I am happy that the election campaigning is over, but most of all the absence of political ads from both parties, blatantly lying about their opponents.
Opinion
This delay degrades public trust in the integrity of Nevada’s election system.
As a resident of Pahrump, I have deep concerns about bringing homeless people here with the intent of reintroducing them into society.
Republicans also won control of the U.S. Senate and will probably have an edge of up to six seats.
Nobody knows better the grit and sacrifice military service requires than those who donned the uniform.
WASHINGTON — “If Reince Priebus from Kenosha, Wisconsin, is the Republican ‘establishment,’ God help us,” says the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus. His physical presence is almost as unprepossessing as James Madison’s was, and his demeanor is self-deprecating. But with meticulous — Madisonian, actually — subtlety, he is working to ameliorate a difficulty that has existed for two centuries and in 2012 wounded the GOP.
Can a democracy exist as a permanent form of government? As you may have read, a democracy can exist only until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury. The result is that democracies always collapse over a loss of fiscal responsibility and is always followed by a dictatorship.
Last year I was interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review on my belief (originally stated on this page) that we are in an era when many political reporters are amateurs and lack the political savvy of their predecessors like Jules Witcover, Ken Bode and Jack Germond. Here’s an example.
WASHINGTON — A couple of hours before Sen. Ted Cruz launched his doomed filibuster, his Republican colleagues staged an intervention.
WASHINGTON — When Dwight Eisenhower asked Gen. Georgy Zhukov how the Red Army cleared minefields, Zhukov replied: “We march through them.” Being profligate with lives is a perquisite of command and a luxury of those with an abundance of lives at their command. Some congressional Republicans, who do not command their party but can implicate it in their marches through minefields, might resuscitate Barack Obama’s presidency by restocking his pantry of excuses: The economy’s continuing anemia will ever after be blamed on any government shutdown.
In Tonopah, friends of the family of little Brooklyn Rose Bryan are doing all they can to rally on her behalf as the toddler goes through the arduous process of battling a kidney tumor.
t’s gone by many names, the Harvest Festival, the Fall Festival, but this weekend’s festival is still the best yearly entertainment in Pahrump Valley.
I am happy that the election campaigning is over, but most of all the absence of political ads from both parties, blatantly lying about their opponents.
This delay degrades public trust in the integrity of Nevada’s election system.
As a resident of Pahrump, I have deep concerns about bringing homeless people here with the intent of reintroducing them into society.
Republicans also won control of the U.S. Senate and will probably have an edge of up to six seats.
