Archive for February, 2010

Bob Franken

At the behest of their patron Dick Cheney, John Yoo, now a law professor and Jay Bybee, who has become a federal judge called “Your Honor”, enthusiastically stretched the limits with their memos that brushed aside human rights traditions and common decency with their twisted logic. They also swept away any pretense that the U.S. was a country that, by definition, always stood/stands on the high road.

Oh, it's not so bad...

Kelly Anderson Wright

President Obama has it all wrong. He should encourage people to vacation in Nevada, where twelve measly bucks can become more than $10 million of taxable income in mere minutes.

Just ask Denver bowler John W. Johnson, 36, who flew into Reno Sunday with his wife and teammates for the U.S. Bowling Congress championship. He walked off his Southwest flight, entered the Reno-Tahoe International Airport lobby, and fed a nearby slot machine a $20 bill.

Winners.

“I said to my wife, ‘Where’s the attendant, because I’m going to win something big,’ ” Johnson said.

Just $12 into his twenty, John hit the $10.4 million Megabucks jackpot, a progressive slot system that pays out $10M – $40M to lucky players in 160 casinos across Nevada.

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Dan Calabrese

It’s often said that the Democratic Party is anti-business. In a sense, that’s true, but it’s ironic. The Democratic Party may be the biggest and most sophisticated business in America. And it acts like most other businesses.

The other guys.

The objective of a business is to convince as large a market as possible to purchase a product or service, and this is generally done by convincing the people in that market that their lives won’t be as complete without whatever it is you’re offering.

The Democrats offer any number of things that might be categorized as “benefits,” a description that holds insofar as it describes things that purportedly either make your life better or, at the very least, protect you from some sort of catastrophe you couldn’t handle if left to your own devices.

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Bob Franken

Either television’s star is rising again or this is the final nova, exploding into the Internet black hole. It doesn’t matter. Forget prime time. Stay glued to your sets for the Daytime Olympics. Or at least set your DVR.

Lights, camera...

The television spectacular began last Friday, as we cringed while watching that golf automaton mechanically recite the contrite words and phrases his advisers had programmed into him. It was eerily amazing to see how human he almost seemed to be.

On Tuesday, we can observe Toyota’s dynastic leader and the members of his court while they do the same kind of thing as they try and prove that their conduct has not been inhuman. In this instance the charges are that what Whooziz did to a few dozen groupies, Toyota did to millions of customers.

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Herman Cain

When we look past the political rhetoric, this nation’s severe deficiency of leadership is blatantly obvious. The signs of this deficiency start in the White House and cascade all through Congress, and down through all levels of state and local governments.

No. Not an example.

The appointment of dozens of czars by President Obama has added to the bureaucratic mess in trying to get the right things done in Washington. And appointing a Deficit Reduction Commission a year after being in office is not a sign of good leadership, especially when the president said in December 2008 that “deficits don’t matter”.

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Brett Noel

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Gregory D. Lee

There has been much debate whether or not Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been read his Miranda rights when he was captured aboard the Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day after attempting to explode a bomb he hid in his underpants. Proponents and critics alike make it appear that once someone has been Mirandized there is no turning back; that it’s an all or nothing proposition. How wrong they are.

No idea.

In a USA Today Op/Ed piece last week, John Brennan, the Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, defended the FBI’s decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab after only 50 minutes of “interrogation.”

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Kelly Anderson Wright

Nevada may run a Tea Party candidate against Sen. Harry Reid in November, and Tea Party faithfuls from Washoe to Clark County are furious about it.

According to the Las Vegas Sun, an unknown group calling themselves “Tea Party of Nevada”(TPN), has just filed documents to become an official political party in Nevada, with the intent of posting a candidate to run against 4-time incumbent Harry Reid and his Republican challenger.

Desperate.

Western Representation PAC, an active coalition of Tea Party activists in Nevada, expressed shock over the new Tea Party group. “We have no idea who these people are … the patriots who have built the Tea Party movement aren’t the people behind the [Tea Party of Nevada.]”

WRPAC asked a broad coalition of Tea Party organizers, activists and conservatives from Nevada and across the country, “Do you know who these people are?” referring to the people listed on TPN’s official paperwork filed with the Secretary of State.

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Bob Maistros

(with apologies to Buck Owens)

I own you.