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.
The RNC’s field trip to a lesbian-bondage-themed strip club has accelerated and amplified a revolt that had been brewing for months. It’s given the growing number of conservative PACs and projects a new selling point to potential donors. And it’s emboldened the sizable number of loose-lipped Republican activists who are working to create new institutions outside of the chairman’s purview.
Ten Republican state attorneys general are threatening to sue the federal government over health care reform. But beneath the headlines, press releases, petitions and donation drives that followed the historic vote in Congress, lawyers and legislators are less confident that health care reform can be repealed — much less that it can be repealed quickly.
Some of the least convincing score-settling in “Courage and Consequences” comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment of U.S. attorneys — the chapter dealing with this is titled “Rove: the Myth.” For…
Libertarian attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference packed room after room for lectures by the likes of Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano and likely 2012 presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico.
“The support that I’ve found surprising is sitting down with what would be described as right-wing Christian Republicans and finding support. That’s been a surprise,” Johnson said during a visit to Washington, D.C., this week.
As the convention wrapped up with an hourlong address by and Q&A with Sarah Palin — broadcast live on CNN, Fox, MSNBC and C-Span — it was clear that the organizer’s massive and controversial gamble had mostly paid off. More than 200 members of the media had descended on Nashville to write probing stories on the Tea Party Movement.
Since the first announcements about the National Tea Party Convention, in November 2009, the high-priced, first-of-its kind event has been a magnet for controversy, a divisive subject within the burgeoning movement and a punching bag for local and national media.
Adam Kokesh, a candidate for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd district, is looking like the Republican front-runner just one short year after he crashed the Republican National Convention. Over the course of a year, he’s made the move from confrontation-seeking anti-war activist to clean-cut politician in the mold of the man he supported in 2008, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
“If the Stupak amendment is in there, I would definitely define it as one of most important life votes in more than a decade,” said Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.
Conservatives declared victory in the 2009 off-year elections four days before voters went the polls. They are looking to, and preparing to spin, a special election in New York, an all-but-certain victory in Virginia’s statewide races, a possible victory in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election, and Maine ballot measures on tax rates and gay marriage.
Tea Party Patriots did not want to lose Amy Kremer. The Atlanta activist had co-founded the organization. She’d helped organize some of the biggest events in the nationwide Tea Party movement. Then, at the end of September, Kremer decided to join the Tea Party Express, a project of the conservative Our Country Deserves Better PAC that was embarking on its third cross-country round of anti-tax, anti-spending rallies.
As the U.S. Senate readies for a vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, conservative judicial activists are taking stock of the battle that demanded so much of their energy for more than two months.
With no great fanfare and little national media coverage, the people who organized the April 15 Tea Parties are gearing up for a new day of protests against government spending and higher taxes. Hundreds of rallies will take place, at least one in every state, in public places and in parks rented out for the occasions.
In February, U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent introduced the Free Speech Protection Act, legislation aimed at protecting Americans from libel lawsuits filed in foreign courts.
The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, as any time since the 2008 election.
Adam Kokesh, a libertarian Marine Corps veteran who became a fairly prominent anti-Iraq War activist, is running for Congress as an independent in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District.
Ever since the election of President Barack Obama, gun store owners have reported massive increases in sales of firearms and ammunition. Attendees and sellers at Knob Creek’s enormous gun show can confirm that.
What had looked one month ago like a clean Republican victory became, as election day drew closer, a bigger and bigger disappointment. At noon on Tuesday, a probable GOP loss looked briefly like an upset win, then a defeat, then, possibly, a messy, inconclusive recount.
“All British reporters bring to their reporting an impish desire to entertain as well as inform,” says Tim Shipman, Washington correspondent for the United Kingdom’s Sunday Telegraph, who’s leaving Washington to cover Westminster politics for the Daily Mail.
A new documentary on Gov. Sarah Palin looks to rally a GOP ready for a conservative’s-conservative to stick it to the mainstream media in 2012.
