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Best original prank

The best original prank. At a high school in Montana, students let three goats loose inside the school. Before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2, and 4. School Administrators spent most of the day looking for No. 3

Sanchez and Wilson at Tea Party Event

KOAT-TV - Nearly a year before the Republican primary for the 2012 U.S. Senate race, Lt. Gov. John Sanchez fought for the support of Tea Party members in Moriarty on Sunday. In front of around 100 Tea Party faithful on Sunday afternoon, Sanchez sounded like a man with a plan to run for the Senate. “If we do, we’re in it to win it clearly,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said nothing is for certain yet, but if he jumps into the 2012 Senate race, the difference between himself and other candidates will be easy to see. “We’re going to be talking about a proven track record on my end of supporting taxes and understanding conservative values out there,” Sanchez said. Announced candidate and former Rep. Heather Wilson was also at the Moriarty gathering Sunday. Wilson said she’d welcome the chance for a little back and forth if Sanchez jumps in the race. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Compromise Get's Mixed Responses

Greg Sowards

NM Senatorial candidate Greg Sowards was unequivocal in his denunciation of the "deal" cut in Washington Friday night to keep government open. Politico had this to say about Sowards position: New Mexico candidate Greg Sowards, who has promised that no candidate will be more conservative than him in the primary, said a no vote would send "a clear message . . . that members are willing to make the hard decisions necessary to put this country on track toward fiscal responsibility."
On the other hand, former Congresswoman Heather Wilson's camp was much more guarded in its response. Again we quote from Politico on the Wilson response: "Rep. Wilson will not be commenting on this story," said spokesman Christopher Sanchez. This morning on News New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce was clear. He was against the deal that would see America continuing to borrow $4 billion per day. You can hear the entire Pearce interview here: News New Mexico

Lawyers Ringing the Albuquerque Cash Register

nmonpolitix - The City of Albuquerque paid out nearly $1.2 million to settle lawsuits against the city in the last six months of 2010. And one city councilor said some claims seem a bit excessive. "It's very costly to the taxpayers of our community," said City Councilor Ken Sanchez. From July to December 2010, the city settled 14 cases out of court, drawing $1.2 million from the city's risk fund. The risk fund is made up in part of revenues from tax dollars. A city spokesman wouldn't say how much is in the fund but said it ranges in the millions. According to litigation reports, one woman walked away with $36,000 after "tripping and falling at the zoo, injuring her left ankle and left knee." Another man also pocketed $36,000 because he was "injured as a bus passenger when a bus driver suddenly applied brakes." And one resident settled for $250,000 after a "solid Waste Management Division vehicle rear-ended plaintiff's vehicle." Read full story here: News New Mexico

Bregman: It's Time to Elect a New Leader

Sam Bregman

NMPolitics - Every two years, Democrats in New Mexico hold county conventions, elect new chairs and vice chairs in each county and elect members to the state central committee, which will elect a new state chair. All county conventions are complete, and now we move forward to electing a new state chair. Never before have the stakes been so high; never before have we needed new leadership, new direction and vision for our state party. Chairman Gonzales wrote a recent article discussing his visits around the state and finding people “energized, active… ready to fight the fight… to the GOP.” He’s right. They are energized and angry about the failure in leadership from the state Democratic Party. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Parker: Return America to Main Street

Star Parker

Townhall - Although my organization’s home office is in Washington, DC, I log some 150,000 miles a year flying around the country. Traveling back and forth from the nation’s capital provides good perspective on the bold contrast between the realities there and the rest of America. Washington is booming today while working Americans in cities across the rest of our nation struggle to see the economic light of day.

Washington Business Journal reports that, based on their latest annual job growth data from February 2010 to February 2011, DC is the number one job market in the nation. Compared to a national unemployment rate which just dropped below 9 percent, the Journal reports unemployment in the DC area at 5.9 percent. According to the S&P/Case-Schiller Index, the leading index of home prices in the US, the latest composite of home prices from 20 cities from around the country shows an annual decline of 3.1 percent. Of the 20 cities in the composite, only two showed annual home price increases. San Diego – barely – at 0.1 percent, and Washington, DC with a solid increase of 3.6 percent. Yes, DC is booming, its malls are filled and the wine flows in our capital city’s fancy, expensive restaurants. The Democrat regime has been good to Washington. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Steve Pearce to Appear on News NM

Steve Pearce in Cloudcroft in March

Congressman Steve Pearce will appear on News New Mexico this morning to talk about the federal budget compromise and the reason why he did not vote to support the deal made by President Obama, Harry Reid, and John Boehner.

KOB-TV reports tuition rises at UNM and NMSU

From KOB-TV.com - Two reports from KOB-TV detail that tuition for UNM and NMSU will rise about 8% this next year for in-state students. See UNM and NMSU stories. NewsNM (Swickard) wonders if the increase in the cost of tuition might mean that some college degrees may have reached a level of cost that is above the worth of the degree. Can that happen? Students keep borrowing more and more money to go to college and then owe so much when they graduate. Is there a point that students should no be loaned the money because they will have so much trouble paying it back?

February power blackouts across Texas echoed 1989 failures, state report

From the Statesman.com - Power company executives passed around a gauge and explained that many of the power plant shutdowns could be traced to simple equipment failures because of a lack of adequate insulation and winterization. They promised fixes to prevent a repeat incident. That assessment would seem familiar to anyone who read the 1990 investigation : "The extreme weather pointed out several weak areas in power plant operations. Inoperative or inadequate heat tracing systems and inadequate insulation on instrumentation sensing lines seemed to be the most common technical equipment problem encountered during the freeze." Heat tracing typically involves wrapping energized wires around pipes to warm them. The companies reported a range of responses to the crippling event, from a total re-evaluation of weatherization protocols, to simply increasing insulation on affected equipment. "Whether the corrective actions being implemented by the utilities are sufficient to prevent future freeze-related power plant failures, only direct experience with another deep freeze will ascertain," the 1990 analysis concluded. Another result of the recent February power shortages is a bill introduced by state Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy . It would require power generation companies to produce a weatherization plan that is available to the public and reviewed regularly by the Public Utility Commission. Read more

Who Are the Winners.....You Ask?

Who are the winners in the compromise that averted the government shutdown by forcing the U.S. to continue to borrow $4 billion per day? This is the ridiculous question being posed by every media outlet in America. In just two years President Obama raised spending beyond the level anyone could have possibly imagined. So satisfied with how much he has jacked up the amount of money flowing through Washington the president was willing to stand pat in the budget poker game this week. When Obama finally offered to put what amounts to a penny down in the middle of the negotiating table to close the deal, he called what he reluctantly agreed to, “historic cuts.”

Harry Reid

Harry Reid used a different method to con the public. He decided to use “women’s health care” as cover for his support of borrowing recklessness this week. It looks like these manipulations worked and worked well. After House Speaker John Boehner shrugged and said that delaying a few days of billion dollar borrowing was the best he could get from Democrats in charge of the Senate and the White House, he went back into his negotiating cave to try to figure out how he could create the leverage he had just traded away.

John Boehner

What are those of us who can still run a financial calculator to think now? Our government in addition to spending every nickel it takes from our paychecks is borrowing more than $2,000 every month for each and every taxpaying couple in America. It is obvious Obama created his "Debt Commission" as a delay tactic. On deck is another debate. It will be over the only budgetary proposal that will actually put an end to the insanity, Congressman Paul Ryan’s ideas aptly named the “Path to Prosperity.” What can we expect? Look for more lies and extortion efforts to be packaged and peddled as "compassion" in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

The Winner

Who is the real winner in this deal? The answer is easy. The winners are America’s enemies who must be laughing as they build their arsenals and watch the increasingly hapless leaders in this country remain slovenly, undisciplined, and in complete denial about borrowing.

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