By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent President Donald Trump Monday unveiled his $4.8 trillion fiscal 2021 budget blueprint, which included no funding to build a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain and signaled an interest in finding an alternative to the project. “The Administration is strongly committed to fulfilling its legal obligations to … [Read more...]
Embarrassing Impeachment
When this was written last week, the house managers on the impeachment trial were in the middle of their last day of presenting their case. The opening part began on Tuesday of last week and the amount of time to be used by Trump’s team was still unknown at the time of this writing. Many observers of the trial thought that Senate Minority Leader Schumer had pulled an … [Read more...]
Thanks to Trump, There is Still No Recession in Sight for Nevada
By Andy Matthews Despite the ongoing Democrat campaign to spread pessimism about our prosperous future, the Silver State continues to thrive under Donald Trump. According to a recent report from the state's Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation, Nevada’s jobless rate in October was almost a half percentage point lower than it was in the same … [Read more...]
Faux Impeachment
Today the House Judicial Committee, with Jerry Nadler as chair, will start their impeachment hearings. Because only the Judicial Committee can craft articles of impeachment, it is still unclear whether or not Adam Schiff and his committee are still in action. As Schiff himself may be called to testify, it is unsure whether or not it will be necessary to send him a subpoena. … [Read more...]
Appellate Court Nominee Falsely Accused
The confirmation process for federal judicial nominees has turned into a scorched earth battle fueled by character assassination and innuendo coming from faceless, nameless partisan critics who can never be held accountable. This was evident once again this past week as former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke, who has been nominated for a seat on the 9th U.S. … [Read more...]
Trump Call for Unity Met with Derision, Slurs
The campaign rhetoric is being brandished like a flame thrower, scorching the stump with recriminations, incriminations, insinuations and denunciations. In the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left 32 dead and dozens more seriously wounded, Democratic presidential candidates unsheathed accusations that President Trump is the prime mover of such lunatic … [Read more...]
Voter Registration Version of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
After President Trump proclaimed to the world that the only reason Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million was that 3 million or more ballots were cast fraudulently — by noncitizens, by the dead or by Box 13 in Alice, Texas, where ballot stuffing first elected Lyndon Johnson to Congress, perhaps — the media dutifully reported that there is no evidence, no proof, no … [Read more...]