My wife ordered a two-pound bag of black licorice taffy from Vermont to send to her brother in San Diego. A few minutes after placing the order, she received a phone call from a clerk informing her they couldn’t ship her order because of California’s Proposition 65. Say what? Officially known as the Safe Drinking…

Call me a conspiracy nut — but I couldn’t help connect the dots as I wrote these different radio-news reports over the last eight days… May 23: Nevada lawmakers endorsed NV Energy’s plan to retire its coal-fired plants and pave the way for the state’s biggest electrical utility to transition to more renewable sources. After several…

Illegal aliens are eligible to get a driver’s license in Nevada. Earlier the year President Obama signed an executive order earlier this year barring deportations and granted a pathway to citizenship for children brought to America illegally by their parents, but who have since graduated high school, stayed out of legal trouble and gotten a…

The other morning, Jose asked me when the Reno Rodeo was coming to town. “June 20th,” I answered, then asking, “So do you like the rodeo?” “Oh, yeah,” he answered, “Very much!.” “I like the bareback riding events, myself” I said before he could answer. Jose smiled mischievously, “I like the cowgirls.”

It’s kind of scary to realize the Internal Revenue Service will be handling our medical records starting in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act, better known a Obamacare. The agency has already shown how it disregards rights when it comes to whom we support in presidential elections, so think how secure you and I’ll be…

Recently, a six-year-old boy brought a toy gun jus’ a little larger than a quarter onto a school bus in Palmer, Massachusetts and immediately found himself in trouble for violating the districts zero-gun policy. The school sent a letter home  saying he must to write an apology and attend detention and was facing bus suspension. In 1967,…

The U.S. had jus’ fired a missile into Iraq that evening as a preëmptive strike and now the nation was at war on two fronts, Afghanistan was the other. As Jeff and I sat in the lunchroom of our workplace we discussed the implication and ramifications of a drawn out conflict in the Middle East. Somehow we…

We had jus’ been told we were heading into combat, a first for many of us. We were whooping it up, yelling things like, “Let’s go kill us some commie bastards.” As the day grew longer and our departure delayed time and again, we grew restless. But our bravado never wavered as we continued to wait, gear packed…

New questions about IRS director of Exempt Organization Lois Lerner and the attitude she’s taken in the past about conservative and Christian groups are being asked. The Blaze reports, as head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission, she had a hand in questioning the Christian Coalition during the 1990s, and again in 2003 as transcripts show her agency was…

We were on our way to the gas station to fill up my truck’s tank, when I looked over to my left and noticed an attractive woman puckering her red lips and blowing kisses at me. I smiled back and did my best not to look her way again. When I rolled into the parking…