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.
An active U.S. combat brigade will deploy inside the United States beginning in October, according to an Army Times report. This marks the first time that an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment under U.S. Northern Command, which will command the day-to-day operations of the unit.
The unit, the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq, but they soon may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control in the United States and are currently training in the use of what the article calls “nonlethal weapons.”
One question that arises from the deployment is the status of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from exercising domestic police powers. The issue was blurred with the passage of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law by President Bush this year. The wording of the act gave the president the authority, in a time of emergency, to use the military in such a capacity. Congress repealed the wording back to the original 1807 version, but Bush relayed in a signing statement that he was not bound by such changes.
