By Rick Manning No politician had a greater impact on the past year than freshman U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Cruz came from the Lone Star State not owing the D.C. political establishment anything, after he beat the chosen replacement for Kay Bailey Hutchison in an underfunded, grassroots driven Republican primary election. Using his historic first speech on the Senate […]

By A.F. Branco

By Robert Romano What’s past is prologue, or so the Bard told us centuries ago. And if 2013 was any indication, 2014 and subsequent years will see the continuation of institutional retaliation against not only the tea party, but of a wider anti-establishment sentiment prevalent on both the political right and left. For, by all accounts, 2013 was a pretty […]

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. A Colorado lawmaker is seeking to put an end to two small mining claims on federal land in his state by having Congress designate the site and surrounding lands as a national monument. Sen. Mark Udall (D) has introduced legislation that would create a 22,000-acre national monument in Browns Canyon in Chaffee County, Colorado.  To […]

By Tom Toth If the president thought this last year was bad, he may want to take some time on his Hawaiian Christmas vacation to sit down and consider that his best days in office are most likely behind him. The months between now and November 2014 may be the last before his presidency–at least legislatively–is effectively over. The sixth […]

By Marta H. Mossburg If 2013 were a beauty pageant, it would be the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. If it were a movie, it would be “Titanic.” If it were a song, it would be “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus. Obamacare is its defining story and should be. Learning that the foundational promises of Obamacare — if you like your […]

By Robert Romano In January, Janet Yellen will be easily confirmed to be the next head of the Federal Reserve. One question for the New Year that is certain to come up once every six weeks will be the Fed’s Open Market Committee, and specifically, whether there will be more tapering of the central bank’s purchase of $900 billion of […]

By William Warren

By Marita Noon “Canada is a sovereign nation and we will develop our resources with appropriate regulations and enforcement to protect the environment,” said Paula Caldwell St-Onge. The Consulate General of Canada, St-Onge was in Albuquerque to talk up, and answer questions about, the Keystone pipeline. She’d done media interviews prior to her arrival at the University of New Mexico […]

By ALG Staff Christmas is the season of hope. Not everyone wants to equate this hope with the birth of the Christ child, Emmanuel – God is with us, but the hope that lies within each of us gets unleashed for just a short time during this season. It is not just a hope for a new Lexus, relationship or […]