I am thankful this week that we live in a country in which trials like that of Kyle Rittenhouse can be open for public scrutiny. Otherwise, I would have thought based on initial reporting that this 17-year-old kid was a slam-dunk Nazi who killed two men during a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration. A scummy, racist vigilante. Even then presidential candidate Joe … [Read more...]
VP’s get no respect
Ridiculing the VP is a long American tradition. The most spoof worthy in modern history is Dan Quayle. If social media were around in his time, can you imagine the amount of guff he’d have taken after he visited an elementary school and incorrectly altered a 12-year-old’s spelling of “potato” to “potatoe”? Relentless would be putting it mildly. Fifty years later now … [Read more...]
The shame of Afghanistan
We celebrate Veterans Day, remembering those who served in the armed forces. Flags will fly, tributes will be made. It will be good and right. But, I promise you, there will be a weight on everyone’s mind, from Boulder City to Elko. The U.S. exit from the Afghanistan war last summer could not have gone worse. We left people behind and that shame will stick to us for … [Read more...]
Whoa! We Spent $22m on What?
Do you believe in UFOs – unidentified flying objects? How about UFPs – unidentified funded programs? Mark me as curious about UFOs, but dead set against UFPs, especially when the UFP is about UFOs. That’s the gift the American people received this Christmas week courtesy of some good reporting by the New York Times. We’ve come to find out that our federal government … [Read more...]
This 4th of July let’s celebrate human dignity
My brother, who has worked in retail longer than a person should, has a saying about the weird and sometimes cruel things he’s seen people do and say in his store. He passes little judgment. He only shrugs and says: “People are people”. Indeed they are. But unlike my brother, I can’t shrug everything off, especially when it takes our culture in a bad direction. Consider … [Read more...]
CNN starts odd trend in journalism
Are you watching the snit-fight between the president of the United States and the cable news powerhouse CNN? It’s a beaut. Donald Trump called CNN the proprietor of fake news and CNN said the president is a big, fat liar. It has reached a point in which CNN now adds the words “without proof” to about everything the president asserts. Case in point: Trump tweets the … [Read more...]
Senate Should Confirm Oklahoma Attorney General to Head EPA
After eight years of Obama appointees trying to grab dominion over every square foot of rural land in Nevada and the West, laying claim to every mud puddle, dictating how clean the air must be and generally trampling states’ rights under a stampede of bureaucrats, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency promises to be an abrupt about-face … [Read more...]
Our Media’s Terrible Performance
As the 2016 presidential sails into the sunset, one fact ought to concern Americans who rely on an independent press for information – a good many reporters were not independent at all. They worked hand-in-glove with the Clinton campaign against both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Consider the emails released by Wikileaks -- emails that would have remained secret, but now … [Read more...]