Being a Pilgrim had a 50-percent fatality rate. It’s unlikely they would have let the coronavirus alter their Thanksgiving plans.
Victor Joecks
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
If you want to see the national mainstream media’s double standard on religion, compare its treatment of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Amy Coney Barrett.
It’s a lot easier to get people to vote when you can pay them. Just ask the Nevada Native Vote Project.
Joe Biden likes to tout his working-class roots. It’s hard to imagine a proposal more at odds with that.
King Steve Sisolak doesn’t know how to stop the spread of coronavirus so he’s putting Nevada in time out.
Clark County election officials accepted my signature on eight ballot return envelopes during the general election.
The Clark County School District finally has a plan to get students back in the classroom.
VICTOR JOECKS: Biden appears to have won the presidency. But it’s Republicans who should be excited.
A Biden presidency wouldn’t be a good thing by any means. But it’s substantially less worrisome if Republicans control one house of Congress.
As the world watched, the Clark County Elections Department kept them waiting. Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria also implied a visually impaired woman lied about someone else returning her ballot.
Democratic claims about widespread voter suppression are laughable, but voter fraud remains a real possibility. That’s especially unfortunate given how contentious this election has been.
The biggest falsehood of the 2020 campaign is that Joe Biden is the great protector of American political institutions.
If you need evidence that Nevada is in play, look no further than President Donald Trump’s travel schedule.
King Steve Sisolak is acting more like Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman than California Gov. Gavin Newsom when it comes to coronavirus.
If he weren’t the one supporting it, Superintendent Jesus Jara might decry distance learning as an example of systemic racism, implicit bias or both.
If wearing masks were the key to stamping out the coronavirus, the pandemic would be over. Nevadans have been donning them for months.