“Patient Zero: the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak of related cases.” It’s sometimes helpful to identify origins of poxes upon the body politic. Here are four personal pox picks to click. 1. RONALD WILSON REAGAN. To keep a campaign promise, he needed a token female to appoint to the US Supreme Court. Alas, conservative babes … [Read more...]
Trump’s Proposed Cabinet Laden With Wealth
Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News skewered President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal “to drain the swamp in Washington” in a cartoon illustrating Trump’s racist, anti-abortion. anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim agendas. The cartoon decries the damnable truth: Trump bodes ill for America. Proposed members of Trump Cabinet: (All need approval of the Senate.) Rex … [Read more...]
Interior Secretary Nominee Should Work With States on Public Lands
It is a bit disappointing that Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Interior Department, which along with other federal agencies controls 85 percent of Nevada, does not embrace his own party’s call for more federal public land to be transferred to the control of the states and local governments, but at least freshman Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke recognizes … [Read more...]
The Obama Legacy
President Barack Hussein Obama is famous for stating that his non-accomplishments should be preserved for posterity. During the recent presidential campaign he ranted and raved about Donald Trump and famously stated that Hillary was the most qualified person to ever seek the presidency. He even went so far as to say that if the constituency did not vote for Hillary, he would … [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...]