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RGJ story reignites background check debate
Dogged reporting by the Reno Gazette-Journal's Martha Bellisle has resulted in revelations sure to reinvigorate the background check debate in Nevada.
Harry Reid's suppleness on the nuclear option
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid devoted an entire chapter of his autobiography to something he considered a legislative obscenity: "The Nuclear Option"
Rand Paul can't take the heat in the heat
Rand Paul was supposed to be on “Ralston Reports” tonight. He will not be. Paul will be in Southern Nevada to help the GOP raise money and for FreedomFest And he has done interviews with the Sun and the RJ.
WAR, what is he good for? Not for Heller and McCarthy?
Remember this? Now watch these:
Beers: I endorsed Hutchison for lieutenant governor, but I still may run against him
On July 8, as he tried to round up support for his incipient bid for lieutenant governor, state Sen. Mark Hutchison was pleased to receive a text from Las Vegas Councilman Bob Beers. “Happy to endorse you for lg,” Beers texted Hutchison at 11:21 a.m., thus removing a prospective anti-Establishment, populist primary challenger known as a fierce campaigner and darling of the Right. Or so Hutchison thought.
State to board/commission appointees: You owe us money!
Talk about a screwup. Check out the memo attached here. It is priceless.
Ridiculous lawsuit has predictable result, resulting in ridiculous ballot option
It’s so quaint, the “none of these candidates” option on the Nevada ballot. It’s so Nevadan, the ability to show all the people in the race they are unfit. It’s so….dumb. And yet it lives on, especially after today's Ninth Circuit ruling that upholds Nevadans’ ability to throw away our most sacred right as Americans, to show the rest of the country we know how to waste our franchise rather than making a choice. Hallelujah!
A birther by any other name
Wayne Allyn Root is upset. Root, scheduled this weekend to be an “honored guest” with the No. 3 man in the House, Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Joe Heck, has demanded I retract the “libelous” claim that he is a birther. I raised the issue in advance of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s trip to Las Vegas on Saturday to appear at a major GOP event.
Clark County commissioner: "Tree huggers," forestry officials responsible for Mt. Charleston fire
UPDATE, 7/9: The tree huggers have responded: "Carpenter Fire is a Tragedy and so is Collins' Leadership" It is scathing. ---------------