NM Delegation Wants Tax Hikes

Jeff Bingaman

According to an article in the Albuquerque Journal, except for incoming Congressman Steve Pearce and lame duck Harry Teague, the New Mexico congressional delegation has drawn a line in the sand at $250,000 in annual income. Any citizens earning more than $250,000 should be hunkered down and reserving for higher quarterly tax estimates if Jeff Bingaman, Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, and Ben Ray Lujan get their economic wishes. As for those New Mexico citizens that fall below the magic 250K line........if Congress does not act quickly to end all of the pending tax increases, anyone with a job can expect lower paychecks starting with their first check in January. Now, everyone go out and have a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!

NM Delegation Wants Tax Hikes

"Utterly Clueless"

Tim Geithner

Ben Bernanke

BERLIN Nov 4 (Reuters) - The United States' plan to buy debt and pump more money into the economy to prop it up is wrong and will not solve the country's problems, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Thursday. Asked on broadcaster ZDF what he thought of the Federal Reserve's programme to buy an additional $600 billion worth of government bonds, Schaeuble said it would not solve the problem of high unemployment and a flagging economy. Read here:

"Utterly Clueless"

UTEP Students Slain - Murders Continue in Juarez

From the El Paso Times - The two university students who were gunned down in Juárez on Tuesday were U.S. citizens who lived with their relatives in Juárez while they attended the University of Texas at El Paso. Manuel Acosta Villalobos, 25, and Eder Andres Diaz, 23, were attacked by gunmen about 8 p.m. in colonia Rincones de Santa Rita, Chihuahua state police said. Their assailants fired 36 rounds, shooting the students multiple times, according to a Chihuahua state police report. Read here:

UTEP Students Slain - Murders Continue in Juarez

Chavez: A Cautionary Vote for GOP

Linda Chavez

From Townhall.com - Tuesday was a great night for Republicans, but it would have been better yet had Sen. Harry Reid gone down to defeat. And while many analysts have debated the role the tea party played in a few high-profile Republican losses on Election Day, including that of Reid's opponent Sharron Angle, the real story is what happened with the Hispanic vote. Hispanics made up 18 percent of those voting in the Nevada election -- a much larger than average showing in a non-presidential election. Had Angle won as large a share of Hispanics as did the successful Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Sandoval, she'd be Senator-elect Angle today. Instead, she chose to engage in illegal-immigrant bashing as her theme in the last days of the election, with reprehensible ads that depicted illegal immigrants as stealing jobs from Nevadans and terrorizing families as violent gang members. Read here:

Chavez: A Cautionary Vote for GOP

Cruces and Mayfield Renew Storied Rivalry

Both teams have suffered injuries to key players this season. And yet both teams remain ranked amongst the most elite teams in Class 5-A football in the State of New Mexico. Both teams knew when the 2010 season began that is was likely that this game, on this evening, would be for the district championship and a higher seeding in the state high school football playoffs. The excitement will get underway mid-afternoon at Aggie Memorial Stadium when tailgating fans will begin to gather for good food, renewed friendships, story telling, and predictions of the outcome. The first Friday evening in November has come to be one of the great "events" in the Mesilla Valley each year. The Mayfield Trojans will play the Las Cruces Bulldawgs in the 2010 version of a high school football rivalry that is so noteworthy, it sparked the making of the documentary "Cruces Divided" which was released in theaters around the state last month. Kickoff is set for 7:00pm with radio coverage on KSNM AM-570. Internet listeners can catch the game at ksnm570.am

Cruces and Mayfield Renew Storied Rivalry

O'Reilly: Coasting to the Left

Bill O'Reilly

From Townhall.com - Here's my question: If this week's election returns demonstrate that the vast majority of the country is moving to the right, why do the West Coast and the Northeast continue to embrace liberalism, especially when it has led to economic disaster? Both California and New York are on the verge of bankruptcy and, according to Forbes magazine, are hostile to business by way of high taxation and strict regulation of commerce. California currently owes $158 billion, and New York is holding $60 billion in debt. But Sen. Barbara Boxer in the Golden State and New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, all big spenders, won their respective races easily. Read here:

O'Reilly: Coasting to the Left

bleedCrimson.net Report

The Aggie volleyball team survived a bit of a challenge from the Fresno State Bulldogs overcoming a fourth set deficit to take home a 3-1 victory on Thursday night. The Aggies won the first set 25-20 but fell in the second set 25-22. The Aggies rebounded to crush Fresno State 25-15 in the third set and then overcame a late 18-15 deficit to take set four 25-21.

The Aggies' four All-Conference performers carried the Aggies as Kayleigh Giddens recorded a match-high 23 kills. Whitney Woods posted her best match of the season finishing with 15 kills and a .522 hitting percentage. Kelsey Brennan added 11 kills and setter Jennah DeVries recorded 53 assists, six digs and a service ace.

The Aggies finished the match hitting .273 behind a .387 attack percentage in the third set and a .395 attack percentage in the fourth set. The Aggies recorded at least 16 kills in each of the four sets.

The Aggies return to action on Saturday night when they host San Jose State at 7:00 p.m. in the Pan American Center. Click here to read more.

Give Young People Option to Get Out of Social Security, Say Former BB&T CEO

From CNS News.com - By Terence P. Jeffrey - John Allison, the former chairman and CEO of BB&T, the nation’s 10th largest bank, told CNSNews.com that one of the solutions to the long-term fiscal problem facing the U.S. government is to let younger people opt out of the Social Security system. "What we need to do is get rid of the long-term program,” Allison said of Social Security in an “Online With Terry Jeffrey” interview. "And the way to do that, even though it may create some short-term funding problems, would be to offer people privatized programs for retirement and effectively offer people under a certain age the option to get out of Social Security.” Allison said he believed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R.-Wis.) proposal to allow workers to put part of their payroll tax in a personal retirement account that they would convert into an annuity when they reached retirement age was a good practical solution for Congress to pursue on Social Security, but that personally he would like to see people entirely liberated from the entitlement program, letting them plan and save for their retirement free of government compulsion. "You know, if you look at what killed democracies in the end, it’s always lack of personal responsibility,” said Allison. “And it’s when 51 percent of the people find out they can vote a free lunch from 49 percent, and then 60 percent want a free lunch from 40 percent, and then 70 percent want a free lunch from 30 percent, and that’s the end of the party. Read more

Give Young People Option to Get Out of Social Security, Say Former BB&T CEO

Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated

From the American Thinker - by Clarice Feldman - Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, last year published a quickie book, "The Death of Conservatism," based on a February 2009 piece in The New Republic. "As Tanenhaus sees it," National Public Radio's Robert Siegel explained in introducing an interview, "American conservatism has degenerated into a hollow echo-chamber of movement die-hards and talk show hosts, disconnected from the broad public, which until recently it spoke for." NPR put the interview on its website under the headline "Author: Liberals Should Lament Conservatism's Death." This week's election results make clear beyond doubt that conservatism is alive and well. So liberals don't have to lament after all! Of course, not all liberals were lamenting conservatism's putative death. In "40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation," published in May 2009,James Carville gloated: "Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010, or likely in 2012 and 2014 and so on. It's time to call TOD on the GOP." We think TOD stands for "time of death." Read more

Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated

New Gov Martinez and her transition team; criticizes cap and trade decision

From Capitol Report New Mexico - Governor-elect Susana Martinez announced Thursday (Nov. 4) that former Congresswoman Heather Wilson will lead her transition team that will work with outgoing Governor Bill Richardson while also saying that she and her advisers are looking at ways to reverse the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board’s decision to have the state take part in a regional cap and trade program. As Thursday’s news conference, Martinez addressed the EIB’s decision to adopt a regional cap and trade program — something Martinez strongly opposed while campaigning for the governorship. Read more

New Gov Martinez and her transition team; criticizes cap and trade decision