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Yes, it would be a relief if Biden ended his campaign
U.S. voters may not agree on much, but one thing they agree on is they don’t want a Trump-Biden rematch. Just because Republican voters appear stuck on, and with, Trump, doesn’t mean Democrats can’t mix things up. But no Democrat has come forward to primary the current president (a wayward Kennedy doesn’t count), so the […]
If a Nevada Republican presidential caucus falls in a forest…
There doesn’t really seem to be a “Ron DeSantis campaign.” He’s outsourced most of it to the Never Back Down PAC. In the past I’ve suggested the more appropriate name for the PAC would be “Never Fight Back,” since DeSantis has been so squeamish about suggesting Donald Trump is anything but practically perfect in every […]
The governor and legislators could lower expenses for Nevada households
A year ago the annual inflation rate was north of 9%. Over the last 12 months it was 3.2%. But just because prices aren’t rising as fast as they were, a lot of prices are still rising. Inflation is driven by a combination of national and global factors. The prices of food, gas, electricity (which […]
The Nevada question they should have asked at the debate
Republicans who say they are running for president debated Wednesday night. Key takeaway: Vivek Ramaswamy is infomercial-ready. And poor Ron DeSantis. The other kids hardly even bothered to make fun of him, deciding instead to let him toddle into the footnotes of presidential campaign history under his own power. Dear Leader Trump wasn’t there of […]
Republicans line up to deprive Lee of a 4th term
Next year Nevada Democratic U.S. Rep. Susie Lee will try to do something no Nevadan has ever done: Win the state’s 3rd Congressional District for a fourth time. Republican Jon Porter, the first person to win election to the seat in 2002 after the district was created following the 2000 Census, was reelected twice, but […]
Could Nevada’s Republican presidential primary be – gasp! – meaningful?
This week the Nevada State Republican Party, Fake Elector Michael McDonald, proprietor, announced it has set a Feb. 8 date for its presidential preference caucus. Under Nevada law, the state must hold a Republican presidential preference primary two days earlier, on Feb. 6 – provided two or more candidates file with the secretary of state’s […]
In NV of all places, elected officials should stop tolerating Trump’s attack on democracy
The fourth and final count in the indictment of Donald Trump for plotting to overturn the 2020 election asserts Trump: “did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right […]
So, is everybody still up for a state government giveaway to the film industry?
Even before the baseball stadium farce, and certainly after, there has been speculation a special legislative session would also be held, perhaps even sometime this summer, to bring major film studios to Nevada by giving the corporations lots of public money. In its original version, the film bill, which was heard but not acted on […]
Workers of the world unite. No, seriously. And friends & family too.
The one issue Republicans in Nevada and nationwide ran on with one voice, all Borg-like, more than any other in 2022 was the economy. Adam Laxalt, Joe Lombardo, Jim Marchant, Michele Fiore, and Republican congressional candidates in Nevada and from coast to coast all thought people whose vote had not already been determined by Hunter’s […]
Brown’s candidacy gets nod of approval from Senate GOP campaign committee
In a Republican U.S. Senate primary debate in Nevada last year, Adam Laxalt repeatedly would not answer whether, if elected, he would vote for Mitch McConnell to continue as leader of Senate Republicans. Laxalt’s opponent in that primary, Sam Brown, didn’t answer the question either, but said he had a “feeling that Mr. Laxalt owes […]
Is this the best they’ve got?
A lot of people expected Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to get beat in 2010, and almost as many expected Republicans to win control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans did gain six Senate seats that year. But Reid’s wasn’t one of them, and Democrats held control of the Senate with effectively a 53-47 majority […]
A conservative’s conservative on the affirmative action ruling (via ouija board)
Political parties have fundraising arms in Congress which blast out fundraising emails and press releases, the sensationalism of which are matched only by their crude oversimplification. A lot of them end up in my inbox, because every campaign cycle Nevada has a competitive Senate/House race or three. Friday I opened one from the National Republican […]