There are lots of things we’re divided on. Democrat vs. Republican. If gender is determined by biology or feelings. Whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under. For a couple brief hours on Thursday, Nevadans united around a common cause — cheering the University of Nevada Reno’s improbable run in the NCAA tournament. It’s exactly why politics and sports shouldn’t mix.
In past White Houses, the removal of a national security adviser would be the culmination of much drama and hand-wringing. Yet President Donald Trump’s decision Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was only Act III in another week at the Trump White House.
The Trump White House reached out to millennials Thursday during a “Generation Next” summit for some 200 young voters, many from college Republican groups and conservative think tanks.
If the students who walked out of class to protest gun violence had gotten their way, Tuesday’s school shooting in Maryland would have been a lot more deadly.
Society should ban military-style weapons, although defining which firearms that includes is a work in progress. That’s according to Denise Hooks, the college student facilitator of March for Our Lives Las Vegas, which is happening on Saturday.
Baltimore is so broke, the city can’t afford to heat the schools in the dead of winter. But the city paid $100,000 to bus kids to the Washington, D.C., gun control rally. Apocalypse.
A report that the president ignored a warning from national security aides not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin for winning re-election set off dueling narratives about what happened and why it occurred.
Government shouldn’t force abused women to sleep next to biological men. But under the guise of non-discrimination, that’s what’s happening around the country and is poised to happen in Nevada schools.
California is a part of America. But it’s no longer American. It is a foreign state. It is a fugitive state. The U.S. Constitution and the rule of law no longer apply in California.
During a GOP debate in the 2016 election, Donald Trump repeated a frequent boast. “I don’t settle cases. I don’t do it because that’s why I don’t get sued very often.” Stormy Daniels, a porn actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has put a lie to all that.
President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed often produces chaos. With just one tweet on Friday, however, he reordered Nevada politics and increased Republican chances in two key races.
One of the best ways to celebrate Sunshine Week is by going to TransparentNevada.com and finding out how much government employees in Nevada are making. Be careful. Learning exactly how much you’re paying local bureaucrats — while politicians push for ever-higher salaries — isn’t for the faint of heart.
Nevada’s next governor needs to preserve categorical funding for education and give school districts the ability to remove ineffective principals. Universal school choice, however, gives money to well-off families that would be better spent in public schools. That’s according to Education Nevada Now policy director Sylvia Lazos.
Progressives need straitjackets and rubber rooms.
If students playing hooky solved gun violence, mass shootings would have ended decades ago — kids, just ask your parents if they ever cut class. That’s not going to stop today’s students from trying again.
