The Assembly Judiciary Committee has voted to send to the floor Senate Bill 243, the Guilty-Until-Proven-Innocent bill. What this bill allows the government to do is take a sample of your DNA upon any arrest for an alleged felony offense. That’s ARREST, not conviction. In other words, a gross infringement upon[...]
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston ChurchillThe story is told of Franklin Roosevelt, who often endured long receiving lines at the White House. He complained that no one really paid any attention to[...]
Clark County Manager Virginia Valentine is reportedly reviewing 82 cases in which the office of the district attorney claims the count y Department of Family Services returned children to dangerous homes or would have failed to remove them quickly had prosecutors not intervened.(This was written by Richard Wexler, executive director[...]
Several weeks ago at a McDonald’s on Eastern and Flamingo, a gross mistake in communication turned from bad to worse when a middle-aged and nicely dressed man went back to the counter to say there was a mistake in his order. Since the girl behind the counter did not speak[...]
My wife and I were driving along minding our own business when we passed a house with a Ku Klux Klan flag waving from a pole in the front yard in St. Cloud, Florida. It was surrounded by a couple dozen American flags planted all over the lawn. The sheer[...]
On 5/19/13, the Las Vegas Sun published a Q&A with Sheriff Doug Gillespie. The heading for the story was, “Sheriff weighs in on pimps, hip-hop, cops and cameras on the Strip, and more.” Anyone who has read my columns (Safe Strip Report, ICARE, etc.) that have been published in the[...]
Dear EarthTalk: I heard that a number of beer brewing companies have banded together to support the Clean Water Act. Can you enlighten? — Mitch Jenkins, Cincinnati, OH In April 2013 the non-profit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) brought together two dozen nationally respected craft beer brewers to launch the[...]
Whatever you do, don’t try to pull a fast one on U.S. District Judge Otis Wright. (This article is taken in part from the National Law Journal, dated May 7, 2013.) After describing a massive fraud involving the enforcement of copyrights to pornography, he has referred four lawyers to licensing[...]
I will remind you that only ONE Nevada legislator, Assemblyman Wes Duncan, voted “No” on the Internet tax resolution. I’ll also note that U.S. Sen. Dean Heller opposes this so-called/misnamed “Marketplace Fairness Act.” But Duncan and Heller are far from alone when it comes to national CONSERVATIVE opposition to this[...]
Devastation! That is what I felt when I received a text message about the Walters family tragedy back in January. I was really rattled and had to take a walk to settle down. I immediately felt a sense of guilt. (Yes, Duh-G, Charles, Todd, et al. I felt very guilty!)Guilt is[...]
