Declaration's signers: so much to lose
Hollywood directors have done justice enough to the language issued this day in 1776: They could hardly miss with a cry for rights to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" and the Declaration of Independence's final words ratified by 56 men who "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
The declaration from the Second Constitutional Congress lays a bill of particulars at the feet of Britain's George III — their king — tossing off terms such as "tyrants" and accusing him of abdicating government "by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."
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At Santa Fe Opera, a superb season begins
As if the national economic downturn weren't challenge enough, the Santa Fe Opera opens tonight amid an early beginning to our region's rainy season.
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A clean-car victory for N.M., nation
We figured all along that there was more than one way to skin the car-emissions cat: Even as we applauded New Mexico's environment secretary and attorney general for joining California's lawsuit seeking state power to set auto-exhaust standards, we couldn't help thinking Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency were better places to settle the state-federal issue.
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Ironies abound in Honduras coup
A blast from the past — and an unpleasant one at that: a military coup in Latin America reminiscent of the frequent governmental overthrows staged in decades past.
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July 4, 1984: Arvada, Colo. — A municipal judge has ruled that there's nothing illegal about a motorcyclist taking his dog for rides on his "hog." Danny Miller was collared June 6 for riding his motorcycle with the 4-year-old Australian shepherd mix draped over the bike in front of the seat.
Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, El Paso and San Antonio are in the running for selection as a permanent home for Nelson Rockefeller's vast folk art collection accumulated by the late vice president. Ann Rockefeller Roberts has named the five cities as potential sites for some 3,000 to 4,000 pieces of Mexican popular are Roberts inherited from her father. The collection begun in 1933 and ended in 1978 consists of commonplace, everyday objects.
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Creator's at the heart of our freedoms
On the first Fourth of July, Americans were officially "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ... Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The Founding Fathers knew our rights were gifted by a higher authority, not by men who could take them away. But without a Creator, who guarantees our rights? It can only be other men, inc ... »Read more letters
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