You cannot post
'Thou Shalt Not Steal,'
'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and
'Thou Shall Not Lie'
in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...
It creates a hostile work environment. From email - thanks.
The real reason we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse:
You cannot post
'Thou Shalt Not Steal,'
'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and
'Thou Shall Not Lie'
in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...
It creates a hostile work environment. From email - thanks.
You cannot post
'Thou Shalt Not Steal,'
'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and
'Thou Shall Not Lie'
in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...
It creates a hostile work environment. From email - thanks.
State lawmakers cut travel costs by more than half
(NewsNM Swickard) Well, they can cut spending. As Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise." From the Santa Fe New Mexican.com - by Steve Terrell - Because of ongoing state budget problems, complicated by items in the Legislature's budget vetoed by Gov. Susana Martinez, lawmakers in recent weeks have been talking about imposing more travel restrictions on themselves to save money. However, an examination of last year's travel vouchers of legislators shows that even without imposing formal restrictions, the state in 2010 paid less than half for out-of-state travel than it did just two years before. The total cost of trips outside New Mexico last year was $93,828.35. In 2008, the state reimbursed legislators more than $211,000 for out-of-state travel. "I've tried to impress on my members that our revenues were not in the same situation as in the past," said House Speaker Ben Luján, D-Nambé, in an interview Friday. He said he asked House members to skip out-of-state meetings unless they were officers of the organization or if there was something on the program that especially interested them. All reimbursement for out-of-state travel for House members has to be approved by the speaker. Senators must get reimbursement for their out-of-state trips approved by Senate President Pro-tem Tim Jennings, D-Roswell. Read more
Evan Sayet: Why I’m a Global Warming Skeptic
From The Westerner.com - by Evan Sayet - ..First, I am skeptical because skepticism is the scientific starting point. Not cynicism but skepticism. This is especially true when the remedy being proposed is so drastic — in this case requiring the near-total dismantling of society as we know it. I am not overly impressed by talk of a “consensus” as there are enough good and serious scientists who reject the claims of the alarmists to make the pronouncement of “consensus” simply untrue. My confidence in the conclusion of these alarmist scientists is further weakened because I’ve been here before. For as long as I can remember the “experts” – many the very same people pushing global warming hysteria today – have been predicting one ecological disaster after another. In the 1970s and virtually every year afterwards, we were doomed – doomed!!! – to global cooling, global wetting, global drying, mass starvation, acid rain, an epidemic of heterosexual AIDS, Mad Cow and, just the other day, a deadly pandemic of Swine Flu. Alarmism seems to be a tactic employed by scientists to draw attention to their causes, garner major funding and make a name for themselves and hyped by a willing news (and publishing) media because hysteria sells. Read more
The Week in Review
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| Dirty Air in Las Cruces |
The air has been so dirty we couldn’t help but think about report after report on the national news of the seemingly limitless and uninterrupted supplies of fuel in the forests directly in the path of the raging inferno in Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico.
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| Andy Nunez |
Over the angry opposition of House Speaker Ben Lujan, Nunez attempted (unsuccessfully) to end the practice of issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. On another topic, when Nunez was asked about the effect an off-reservation casino scheme would have on the City of Sunland Park, Nunez said it would be devastating. Later in the week the Indian Gaming Association also voiced its opposition to the scheme. Ironically, just yesterday afternoon, the thoroughbred Ruler on Ice, who managed only a third place finish in this spring’s Grade III Sunland Park Derby, stepped up to win the third leg of racing's Triple Crown, the Grade I Belmont Stakes. The race was broadcast on national television. Hooray for Sunland Park!
Late Tuesday morning the news broke of a murder in the boot heel region in Southwest New Mexico. Business owner Larry Links was killed by an unknown assailant in an area that has increasingly become notorious as a staging and drop area for drug smugglers from across the border. As of this weekend the state police had reported it had no suspects for the crime. On Wednesday rancher Steve Wilmeth and retired Border Patrol Sector Chief Gene Wood visited our studio. We talked with them about the problems associated with the boot heel area of SW New Mexico as well as the grave dangers to border security posed by a “wilderness” proposal for an area in Southern Dona Ana County. 
Wood was particularly emphatic that a new wilderness designation for areas on or near the Mexican border would be exactly what drug cartels needed to severely compromise law enforcement efforts. It is astonishing that the latest wilderness designation efforts are being spearheaded by our own senators, Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman. |
| Anwar al-Awalaki |
Finally, late in the week Secretary of State Dianna Duran released 64,000 documents to the NM State Police and asked for an investigation into voter fraud. It is almost comical to read the subtle slanting in the news media of this story. Fact, New Mexico does not require voter identification. Fact, New Mexico does not purge the names from its voter lists of people who have long since left the state or died. Fact, this state continues to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
Douglas County Colorado is Pro-Choice
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| Kyle Olson |
Pearce Praises Otero County Commission
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| Steve Pearce |
“I commend the Otero County Commission for their efforts for responsible forest management,” Congressman Pearce said. “I thank Commissioners Rardin, Herrell, and Flores for putting the safety of New Mexicans first, and for choosing a course of responsible forest management. In March of this year, Congressman Pearce submitted legislation to restore the thousands of jobs that once existed in New Mexico’s timber industry. “Somebody has to draw a line in the sand, step back from the federal government’s stranglehold and take responsibility for ourselves,” Rardin said at the public meeting in Alamogordo. “We are responsible for the health, safety and well-being of our citizens, and the current conditions of the forest warrant this emergency action.” 
Dr. Lawrence Garrett, former Dean of the College of Eco-Science at Northern Arizona University, testified before the commission on Tuesday that forest health conditions and fire danger in and around Otero County are some of the worst he has seen in the southwestern portion of the United States. He will work with federal agencies on behalf of the county to create the plan to allow for the cleanup of the forest areas, including commercial logging. “We will use the approach of restoration at the watershed level,” Dr. Garrett told the commissioners. This is an extremely important period in the history of management of this forest. We must take an aggressive approach to restoration and making the communities in this area safer from high wildfire risks.” Dr. Garrett told the commissioners that he hoped to have an Emergency Forest Plan for a critical area of the forest ready for the Commissioners to implement by September.
ERB: Won't I.D. Recipients
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| Jan Goodwin - ERB |
Indian Gaming Group Against Off-Reservation Casino
Pearce and Udall Agree, Libya Policy Adrift
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| Mummar Ghadaffi |
State Police to Review 64,000+ Voter Cases
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| Dianna Duran |
Saunders: End War on Drugs
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| Debra Saunders |
Alexander: Illegal Immigration Concerns Manistream
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| Rachel Alexander |
O'Reilly: What Kind of Country Do You Want?
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| Bill O'Reilly |
Call for Medicaid Redesign Task Force Rejected
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| Sidonie Squier |
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