The Supreme Court in June agreed to decide whether the Trump administration lawfully canceled a program created by executive fiat by President Obama in 2012 that protected immigrants brought into the country illegally as children — popularly dubbed Dreamers — from deportation and be provided work permits. Prior to that, such persons were subject to deportation by law. The … [Read more...]
Casting doubt on the climate doomsayers
The apocalypse is nigh. It must be so. It is in all the papers. Why even a 16-year-old Swedish scold lectured the delegates to the United Nations recently: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass … [Read more...]
Denial of Second Amendment Rights Warrants a Jury Trial
Earlier this month, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled a person charged with misdemeanor domestic battery is entitled to a trial by jury, because the state Legislature in 2017 enacted a law saying someone convicted of such a crime could have their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms denied. In keeping with a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision, our state’s high court had … [Read more...]
Hip-Hopping Mad Over Molesters and Mad Kings
What’s the difference between rapper Kanye West, President Donaldov, defrocked movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and serially defrocked NFL player Antonio Brown? Nothing. They are all the same guy who lusts for power over people and needs serious psychiatric care. Trump is America’s second mad king. George III of England, “the king who lost America,” was certifiably nuts but … [Read more...]
Trump Appeals Court Nominee Looks Right for the Job
This past Friday President Trump nominated former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which handles cases for nine Western states and territories in the Pacific. As solicitor general, VanDyke served in the office of then-Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. He also served as solicitor general in Montana and Texas. … [Read more...]
D.C. Warfare
Hottest item on the agenda in Washington recently was the Lewandowski hearing before the House Committee chaired by Congressman Nadler. The hearing was supposedly a pre-impeachment process. As it turned out, it became a very hectic session with many fireworks between the Democrat side and Lewandowski. A veteran of many hours of previous testimony, the witness deftly parried the … [Read more...]
What We Don’t Say at the End
Four years of my professional life were spent working in hospice. Director of Bereavement and Pastoral Care. Simply put, four of the best years of my life. Creative, energizing, and a daily learning curve. A downer? Absolutely not! Quite the opposite. More hopeful, inspirational, meaningful. I listened to the mortals in the bed. Talked to them. Was always struck by how … [Read more...]
Sanders Still Wants a Revolution, but Now He’s Got Company
By Will Weissert Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Bernie Sanders is still leading a revolution. But his ideas no longer feel quite so revolutionary. The Vermont senator acknowledges that many of his top proposals, which were dismissed as radical four years ago, have been adopted by much of the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary field: “Medicare for All,” … [Read more...]