Republicans are perceived to be the party of moral values and when one of them falls off the wagon – or into bed with his best friend’s wife – the cries of “Hypocrite!” ring out loud and clear. As they should. Continue reading »
• Hot off the press (hat tip: RalstonFlash): A new book coming out Monday reveals that Republican Sen. John Ensign once characterized Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” What an outrageously insensitive racist thing to say!
• No, wait. Sorry, it wasn’t Republican John Ensign. It was Democrat Sen. Harry Reid. So it’s OK. No problem. Whew. Continue reading »
• On Nevada Newsmakers on Wednesday, Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) admitted that Sen. John Ensign’s trouser malfunction scandal was the primary reason he opted not to run against Harry Reid, thus denying Republicans and Nevadans the best possible chance of defeating Obama’s health care water-boy this year. Continue reading »
For political junkies, especially conservatives, WHAT A DAY yesterday was! Continue reading »
After stomping his feet and threatening to hold his breath until his face turned blue just a couple weeks ago rather than submit proposals for additional budget cuts which he said were absolutely impossible to do, University Chancellor Dan Klaich – surprise! – found places to cut after all. Go figure. Which proves, once again, that there are still PLENTY of places to cut in the state budget but that no one will do it unless or until they are FORCED to do it. Continue reading »
Nevada Democrat gubernatorial candidate Rory “Chip Off the Ol’ Block” Reid held a press conference yesterday to announce his proposals for fixing some of the major problems facing Clark County. Continue reading »
While most members of Congress can’t or refuse to answer where and how the current ObamaCare proposal is constitutional – and all Nancy Pelosi could muster up when confronted with that question was, “Are you serious?” – some liberals have stretched the Constitution to the breaking point in efforts to justify the proposal.
But in a Wall Street Journal op/ed this morning, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Ken Blackwell and Kenneth Klukowski blow such arguments out of the water. Enjoy….and save for future reference. This issue and questions won’t be going away anytime soon. Continue reading »
Way back on February 8, 2009, just as the Nevada Legislature was getting underway, Assemblyman Ed Goedhart (R-Amargosa Valley) sent his colleagues a brief letter urging consideration of four fiscally conservative principles: Continue reading »
