New Mexicans should read Tom Cole\u2019s quotations from Harrison Schmitt, Martinez\u2019s proposed head of the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. I\u2019ll start with the end of Cole\u2019s column.<\/p>\n
ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words<\/a> <\/p>\n In one posting, he says a "philosophical wedge" has been driven between the government and its citizens, creating a divide that is wider than at any other time since just before the Civil War. <\/p>\n It seems to me that Schmitt has been doing some of the hammering on that wedge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words<\/a><\/p>\n Schmitt on Anthropogenic Global Climate Change:<\/p>\n "There exists no true concern … about the true effects of climate change \u2014 only a poorly concealed, ideologically driven attempt to use conjured up threats of catastrophic consequences as a lever to gain authoritarian control of society."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Classic conservative paranoia: It\u2019s all part of the totalitarian movement of the Left. (Just like the \u201cPatriot\u201d Act and DOMA.) I think Climate Change Deniers are part of a power grab by corporations that will destroy anything and everything for profit. Schmitt also supports endless corporate welfare in the form of \u201cCold War II\u201d with China.<\/p>\n One more quote from Schmitt, who believes the Minimum Wage and Social Security numbers are unconstitutional:<\/p>\n "The Government violates constitutional equal protection most generally by restricting the land-related economic and recreational activities of residents of Western States when no comparable restrictions are possible in most Eastern States. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Yup, Western wilderness is unconstitutional because there aren\u2019t comparable Eastern wildernesses. Apparently, engineers make lousy constitutional scholars. (BTW: I\u2019m all for creating equally large wildernesses in the East. It\u2019s only fair.)<\/p>\n A tangent regarding the endless ways in which abqjournal.com frustrates its users. When you select text to quote from the site, text is appended to that quote, such as this:<\/p>\n Read more: ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words<\/a> http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/upfront\/12215407746upfront01-12-11.htm#ixzz1AphNqDcA<\/a> Kudos to the Web designer who is so clueless about interface yet able to hack some JavaScript. Now, I know that some media sources object to the common practice among bloggers of quoting from those sources, even though every media source quotes other media sources \u2013 somehow, it\u2019s wrong when bloggers do it. Like almost every blogger, I cite the sites I quote from. Still, abqjournal.com insists on tacking on this ugly bit of code. (Note the hideous URL.) I\u2019ll bet this got the coder a pat on the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Mexicans should read Tom Cole\u2019s quotations from Harrison Schmitt, Martinez\u2019s proposed head of the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. I\u2019ll start with the end of Cole\u2019s column. ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words In one posting, he says a "philosophical wedge" has been driven between the government and its citizens, creating … Continue reading As a Constitutional Scholar, Harrison Schmitt is a Bang-up Engineer<\/span> \n
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