All posts tagged "Obama"

  • Government
    Nevadans To Pony Up $2,000 If Tax Cuts Expire

    NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – The Democrats are eagerly telling everyone they know that the Republicans are...

  • Government
    Homeland Security Begins Deferred Action Program Wednesday, 23,300 Potentially Eligible In Nevada

    (Nevada News Bureau) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will officially begin accepting applications Wednesday for “deferred action” from young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and who meet other specific requirements. There are an estimated 23,300 potential beneficiaries of the program in Nevada, with a large majority,...

  • Opinion
    Harry Reid: Obama’s Court Jester, Nevada’s Joker

    (Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – I was not a primary supporter of Mitt Romney for the GOP...

  • Politics
    Obama’s Welfare Stance Puts Him On Desert Island

    (Mason Harrison) – Today we released a new web video, “The Rise and Fall of Welfare Reform.” Democrats from Carl Levin to John Kerry, and even Joe Biden supported the bipartisan reforms signed by President Clinton in 1996. When it comes to welfare reform, President Obama is out of step with the...

  • Politics
    Ah, August!

    (Rich Galen/Mullings.com) – August in Your Nation’s Capital slows to a crawl. The Congress is gone – which is good news for the Republic. In normal years the President and Vice President head for some shore somewhere. Well, George W. didn’t. He headed for Crawford, Texas which meant the national press corps got...

  • Opinion
    I Swear — It’s True!

    NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Obama failed his constitutional law class at Columbia University. Not once, not twice, but five times! I know this because a friend of a friend called a friend who told him. This last fellow had attended college with the president. And he said that the president never...

  • Opinion
    Letter: Obama Now Outsources Unemployment

    Guitar lovers may find this interesting. According to the Associated Press, Gibson Guitar “agreed to pay a $300,000 penalty, forfeit claims to about $262,000 worth of wood seized by federal agents and contribute $50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to promote the conservation of protected tree species.” The offense was...

  • Politics
    Silly Me, Somebody Else Made That Happen!

    (Andy Matthews/NPRI) – I’m in beautiful Northern Nevada this week for a number of reasons, one of which, as I mentioned last time, is to officially open NPRI’s new Reno office on Aug. 1. But another reason I’m here is to spend some time meeting with several members of the Institute’s Board...

  • Opinion
    Show That Business Owners Are Relevant—Attend A “We Did Build This” Event

    (Reno, NV) – On Wednesday, “We Did Build This” events will be held in Las Vegas, Sparks, and across the country. President Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, business owners in Nevada and across the country will be launching “We...

  • Politics
    Governor Gary Johnson Offers America A Third Way

    (Roger Stone/The Stone Zone) – A new poll by John Zogby shows former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson moving from 2% to 5.3% nationally. Zogby says an internal analysis of the numbers show that Johnson is pulling a disproportionate number of votes from Republican Mitt Romney. PPP, a Democrat leaning polling company,...

  • Opinion
    A Special Note About the President: I Won’t Call Him An Arrogant Little Putz

    (Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – I was in Elko, Nevada, over the weekend having a few sleepless nights trying to get our transmitter fixed on KTSN (for those folks in Elko, back on the air soon) and missed President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” speech until I got home. By that time,...

  • Government
    Obama and Holder Should Learn From Nixon and Mitchell

    (Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – It appears that in addition to being a lousy Constitutional Law instructor, our current President is also a lousy student of history. When the final book is written on Richard Nixon’s tour of duty at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the words of then Chief Justice Warren Burger in...

  • Government
    Obama and the Press: Coincidence or Coordination?

    (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) On May 9, Obama announced on ABC News his support for gay marriage, though he did not actually do anything about it. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should...