Goldfield was the site on September 2nd, 1906 of a lightweight championship fight that lasted 42 rounds. It featured Joe Gans and Oscar “Battling” Nelson. The fight started about three that afternoon, and temperatures in the boomtown soared past 100 degrees. The two battled long and hard, but, finally, in the 42nd round, Nelson was…

Thanks to the news agency Reuters, we have now have a good idea what country leads the world in requesting data from Internet, cell phone and other techie companies. At 30,128 requests in 2012, the U.S. made more twice the requests by the United Kingdom, number two country on the list of ten. “Even if…

Once again California Congresswoman and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi showed her real-self to the public.  It came while explaining her disapproval of the Frank Bill, prohibiting abortions during the final four months of pregnancy, with exceptions for when the life of the mother is at risk. When asked how she balances her dislike for…

This week, both Senator’s Harry Reid and Dean Heller tried to get a “Nevada voice” on the Southern Border Security Commission. But the senate refused to hear the amendment. A voice is what is not what’s needed – it’s a fence that’s being demanded. But that’s the problem with those in Washington D.C., they’re going…

Although most of the “49ers” missed the Modoc country, in March 1851 Abraham Thompson, a mule train packer, discovered gold near Yreka while traveling along the Siskiyou Trail from southern Oregon. The discovery sparked the California Gold Rush from California’s Sierra Nevada into Northern California. By April 1851, 2,000 miners had arrived in “Thompson’s Dry…

U.S. District Judge Edward C. Reed Jr. passed away Saturday, June 1st of natural causes. He was 88 years old and a native Nevadan. Appointed in 1979 to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Nevada, Reed became a nationally known water rights litigator during his career as an attorney in Reno. Before…

If only real life were like the bureaucratic life. Samantha Power has been given the nod as our newest U.N Ambassador. She’s worked for George Soros’s Open Society Institute, an organization linked to anti-Semitic rhetoric. That can’t be good news for Israel. Hamas is jumping for joy, though. IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Stephen Seok, who…

President Obama recently lectured the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduating class of 2013 on sexual assault during his commencement speech. The president’s remarks come amid same-stream media reports of an increase in sexual assault cases in the armed forces. “Likewise, those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and…

In U.S. history class, we learned that a Richard Windsor served in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Corps of Discovery. He’s mentioned in the Lewis and Clark journals for an accident that almost cost him his life. While crossing a bluff he slipped and fell and Lewis told him to dig his knife in and climb…

Obamacare “death panels,” are real. This comes to light after Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, “Well I would suggest sir that again this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies.” She was talking about an Affordability Care Act regulation barring a 10-year-old girl — given just weeks to live — from…