• Bluejay’s Top Knot

    One day Bluejay saw Deer mixing some mush for her family. Now Deer had broken her leg and was allowing the marrow to run into the acorn mush. When Bluejay tasted this mush she found it delicious. She thought she had learned something, and went home very proud. The next morning, when she mixed her mush,…

  • The Chain-Link Fence

    The shift was quiet since it began at 11 o’clock that evening. The rain had stopped and the early hours of the morning had taken on a chill. It was just before two and the pair was nursing a thermos of coffee. “Sam eight, Sam eight” the radio popped to life. It was Theresa calling…

  • Nevada Senator Harry Reid Okay After Crash

    Senator Harry Reid has been discharged from the hospital after a car crash on Interstate-15  in Las Vegas. Hospital spokeswoman Karen Gordon says the senator left less than three hours after the crash that happened jus’ after 1 p.m. Friday. Officials from his office say he suffered bruising to his ribs and hip in the crash, and was…

  • California Resident Votes in Nevada Elections

    Gut-check, smell test, whatever you want to call it — is that time when you sense something is wrong. This is one of those times. An aquaintance was standing in line for early voting a day ago, when she over heard a woman, also standing in the same line, tell someone else that all she had is her…

  • Take a Walk

    Sometimes, one has to find humor where ever they can. My sister, Deirdre says our youngest sister Marcy is sick a lot. Part of the back story is that she was struck by a car in 1981, leaving her paralysed and causing the loss of one of her legs and has been in a wheelchair ever since.…

  • Benghazi Attack Finally Gets Senate Attention

    It’s taken 46 days, but finally something seems to be happening with regard to the terror attacks on our U.S. compound in Benghazi. Three senators are demanding the Obama administration make public the surveillance video taken during last month’s deadly attack in Libya. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte wrote to President Obama’s defense…

  • The Web

    This is like untangling a spider-web, without breaking the strands, so I’ll do my best to keep it simple. In July, the U.S. State Department approved a license for the newly formed U.S.-based organization “The Syrian Support Group” to raise money for Syrian rebels — overriding President Obama’s administration sanctions and his Executive Order against…

  • The October Surprise

    As I was leaving work last night, ABC News had jus’ announced a Tunisian man was arrested October 11th, in Turkey with reported links to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya a month earlier. I’ve been on fire, burning angrily, ever since. This comes on the heels of the Obama administration’s appointment of…

  • With an Empty Extinguisher

    It slammed into the bridge and immediately disappeared over the cement wall and beyond the line of cars and trucks. That’s when I realized it had also smashed into what had once been a mini-van, demolishing its front end and drivers side. Heading north bound on 395, I already knew the crop duster was in trouble as plumes of white and black…

  • Romney Rallies Reno Republicans

    Republican Mitt Romney told a cheering crowd of about 4,500 in Reno they will play a big role in deciding who’s the next president. Romney said during a lunch-hour speech Wednesday he’s confident Nevada will help send him to the White House in November. The former Massachusetts governor appealed to everyone in the crowd to…