Opinion

I recently spent part of a perfectly good Saturday in a futile effort to thin my ever-expanding collection of documents, stories, and personal memorabilia.

usually try to avoid writing any commentary on subjects for which I’ve contributed news stories.

So when all was said and done, the government re-opened, Democrats got the gold mine, Gumby Republicans got egg on their face, and conservatives got the shaft. The more things change …

Last week 20 Washoe County residents filed a new political party for the state – the Nevada Constitution Party (CP).

WASHINGTON — Ted Cruz did not lose gracefully.

WASHINGTON — Liberals constantly lecture, more in theatrical sorrow than in actual anger, about their eagerness to compromise with Republicans, just not with Republicans who are — liberal moderation expresses itself immoderately — hostage-taking terroristic anarchistic jihadist suicide bombers.

We live in a desert, after all

had my fingers crossed that I would not be writing about the country defaulting today.

Open a newspaper or flip on the television, and you’ll often be reminded that Nevada is teeming with animal lovers who aren’t shy about having their voices heard.

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, columnist Dan Henninger declared that the ongoing failure of inner-city schools “remains the greatest moral catastrophe in the political life of the United States.”