It’s Time For The Republican DREAM Act To Pass »
(Jim Clark) – Now that it looks to be clear sailing for Mitt Romney to get the GOP presidential nomination, it’s also time to look past the arguments that dominated the GOP primary/caucus fights and formulate a winning policy position for the November election. President Obama’s pronouncements from his trip to Central America signal that he is again going to make immigration reform a major issue of this campaign. Translation: Having promised, as a candidate [...]
Godfather Of Conservatism Calls On Newt To Drop Out Of Race »
(Roger Stone/The Stone Zone) – When the history of American Conservatives is written, it should be noted the second most influential man in terms of the Conservative Movement and country after Ronald Reagan, is direct communication wizard and conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie. If William F. Buckley Jr. is the Godfather of the modern Conservative Movement, Richard Viguerie has been it’s communications and fundraising spark-plug. Viguerie developed sophisticated direct mail techniques, which, in a day [...]
Caucus Chaos: My After-Action Report »
(Chuck Muth) – * After initially predicting over 100,000 Republicans would participate in the Nevada GOP presidential caucus, the party began ratcheting that figure down. First to 70,000; then to 55,000. I predicted 40,000. In the end, total participation in the Chaos Caucus: 32,894. Lame. * Considering how fouled up the caucus was, as is, can you just imagine the nightmare same-day registration would have caused? * The only thing worse than “spin” is bad [...]
No Matter How You Do The Math, The Numbers Favor The GOP »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – The GOP is on a roll, according to the math. Numbers are coming in from different sources are saying the same thing—this election has got voters’ attention, and they’re leaning right. Both the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary reported a record number of participants, and many of these people were first-time Republican voters. This same trend of people turning to the Republican party is widespread and not just [...]
Judging the Judges: Newspaper Swings for the Benches One More Time »
(Thomas Mitchell/4thst8.wordpress.com/) I’m glad to see the Review-Journal continued the biennial judicial survey, even though the paper apparently is so understaffed (or underexpertised) they had to contract with a reporter/editor they let go this past year in order to pull it off. But A.D. Hopkins, who has been the ramrod for probably a majority of these survey projects since the paper began them in 1992, did his usual thorough and fair job with the capable [...]
Let 2012 Be The Year Grown-Ups Return To Government »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Christmas Eve was kind of a slow news day and I ended up on the National Geographic Channel. They had a special, made in 2009, dealing with Air Force One. Much of that special was devoted to the events of September 11, 2001 and the actions of then President George W. Bush. Since we are headed into an election year, it dawned on me that, whatever you think of President [...]
In Scrooge-like Move, SoS Miller Schedules Election Law Hearing For December 23 »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – On December 12, citizens from Las Vegas up to Reno stood up to voice their objections to Secretary of State Ross Miller’s attempts to rewrite election law. And on the 16th, Clark County Republicans resoundingly objected to what they view as maltreatment in a press release, published here. In an effort to move the process along, the Secretary of State’s office has scheduled a hearing on the proposed changes for [...]
Putting A Sharp Pencil To Election Year Numbers Changes Some Assumptions About Outcomes »
NN&V Exclusive (Thomas Mitchell/4th St8) – The year 2012 in Nevada is going to be curb-to-curb politics. The Republican presidential caucuses in February will kick it off, then there will be filing for office and the state primaries in the summer, climaxing with the General Election in November. Much of the focus — in light of Nevada’s ignominious status as the state with the highest rates of unemployment and home foreclosures — will be on [...]
UNLV CRs Host S.E. Cupp: OWS Is Intellectually Dishonest, A Pawn Of Obama »
NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – “Occupiers are an intellectually dishonest group,” said S.E. Cupp, addressing more than 50 listeners this afternoon. The group didn’t spring up naturally, she continued, “it was ginned up by Obama to incite class warfare,” mimicking the president’s language to sell initiatives like health care and stimulus packages. “The Us vs. Them is meant to divide and polarize and get him re-elected,” Cupp explained. She was in town, by invitation of [...]
Exactly What “Qualifications” Must You Have To Be Prez? »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – The post-mortem of the Herman Cain campaign has begun in earnest this week with the Wall Street Journal chiming in that “Cain was as surprised as anyone” at his own success and, thus, was never prepared to actually run for President. Perhaps that’s true, but if it is, it is a sad commentary on the state of our Democratic Republic. We live, by choice, far, far away from Washington, D.C. [...]
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