Opinion Columns

The first week of 2013 wasn’t exactly the best for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Let me begin with a bold assumption: If the thunderous voice of God himself, clothed in smoke and fire from atop Mount Sinai, commanding “thou shalt do no murder,” is not enough to stay the hand of human evil, then a law passed by the United States Congress isn’t going to do the trick.

In the political year about to pass into history, there were literally hundreds of memorable things said. Today, I take a look back at the year that was through the prism of a select few of those remarks.

There came a moment at the end of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s meeting with the Review-Journal editorial board Wednesday when he said something very illuminating.

Oh, how a few little words can cause so much trouble.

An open letter to Harry Reid:

Say what you will about Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, he doesn’t make many mistakes. That may account, at least in part, for his overwhelming popularity.