Goodbye, GOP »
(Roger Stone/The Stone Zone) – I registered to vote as a Republican the same day I turned 18. I registered so I could vote for Richard Nixon’s re-election in 1972. I was excited to join the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan. For one year before leaving for college I served on the Westchester (NY) Republican County Committee. While living in Washington’s Virginia suburbs, I served on the Arlington County Republican Committee and later the [...]
Who Will Speak Up When They Come For You? »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Barack Hussein Obama, at least insofar as religious freedom goes, may well be the Manchurian Candidate. I simply do not know how else you can explain his personal assault on the Catholic Church last week. Whether social conservatives like it or not, Roe vs. Wade is settled, albeit bad, law. But where is it written anywhere in our Constitution that the Federal Government can force a whole religion to do [...]
If Reality Bites – Bite Back! »
(Chuck Muth) – If we really want to pull our nation out of this economic abyss, perhaps it’s time to stop babying, coddling and wet-nursing the unemployed. Welcome to Harsh Reality 101! Your instructor today is Bryan Anderson, author of No Turning Back. (Read it!) Bryan joined the Army in 2001, just before 9/11. He then served two tours of duty in Iraq. On October 23, 2005, the Humvee he was driving was blown up [...]
Nevada Caucus Process Flawed, But Does Have Good Points »
(Jim Clark) – The nattering and complaining about the recent Nevada GOP presidential preference caucus just won’t die down. East coast newspapers, such as the Washington Times, are now comparing the Nevada caucuses to Iowa’s and the latter’s failure to accurately report a winner. Local Nevada news media are full of expressions by individuals condemning the caucus system and demanding return to a presidential primary election. Slow down, folks. Let’s examine the facts. Complaints center [...]
Janie Johnson’s New Book Hits Obama And His Campaign Hard »
NN&V Exclusive NN&V: Obama 2012 Slogans Rewritten is your second book, and it’s very different from your first, Don’t Take My Lemonade Stand. Can you describe the seed idea for it and how it developed? JJ: My story is how social media became a part of not only my book promotion, but one of how it helps me to get out my message of limited government, living within your means, and the need for a [...]
We Don’t Need A Harvard On I-80, GBC Is Just Fine »
With the pending retirement of Carl Diekhans as President of Great Basin College (GBC), there will probably be some pressure to hire a replacement with grand ideas. We hope those ideas won’t be too grand. Great Basin is an institution that Diekhans has led very effectively to become one of the premier vocational-technical institutions in the Northwest. One of the problems in hiring a president for such an institution is that it’s not nearly as [...]
Primaries Not the Solution for Caucus Chaos, Bring Back Smoke-Filled Backrooms »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8) — The Republican presidential caucus on Saturday wasn’t exactly a well-oiled machine. There were long delays, breakdowns in communication, misfires and miscues. In fact, 20 minutes into it I sent out a tweet or twit or whatever saying: “GOP organization — an oxymoron.” As sure as worms after a rainstorm and just as there was in 2008 a bunch of people are wringing their hands and bemoaning the unseemliness and the rough-hewn nature [...]
Wimping Out With Egyptian Junta Not An Option »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – While the Republican candidates for President were slapping the snot out of each other down in Florida, a much bigger story began playing out in Egypt which, amazingly has not been addressed by any of those candidates. And we’d certainly like to hear where they stand on the issue before Saturday’s Nevada Caucuses. A young man named Sam LaHood—whose father happens to be Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood—has been, essentially, [...]
NPRI Offers $2,000 College-Scholarship To Clark County Seniors »
(Las Vegas, NV) – Graduating Clark County high school students who show the potential to make a significant contribution to the cause of economic liberty should seek a $2,000 college scholarship being awarded by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. This is the second year that the Professor R.S. Nigam & NPRI Freedom Scholarship is being offered. It is open to all Clark County high school students — whether they attend a public, private, online or [...]
Army of Corrupt Obama Backers Simply Marching Under a New Flag »
(Thomas Mitchell/4THST8 Mitt Romney apparently is making hay in a TV ad over the single ethics violation the Democrats could nail on Newt Gingrich — whether a college course he was teaching was advancing his partisan goals. It’s sort of like concentrating on the mote in one eye and ignoring the beam in another. There’s more than one way to advance one’s political goals. Newt’s penny-ante course is one. Obama’s million-dollar extortion to fund his [...]
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