I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Want another sign that even political junkies may be saying uncle by the time the election season is over? Sen. John McCain has a television ad going up in New Mexico and several other battleground states. Look for it today and tomorrow.
According to the Associated Press:
McCain says in the ad that only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.He was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. He says some of the friends he served with never came home.
In his words: “I hate war. And I know how terrible its costs are.”
Let’s be clear about this: It’s June. The general election is more than 140 days away. Forget Labor Day. The Fourth of July hasn’t even come and gone and it already feels like autumn, except it’s hot outside and the primary was only Tuesday. So this is what it’s like to live in a battleground state.
Besides McCain’s TV ad, the Defenders of Wilderness will go up sometime soon with an ad attacking GOP U.S. Senate nominee Steve Pearce.
By the way, McCain’s ad also is running in Iowa, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
