First Principles

Republicans in Clark County have been up in arms over some new election regulations being pushed through by the Secretary of State’s Office over the holidays.  I admit, the timing is very suspicious, and should alone raise all kinds of red flags.  But the article on it is frustrating, because nowhere is there any hint […]

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A couple of days ago I came across this really nice piece on Clark County’s Senator Mike Roberson.  We’re extremely lucky to have this guy in Carson City.  In fact, I would argue that the entire Senate GOP Caucus – with its nice mix of veterans and folks with fresh passion – was the most […]

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This is a funny little lesson on getting one’s facts straight. Today, I noticed that Chuck Muth had written a blog post about me, one which is just a straight up, flat out, verifiable flasehood.  There’s no other word for it.  I understand he’s upset with me for exposing his Republican-harming unethical conduct in the […]

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I’m very excited to announce that my quiet little corner of the Blogosphere is about to get a little less quiet.  A new, national site called Politics in Stereo has just launched – the idea is to have a state-by-state lineup of various local points of view, and I’m very proud to have been asked […]

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I don’t understand why the following concept is difficult to understand:  If you are are working for or with a particular candidate, and then you write and publish an opinion piece lovin’ on that candidate or hatin’ on his or her opponent, you must disclose that relationship if you want to maintain any credibility whatsoever. […]

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Jon Ralston wrote a fascinating column this weekend arguing for reforms to the Legislature that were inspired in part by NPRI’s recent lawsuit arguing that state employees cannot legally serve in the State Assembly or Senate.  Primary among Ralston’s complaints is the part-time nature of the Legislature itself.  He argues: But the worst and most […]

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Thomas Sowell has a great column on this topic that’s very worth reading, especially here in Nevada where various elections have been (quite wrongly, in my view) analyzed based on whether a candidate was “too conservative” or not. Senator Goldwater was not crazy enough to start a nuclear war. But the way he talked sometimes […]

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OK – it’s really the “Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada”.  But while their acronym is catchier and far less awkward (oh, thesaurus, you totally left me hangin’), mine is much more accurate. Consider this recent post about the #Occupy “movement” by PLAN’s state director, Bob Fulkerson, wherein he: Openly advocates criminal activity; Equates the protesters […]

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In a word, no.  That doesn’t mean he was correct – he wasn’t.  But it’s fair to contemplate how the actions of our government officials – and their stewardship of public money – affect our everyday lives. Last week, while the Caughlin Fire(s) were still raging all over Reno, before a cause of the fire […]

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My last post on activist/blogger Chuck Muth’s unethical and likely illegal participation in a political campaign sparked a response from Mr. Muth that’s worth commenting on for a couple of reasons – not the least of which is the spectacle of someone incriminating themselves so profoundly. 

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… Come From a Supposed Conservative? In case you missed it, there are three Republicans now running in what will almost certainly be state Senate District 18 down in Las Vegas.  Michele Fiore is one, and the other two are sitting State Assemblymen, Scott Hammond and Richard McArthur.  I’ve observed both of the Assemblymen in […]

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So it turns out that Republicans in Clark County are currently getting crushed in voter registration numbers.  Even non-partisans are registering more voters than Republicans. I’m sure glad we killed off any possibility of using the Caucuses as a recruitment/party building tool by eliminating Same Day Registration.  We can all be certain that Democrats will […]

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The purpose of a political party is to get as many members of that party elected to public office as possible. Period. So why is it that so many members of Nevada’s Republican Party seem to care so little for their central mission?  Why are a large minority of them seeming to act against that […]

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I oppose same-day registration for elections, but caucuses are a significantly different animal.  For a caucus, the possibilities of effective fraud are miniscule, and the potential benefits to the Republican Party in terms of growing in size and strength are enormous.  So given this rather obvious cost-benefit to having same-day caucus voter registration, why are […]

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I couldn’t live blog tonight, as I had a class to teach.  But I listened to most of it on the radio, and watched the rest on DVR when I got home. I wish the entire nation could have seen Governor Sandoval’s speech last night, in order to contrast it with this one.  Sandoval gave […]

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So Harry Reid wants to protect Nevada from that big, bad President Obama and his profligate spending, now, does he? Like many senior lawmakers, Reid opposes abandoning “congressionally directed spending” – the allocation of funding for projects, or earmarks – in favor of leaving the money decisions to officials in government agencies. 

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By the numbers, it sure doesn’t seem to be Nevadans.  At least not accurately. NPRI broke down the numbers – Republican Assembly candidates got the votes of 51% of Nevada voters – Democrats only got 45%.  That’s over a 40,000 vote difference.  60% of Nevadans are represented by Republican Assemblymen. If you count votes for […]

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11:27: I need to go to bed.  But some closing thoughts. In the primary, pundits struggled to find a pattern to an electorate which supported both Sandoval and Angle, and seemed similarly schizophrenic across the country.  Much ink was spilled over whether the GOP was moving right, or splitting altogether.  The agendas, while different, shared […]

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It’s so interesting to see the hand wringing these days about “extremism,” mostly from Democrats who have no better argument, and of course from their enablers in the media.  Harry Reid writes a check for Obama to sign that total more than all the money spent in the first 212 years of our nation’s history, […]

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And What “Republicans for Reid” Can Teach the Tea Party Movement Sometimes, you don’t always have the right general, and the other guy has a better one.  Sometimes that’s true even when you’re on the right side.  Lee chewed through plenty of Union generals, but that didn’t make the Confederate war to protect slavery any […]

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