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.
Let’s hire the right person for the NMSU job regardless of his or her color — or of the color of the people making the choice. Racism is what has kept many black coaches from getting a chance. It was wrong to be used in that way. It is wrong to use it as retribution as well.
I was looking at a posting the other day that talked about ethics and the need for ethics reform in New Mexico. The article talked about former State Sen. Manny Aragon and the recently defeated Senate Republican Whip Lee Rawson. What I was shocked to see missing was any real discussion about the New Mexico Housing Authority and the people who are involved with it.
I started thinking about the last few elections and all the work of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) together with groups like ACORN and the ACLU working to make sure as many people vote as possible. These same organizations are working hard for a law that would no longer allow workers a free and open vote on the question of choosing to unionize.
Then we up and got a train — tracks, rail beds, locomotives, everything — but no one knew who was planning to pay for it, or how much it would cost. Then we were hit with the spaceport idea. Somebody convinced the governor and many members of the Legislature that it would be just dandy — and a great investment to boot — to build a takeoff and landing hub right in the middle of nowhere.
Now that the election is over and President-elect Barack Obama is getting his team ready, we should all take a deep breath and do something other than politics for a while. On the other hand, there are those of us who think about politics 24/7, 365 days a year, and to them I write this article.
Left-wing verbal terrorists like Congressman John Lewis should be held up to ridicule. They shouldn’t be taken seriously, as the ignorant, history-deprived media talking heads take them.
Fernando C. deBaca has resigned his post as Chairman of the Republican Party of Bernalillo County. But where were the Democrats when an elected member of their own party made equally offensive comments about Barack Obama?
I have to tell you how surprised I have been to hear Martin Heinrich claim he was not a lobbyist. If you are paid to influence elected officials, I believe that qualifies you as a lobbyist. There is no exception because you “lobbied on behalf of the environment.” Give me a break. Whenever Heinrich got his paycheck each month, you can bet it wasn’t signed by “The Environment.”
I have to begin by telling you how excited I am to be a Republican today. Senator John McCain has hit a homerun, or better yet, a grand slam. His choice for a running mate could not have been any…
Having just returned from what will probably be my last legislative session, I have to tell you I was amazed at how well the Democrats can stay on message nationally and locally.
We just finished a “special session” that…
I write this knowing it will provoke a response from my fellow columnists and I’m happy to help get those creative juices flowing because God knows there’s nothing worse for a liberal than to have nothing to complain about. (Considering…
As the citizens of the great State of New Mexico prepare themselves for yet another special session, I thought maybe we should actually talk a little about the health care “crisis” facing our state.
Over the last few years…
We are about to head into a special session sometime in the next few weeks, according to all the media reports, and the list of things we are going to cover seems to be growing every single day. Health care…
Over the past election cycle or so, including the run-up to this November, I continue to be amazed, and a little concerned, about the role blogs seem to play in electing the people who will represent us at all levels…
I was reading with much enjoyment the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution with regard to the Second Amendment. But then my blood ran cold when it dawned on me that the case was…
I was going through some of my favorite Web sites just the other day and I came across an article the Heritage Foundation had up about Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). It claimed Dodd had been exposed by Bank of America…
