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Bold steps are needed to win the war against virus: Sunday, March 22, 2020; Be bold. Be big. We are in a war. Those are all words used by our president to describe the fight the United States is in against COVID-19, and the response from our government that is needed ...
Mr. Trump, this is what you should have said!: Sunday, March 15, 2020; I was going to write this column Thursday morning after President Donald Trump tried his best to assuage the country’s fears of a health disaster coupled with financial devastation similar to …
Logic and emotion point the way for Bernie: Sunday, March 8, 2020; There is no question that Bernie Sanders has managed to connect, at the very least, on an emotional level with a significant percentage of America’s young people. These are people who for the most part know nothing else but a life defined by …
Let good science and good sense contain virus: Sunday, March 1, 2020; Like many, I have been reading about the history of pandemics and the potential of harm around the world in 2020 — with all of our medical technology being brought to bear — and have concluded that if things go just a little bit wrong, we could be in a lot of trouble. So, with the president on top of this situation and his able vice president taking the lead, what could possibly …
Democrats muddle while Russia meddles in 2020 election, and Donald Trump is happy with both: Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020; The Democrats are meddling in the muddle of the 2020 election. And Americans and all people of goodwill and hope for this country should be alarmed once again. That’s right. With the Nevada caucuses now a part of presidential history, it is fair to …
Will America vote its pocketbook in 2020?: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020; There are a few constants in American life that manage to survive from one generation to another. For example, “if I knew then what I know now” has always been a popular refrain from the older generations as they try to …
A civics lesson for an America teetering on the brink of incivility: Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020; When the history of this time is set right in a fact-based, dispassionate manner, those who are around will not have been as well-versed in those same areas of study as were their forbears who would be more than willing, however unable, to avail themselves of such worldly matters. So, in the spirit of trying to educate those who believe in learning about such things, I am …
Our Constitution is getting sucker-punched!: Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020; The public may remain forever in the dark about the dark days of the president’s abuse of power, the absolute power conferred upon him as president — according to the man with the big brain and his lawyers who all appear to have …
Greenspun asks founders: ‘Why is this my fault?’: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020; I used to dream about an America, growing and evolving from the world’s most enviable democracy to an even more perfect union in which every American felt a part of the dream that brought their …
Cautionary tale for the Lord of the Fleas: Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020; You see, lying down with the likes of Rudy Giuliani and The Donald has its risks. You can attract fleas like Lev Parnas who, when confronted with a host that will no longer willingly give his blood, will quickly jump to another in an effort to …
America could use a good night’s sleep: Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020; There has never been a time that I can recall when so many Americans have admitted a continuing and unrelenting feeling of angst that has permeated their everyday lives, sometimes to the point of distraction, than …
It can still be a wonderful life for Americans: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019; Christmas is a most joyous time of year. At least, it should be. But this year, even though families across town and around the country will do their level best to enjoy all this season has to offer, there is a pall that hangs over …
Founders would have demanded impeachment: Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019; I believe that our Founding Fathers were far brighter, far more insightful and significantly more savvy than the fathers and mothers of 2019 who are doing their best to maintain this brilliant but fragile democracy for which we have been given the current responsibility to …
Thanksgiving no longer immune to what ails US: Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019; What kind of lesson is it for the newer generations who are now learning, for example, that when people with no motives to lie and who tell the truth at great risk to their careers are subjected to mental and, yes, physical torment by our elected leaders — not to mention …
It’s time to eradicate America’s virus of hate: Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019; I am trying to imagine a world without hate. That is what good people do every morning around the globe ...
Hope for our future: Youths at forum prove civility still has place in society: Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019; Unlike their parents and grandparents who refuse to acknowledge any opinion different from their own, these young people were all too eager to engage, no matter how divisive …
Pushing a platform of peace in Israel: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019; Each side of the political spectrum— both here and in Israel— has been advancing its own narrow goals at the expense of the other side by turning citizen against citizen, neighbor against neighbor and family against family. The result in both countries is a polarization that …
America is our republic — can we keep it?: Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019; As one who was against impeaching President Trump, I have come to the inescapable conclusion after the events of the past few weeks that it is time to change my mind.
Cummings: No man is above the law; Trump: Except Trump: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019; Did America bury its decency, honor and morality with Congressman Elijah Cummings this week? It can’t be lost on anybody the stature of Cummings and the powerful lessons of his life, such that he was honored by his country and his colleagues this past week when he became the first …
Trump is shaking the unshakable alliance: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019; While the world anxiously awaits the end results of the president’s experiment in “tough love” toward people who believed and trusted and counted on us to have their backs, I have to express some alarm about another country and another people who have placed their trust in this president and about whom we have heard very little since Trump pulled a Trump and upended …
Deep patriot state keeps America safe: Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019; They want the law to be obeyed. They understand that political norms exist for a reason. They belong to all manner of political parties, but in their jobs and in their lives they act in a nonpartisan manner. They act as Americans first and make simple demands of leaders — don’t break the rules, don’t abuse your power for personal benefit, value the nation and respect the Constitution. These are the hundreds of millions of Americans who would best be described a …
Rosh Hashanah, can the U.S. learn from Israel?: Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019; Tonight begins the Ten Days of Awe during which Jews around the world ask God for forgiveness and pray to be …
Real lessons from a real-life Pippi Longstocking: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019; While she has gained international recognition since she was a 15-year old speaking out against the outrage of doing nothing, Greta Thunberg burst onto the American scene in a most dramatic way this past week when she …
A safe bet: August isn’t always a day at the beach: Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019; The first time I remember the danger of vacationing in August was in 1972. My parents loved to travel to Southern California during that month for a little respite by the ocean. The time off brought them back refreshed and ready to recommit their newspaper to the job of …
Follow Sheldon Adelson’s money toward gun safety: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019; I can’t think of anything or anyone who can do as much for so many Americans as Sheldon can do right now. I believe he has it in him to make this incredible gesture toward saving lives …
Why Yucca Mountain rattles us should be no surprise: Sunday, July 14, 2019; The quake that was almost equidistant between Las Vegas and Los Angeles was bound to get everyone’s attention. And all I could think about was Yucca Mountain …
Supreme Court takes an untimely duck: Sunday, June 30, 2019; Many are just waking up to the understanding that the Supreme Court removed the judiciary from hearing any dispute about how the states may or may not rig the election process …
Father's Day wisdom worth sharing: Sunday, June 16, 2019; I have celebrated with my family enough Father’s Days in my life to understand that today is more about our role as fathers and the responsibilities that come with the job.
Where I Stand: Biden can’t Hyde on this one: Sunday, June 9, 2019; The Hyde Amendment, for most practical purposes, has been viewed as a nuisance over the past few decades — its legal proscriptions notwithstanding — since the smart and determined people who believe a woman has a right to deal with her own personal health decisions have found the loopholes necessary to allow all women the access to such health care as they deem necessary.
Where I Stand: Impeachment drums grow louder: Sunday, June 2, 2019; Should the House move toward impeachment hearings and should the evidence be elicited as expected and as Mueller reports does exist, it will become clear to one and all that our president has a lot for which to answer. That could also turn a few Republican heads in the Senate …
Speaker is spot-on: Let’s all pray for America: Sunday, May 26, 2019; Forget the hypocrisy needed to allow people of faith to condone the faithless and classless acts of a man whose moral compass constantly spins out of control, what is important is that most people of faith are patriots and want only …
Lessons these new doctors teach must be retold: Sunday, May 19, 2019; Even though today we have institutions dedicated to keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive and teaching its tragic lessons to the newer generations, it is all too evident that those lessons have not yet …
Even in retirement, Reid remains the leader: Sunday, May 5, 2019; Unlike most people who use retirement as an excuse for taking it easy and seeking new thrills out of life, Harry Reid remains the leader. And Nevadans are …
Where I Stand: For now, voters should decide ‘impeachment’ in 2020: Sunday, April 28, 2019; To impeach or not to impeach. That is the question. Actually, that is just one question Americans must answer as we head toward the 2020 presidential election cycle. My answer is simple …
Come November 2020, will the ‘I’s’ have it?: Sunday, April 7, 2019; There are plenty of “I” words that we should be talking about, now that the Mueller Investigation is over and his report has been turned over to the Justice Department, which so far has seen fit to not do much with it. I expect we will be fighting over its complete release to the public well into the 2020 election cycle. Soon enough, voters will be able to weigh in on issues like …
Russian election interference — nyet. GOP condemnation — not yet: Sunday, March 31, 2019; The dust hasn’t even settled on the 300-page Mueller report, a four-page summary of which was released last week by Attorney General William Barr when partisans on both sides — mostly in the dark about what Mueller actually found because …
GOP spines re-emerge; cue the next emergency: Sunday, March 17, 2019; Twelve Republicans stood up for the Constitution, the Congress and the foundational belief of our Founding Fathers that our democracy could and would work best when there existed three co-equal branches of government — the executive, the legislative and the judicial. Whatever other reasons those 12 GOP senators who voted to put a check on Trump’s power grab this past week may have had, at the core was the …
Anti-Semitism, not Israel, is the issue: Sunday, March 10, 2019; Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American Muslim woman from Minnesota, is the latest leader to speak the words that have for centuries caused pain, suffering and death to Jews ...
Brian Greenspun: Shut the Russians down now!: Sunday, March 3, 2019; Our democracy is under attack by some bad people who are doing their best to undermine our way of life and our collective belief in a government of, by and for the people. There isn’t a sane and thinking American who doesn’t believe the entirety of our intelligence community when they tell us that the Russians interfered with the 2016 presidential elections. And while some Americans may argue about the extent of that interference and the impact it had on the outcome, there is …
Brian Greenspun: George Dickerson leaves a legacy of integrity: Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019; George Dickerson, a lifelong Nevadan and attorney whose commitment to public service set the bar for honesty and integrity, died earlier this month at the age of 96. George’s legal career was highlighted by his service as
Here’s the deal: We need to listen to the young: Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019; I vote for the Green New Deal*.
Consider this: The State of the Union is fragile: Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019; Is it me or has the United States actually chased itself through the keyhole? What else can explain how utterly …
Brian Greenspun: UNLV now sits on a very short list: Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019; There is no question that our community is well-served by having a growing and going university to help lead our way into the future. Likewise, it is essential for a university to have the backing and support of …
Walled in: Time to quit playing to the chorus: Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019; All the president wants is a wall, and he has been willing to have the people he works for (that’s us) and who work for him (that’s the federal workers) pay the price. As a result, he has built a wall around the box he has put himself in as he struggles to …
Wall or no wall, this government shutdown is immoral: Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019; Walls can be immoral as well as moral, so whatever the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks about the president’s campaign promise and the universally agreed-upon need to secure our country’s borders, that political position pales when pressed up against the sheer immorality of President Donald Trump’s decision to shut down the government of the United States.
Mr. Adelson, take responsibility for your newspaper: Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019; I haven’t much cared about what is written in Sheldon Adelson’s newest acquisition in Las Vegas — the Review-Journal — because whatever his folks write, there is always the …
Ike had it right: Be an informed citizen: Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018; As we head into the Christmas season with high hopes for more joy, not less, more freedom, not less, and a better understanding of our responsibility to keep our democracy strong and vibrant and not one given to autocratic tendencies by some of our leaders, try to remember the concerns of President Dwight Eisenhower …
Youths offer the antidote to our ills: Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018; How do we get our country back and where are the leaders who will get us there? That answer to our ills has been available for 62 years. It is called the Las Vegas Sun Youth Forum …
Obvious choice for speaker is Nancy Pelosi: Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018; Nancy Pelosi has been made the poster child for all that is bad in our country, a yearslong effort by the Republican Party, whose playbook is simple and to the point: Find the one person whom your opponents can’t live without and make that person too hot to handle, an unspeakable household name and a person not worthy of belief or consideration by decent people.
Firing of Sessions shows there’s no time to rest: Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018; The 2018 midterm election results weren’t even in the books Wednesday morning when President Donald Trump stuck yet another finger in the eye of justice ...