Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this one.
According to a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal today, 42-year-old Derrick Stiff is the parent of a student at Liberty High School in Las Vegas with “no known problems with students, parents or teachers.” Mr. Stiff also has a concealed weapon permit. So far, so good….no problem.
However, yesterday morning Mr. Stiff was arrested by SCHOOL police officers after a “routine traffic stop” in which it became known that Mr. Stiff’s had a .45-caliber handgun under his car seat. The head of the SCHOOL cops explained that properly registered guns belonging to someone with a concealed-carry permit are nevertheless not allowed on school property.
So Mr. Stiff – threatening no one, posing no danger to anyone, and doing nothing more than picking his kid up from school – was handcuffed and hauled off to the Clark County Detention Center where he was booked for “possession” of a legally possessed gun.
It’s outrageous! Where are the gun rights activists and pro-2A candidates?
At the annual Conservative Leadership Conference that my organization, Citizen Outreach Foundation, hosted last weekend, political pundit Jon Ralston, on a panel discussing media bias, asked the audience how many people thought we were living in a socialist country today. Only a smattering of hands went into the air.
After the panel, I suggested to Jon that had he asked how many people thought the country was moving in a socialist direction, the hand-pumping would have been darned near unanimous. Continue reading »
Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of a story as best as I can recollect which now ought to end Nevada state Sen. Dennis Nolan’s (R-Las Vegas) political career for good. Continue reading »
Some readers have written asking if I’m going to make endorsements in this year’s primary races. I hesitate to call them “endorsements,” but based on what I’ve heard and learned about the candidates in some races, here’s who I would vote for if the election were held today – which it’s not, so there’s still time to make up my/our minds on some undecided races…. Continue reading »
• The success of tea party voting in electing Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts in January, chasing Charlie Crist out of the GOP U.S. Senate primary in Florida last month, ousting Sen. Bob Bennett in Utah two weeks ago, and nominating Rand Paul yesterday in Kentucky has been seen as less likely to be replicated in Nevada’s U.S. Senate primary race because tea party activists here have generally been split, rather than unified, between the various candidates.
• However, the all-but-official defection today of RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson from the Danny Tarkanian camp to the Sharron Angle camp – combined with the Angle endorsement by the highly influential and exceedingly successful Club for Growth this morning – could signal the start of a major shift and coalescing before election day that will result in an Angle vs. Lowden showdown on June 8th. Continue reading »
• A member of Congress resigned today for having an extramarital affair with a female member of his staff. No, silly, not Sen. John Ensign. You’d have to feel shame and think of people other than yourself to do the right thing and resign in such a situation. That clearly isn’t John Ensign. No, we’re talking about Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.).
• Interestingly, Politico reports that Souder “informed Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) of the affair Sunday” and that “Boehner told the Indiana Republican he should resign, according to GOP sources. ‘Boehner has been perfectly clear that he will hold our members to the highest ethical standards,’ said Michael Steel, Boehner’s spokesman.”
• Too bad Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t hold his troops, especially Ensign, to a similarly high set of ethical standards. Continue reading »
• “Chris Christie, the new governor of New Jersey, continues to make big cuts to balance the state’s red ink-drenched budget,” reports Stephen Moore in Political Diary today. “Last Monday, Mr. Christie proposed a permanent 2.5% limit on annual raises for public workers. That salary cap would apply to police officers, firefighters and teachers, and overturns civil service rules that make it difficult for cities and towns in the Garden State to trim their payrolls.”
• In addition, Gov. Christie “wants to reform the ‘bumping’ system that protects from layoffs the workers with the most tenure, not the employees who do the best job,” as well as “do away with a system that pays public employees up to $15,000 for unused sick leave.”
• Sounds like a platform Republican candidates in Nevada ought to be running on, no? Continue reading »
After much sound and fury, threats of derailing the election of Mark Amodei as the new Nevada GOP chairman signified nothing. The Nevada News Bureau reports that Amodei was overwhelmingly elected 218 to 54, surviving a last-minute floor challenge by our friend and Ron Paul supporter, David Isbell. Best of luck to Chairman Amodei. Continue reading »
“A study group appointed by majority Democrats in the Nevada Legislature is proposing sweeping changes to raise taxes and reshape state government to improve the quality of life in the state over the next 20 years,” reported the AP yesterday. “Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons quickly dismissed the proposals to change Nevada’s tax structure and diversify an economy now largely based on tourism and mining. ‘You surprised?’ Gibbons scoffed.”
Not us. Continue reading »
Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach Foundation, has agreed to provide the legal fees needed to file an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court over a lawsuit filed several weeks ago to disqualify Tea Party of Nevada (TPN) U.S. Senate candidate Scott Ashjian from the 2010 ballot for failing to comply with Nevada’s election law. Continue reading »
