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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 Joe Wilson

Ambassador Wilson pushes back on Rove’s book

By | 03.10.10 | 10:13 am

In another New Mexico-themed rebuke of former White House senior advisor Karl Rove’s upcoming book “Courage and Consequences,” Ambassador Joe Wilson blogged at The Huffington Post that Rove’s book “is less memoir than hoax.” Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson,…

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

SNL skit: They left Joe Wilson hanging

By | 09.18.09 | 8:36 am

They left Joe Wilson hanging: That’s the gag in a Saturday Night Live Thursday sketch last night. The scene is a Republican confab right before President Obama’s health care speech to Congress, and all the assembled GOPers are…

Teague explains his vote on Joe “You lie!” Wilson vote

By | 09.18.09 | 7:08 am

U.S. Representative Harry Teague was one of just 12 Democrats to vote with the Republican Party in the motion to disapprove of South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson. On Thursday, Teague explained his vote to the D.C. publication The

Teague bucks party on Joe “You Lie” Wilson disapproval vote

By | 09.16.09 | 7:54 am

Teague spoke to an overflow crowd of more than 250 people. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)

U.S. Representative Harry Teague was one of just 12 Democrats to vote against a motion of disapproval against U.S. Representative Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for Wilson’s outburst of “You Lie!” during President Barack Obama’s address on healthcare to a joint…

Rep. Heinrich: GOP response to Obama speech “disgraceful” and “embarrassing”

By | 09.10.09 | 5:43 pm

Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, probably won’t be sitting together in the Congressional cafeteria any time soon.

In an e-mail to supporters, Heinrich said an outburst by Wilson–and other actions by Congressional Republicans…

Anti-illegal immigration group praises U.S. Rep. Joe ‘You lie!’ Wilson

By | 09.10.09 | 12:17 pm

Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, or ALIPAC, is praising Congressman Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for his outburst during President Obama’s Wednesday night address on health care reform.

Wilson infamously yelled, “You Lie!” when Obama said, “The reforms I’m…