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.
U.S. Representative Harry Teague was one of just 12 Democrats to vote with the Republican Party in the motion to disapprove of South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson. On Thursday, Teague explained his vote to the D.C. publication The Hill, saying: “What Congressman Wilson did was wrong and just plain childish behavior, but the House of Representatives doesn’t need to stop what it is doing to reprimand him.”
“I’d much rather have Congress spend time on getting our economy back on track, addressing our energy challenges or advancing legislation to help our nation’s veterans,” Teague went on to say.
New Mexico’s other two U.S. Representatives, Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich, voted for the motion to disapprove.
Wilson broke House rules by yelling ” You lie!” at President Barack Obama during a joint address to Congress on health care last week.
As I wrote last week:
Wilson yelled at Obama when the president said, “There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
Both the non-partisan Politifact and Factcheck.org found that Obama was not, in fact, lying when he said those who are here illegally will not be covered.
