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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

Posts Tagged Dick Cheney

Cheney tells FBI he doesn’t know who leaked Plame’s identity

By | 10.30.09 | 5:52 pm

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he doesn’t know who leaked the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame according to a transcript (pdf) given, by court order, to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility

Raising hell in defense of liberty

By | 08.11.09 | 10:01 am

Back in the bad old Bush-Cheney days, Code Pink activists were considered heroines for their disruptive protests against the war. Now, in the more enlightened Age of Obama, conservatives are protesting the attempt to ram a 1,018-page bill through Congress before all of its potential ramifications and unintended consequences can be considered.

GOP suffering ‘leadership vacuum’ poll says

By | 06.10.09 | 6:47 pm

When asked to name the “main person who speaks for the Republican Party today,” 47 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents could not come up with a single name, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released Wednesday.

Eighteen percent of Democrats,…

Channeling the great Molly Ivins

By | 02.27.09 | 10:40 am

Give Bobby Jindal credit for temerity; with Dick Cheney only weeks out of power, the Louisiana governor called for “ethical and transparent” government. Here not even Molly Ivins can make me smile.

Sean Penn in talks to play Joe Wilson in Valerie Plame movie

By | 02.24.09 | 5:27 pm

sean-penn-photoTwo-time Oscar winner Sean Penn is in talks to join Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts in “Fair Game,” a movie about the “drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson,” according to Variety.

Plame Wilson and her…

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: More nukes, Dick Cheney alive and kickin’

By | 02.04.09 | 10:24 am

Carlsbad may be the new site of a nuclear facility within the distant near future, reports the Carlsbad Current-Argus. Supporters suggest this move would make Carlsbad a leader in the nuclear energy industry, although many of the kinks need…

Today’s Top Stories: Cheney cancels; Will McCain?

By | 09.26.08 | 8:57 am

Barack Obama says he will be in Oxford, Miss., tonight, but as of early this morning John McCain remained adamant he would not participate in what would be the first presidential debate of the campaign unless Congress and the Bush…