David Axelrod, the brains behind Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency, spoke truth to power. It all went down last week as Mr. Biden celebrated his 81st birthday. First, Axelrod has been very public advocating Biden gracefully move aside and let younger candidates take a shot. Biden is then reported to have said: “David Axelrod is a prick,” to which Axelrod said: “I don’t … [Read more...]
To get ‘the shot’… or not?
Last time I looked at the national numbers, about 3% of Americans had received a COVID shot. Federal health care folk characterized that as “on track.” Far be it for me to second guess the national health brainiacs who brought us ideas like one-way arrows on the floors of grocery stores, but I think we’re far from on track. I say this because last week I had my annual … [Read more...]
From one scoundrel to the next
Even though my old newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, spent many-a column inches chronicling (and sometimes exposing) the self-serving duplicity of Nevada’s late U.S. Senator Harry Reid, I didn’t say a thing when McCarran International Airport was re-named after him. McCarran was a scoundrel in his time, so why not keep the tradition going. Plus, if we’re going to be … [Read more...]
Playing the‘Greater Idaho’ game
I watch the “Greater Idaho” movement like I watch a cricket match – with a strange and curious attraction. For those who don’t know, there’s a movement to pull the counties on the eastern side of Oregon into the abutting state of Idaho to make a more simpatico “Greater Idaho” state. Why? Because politically and culturally, the coastal side of Oregon, which holds the … [Read more...]
Hamas sealed its own fate
Hamas sealed its own fate with this month’s brutal attack on Israel. In the pantheon of human depravity, Hamas now must be put on the same shelf as the Greater German Reich in the ‘30s and ‘40s. If you are Hamas, then you must be treated like a Nazi war criminal in the world community. If you support Hamas – as some American liberals do – then you must be treated with all … [Read more...]
The normal course of Senate business?
You gotta love New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Police raided his home and found gold bars squirreled away here and there, as well as $550,000 in cash hidden in the clothes in his closet. The feds say he was taking bribes from three Egyptian businessmen. He said it came to him in the normal course of doing the work of a U.S. senator. Every senator in Washington, D.C., … [Read more...]
Can we (should we) fix James Bond?
I resent people fooling around with the literary classics of my youth. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn has been under fire for years. Twain used the “N-word.” Some want to change it to “slave,” to fit the modern ear. More recently, the publishers of Agatha Christie’s work plan to scrub her novels of words like “Oriental,” “Gypsy” and Native” in future printings. And now the … [Read more...]
Authoritarian expediency sign of bad leadership
Remember when it was all the rage to suspend constitutional rights at the drop of a perceived “health” emergency? I thought we learned that lesson already after disgraced Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak lost his job when he tried to close churches over fears it might spread COVID-19. The Nevada Supreme Court ended that nonsense, pointing out the governor can’t close places of … [Read more...]