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.
A new Gallup poll finds, on average, Americans believe 51 cents out of every dollar the federal government spends is wasted, a new high since the question was first asked in 1979.
In October 2009, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry won the mayoral race with just a few more Republican votes than were cast in 2005. But part of his success may be due to the fact that thousands of Democrats who voted in 2005 stayed home.
Nobody — not even Republicans — wants poor people dropping dead in the streets because they can’t pay a doctor. Okay, maybe some libertarians do. But I’m not a libertarian. I’m not opposed to all taxatation and all government. But I am opposed to the disastrously misguided attempt by Congress to “reform” our system of paying for health care.
There is no bottomless pit of wealth. In fact, lIberals’ socialist vision of America’s future is eroding the spirit of enterprise that is necessary to create wealth. They are gobbling up the last of the bread and the cake and there are not enough productive bakers to replenish the supply.
The $825 billion federal stimulus proposal presented by House Democrats this week proposed $275 billion in tax cuts and $550 billion in spending. That’s $25 billion less in tax cuts than the figure President-elect Obama has used in recent weeks.
