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.
Since the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, a person in the United States is of course free to refuse medical treatment and die of a curable disease if he or she so chooses. But when parents make such a choice on behalf of a minor child the issue is far less clear-cut.
The fact is, the United States government should not be in the business of bailing out failing businesses, ordering CEOs to resign, ordering companies to raise capital, ordering creditors how much on the dollar they are allowed to seek during bankruptcy proceedings.
Okay, so Don Diego de Vargas and his men hitched their horses and burros in a dusty and lawnless plaza. Manicured grass isn’t historically correct. It isn’t xeriscape. It may be green, but it isn’t green. But let’s face facts. It is very, very tourist-friendly.
Anyone who reads my blog will know that I did not support Barack Obama in last year’s election, but that I was gracious in defeat and more restrained in my criticism than many conservative voices online. I was willing to give him his hundred days. Now he’s had them.
One of the current Democratic Party talking points is that a good way for liberals (aka progressives) to disarm conservatives (aka whining, infantile, redneck, racist mental defectives) is to mock them for warning Americans about the dangers of the slippery slope to socialism.
I was surprised to discover that a majority of New Mexico lawmakers saw the need for an entirely new department of state government to help Hispanics succeed. Funny, I thought they were succeeding.
Whether New Mexico’s Catholic Church is on the side of Democrats or Republicans when it comes to issues like abortion, homosexuality and capital punishment, is beside the point. The issue isn’t ideology; it’s law: Is the church or is it not violating the constitutional separation of church and state?
Recently, voters in the City Different rejected a tax on the sales of homes that sold for more than $750,000. The tax revenues would have gone to help finance the building of affordable housing.
A week ago a weeping Manny Aragon, former Democratic leader of the state Senate, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in federal prison for attempting to defraud the taxpayers of New Mexico of some $4 million. U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt declared after Aragon’s sentencing that “the era of picking the taxpayers’ pockets is over.” But the ever-popular sport of picking the taxpayers’ pockets is alive and well in Washington, D.C.
Last Friday, March 13, the front page of the Santa Fe New Mexican showed a photograph of a young couple, eyes closed, heads bowed, mourning the execution of Terry Clark in 2001. Later the same day, the New Mexico Senate voted to abolish the death penalty.
Good Lord, if only we could get New Mexico Land Commissioner Pat Lyons to stop throwing hissy fits and making so darned much money then democracy in New Mexico would be safe from the depredations of Rush Limbaugh’s slack-jawed minions.
