch for all the employees there? What a waste of our money.

I don't mind paying the cost of the utility bill, it's all the add-ons, the service charge, the tax, this, that and the other thing. They've got more charges than those bills that come out of Congress

More craziness is being spread by the Tea Party. Now you have insensitive firearms groups and the conspiracy-minded Tea Party banding together across the country with a so-called Gun Appreciation Day on Martin Luther King Day.

If we outlaw assault weapons, the black market trade in military assault weapons will explode.

If the government or society want to question the ownership of something, question the ownership of body armor. Lots of people own guns, but why do you need body armor if you are not a police officer or in war?

The NRA professes to be concerned about the Second Amendment. In reality they are not. The only thing that they are concerned about is more gun sales. That is their agenda and they are backed up wholeheartedly by the gun manufacturers.

I went into the post office here in Las Cruces and I had a lot of packages to mail and I was really impressed when they came out and helped me with that and even recommended a cheaper way for me and my business to send our packages out.

It is my understanding that there are less than 100 al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and we have got well over 100,000 of our well trained troops there. I'll tell you why. This nation only wants to be at war because there is money to be made.

When all the regulations in the 2,800-page manual on Obamacare are made known to the citizens of our country, there will be riots in the streets of Washington DC.