Some whacko breaks into Nancy Pelosi’s gated mansion in San Francisco, brains her husband with a hammer, and yells “Where’s Nancy!” Paul Pelosi will make a full recovery and everyone sends their sympathies to the family. Crime is traumatic and welcome to the club. Some immediately tried to make political hay out of this episode, attempting to turn this into a scary bedtime … [Read more...]

Nate Silver, the founder and editor of FiveThirtyEight, is now predicting that Republican Adam Laxalt will knock off Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto in November. “Republicans don’t have any sure-fire pickups; Nevada is the most likely, and even there, GOP chances are only 53 percent, according to our forecast,” he wrote over the weekend. Democrats still hold … [Read more...]

Is any state more pompous than California and its ballot measures? Consider, if you will, the 2018 law regulating the size of cages for pigs eaten in California. Golden State voters in their infinite wisdom passed Proposition 12 requiring bigger cages for certain farm animals, including breeding pigs. Pork producers sued, advancing the argument that 99.99% of bacon … [Read more...]

We are on the eve of nuclear destruction, which is very nice to know. The news that we may all be dead soon leaked out of a Joe Biden fundraiser for big political donors in New York. I don’t know about you, fellow mushrooms, but if we are, indeed, on the brink of a nuclear winter, I’d kinda like to hear it directly from the president, and not through the grapevine after a … [Read more...]

It’s hard to keep up with California, but when it comes to the high price of gasoline, Nevada’s doing its level best. Today, California has the highest average price of gasoline in America, coming in at $6.29 a gallon. And, Nevada is No. 2 – yea, we’re No. 2! – at $5.42 a gallon. The average price of gas nationwide is $3.80. When I was in college, way back when … [Read more...]

I’m sorry that teachers look bad after the pandemic. But pretending they didn’t do what they did does no one any good. The Associated Press reports that “Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation’s children. … [Read more...]

By the time you read this, an updated COVID-19 booster shot will be on the market and unlike previous boosters this one will target the latest strains of the virus. I admit that I’m generally irritated with the federal government’s performance on the pandemic. Remember last Thanksgiving when the powers-that-be tried to tell us how to arrange the dinner tables to celebrate … [Read more...]

Pardon me if I’m still shocked by the news that the Joe Biden administration raided ex-President Donald Trump’s home and confiscated boxes of documents the government said belonged in the National Archive. Before we get started, let me comment on journalists who say we shouldn’t call it a “raid.” Call it a “search.” I’ve got no tolerance for that kind of deception. The … [Read more...]