By Staff Sgt. Delia Marchick: 27th SOW Public Affairs Your heart is racing and your palms are sweaty. You breathe deeply to calm yourself. You remind yourself that it’s only a fitness test but you still can’t manage to soothe the anxious feeling. As you walk closer to the fitness center you feel a gust […]
Debt plan would tamp down COLA
July 26, 2011
Military retirees, Social Security recipients and others drawing federal payments were tempted to grumble at Congress or the White House when the past two Januarys brought no cost-of-living adjustment. The real culprits were a deeply distressed economy, which drove prices down, and a logical process, set up 40 years ago, to track inflation and adjust […]
Free exchange of ideas remains vital
February 17, 2011
Freedom New Mexico Freedom of speech and academic freedom prevailed last week when a deeply religious man — some call him a zealot — delivered a speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy after an intensive campaign to censor him by government force. Retired Marine Lt. Clebe McClary spoke at an Air Force Academy prayer […]
No one to blame in giraffe’s death
February 12, 2011
The Parks and Recreation Department is deeply saddened. First off because of the loss of our beloved “Jay” the giraffe. Secondly, because of the unfounded accusations that have been made by some of the “uninformed” citizens of Clovis. We realize that it is human nature to make quick judgments before knowing all of the facts […]
Libertarianism true love of freedom
November 25, 2010
How does a kid grow up in a deeply conservative background, and become libertarian? Probably by taking those teachings to heart and realizing there can be no double standards without compromising the principles he was taught. By internalizing the lesson that if someone is doing something you believe they shouldn’t be doing — unless they […]
