There is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason and in its season. Take for instance the removal of Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, the commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group from his ship – mid deployment – and sent back to the homeport in Washington state.  The Stennis deployed from Bremerton, four…

A Caliphate is the first system of government established in Islam where officials govern according to Sharia or religious law. With that said, on September 9th, 2012, Israel’s Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter warned that the Muslim Brotherhood has co-opted the “Arab Spring” with the goal of creating a “caliphate” to span the Middle…

Let me bitch and complain for a bit. It’ll make me feel better – promise. Generally, I’d write about this sort of crap in my personal journal, but not today. Nope, this time I’m gonna publically shame me – or so I think. After getting up this morning, I weighed myself.  I’m a hefty two-hundred…

Nevada needs to keep the Federal Government out of its business.  The state’s legalization of gambling in March of 1931 helped transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination during the Great Depression. But to many that’s ancient history. And jus’ last week I reported: “Governor Brian Sandoval is backing efforts for a federal law to regulate online poker,…

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 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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…