Spit on me, and we’ll get through it. But don’t talk to me like I’m stupid. I just see red. I freely confess this is a childish ego issue for me. I’m working on it. But, in the meantime … Dear Way Too Many Liberals: (Just to clarify: I mean not all liberals, just way too many.) It’s not true that only uneducated, not very bright white people voted for The Donald. I … [Read more...]
Eye For An Eye: Karma Snaps Back on Harry
We won’t say Harry Reid is dumb as a post. We’d need an official IQ test from the post. What we can say, however, is that what goes around comes around for Reid, and in the case of the so-called “Nuclear Option” for Senate appointees, it’s coming around with a vengeance. Reid changed Senate rules so that presidential confirmations no longer take 60 votes, but only 50+1. That … [Read more...]
Nevada Could be Ground Zero for Resurgence of National Defense
Nevada knows nukes, or at least we used to. First, the election of Donald Trump reignited the debate over the possible resurrection of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. Now, with a simple tweet Trump has reopened discussions about the preparedness, or lack thereof, of America’s nuclear arsenal. “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear … [Read more...]
Dark Predictions and Enlightened People
Last February, I forecast Donald Trump’s election based on more than two centuries of history. The good news is that Trump’s election means the current liberal cycle is not over. He was just riding the horse in the direction it was already going. Alas and alack, we will be left to cure the indigestion. How? With good people doing good work. LAND OF THE GIANTS. We recently … [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...]
Obama Legacy: Wasting Billions for Military Hegemony
Farewell and good riddance, President Obama. You will not be missed. If this seems like too harsh a judgment about a nice guy, remember that sometimes nice guys are elected president but are ineffective. Example: Herbert Hoover. Sometimes, too, flawed people are elected president. For instance, president-elect Donald Trump and former President Richard Nixon. In any … [Read more...]
The Barbwire Billion-Dollar Cure for What Ails Us
If Donald Trump can make Mexico pay for a border wall, we can make the Oakland Raiders solve the state’s $400 million projected budgetary shortfall. The ghost of Al Davis has played Nevada like a streetcorner hooker, schmoozing, seducing, then stealing the working girl’s purse. It appears increasingly unlikely that the Raiders will move to Gomorrah South. What … [Read more...]
Here’s the Rule: If You Break it You Own It
When the stock market goes up or down, credit and blame accrues to the president. Mostly unfair in a global economy, of course, but that’s how Americans judge it. Call it the “Pottery Barn Rule -- If You Break It, You Own It”. No clearer example of this than the post-Trump election stock market rally. Before the election, Democrats said the robust stock market levels … [Read more...]