Opinion

By STEVE PATTILLO

How about, “Where people still dress like graduate students from the 70’s”? Read More

By ALAN WADLINGER
Los Alamos

I am writing this letter in response to the fact that we are again about to be branded. 

I assume that the purpose of “branding” is to attract outsiders to our town by exemplifying our unique characteristics and attributes (I am thinking of the slogans “The City Different” and the “Land of Enchantment”, which apply to Santa Fe and New Mexico). 

While “Live Exponentially” might have been a catchy slogan, it was hard to see how it applied uniquely to Los Alamos. Since Los Alamos attracts people who can think out-of-the-box and are occasionally eccentric, I hope Read More

By DAN FITZGERALD

One area our Republican controlled Congress missed in cutting spending was our Intelligence budget. Rarely if ever disclosed, which would increase accountability. The CIA budget was last officially disclosed in 1998 at $26.7 billion. 

Now it must be upwards of $44 billion as Mary Graham, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collecting, disclosed in ’05 as reported in NY Times (11/8).* 

The 9/11 hijackers were actually monitored for a year and a half in this country before 9/11**.

Egyptian Intelligence did warn CIA that they had Read More

By SEAN JORDAN

Recently, news was reported that a man had been hiding out in Los Alamos Mesa Public Library and was arrested for criminal trespassing. This man had reportedly been looking for a place to sleep for the night due to the cold weather. However, this person was also resourceful enough to have a key to disarm the alarm system and had already spent an undeterminable number of nights hiding in the library after hours.  

Now, if you have been to Mesa Public Library then you are aware the majority of its employees are women. One security guard patrols the facility throughout Read More

By JOEL M. WILLIAMS

Many predictions of disasters and their non-occurrence have been made (Earth Day — Or Watermelon Day? by Allen Cogbill).

Most have to do with short-term predictions about warmer weather and shortages of food, fuel and mineral as mankind goes merrily along and ever expanding.

Long-term global temperature cycles put mankind in a gigantic thermal vise! Even with unlimited natural resources, food production during thermal perigees is NOT likely to support much global population. Food foraging-agriculture-food foraging cycles are likely over 120,000-year Read More

By SKIP DUNN

“Climate change can no longer be denied – or ignored. The world is looking to the United States – to us – to lead. And that’s what we’re doing.” President Obama, Weekly Address, April 18, 2015.

Climate change can no longer be denied – or ignored. The United States is looking to Los Alamos – to us – to lead. And that’s what we must do. Read More

By ALLEN COGBILL

Today, April 22, is Earth Day, a day for ecological nutcases and dedicated sandias to argue passionately for totalitarian methods to “Save the Planet”. Appropriately enough, and possibly by design, Earth Day is celebrated on Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

These sandias, nutcases and their useful idiots have been predicting dire events for the planet for years. Here is a brief sampling of their predictions, all of which turned out to be wrong.

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate Read More