Opinion Columns

Here’s something neither candidate said, but could have, at Monday’s presidential debate over foreign policy when it came to the Middle East: emphasize secular governments over religious ones. Neither President Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could say that, of course, because they don’t want to be seen as being anti-Islam, or even worse in modern America, anti-religion.

After focus grouping, poll testing and media vetting, it should come as no surprise that political rhetoric tends toward the banal. When even the politicians uttering the lines seem unconvinced, how are we supposed to be?

Former President Bill Clinton is all over the country these days, stumping for President Barack Obama’s re-election bid.

Here we go again.

If ever it could be said Washington is the cradle of a bipartisan, self-perpetuating cycle in which the rich are coddled, the financial crisis is final proof.

When last longtime Las Vegas journalist and author Geoff Schumacher checked in on Southern Nevada, things were going great, and it looked like that would never change.

Maybe it’s hard to understand because it’s not true?