Same-sex marriage >> When it comes to gay marriage, I am proud of the city. It is good to make the national news about something other than poverty and pro-slavery parade floats.

Same-sex marriage >> Thanks to Lynn Ellins for doing the right thing.

Same-sex marriage >> At least we can now test the "defenders of marriage" theories. Will the divorce rate sky rocket? Will thousands of happily married men wake up, slap their foreheads and say "wow. I could have had a guy"?

Sun-News >> I would like to propose a new section for the paper named "Alternative Lifestyle," much like the Sports section. Then you will have all the stories concentrated in one section and would be much easier to ignore.

Catholic church >> Ok Bishop Canto, it is time you set up and put these "bleeding hearts" like Mike Quigley in their place. What has been good enough for over 2,000 years, is still good enough for most practicing Catholics.

NMSU athletics >> President Carruthers took a half of a page to say basically that the Athletic Department is broken, so we're going to bring in somebody for $100,000 a year. Why don't you just replace McKinley Boston? He has not done the job. That is basically the elephant in the room.

NMSU athletics >> Every few years we get new university president who "sees sports as a business opportunity." A few years and a new president later, we find ourselves $10 million to $20 million in debt from their delusional sports betting.


National monument >> The Sun-News needs to change priorities. Why was there a two page story on the El Paso Diablos while there was hardly any attention given to a major report on the millions of dollars that a national monument would generate in our area?

Corporate taxes >> Two things to those who accuse the governor of pushing corporate welfare: if taxes are raised on corporations, they are just passed on to consumers. And, President Obama has allowed the ObamaCare business mandate to be delayed for a year while keeping the individual mandate.

Steve Pearce >> Congressman Pearce believes the "undocumented" should legally work and pay taxes, but not be allowed citizenship. I admire his candor, there are so few who will stand up and say there is nothing wrong with "taxation without representation."

Hooks column >> On 8-15 Neal Hooks presented an accurate account of the Zimmerman/Martin tragedy based on facts. On 8-22 Robert Cwik wrote "Answer for Neal Hooks". There was no thread of truth, nor one accurate fact, in Mr. Cwik's article. It was pure ideological garbage.

Krauthammer column >> The United States overthrew the democracy in Chile, and forced upon them a murderous dictatorship. It took 16 years for the Chilean people to regain their freedom. Mr. Krauthammer regards this as foreign policy success story.

Public pensions >> Public employees invest 20-plus precious years of their lives and actually earn their retirement. What is going to break the state of New Mexico is the large and growing populace who depends on others to provide for them and can't hold a decent job for even 20 days.
