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The real meaning of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is rich in traditions. The turkey. The dressing. The pumpkin pie. The family assembled in prayerful reverence in remembrance of the … The real meaning of Thanksgiving

Program Changes: Amazon chooses corporate choices and shuts down the “Amazon Smile” Program

For ten years, Amazon has garnered an excellent customer following based on countless organizations signing up and promoting donations they could receive based on supporters' purchases at Amazon.com. Local small organizations have come to embrace and budget based on this income. In February, it is being stopped with only two months' notice. Tem Years of proven expected income already...

Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6. Documents Leaked to The Gateway Pundit – FBI

 FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys, Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! See the Texts and Documents IN FULL!! Will this be the end of Chris Wray?  It should be. The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to viciously politically persecute American Citizens and terrorize the public. Now they’ve been …

EXCLUSIVE: Police Report Proves Plainclothes Electronic Surveillance Unit Members Were Embedded Among Jan. 6 Protesters

While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 protests and recording responses for the purposes of entrapment, evidence now proves that “plainclothes” members of a special Electronic Surveillance Unit (ESU) were embedded among the protesters for the purposes of conducting …

Latest Jack Reacher outing worth the journey

Just finished Lee Child’s most recent novel romp with his donnybrook prone vagabond protagonist Jack Reacher. On this one he’s teamed up with his brother Andrew Child to pen “The Sentinel.” Former Army MP Reacher — a tall and muscular specimen who appears to survive on a lack of sleep, strong black coffee and greasy …

A senseless and futile gesture … and our senators are just the ones to do it

Thank you, Jim Hartman, for pointing out in today’s Elko Daily Free Press that the proposal by Nevada’s two Democratic U.S. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen to waive the 18.4 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax through 2022 is not only a political gesture, but for Nevadans it is a futile gesture. Hartman …

Who is the enemy and how to confront it?

What are the threats Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is concerned about? Of course, according to a national terrorism advisory bulletin put out this week by DHS, it is all those quacks spreading “mis- dis- and mal-information” about election fraud and COVID-19. The bulletin warns against: The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow …

Equal rights or color and gender quotas?

It was interesting to read columnist Larry Elder’s take on equal rights vs. equal outcomes in today’s local newspaper — the same day President Joe Biden promised to nominate the first Black woman to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Elder lambasts Skip Bayless, a white sports commentator, for being critical of the …

Could Trump be hoisted on his own petard?

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President … who … shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. …” Or given aid or comfort? A statement released by Trump’s Save …

Happy birthday, Bill of Rights

Several years ago I penned this for the Review-Journal. On this day in 1791 the Bill of Rights were ratified by three-fourths of the states. At the insistence of the Anti-Federalists led by Thomas Jefferson the first 10 amendments were added to the new Constitution. They might more properly be called a Bill of Prohibitions, …

Nevada lawsuit seeks more tax money for education, though more money has not improved education

On Monday the Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by nine parents claiming the state Legislature is not meeting its constitutional requirement to adequately fund K-12 public education, according to the morning paper and the online Nevada Independent. The 37-page lawsuit was filed in March of 2020, as reported here, but dismissed …

Author Baldacci shows no mercy in latest book: ‘Mercy’

David Baldacci’s latest installment in his mystery series featuring FBI agent Atlee Pine, “Mercy,” finally connects his protagonist with her twin sister Mercy, who was abducted from their shared bedroom at the age of 6. In doing so, as is his wont, Baldacci piles on the action to the point of stretching credulity. Hey, it’s …

This ain’t my first rodeo

Trevor Brazile ropes and ties a calf in 8 seconds in 2009. As the National Finals Rodeo returns to Las Vegas on Dec. 2, I recall that the closest I ever came to rodeoing was the time Grandpa Hicks put me on his horse Skeeter and sent me down to the lower pasture to bring …

The real meaning of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is rich in traditions. The turkey. The dressing. The pumpkin pie. The family assembled in prayerful reverence in remembrance of the plight of the early settlers of this country — much of which is complete fiction. The Plymouth colonists set out to live in an idealistic communal fashion. Everyone would share equally in the …

How Nevada became the 36th star on the U.S. flag

36-star U.S. flag Today Nevadans celebrate Nevada Day. On this day in 1864 Nevada became a state. Not only was Nevada “Battle Born,” as the flag proclaims, it was battle bred and born after a remarkably short gestation during the Civil War. With Southern states seceding from the Union, in March 1861 President James Buchanan …

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