First Principles

Last night the Young Republicans co-sponsored Reno’s first First Friday event, and local activist and candidate for State Senate (Washoe 4) Todd “Taxpayer” Bailey was on hand with his podcast equipment.  Here’s his cast, with my interview at the begining: First Friday Podcast Thanks, Todd! The next First Friday is – of course – the […]

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Today when I got home from work, the following pre-recorded message was on my answering machine: Hello.  This is a message from Accountable America. Why is the recession and increased unemployment dragging on?  We need to ask our Congressman Dean Heller.  He voted against spending money to put America back to work.  Congressman Heller voted […]

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I just got home from Reno’s Tea Party, and it was great fun.  What better way to spend America’s Birthday than to talk and think and debate and celebrate the founding ideas of the United States! There was certainly anger in evidence, and rightfully so.  But that was a small undercurrent in what (to my […]

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According to Bloomberg, Microsoft will ship jobs overseas if Obama’s tax plan passes. Well, duh. The successful entrepreneurs who made up the panel discussion at which this warning (for that’s what it was) was delivered also estimated that the values of those companies that stay in the US (along with their ability to pay good […]

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One of the things that frustrated me when I first moved to Nevada a few years ago was the seeming dearth of local political blogs – at least Conservative ones.  I say “seeming” because  it wasn’t that they weren’t there, it was more that I just had a hard time finding them. A healthy and […]

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A few days ago I blogged about the badly reasoned attacks of “hypocrisy” from Las Vegas City Life blogger Steve Sebelius.  He found my post, and yesterday attempted to justify his initial argument with some more bad analogies and a dirty joke.  Apparently the Las Vegas City Life website doesn’t do trackbacks, so I’ll do […]

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Las Vegas City Life columnist Steve Sebelius doesn’t think so – at least not without being a rank hypocrite! Wait a second — you’re telling us that two Assembly Republicans totally disagree with the concept of the stimulus package, but also that they think Nevada didn’t get enough in the stimulus package? What kind of […]

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Yesterday in the RGJ, there was a piece by local columnist David Jacobs snarkily noting that neither George Bush nor Congressional Republicans (back when they held majorities) were all that fiscally conservative.  He further suggested that lack of economic smarts helped cause the economic problems we have now. He’s right. So why, then, would he […]

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In Saturday’s RGJ, one of the contributing columnists wrote a piece so absurd, so hyperbolic, that there are only two possibilities:  That the writer is mentally ill, or that he is a Republican impersonating a liberal in order to discredit the Left. For sheer comic value, it must be examined in detail.

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This morning in the Reno Gazette-Journal there was a front page story about a roundup the feral horses that roam the BLM land around Nevada.  Some people call them wild, which I suppose the are in the same sense that the mangy cats who roam back alleys looking for sewer rats “roam wild and free.” […]

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The Reno Gazette Journal had an article yesterday about a handful of hippies who continue to agitate for “peace.”  By “peace” they mean for us to leave Iraq, Afghanistan, and rid ourselves of the military-industrial complex.  Apparently they want to remind Harry Reid and Barack Obama that Obama’s election was a mandate for college-know-it-all hippidom, […]

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Tonight we went to the second-to-last last stump speech of the McCain-Palin campaign, held here in Reno with the Alaska governor.  I went to the last one, too, but this one was different.  It was bigger, more serious, and more hopeful – no matter who wins tomorrow. When we arrived, there were thousands of people […]

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Yesterday I was at a big Nevada Day party in Carson City.  Prominent among the attendees were Obama supporters sporting buttons, stickers, shirts, and even facepaint. Every time I saw one of them walked buy with a drink in their hand, I wanted to take it away and drink half. 

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I got a campaign call yesterday from a supporter of local pawn shop manager and proud pit bull owner James Smack, a self-proclaimed “Constitutionalist” running against Dean Heller for his Congressional seat in the Republican primary.  He’s a Ron Paul type, and I’m not, so I politely told his supporter I was voting for the […]

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One of our local judges running for re-election for district court has a long endorsements page on his website, with the meat of it being an essay from a retired Reno Police Chief.  One of the passages caught my eye, and not in a good way. [Judge Bob Perry] told me on one occasion that […]

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Saturday was the first time I have ever actually physically gone somewhere to cast a vote. Always before I voted absentee, either because I was away to college or in the Navy, or because I was in Washington State where they let anyone vote by mail and it was a lot more convenient. The caucus […]

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