So enamored with the idea of creating myself into a leader, I embarrassingly nicknamed myself the ‘Forest Fox,” when I was a teen. Yeah, jus’ like Revolutionary war General Francis Marion, the ‘Swamp Fox,’ or German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, dubbed the ‘Desert Fox.” In the military, I was passed over for positions of leadership…

Anytime a Progressive asks a GOP presidential candidate the question, “If you knew then what we know now, would you have authorized going into Iraq?” that candidate should pose an “If you knew then…” question of their own.  Here’s a dozen suggestions: “If Democrats knew then what we know now, that ISIL would invade Iraq,…

Recently, Nevada’s Congresswoman Dina Titus refused to answer the question, posed by Brittany M. Hughes of CNSNews.com, whether a human being conceived in rape has a right to life. “Does a human being conceived in rape have a right to life?” Hughes asked. “That’s not a quick question,” Titus answered. “Is it a ‘yes’ or a…

“Ramadi has fallen,” reported Muhannad Haimour, a spokesman for the provincial governor of Anbar. ISIL overran the Iraqi army to take Ramadi, killing about 500 soldiers and civilians, sending thousands of people fleeing and capturing U.S.-issued arms left behind. The takeover followed a three-day siege that began with a wave of car bombs. It’s not…

Pope Francis plans to recognize the non-existent “state of Palestine,” lending weight to a Palestinian push for international support for sovereignty and bypassing stalled negotiations with Israel. The announcement coincides with the church’s canonization of two Palestinian nuns, the first Arabic-speaking saints, in a Mass Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is…

As unannounced GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush ended his visit to Reno, Nevada, Ivy Ziedrich called out, “Governor Bush, would you take a student question?” The 19-year-old Democrat and political science major at the University of Nevada, Reno, had to preface her question first. “Your brother created ISIS,” Ziedrich said, speaking of George W. Bush.…

“It hasn’t been a good few months in the Reno media world, as we’ve lost several good people,” writes my dear friend, Elizabeth Rose on Facebook. She couldn’t be more right as longtime Reno TV and radio newsman Richard DeWitt Oakerson, better known as ‘Dick DeWitt,’ passed away May 14, 2015, following a battle with cancer.…

The pickings are getting slim in Reno as another long-time broadcaster has passed away. Along with being a music teacher, wedding minister, he also was an in-demand drummer, playing with ‘Papa Clutch and the Shifters’ and ‘Route 66’ at a variety of events including Hot August Nights. I had the pleasure of working with him…

Mary and I were trying to figure out how to say “Caribbean.” We each have a slightly different pronunciation for the same place. She breaks the word down phonetically like this: ‘Car-uh-bee-uh-n.’ I say it, ‘Care-ah-bee-ann,’ Turns out Mary’s right and I’m pronouncing it in what one might call a more colloquial manner. Of course,…

A Pew Research Center study of 35,000 people, titled “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” conducted between June and September of 2014, claim the number of Americans who don’t affiliate with a particular religion has grown in recent years. When Pew conducted this survey, Americans who described themselves as atheist, agnostic or of no particular religion grew…