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.
Political commentator David Gergen, a longtime adviser to presidents of both parties, appeared on “The Colbert Report” Thursday, delivering a righteous Daddy’s-in-charge smackdown to Sarah Palin’s “rabble-rousing” campaign appearances and declaring that John McCain “is a better man than that. He has got a good, long record.”
Gergen criticized the Bush operatives who appear to be running McCain’s campaign. Pressed by host Stephen Colbert on why McCain shouldn’t use them, given their past successes, Gergen said: “It has won at great expense to what Republicans stand for and what their reputation is.”
He called on McCain’s campaign to “rein in” Palin, citing examples of her frothing up crowds to shout racial epithets and “kill him” in regard to Barack Obama.
“People don’t want to hear about Bill Ayers or Charles Keating,” Gergen said. “They want to know who’s going to save their job.”
Worth watching: David Gergen on Colbert
