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O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] Letters can also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. Letters—including comments posted MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of August March (ext. 245) [email protected] correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: Alisa Valdes (ext. 239) [email protected] FOOD EDITOR: Robin Babb [email protected] Local Response immigration or border control is Article One, COPY EDITOR: Section Eight, authorizing Congress to Taylor Grabowsky [email protected] CALENDARS EDITOR: Dear Alibi, “establish an [sic] uniform rule of Ashli Kesali [email protected] I am a local (of over 30 years standing) and naturalization.” The president has no CALENDARS INTERN: would like to do my part to contribute to the constitutional authority to do anything Sami Solimon STAFF WRITER: Alibi’s letter to the editor. I’ll reply to the pertaining to immigration or controlling our Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] “editor’s Response” to Ralph Wrons’ letter, to national boundaries. The president is to “take SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: Wrons’ letter and to the three letters that care that the laws are faithfully executed.” Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: aroused Wrons’ ire (Alibi, Jan. 2 and Jan. 10). Since Congress hasn’t legislated a wall, how Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha Carrillo, The Editor referred to “conservative, can the president execute anything pertaining Desmond Fox, Taylor Grabowsky, Maggie Grimason, Trump-loving Republicans.” Speaking to one? Steven Luthy, Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie historically, conservatives have wanted limited The Constitution says no money may be PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR: or less government, a balanced budget and withdrawn from the Treasury unless an Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] fiscal responsibility in general. And they have appropriation is made by law. Has any ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: had a healthy skepticism about foreign Corey Yazzie [email protected] appropriation for a border wall been made by GRAPHIC DESIGNER: adventurism. Has Donald Trump done Congress? The president has no authority to Xanthe Miller [email protected] anything to reduce the size of government? arbitrarily spend money on a border wall (or STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Eric Williams [email protected] Has he balanced the budget or shown any anything else). To implement the CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: fiscal responsibility? How can any (so-called) “Conservative” Caucus’ wall proposal would Max Cannon, Michael Ellis, Ryan North, Mike “conservative” Republican love Donald Trump violate the Constitution and increase the Organisciak, Jen Sorensen when he has pointedly ignored two of the president’s power, not limit or reduce his SALES SALES DIRECTOR: three hallmarks of historical conservatism? power. Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] Historical conservatives would not want Finally, the Disgusted American-Mexican ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: the United States participating in any foreign claims that Rules For Radicals (by Saul Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] adventurism, including advisory actions (such Alinsky) is “a book dedicated to Lucifer—read Shane Boyd (ext. 223) [email protected] as in Nigeria). it sometime.” Well, I read my copy of Rules, or Sarah Shipman (ext. 210) [email protected] In his objections to the Jan. 2 letters, Mr. at least I read the germane front matter. On ADMINISTRATION Wrons refers to something he calls the “Ultra page ix (not numbered, but that’s the page PUBLISHER: Right Wing.” As the political spectrum moves Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] number), Alinsky makes an “over-the- CONTROLLER: from left to right it moves from 100 percent shoulder acknowledgment to the very first Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] government to zero percent government—or radical … Lucifer.” Not a dedication, an SYSTEMS MANAGER: at least a minimum of government. The Jan. 2 acknowledgment. Rules is dedicated “To Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] WEB MONKEY: letters from Coalgate, OK and from the Irene.” a John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] “Disgusted American-Mexican” were a lot of Steven Dapra, OWNERS: Albuquerque Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott fulminating with nothing about reducing the ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: size of government. This is not the Ultra Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] Right Wing. Letters should be sent with the writer’s name, address and daytime phone number via email to CIRCULATION The Conservative Caucus letter about CIRCULATION MANAGER: building a border wall says President Trump [email protected]. They can also be faxed to (505) Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] “should use every instrument provided in the 256-9651. Letters may be edited for length and CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: Darrell Sparks [email protected] Constitution to get the wall built.” What clarity, and may be published in any medium; we instruments are these? The closest the regret that owing to the volume of correspondence INFORMATION we cannot reply to every letter. Word count limit for PRINTER: Constitution comes to saying anything about The Santa Fe New Mexican letters is 300 words. 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According to the Associated A man was arrested after throwing a Press, the polar vortex ravaged the Midwest methamphetamine-fueled “death party” for his and Northeast last week, breaking record lows dying wife. The Free Press in Mankato, Minn., in some cities. In Missouri, wind chills as low reports Duane Arden Johnson called 911 last as -40 degrees were reported. The National week and told a dispatcher that his wife was Weather Service warns that frostbite can occur dead in their home. When police arrived at within 15 minutes in wind chills of -25 the man’s home, they reportedly found the degrees. words “Death Parde God Hell” spray-painted on the front door. They were met on the lawn by Johnson, who had removed his clothes and Dateline: Germany immediately retreated back into the house. A sausage-themed hotel catering to meat- According to police reports, the body of the lovers has opened in Germany. Reuters reports man’s wife, Debra Johnson, had been wrapped the Boebel Bratwurst Bed and Breakfast, a in a sheet. Johnson was found in the bathtub seven-room hotel in Rittersbach, Germany, by police, allegedly attempting to clean white was opened by butcher Claus Boebel with the and black “things” from his skin. He told hopes of making his bratwurst “attractive for police that his wife did not want to die in a the whole world.” Rooms are decorated with nursing home and had begged him to remove sausage-adorned wallpaper, sausage-shaped her from care. He said for her last days, they pillows, bratwurst hanging from the ceiling decided to celebrate with a “death party.” She and sausage-shaped soaps.