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.
New Mexico militia leader Bob Wright was among a group of New Mexicans attending a gun rights rally in Northern Virginia on Monday. Earlier this year, a tea party group in Alamogordo held an open-carry tea party in the southern New Mexico town.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank quoted Wright in a story about the event: ”Two years ago, most of us were screaming at the TV, and our wives wondered why we didn’t just shut up… We’ve seen an entire change in our country.”
The Santa Fe Reporter interviewed Wright earlier this year.
The Huffington Post spoke to someone who identified himself as “Dr. Seidel” from Ruidoso, New Mexico who was carrying an AR-15 rifle.
“We are standing up for the Constitution,” he said according to The Huffington Post. “The powers that be are pooh-poohing the Constitution.”
Another gun rights rally was held on the Washington Mall, but it was not an open-carry rally. Washington D.C. has very strict gun control laws.
