Return of the Paultards!
As I noted in yesterday’s Nevada News & Views e-newsletter, the “Paultards” – the fringe elements of the Ron Paul movement, not the sane ones – attempted to hijack our online presidential poll before it was even announced to the newsletter subscribers it was intended for. Apparently someone from their base camp on Alpha Centuri […]
Raza-Hustler Furious over Losing Tequila Party
Fernando Romero, a local liberal Las Vegas raza-hustler, floated the idea of creating a new tea party-like movement/organization focusing on Hispanic issues in recent newspaper interviews. He also said there’d been talk among some Latinos of actually creating a new political third-party, the Tequila Party, to compete against Democrats and Republicans. Alas, talk is cheap….and […]
TSA: Thousands of Sexual Assaults
OK, the TSA sexual assaults at our nation’s Checkpoint Charlie’s in American airports aint’ funny, but this song parody is pretty doggone hilarious. Mostly because it’s so true.
Angle’s Whopping Warchest
Holy cow! According to the Washington Post (Hat tip: Ralston Flash), Sharron Angle raised a mind-blowing $27.8 MILLION and STILL somehow found a way to lose to Harry Reid whose negatives going into the general election reached somewhere into the second layer of the stratosphere. I mean, this loss just keeps getting more and more […]
First Friday’s Straw Poll Results
Here are the straw poll results from last night’s First Friday Happy Hour: 2012 Presidential Straw Poll Gingrich, Newt – 24% Christie, Chris – 13% Palin, Sarah – 13% Romney, Mitt – 11% Huckabee, Mike – 8% Pawlenty, Tim – 6% Thune, John – 3% Daniels, Mitch – 3% Barbour, Haley – 2% Cain, Herman […]
Another Union Whopper
Earlier this week, Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO made the following claim on Sam Shad’s Nevada Newsmakers program while whining about Gov.elect Sandoval’s pledge not to raise taxes: “If you laid off all the State employees today, got rid of all of them, forget about cutting their salary or trimming back on their […]
Bureau-crackheads
About that so-called $3 billion budget deficit Nevada is supposedly facing. We’re not. It’s nowhere near that number. As Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston noted in Thursday’s paper, “State experts predict the budget to come in $3 billion short of current spending requests (my emphasis). Not current spending. Current spending requests. In other words, […]
Protected: Raggio’s Revenge
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A Tale of Two Gubernatorial Transitions
After his election to the presidency in 1980, Ronald Reagan, believing in the axiom that “people are policy,” immediately turned to the free-market conservative movement to help pull the country out of Jimmy Carter’s recession, high unemployment, 20 percent interest rates and general malaise. Gov.-elect Rick Scott is traveling down a similar path in Florida. […]
Pulling a Petulant Stunt
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston notes the establishment of the Tequila Party of Nevada with some not-so-nice-things to say about its new Grand Imperial Pooh-bah, or the guy who gave him the idea… Inept GOP mischief-maker forms Tequila Party of Nevada By Jon Ralston · December 2, 2010 · 11:49 AM George Harris, a […]
Sex in the Classroom (Yawn)
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Wednesday that “A Chaparral High School mariachi teacher was arrested Wednesday on two counts of sexual misconduct with a student, according to Clark County Detention Center records.” This is OUTRAGEOUS!! Do you mean to tell me that in this day of tight budgets – with everyone in the public […]
Ensign Draws First Primary Challenger?
Kirk Lippold, Carson City resident and former commander of the USS Cole when it was attacked by terrorists several years ago – announced his 2012 primary candidacy against Republican U.S. Sen. John Ensign yesterday. Well…not exactly in those words. In was in the form of a written statement issued shortly after the Department of (In)Justice […]
Ensign Given Green Light to Sleep with Employees, Other Tawdry Actions
Soooooo, according to the United States Department of Justice it’s OK to sleep with an employee who is your wife’s best friend and is married to another employee who is your best friend….then fire both of them….get Mommy & Daddy to pay the ex-employees severance pay while swearing it’s just a “gift”…and then try helping […]
Do They Profile Air Marshal Applicants?
The Washington Post is reporting today that the TSA is now reviewing its enhanced screening procedures in the wake of national outrage sparked, in large part, to John “Don’t Touch My Junk” Tyner’s video of his encounter with TSA gropers at the San Diego airport a couple of weeks ago. The Post says the TSA […]
Protecting the Protected Class
The RJ reported on Tuesday that “Businesses in Nevada overall have trimmed 200,000 jobs in the past three years.” I wonder how many state government jobs in Nevada have been trimmed in that same period of time? And we’re talking actual layoffs, not failures to fill “vacancies.” I set the over/under at 250. Place your […]
Will the Last Democrat Out Please Bring the Flag
The AP reported on Tuesday that “13 state lawmakers in five states have defected to Republican ranks since the November 2 election, adding to already huge GOP gains in state legislatures.” Of particular note: “The party switch of a Democratic lawmaker from New Orleans handed control of Louisiana’s House to Republicans for the first time […]
All I Want for Christmas is His Slow, Painful Death
“The former street preacher charged with kidnapping and assaulting Elizabeth Smart has suffered an apparent seizure in the courtroom,” the AP reported this morning. “Paramedics rushed inside the courtroom to attend to Brian David Mitchell, who was moaning and lying on the floor.” Now, I know this isn’t exactly a Christian sentiment, especially coming as […]