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Due to restrictions on posting articles from the Las Vegas newspaper (due to the Righthaven lawsuit), I can't post the link, so you will have to google it, but it is another hard hitting, well written editorial by Vin Suprynowicz on both Benghazi and voter fraud in Nevada. The title is: "He wasn't supposed to leave Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty to die". Also check out the related editorial by G. Cook on voter fraud in Nevada by unions registering and coercing non-citizens to vote: "How many noncitizens are registered to vote?"

Due to restrictions on posting articles from the Las Vegas newspaper, I can't post the link, so you will have to go there on your own, but it is a well written editorial. The title is: Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief

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Elected officials and Unauthorized Leave of Absences

Calling all people of faith to pray for Sharron Angle in her debate tonight with Harry Reid.

We received a letter today from the American Fidelity Assurance Company, the company that handles our Flex and Section 125 Account for our Unreimbursed Medical Expenses, notifying us of changes to take place due to the "Affordable Care Act": "Effective January 1, 2011, in order to be reimbursed for over-the-counter drugs and medicines, the participant must provide a medical practitioner's prescription for the items." The letter goes on to detail all the information that must be included in the prescription the doctor must now write for every single over-the-counter medication the participant wishes to submit for reimbursement. In addition to...

The "heads of President Barack Obama's national debt commission painted a gloomy picture Sunday as the United States struggles to get its spending under control," The Associated Press reports. Republican Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles told a meeting of the National Governors Association that everything needs to be considered. Revealingly, though, no one mentioned closing down the federal departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, Labor, or Health and Human Services. That's because when these heads of President Obama's panel say "everything" is "on the table," by everything they mean every possible "tax increase." Sizable spending cuts? Impossible! In fact the...

It's Super Bowl Sunday, a day that eluded Randall Cunningham throughout his 16-year NFL career, a day a team nicknamed the Saints would win the big game, and Cunningham's message to his church, Remnant Ministries, is accountability. "You can't," he says, wearing a black shirt, black vest and red tie, "halfway commit to God." But Cunningham didn't expect his own commitment to run this deep. Becoming a pastor is not what he envisioned or even wanted.

U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Ashjian will avoid being arrested on felony charges of theft and writing bad checks after he paid $5,575 to cover a bounced check and court fees. The Tea Party of Nevada candidate told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday that his campaign would release a statement regarding all of his legal woes today . "The bottom line is, I did pay money on a stop payment check, it wasn't an insufficient funds claim like (the complaint that) was issued," Ashjian said. "At the end of the day, the facts will come out." Chief Deputy District Attorney...

Every Rebel guerrilla and jayhawker, every man who ran to Canada to avoid the draft, every bounty-hunter, every deserter, every cowardly sneak that ran from danger and disgraced his flag, every man who loves slavery and hates liberty. . .and every villain, of whatever name or crime, who loves power more than justice, slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat (and an endorser of Andrew Johnson). James A. Garfield, 1866

Before Jon Scott Ashjian stepped into the national spotlight as the first Senate candidate running under the Tea Party banner, he was just another Las Vegas business owner and family man. But the 46-year-old recently made a splash in news reports and Internet blogs by creating a third party, the Tea Party of Nevada, a group dedicating itself to the popular conservative movement. A flashy campaign it is not, however. Ashjian says he's learning the ropes through this grass-roots movement, where he is his own communications director who answers the phone, relies heavily on family and friends for help and...

Sen. Harry Reid criticized the American Bar Association this morning, saying it should "get a new life" in how it rates prospective federal judges, after one of his picks got a mixed review. In remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Nevada Democrat who is majority leader of the Senate, said the bar association's ratings board puts too much weight on whether judicial nominees have prior bench experience, and it overlooks their "real world" qualifications. Reid expanded his criticism to include the U.S. Supreme Court, whose present makeup, he said, consists of "people who have never seen the outside world."...

We're now way beyond the cliche of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. In a remarkably short period, President Barack Obama and the Democrat Party screwed up history. They told the world they had a romantic date with destiny and instead took the opportunity for the equivalent of a quickie at the Chicken Ranch. Even after feeling the fury of voters in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the White House continues to demonstrate a jaded comprehension of reality. The night after Republican Scott Brown beat anointed Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts' special Senate election, Obama told ABC News that...

A local architecture firm that recently won an $8.3 million federal contract to redesign a U.S. border crossing in California is being investigated by the Federal Election Commission for irregular campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who is up for re-election next year. Henderson resident Randy Spitzmesser prompted the FEC probe of his former employer, Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects. On behalf of the architecture firm, Las Vegas attorney Stan Hunterton told the Las Vegas Review-Journal by fax last month, "We do not believe that anything was intentionally done wrong" regarding campaign finances. Spitzmesser also thinks Henderson-based Tate Snyder...

The 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, enacted under President Jimmy Carter, was intended to end "redlining," a practice in which banks supposedly ruled off many inner-city neighborhoods on their maps, refusing to issue mortgages within their boundaries. The immediate result was that -- to please regulators who have the power to shut down private banks -- bankers started reducing their financial standards, issuing loans to low-income or low-net-worth customers who might not previously have qualified. These lowered standards led, in part, to the housing market meltdown. But the Community Reinvestment Act did something a lot more troubling than that. It allowed...

2009 H1N1 Flu: Situation Update: The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) based on the 122 Cities Report was low and within the bounds of what is expected at this time of year.

If you liked Van Jones, you'll love Mark Lloyd. Jones, as you recall, was the green jobs czar who resigned after it was revealed he was an avowed communist and signer of a crackpot document accusing the Bush administration of being complicit in the 9/11 attacks. Lloyd is another of Obama's army of czars, appointed in August to the newly created post of associate general counsel and chief diversity officer (whatever that entails) at the Federal Communications Commission. So far the number of czars is estimated at somewhere around 30. As best as I can tell, they may be paid...

On the long and winding road of public opinion, it doesn't take much to go from driving one-handed with the top down and the whole world before you to missing a hairpin turn and careening over the cliff. Just ask President Barack Obama. One moment it looked like the American people would give our smooth-talking president everything he wants on health care reform, and then in an instant nobody trusts him any farther than they can throw his new overweight surgeon general. You can chalk that up to grumpy old Republicans if you like. But the blame for this crash-'n'-burn...

The laws of war, as subscribed to by most civilized nations -- even if adherence can be spotty -- draw an important distinction between uniformed prisoners of war and irregulars who wear no recognizable uniform, the better to meld into the general populace of non-combatants in order to act as spies or saboteurs, blowing up military installations behind the lines. Once uniformed prisoners are taken, the rules call for them to be treated in a humane manner. Not so plainclothes spies, partisans and irregulars. In part because their activities blur the line between the military and the civilian populace, leading...

Not even three months into his presidency, Barack Obama already has developed a nasty habit of making grandiose promises and proposals, doing precisely the opposite of what he says and celebrating his hypocrisy and insincerity as a policy triumph. Keep lobbyists out his administration? That lasted a couple of days. Lead a new era of fiscal responsibility? His agenda will run up budget deficits that George W. Bush couldn't have dreamed of. No tax increases of any kind for households earning less than $250,000 per year? He signed off on a huge cigarette tax hike that will pummel the poor....