A charter bus and a FedEx semi-truck collided on Interstate 5 north of Highway 32 near Orland Thursday afternoon leaving both drivers and seven high school students dead with another 32 injured. The two vehicles also caught fire leaving charred hulks on the side of the road. The California Highway Patrol says the driver of…

“The war on drugs brought in more drugs and the war on terror brought in more terrorists. Maybe next year we can have a war on money and jobs and see where that goes,” writes Occupy Portland. Their premise is in error. The federal government has not done a good job in ending drugs entry…

Hillary Clinton was ready with a quip after a woman threw a shoe at her as she took the stage for a Las Vegas speech. Security at the Mandalay Bay casino resort ushered out the woman, who is now in federal custody after the incident at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting. “My goodness,…

In May 2006, it was discovered that had Reid accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing. He took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 as he was pressing legislation…

Over the course of 2001 through 2005, Reid collected nearly $68,000 in contributions from Jack Abramoff’s lobbying partners and clients. Reid took actions to support positions on issues that Abramoff promoted as a paid lobbyist. Reid received money from Abramoff associates after opposing a minimum wage law in the Marianas which was defeated in the…

It appears ‘WordPress’ is abridging my freedom of speech and that of other users. Last night I posted an article and was met with ‘Invalid key [4]. Back.  After some research I found out that it means ‘Contents of this topic are hidden until it has been reviewed by a staff member.’ And there is no one available to…

A native Nevadan is one of the sixteen soldiers wounded in the deadly shooting at Fort Hood. U.S. Army Private Deon Josephs of Las Vegas remains in the hospital, after being shot in the back. “Deon made it through surgery the bullet is out of his neck with no complications from the surgery,” Deon’s brother,…

A year and a half later, Reid and the Nevada delegation tried again, inserting language moving the power corridor to the west side of the highway into a public land bill for Lincoln County. This time, Whittemore had to compensate the government on the basis of “fair market value,” but that was defined in such…

A friend emailed this to me and I liked it so much it made me want to share it with you… A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told…

This is a four-part expose’ looking at a number of scandals involving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat, Nevada. Playing the role of “aggrieved grandfather,” Senator Harry Reid is promising to reimburse his campaign the full sum he paid out. Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston discovered Reid’s campaign paid out an additional $14,000 to Ryan Elisabeth…