First Principles

Last week Thomas Mitchell penned an incredibly ignorant and even offensive post regarding the better-late-than-never expansion of Veteran’s Court in Clark County.  Mr. Mitchell argued against even having a specialized Veteran’s Court, thinking instead that we should ignore everything we know about addiction, the mental trauma of combat, and the relationship between the two, and […]

[Read more →]

Today, of course, is the 70th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Last year, the Reno Gazette-Journal carried a rather odd editorial (sadly, it doesn’t appear to be archived) which I thought painted a pretty inaccurate picture of what Pearl Harbor is like today.  The editorial essentially argued that the attack had been forgotten, […]

[Read more →]

I was really hoping that Sharron Angle’s new campaign would at least show some signs of learning from the past.  I wasn’t impressed with her “reset” press conference – you can’t just demand respect like a petulant teen, you have to actually earn it all on your own.  But it beats not talking to the […]

[Read more →]

Well, no big surprises.  He made the same promises that he made a year ago, and the only difference is that now we can be even more sure he won’t keep any of them. The big takeaway from me on this was just how unserious this speech was. 

[Read more →]

My friend Ron at Local So-and-So posted this today, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it, too. This speech never fails to get me a little choked up, both for the story of the heroism during D-Day, and also for the man who so effectively conveyed it across the generations.

[Read more →]

Call this a belated Memorial Day post, but today I saw an opinion item that really irritated me.  In the LA Times, Edward Humes, not a veteran himself, attacked John McCain for his correct opposition to an “updated” GI Bill.  The headline was, “McCain’s Attack on Vets,” and subheaded, “His respectful rhetoric isn’t matched by […]

[Read more →]