May 24, 2022
Jim Hartman
Lombardo blames Nevada law that allows ballots sent by Election Day to be counted up to four days afterward.
It’s been 20 years since Republicans won the presidential popular vote, so GOP exuberance is understandable.
There isn’t a far-left progressive district attorney in California anymore, they’re all gone.
Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry Nevada since President George W. Bush won the Silver State in 2004.
Control of the U.S. Senate was up for grabs on Tuesday with Democrats going into the election having a 51-49 vote majority, including four independents caucusing with Democrats. Two of those independents, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are retiring from Congress.
On Nov. 5, voters in Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon and Nevada will have ballot referendums to implement some version of ranked-choice voting, or RCV.
Last month the FBI updated its 2022 crime data to show a 4.5% increase in violent crime.
State Question 7 on the ballot in November is an initiative that would amend the Nevada Constitution to require all in-person voters present a valid photo identification before voting.
Is there still an “undercover” Trump vote in 2024? If so, Trump is positioned for an Electoral College win.
Americans urgently need to wake-up or the U.S. will careen into global conflict with catastrophic results.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest gambit to punish Big Oil would result in higher prices for gasoline in Nevada and Arizona, sparking bipartisan backlash.
With 6 ½ weeks until election day, this race still looks close to a 50/50 toss-up.
Economists regularly advise against price controls, tariffs, discriminatory taxes and wider budget deficits. Yet, Harris and Trump are promoting them despite being bad economics.
No Democratic candidate filed to run for the deep-red seat in 2024.
Trump must convince voters that Harris’s views are out of step with middle America. Otherwise, he will lose.
Question 3 on the ballot in November would change the Nevada Constitution and the state’s election system in two fundamental ways.
Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, the favorite of progressives. Harris reinforced her leftist base rather than reaching out to swing voters.
Harris remains relatively unknown to most Americans. However, a fair conclusion from her record is she’s a standard California progressive on most issues, often to the left of Biden.
Usha Vance, 38, has family roots in the south Indian state of Andra Pradesh, with her parents moving to the U.S. in the late 1970s.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a horrific moment for America but it didn’t come as a complete surprise.
A 6-3 court majority found presidents have “presumptive immunity” for their official acts.
In the most consequential presidential debate ever, President Joe Biden showed all watching that he isn’t up to serving four more years in office.
A Trump win could provide Brown enough coattails for a Senate upset.
Conservative and right-wing parties across Europe demonstrated their increased strength in picking lawmakers for the European Union Parliament.
All seven justices voted to uphold a district court ruling that brings the initiative one important step closer to appearing on the November ballot.
This conviction sets a dangerous precedent – and Trump vows to return the favor.
The biggest question is whether Trump wants to expand his base of supporters in making his VP candidate choice or nominate a MAGA echo.
A Nevada ballot initiative to require valid voter photo ID could be up for a statewide vote in November.
U.S. marijuana industry sales will exceed $30 billion in 2024. Big Marijuana is thrilled with making pot a Schedule III drug.
President Joe Biden signed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Republicans will be nominating Donald Trump for president, the one candidate who could lose to a weak and unpopular President Joe Biden.
The suit claims that three counties have voter registration rates above 100% of their total adult citizens: Douglas (104%), Lyon (105%), and Storey (113%).
Biden has proposed a defense budget for 2025 that is vastly inadequate. It’s a mere 1% increase over 2024. That’s a cut after inflation, the fourth cut in a row.
Nevada’s junior Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, faces a tough re-election in November.
Lombardo emphasized that unprecedented investment into K-12 education warrants unprecedented accountability and fiscal responsibility.
It’s the great American presidential unpopularity contest.
In the end, voters should be trusted to determine Trump’s fate.
The lawsuit marks the teachers’ union second swing at blocking any public financing of a stadium for the A’s relocation to Las Vegas.
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Feb. 5 report on President Biden’s misuse of classified documents may have been a turning point.
Primary and caucus turnout results this year are evidence Nevada voters prefer primaries. They are much more accessible to the general public.
Iran has called Biden’s bluff.
The Nevada GOP completely botched the presidential nominating process.
Presidential caucuses are an historic mess – and archaic. Caucuses are exclusionary; primaries increase participation.
California’s minimum wage for fast-food workers will become $20 an hour.
Republican voters throughout Nevada are now receiving their sample ballots for the official Feb. 6 Nevada Presidential Preference Primary (PPP). Voters are stunned to find missing from the official GOP primary ballot the name of former President Donald J. Trump.
Urgently needed: speedy Supreme Court review if the U.S. is going to avoid patchwork democracy in 2024.
Israel deserves U.S. support. There should be no more vacillating, equivocating, dithering or political correctness.
Oregon was the first state to decriminalize marijuana, in 1973.
Months away from the June 11, 2024 primary, eight Republican challengers have entered the race to oppose U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen.
Republicans could win a large victory next year if they nominate a next generation leader.
The FBI is worried that Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and slaughter of 1,400 Israeli civilians will serve as a rallying cry for additional terrorist attacks on the West, including against Americans.
Leaders from every Western state are asking the Supreme Court to overturn rulings from the liberal Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that local governments may not clear homeless encampments unless they can offer shelter for all those taken off the streets.
This fiasco highlights the ineptitude of the Nevada GOP and the reason for disastrous results in the last four election cycles.
President Joe Biden delivered a widely praised speech in response to the surprise invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists.
Another shutdown looms ahead on Nov. 17.
Republicans need to concentrate on their two realistic alternatives: DeSantis and Haley.
Biden’s border policy is an unsustainable national disaster.
The question is being considered in at least nine states, including Colorado, where a lawsuit to disqualify Trump was filed Sept 6.
Amodei, 65, is the dean of Nevada’s six member congressional delegation and its sole Republican.
This downgrade may even be an overly optimistic assessment of the U.S. fiscal outlook. It should be a wake-up call to the political class, but it won’t be.
With Donald Trump ducking this first debate, GOP voters were able to hear the other candidates and assess their abilities, policies and differences.
In Nevada, both in the 2020 and 2024 nomination process, Trump’s the one doing the rigging.
Biden’s Justice Department is taking on a huge and politically polarizing target in an atmosphere of great mistrust over DOJ motivations – and its timing.
The U.S. energy industry in recent years is already struggling to keep up with demand amid heat waves and other demand spikes.
The Commission on Ethics consists of eight members, only two of whom are Republicans.
Voters certainly deserve better than a rerun between a then to be 81-year-old president and a 78-year-old former president.
There’s little evidence enough Nevada Republicans learned from the disappointing 2022 election result.
Democrats miscalculate if they believe this year’s decisions will hurt the court’s public standing.
Biden set a goal of 50% of all U.S. vehicle sales be electric by 2030.
Oakland lost its NBA Golden State Warriors franchise to San Francisco in 2019 and its NFL Raiders franchise to Las Vegas in 2020.
Trump’s intent to deceive is highlighted in the indictment.
Biden’s Green New Deal warriors are engaged in a crusade to impose their values on the lifestyles of everyone else and deny individuals choices.
Kissinger has been the United States’ preeminent foreign policy strategist over the past 60 years.
Democrat legislative leaders demonstrate the “Arrogance of Officialdom.”
U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen’s race in 2024 is expected to be tight.
The only way to stop the migrant deluge now is a clear message.
“The City” is in a severe, self-inflicted steep decline.
The U.S. needs a much better presidential choice in 2024 than a redo of Biden vs. Trump.
Abortion gives Democrats a powerful issue in 2024.
This president isn’t doing nearly enough to protect the U.S. from the world’s multiplying dangers.
For many, Lombardo gets an “A” grade simply in comparison to former Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Without this legislation, many smaller and independent news sources will perish.
Most Americans know Jan. 6 was a violent riot and was a serious threat to our long national tradition of successful transitions of power.
Everyone will pay for progressive virtue-signaling.
Conservative justices were incredulous that Biden’s decree to wipe out $430 billion in student-loan debt could be ordered without congressional approval.
James Settelmeyer is highly qualified to serve as director of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Biden needs to wake-up from his fog that China is merely our benign competitor.
Lombardo has proposed the single largest spending increase in K-12 education in Nevada history.
The Biden administration is heavily subsidizing EVs while at the same time blocking U.S. mineral projects needed to produce them.
California’s follies can be Nevada’s opportunities.
In February 2011, Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels delivered the keynote address to the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Conference in Washington, D.C.
They really are coming for your stove.
McCarthy won but his victory came at a high price.
Lombardo was the rare statewide winner while losing Washoe and Clark counties.
Biden is simply too old to be president – it’s an unchangeable reality.
The southern border is a disaster and in chaos.
Nevada voters revisit the ranked choice question in 2024.
Congress must not miss the opportunity to forestall a repeat of Jan. 6, 2021.
To win, Republicans will need a generational alternative – and to ditch Trump.
Turnout for the 2022 general election in Nevada was a surprisingly low 54.58%.
This election proved Trumpism has become toxic.
The Supreme Court appears poised to rule racial preferences in college admissions are illegal.
Results from the first week of early voting beginning Oct. 22 portend a lower turnout than experts forecast.
Nevada voters will decide three ballot questions on the general election ballot.
We should anticipate both the Lombardo-Sisolak and Laxalt-Cortez Masto races will be very “closely run things” on Nov. 8.
Question 3 would establish an open primary election and a top-five “ranked-choice” voting general election.
Lombardo pledges to reverse Sisolak’s dangerous school safety policies.
The Senate race in Nevada will likely determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Democrats want to pretend Trump is on the ballot to campaign against as the great Democratic foil.
The all-or-nothing legal extremes prevailed.
For Nevada voters most concerned about crime, Lombardo has the clear edge in the governor’s race.
Biden’s gambit may boomerang politically by mobilizing an opposition coalition of Americans who are tired of being played for saps by progressives.
Democrats are tone-deaf. Tear off the absurd new “Inflation Reduction Act” label and examine reality.
Trump cost Republicans the House in 2018, the White House in 2020 and the Senate in 2021. He could cost them the Senate in November.
Democrats have their own wackadoodles who have promoted crazy voting machine conspiracy theories.
Reforming the Electoral Count Act to avoid a repeat of the Jan. 6 disaster in 2024 is imperative.
The West must, and can, adapt to a predicted even drier future.
With President Biden’s approval rating now sinking to one of the worst ever recorded, Democrats are engaged in a brazen bit of political jiu jitsu.
3 former top Trump administration officials have now penned books that include an unflattering picture of Donald Trump and his fitness to hold office.
The San Francisco Unified School District is dropping the word “chief” from all job titles for its 10,000-employee workforce.
With five months to the 2022 midterm elections, it’s now increasingly clear that a Republican ‘red wave’ is cresting throughout the country.
The proliferation of mass shootings reflect deeper problems than gun laws can fix.
The Roe decision was always controversial among constitutional law experts. It was based on a court created “right to privacy,” a right not enumerated in the Constitution.
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