Judge Rules Against Drilling Ban

A federal judge in New Orleans threw out the Obama administration's attempt to ban offshore drilling for six months yesterday. Granting a temporary injunction that prohibits the government from effectively killing jobs in the oil service industry, Judge Martin Feldman suggested the Obama administration was over-reacting to the oil spill in the gulf while ignoring the safety record of all other offshore rigs.  Read the details of the ruling here:

Judge Rules Against Drilling Ban

Budget Axe Falls at NMSU

NMSU President Barbara Couture took command at the institution just in time for a fresh look at priorities. Facing shortfalls similar to what the private sector has been facing for the last two years, her administration has had to identfy areas for cuts. Read the details of the leaner NMSU budget here:

Budget Axe Falls at NMSU

Americans Face Algeria and Elimination

The implications for today's game are simple for the American soccer team. It must beat Algeria, pray for luck in a tie-breaker system, or go home. The good news is it is a "win and you are in" scenario for team USA. For soccer fans watching television here in the states things are more complicated. One has to find a way to enjoy a game with the constant buzz of vuvezelas blaring away. These plastic horns provide perhaps the single most annoying audio background for any sporting event in the history of human athletic endeavors.

Americans Face Algeria and Elimination

How Law Schools Compete - Retroactively

At all levels of government, lawyers are the most over-represented profession. And every law school in America teaches ethics. Still, law schools competing for student talent have to show results in the hiring statistics of their graduates. Read here what schools are doing to make their grads "appear" to be better. This article will help you gain a better understanding of what goes on in Washington and Santa Fe once lawyers add some experience to the "training" they receive in these types of schools.

How Law Schools Compete - Retroactively

Denish Advertising Questioned

With a war chest full of money the Diane Denish campaign has been pouring on the negative advertising efforts in an attempt to drive up the "negatives" of opponent Susana Martinez. Are the Denish ads fair and accurate? Heath Haussamen at NMPolitics.net doesn't seem to think so. Read his commentary here:

Denish Advertising Questioned

McChrystal Heads for the Woodshed

General Stanley McChrystal's fate will be in the hands of his Commander in Chief after a meeting in Washington today. One has to suspect, if giving the benefit of the doubt, that McChrystal thought he was "off the record" with a Rolling Stones reporter when he made disparaging comments about senior administration officials. McChrystal has not denied making the comments, which pretty much leaves President Obama with no choice but to relieve him of duty as the man in charge of military operations in Afghanistan.  Read full story here:

McChrystal Heads for the Woodshed

Mark Steyn and Rob Long reflect on Ronald Reagan’s stand against socialized medicine.

A video of columnist Mark Steyn and Rob Long as they reflect on Ronald Reagan’s stand against socialized medicine. It including a listen to an LP (us geezers had lots of them years ago) which stand for Long Playing vinal record he made to debate healthcare reform in 1961. View their conversation

Mark Steyn and Rob Long reflect on Ronald Reagan’s stand against socialized medicine.

What Do We Really Think About the Deficit?

From the Brookings Institution - by Pietro S. Nivola, Senior Fellow - Americans are finally according the federal government’s cavernous budget deficit the attention it deserves, and are demanding bold action to reduce it. Right? Well, ... let's see. Granted, the fiscal fiasco has moved up on the list of leading predicaments that people wish their politicians would (in some sense) address. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last month noted that many more people (20 percent) now rank “the deficit and government spending” well ahead of, say, the supposedly red-hot issue of immigration (7 percent).Still, the deficit hawks remain a relatively small portion of the public compared to the number of persons who cite, first and foremost, “job creation and economic growth.” Thirty-five percent view this challenge—battling the recession—as the highest imperative (one that implies, if anything, a need for deficit-spending). The results of a Fox News poll taken at about the same time were even starker. It found only 15 percent primarily preoccupied with the deficit and government spending—in contrast to 47 percent saying that, as a first order of business, the government ought to be “working on” the economy and jobs.That at most just one-fifth of the public currently regards the deficit as “the top priority” may seem underwhelming, but it isn’t surprising. Read more

What Do We Really Think About the Deficit?

Crashing White House party like crossing the border?

U.S. Represenative Ted Poe is shown on YouTube making a point about people being in our country without legal status. He reads a letter to the editor he thinks is from Alisha Church (actually this was written by Brian K. Shoemaker see letter here) about the two party crashers last December. Is crashing a White House event and crashing the U.S. border similar? You decide. See here

Crashing White House party like crossing the border?

Joseph Phillips - Leadership Deficit

Columnist Joseph Phillips weighs in on the leadeship issue. He connects the dots of Spike Lee, Bill Maher, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Then he lists five missed opportunities by the White House in dealing with the gulf oil spill. Read his ideas here:

Joseph Phillips - Leadership Deficit