New Mexico Political Blogwire

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• Happy Independence Day!

  —Errors of Enchantment

  Have a great Independence Day (while remembering the principles that made America a great nation in the first place) and a successful tea party.

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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 4:56pm EDT
  

• Hundreds mourn Rose Simmons at the Santa Fe Mountain Center

  —SFReeper.com » News

  

  I don’t want to write about this. Even a reporter needs a moment for sorrow, so I wasn’t covering today’s memorial for Rose Simmons at the Santa Fe Mountain Center. I was just there.

  Nevertheless, I’ve got to blog something. Hundreds turned up to pay respects under [...]

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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
  by Maassive

• 7-8 Tacos correction

  —Inside the Capitol

  By JAY MILLER
  Syndicated Columnist

  SANTA FE -- The Pentagon plans to shut down the proud New Mexico Air National Guard. The fighter pilots of the Air Guard have served the nation honorably in wars since the 1950s.
  But as methods of warfare have changed, fighter planes are no longer needed [...]

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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 11:52am EDT
  

• Guest Blog by Matthew Padilla: Support Our Troops on Independence Day ... All of Them

  —Democracy for New Mexico

  

  This is a guest blog by Matthew Padilla, who is a law student at American University Washington College of Law, a former active duty Navy Lieutenant, and a native New Mexican from the South Valley/Valle de Atrisco. He is also a graduate of Rio Grande High [...]

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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 8:47am EDT
  by Democracy for New Mexico

• Boorish behavior at Tea Parties.

  —Diogenes'six

  There are more than a few reports of boorish behavior at
  Tea Parties, link as but one example. There are apparently
  some who are even proud of the manner in which they
  (mis)behaved, link.
  
  Like every other human being, I have a sphere of comfort and
  safety [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 7:43am EDT
  

• Are our rights inalienable or unalienable?

  —Diogenes'six

  In the Declaration of Independence, we find the best known
  sentence in the English language;
  We hold these truths to be self-evident,
  that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
  by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
  that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.But [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 7:04am EDT
  

• Cowgirl Sass & Savvy

  —The Westerner

  Red, white and cowboy
  
  Julie Carter
  
  Old Glory will wave majestically in rodeo arenas across America this holiday. It's the Fourth of July and cowboys, if they are anything, they are patriotic and optimistically greedy.
  
  This particular holiday is his "Cowboy Christmas," the [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:39am EDT
  

• Why I Love America

  —The Westerner

  By Gen LaGreca
  
  I love America for being the place where an upstart group of colonists, against all odds, battled the most powerful empire in the world---and won---all in the cause of liberty.
  
  I love America for establishing a revolutionary new country in which a person’s [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:34am EDT
  

• Song Of The Day #077

  —The Westerner

  On this Fourth Of July I will make an exception and offer a song from the modern era of country music.
  
  The song is In My Land by Royal Wade Kimes, and is the hidden track on his A Dyin' Breed CD.
  
  This' [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:33am EDT
  

• This ABQ Journal Tea Party story made me laugh

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  This morning's story about tea parties happening today in Albuquerque made me laugh. Why?

  Apparently, the Fourth of July Tea Partiers believe that "The Albuquerque group plans to show off its numbers today with an event that organizers hope can draw more than 10,000 people."

  The last event was closer to [...]

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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 1:21am EDT
  

• Happy Fourth of July!

  —Sheriff Greg Solano Blog

  Happy Birthday USA! Happy 4th everyone. Be Safe and Have fun! Look for me in the Rio Rancho July 4th Parade! The Undersheriff , Robert Garcia will be at Santa Fe's Pancake Breakfast on the Plaza.
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 12:26am EDT
  

• Proof that Robert Lucero is an idiot.

  —Diogenes'six

  The draft minutes for the last District Relations Committee
  meeting are up on the APS website, link.
  
  Robert Lucero was made unhappy by
  my comments during the public forum,
  link.
  
  He doesn't like to be reminded that his
  refusal to step up' [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
  

• Independence

  —Eye On Albuquerque

  233 years ago a group of farmers, lawyers, plantation owners, doctors, and businessmen risked their fortunes and their lives in order to dissolve the ties that bound them to a tyrant. Theirs was a quest for freedom - for liberty - and it started with a declaration of their independence.
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:14pm EDT
  

• Gov. Richardson Gets NEA Honor - NM Teachers Head to Court.

  —What's The Word with Peter St. Cyr

  Number of comments: 0
  Updated to include audio soundbites.
  
  
  Just months after New Mexico lawmakers cut school funding in the state by $30 million, Governor Bill Richardson flew to San Diego today, from Cape Cod, where he is vacationing for 11 days, to accept the National Education Association's' [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
  by Peter St. Cyr