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  • Rep. Grayson: Change Senate rules to require 55 for cloture

    11/24/2009 3:02:33 PM PST · by mdittmar · 71 replies · 1,534+ views
    The Hill ^ | 11/24/09 | Tony Romm
    Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl.) is now urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to propose a revision to the Senate's cloture rules so that only 55 votes, instead of 60, would be required to end floor debate. His effort -- spearheaded with the help of an online campaign at StopSenateStalling.com -- takes special aim at the healthcare debate, which Grayson said has fallen victim to countless overused and unfair filibuster threats over the past few months. "Why should launching wars and cutting taxes for the rich require only 50 votes while saving lives requires 60?" asked Grayson, who listed a...
  • PROBATION: ACORN worker gets deal

    11/24/2009 5:21:41 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 7 replies · 319+ views
    LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL ^ | Nov. 24, 2009 | FRANCIS McCABE
    The brains behind an illegal voter-registration incentive program that led to felony charges against ACORN, a national grass-roots community organizing group, was sentenced Monday to three years of probation. Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty in August to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit compensation for registration of voters. As part of the plea deal, the state attorney general's office dropped 13 felony counts of compensation for registration of voters against Edwards in exchange for his testimony against ACORN and co-defendant Amy Busefink. "I take responsibility for what I did," Edwards told District Judge Donald Mosley. "I'm sorry. I truly...
  • Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration plan

    11/24/2009 4:56:38 AM PST · by Puppage · 9 replies · 253+ views
    Lasvegassun.com ^ | 11/24/09 | Puppage
    A former field director for the political advocacy organization ACORN was sentenced today in district court to up to three years of probation. Christopher Edwards, who in August pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters, a gross misdemeanor, received a suspended jail sentence and a $500 fine. He has agreed to testify against ACORN and one of its former regional directors, Amy Busefink. The Nevada attorney generals office has accused ACORN and Busefink of operating an illegal bonus system. Tying money to or setting quotas for collecting voter registration cards...
  • Mary Landrieu, Harry Reid Fundraiser Payback For Payoff?

    11/23/2009 9:00:00 AM PST · by rrstar96 · 16 replies · 319+ views
    The Admonition ^ | November 22, 2009 | Tilman Walker
    You scratch my back, Ill scratch yours. Thats the way its always worked in Washington, so the news that Mary Landrieu will hold a fundraiser in New Orleans for Senator Harry Reid comes as no surprise. Reid procured a substantial dose of cash to Landrieus Louisiana in exchange for her crucial moderate vote. Senator Mary Landrieu from Louisiana garnered a lot of attention before the healthcare vote last night as to whether she would or wouldnt vote yes to send the monstrosity of a bill to the floor for debate. After rumors of a $100 million dollar bribe by Senator...
  • Officials Point to Uranium Mine

    11/22/2009 8:30:51 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 16 replies · 402+ views
    AP ^ | 22/11/09 | Scott Sonner
    YERINGTON, Nev. (Nov. 21) -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ominous sign on a neighboring fence: "Danger: Uranium Mine." For almost a decade, people who make their homes in this rural community in the Mason Valley 65 miles southeast of Reno have blamed that enormous abandoned mine for the high levels of uranium in...
  • Art of the spin, unemployment-rate style

    11/22/2009 4:33:58 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 3 replies · 368+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | November 22, 2009 | By David McGrath Schwartz
    CARSON CITY No sooner were the latest unemployment numbers released Friday morning than politicians offered their takes, illustrating that no fact will go un-spun this campaign season. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a statement declared the drop in statewide unemployment from 13.3 percent to 13 percent a positive development and further evidence that Nevada is starting down the economic road to recovery. Jeremy Aguero, principal of the financial firm Applied Analysis, said the condition is effectively unchanged between September and October. A muted response was appropriate, he said. The unemployment drop isnt because weve created jobs, he said....
  • Caption Harry Reid

    11/21/2009 10:44:20 AM PST · by Overtaxed Patriot · 35 replies · 860+ views
  • The Reid Files (Harry Reid's fictional districts & TARP jobs)

    11/20/2009 7:26:39 PM PST · by Frantzie · 1 replies · 236+ views
    Tarkanian for Senate 2010 ^ | 11-20-2009 | Danny Tarkanian
    Mulder and Scully are on the hunt for Harry Reid's phantom jobs.
  • Senate vote today, November 19th: Disabled vets care versus subsidies for the UN bureaucracy

    11/18/2009 2:20:39 PM PST · by Ooh-Ah · 124 replies · 2,261+ views
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    <p>Contact your Senators and let them know what you think!</p> <p>U.S. veterans or subsidies for United Nations (U.N.) bureaucracy.</p>
  • Five Arrested in Attempted Bank Robbery (NV)

    11/18/2009 4:42:57 PM PST · by Larry381 · 4 replies · 252+ views
    FBI Las Vegas ^ | November 16, 2009 | FBI Las Vegas
    LAS VEGASThe FBI and the Henderson Police Department have arrested five persons following an attempted robbery of a Henderson bank. Last Friday, November 13, 2009, five persons entered the Wells Fargo Bank at 1411 West Sunset Road and presented a false federal search warrant to the bank manager demanding all the money in the banks vault. When the bank manager refused to comply with the false search warrant, he was handcuffed and threatened. The five persons were placed under arrest by Officers of the Henderson Police Department as they left the bank, and were later taken into custody by the...
  • NORM: Biden finds rank has its privileges

    11/18/2009 9:54:46 AM PST · by circumbendibus · 19 replies · 979+ views
    Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 11/18/09 | NORM
    Sometimes you make exceptions at a members-only golf club. Especially if someone from the office of Vice President Joe Biden is on the telephone, calling back a second time with a more pointed request. It happened Sunday morning at The Golf Club at South Shore, at Lake Las Vegas. When the first call came in at 7 a.m., asking whether Biden could play the course, the PGA professional running the pro shop declined, citing the club's members-only policy. A few minutes later, another call: a Biden staffer telling the club pro "you know the vice president would really like to...
  • Las Vegas strip clubs retire promotional trucks with live exotic dancers

    11/16/2009 12:15:34 AM PST · by smokingfrog · 12 replies · 673+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | Nov. 15, 2009 | By Soraya Roberts
    It appears there's such a thing as being too sinful, even in Sin City. The line was drawn after two Las Vegas strip clubs Little Darlings and Dj Vu began promoting the venues by putting gyrating pole-dancers in the back of a truck with see-through sides and driving it around town. Deja Vu's marketing director, Larry Beard, first told the Las Vegas Sun that hed fight to keep the trucks rolling crediting them for a big boost in business. He later decided to suspend the racy campaign on the advice of his lawyer. My client has authorized...
  • Nevada Has Highest Foreclosure Rate Again (5 times national average - isn't Dingy Harry from there?)

    11/15/2009 4:04:41 PM PST · by Libloather · 15 replies · 671+ views
    Las Vegas Now ^ | 11/12/09
    Nevada Has Highest Foreclosure Rate AgainUpdated: Nov 12, 2009 4:17 PM EST Despite the state's effort to slow foreclosures, Nevada once again has the highest rate of foreclosures in the nation. The latest report done by Realty Trac shows foreclosure filings were the highest in Las Vegas where one in 68 homes received a foreclosure filing in October. That's more than five times the national average which is one in every 385 homes. However, that national number is down three percent from September but when compared to a year ago, foreclosure filings are still up 19 percent.
  • Medical workers balk at mandatory flu vaccines

    11/14/2009 5:14:44 PM PST · by george76 · 31 replies · 743+ views
    Reuters ^ | Nov 13, 2009 | Steve Gorman Steve Gorman
    thousands of nurses and other front-line healthcare workers are fighting mandatory flu immunization policies being put in place by some U.S. hospitals. The H1N1 pandemic, which has killed about 3,900 Americans so far, has stoked tensions over the best way to safeguard medical caregivers and their patients from flu. Nurses unions have won some early battles against compulsory vaccination. data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that only about 40 percent of U.S. healthcare workers ever get shots for seasonal influenza. mandating that healthcare workers get vaccines is misguided, ineffective and ultimately counterproductive. "There is no...
  • Unmanned Aircraft Crews Strive to Support Warfighters

    11/13/2009 3:50:56 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 276+ views
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2009 As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for warfighters in Afghanistan, the Air Forces first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its never-ending quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly. An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system takes off for a training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. I dont have to tell them to try to make it better, Air Force Col....
  • Woo hoo!! The Tea Party Express II rolls into Nevada!! [FReepathon thread XI]

    10/27/2009 2:04:11 AM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 113 replies · 2,039+ views
    The Tea Party Express rolls into Nevada!! We'll be at Tonopah, Hawthorne and Fallon today, and Carson City tomorrow morning, and then it's back to California at Walnut Creek tomorrow night!! Conservative groups have joined forces to make this massive national effort possible. Besides the lead sponsor, the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, the Tea Party Express II enjoys support from Grassfire.org, ResistNet, Free Republic, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, National Tax Limitation Committee, Americans for Prosperity, the Conservative MultiCultural Coalition, and dozens of local tea party groups across the country. The Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day national...
  • Local firm under scrutiny for contributions to Reid

    11/12/2009 5:54:58 AM PST · by Nevadan · 29 replies · 1,123+ views
    LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL ^ | Nov. 12, 2009 | JOAN WHITELY
    A local architecture firm that recently won an $8.3 million federal contract to redesign a U.S. border crossing in California is being investigated by the Federal Election Commission for irregular campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who is up for re-election next year. Henderson resident Randy Spitzmesser prompted the FEC probe of his former employer, Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects. On behalf of the architecture firm, Las Vegas attorney Stan Hunterton told the Las Vegas Review-Journal by fax last month, "We do not believe that anything was intentionally done wrong" regarding campaign finances. Spitzmesser also thinks Henderson-based Tate Snyder...
  • "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct

    11/12/2009 4:01:36 AM PST · by prisoner6 · 33 replies · 1,242+ views
    GAWKER ^ | 11/12/2009 | NA
    "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. The article (which is incomprehensibly only the second most-read article on the Las Vegas Sun's website) focuses on the "safety" and "decency" concerns raised by locals re: the mobile sin platform, which was devised as an advertisement for Deja Vu Showgirls and is described thusly: It's akin to a small U-Haul truck but...
  • Sharron Angle possesses conservative cred [Nevada - US Senate]

    11/10/2009 12:05:42 PM PST · by EternalVigilance · 16 replies · 393+ views
    Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | November 10, 2009 | JOHN L. SMITH
    To hear them as they tear into Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Silver State will be the site of a conservative resurgence that not only will sweep true-believing Republicans into office in 2010 but will also improve the breed by weeding out those squishy middle-grounders called RINOs. (Republicans In Name Only.) They're signing anti-tax pledges and strapping on their libertarian political six-shooters, firing at big-government Democrats and treating chamber of commerce Republicans like members of the Neville Chamberlain Fan Club. The RINOs will be an endangered species if they have their way. Surely that belief in revolution gives Gov.....
  • Joey Chestnut eats 6.25 pounds of meatballs in 10 minutes

    11/09/2009 12:15:28 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 32 replies · 891+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/9/09 | AP
    LAS VEGAS Top-ranked competitive eater Joey Chestnut has won the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas. The San Jose resident on Sunday ate 50 meatballs in 10 minutes at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino. The event was a Major League Eating-sanctioned competition. Chestnut's 6.25 pounds of meatballs set a new world record. The first-place prize was $1,500.
  • The new faces of day labor

    11/06/2009 1:35:09 PM PST · by Kartographer · 6 replies · 462+ views
    lasvegassun.com ^ | 11/2/09 | Timothy Pratt
    U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots
  • KILL THE BILL

    11/06/2009 8:00:58 AM PST · by Just A Nobody · 134 replies · 4,473+ views
    First Hand ^ | November, 6, 2009 | Just A Nobody
    While roaming the grounds of the US Capitol yesterday, Kristinn Taylor obtained a list of possible democrat defectors of the now infamous Healthcare bill. Kristinn was asked to post this list of wobbly democrats on FreeRepublic in an effort to mobilize our forces and overwhelm these members with phone calls and e-mails asking them to vote NO on the socialization of our healthcare. We also learned that Nancy Pelosi had just scheduled the vote for tomorrow; Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:00 PM. For all those who were unable to answer the call to surround the Capitol yesterday, here is...
  • Their valuables gone, like their ladies of the night

    11/05/2009 7:49:07 PM PST · by Saije · 13 replies · 847+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 11/4/2009 | Abigail Goldman
    People in the company of Clark County prostitutes collectively reported having $1.4 million in cash and goods stolen from them during the first nine months of this year dupes of a larceny genre better known to police as the trick roll. By years end, its estimated the total reported losses will exceed $2 million almost double last years total, and probably a fraction of the real amount. How many people file police reports, after all, when their prostitutes disappoint? Enough, at least, for Metro vice detectives to determine the problem is getting worse, and assign two detectives to...
  • Missing GOP ballots counted in Nev. after months [delegates would have gone to Paul]

    11/04/2009 7:44:57 AM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 14 replies · 731+ views
    AP ^ | 2009-10-31
    Eighteen months later, Nevada Republicans have completed a count of all delegate ballots from last year's state convention. A group of disaffected Republicans says it feels vindicated after a Friday night count of missing ballots from the April 2008 gathering showed three delegates for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul should have been sent to the national convention. Paul supporters said they felt party leaders cheated them out of a place at the national convention when they abruptly recessed the convention before delegate ballots from the state's 2nd Congressional District could be counted. The district was allowed to choose three of the...
  • Sarah Palins family loves Danny Tarkanian!

    11/03/2009 9:31:29 AM PST · by euram · 7 replies · 901+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 11-03-09 | Jon Ralston
    Sarah Palin's dad wrote a letter backing little Tark and the campaign sent out an email with a picture of the entire Palin clan (alas, no Levi) and a pitch to contribute. Here's Chuck Heath's letter to Nevadans: FROM THE DESK OF CHUCK HEATH Hello Nevadans, My family and I would like to thank all of you who welcomed us to your beautiful state and made us feel so at home. Everywhere we went, from Las Vegas, to Reno, to the smaller towns in between, the people there made us feel like family.
  • Nevada soldier dies in copter crash

    10/31/2009 6:18:16 AM PDT · by mad_as_he$$ · 6 replies · 362+ views
    LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL ^ | Octiber 30, 2009 | LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
    Another soldier from Nevada has been killed in Afghanistan, the second Silver State-related casualty in a week, according to the Department of Defense. Sgt. Josue E. Hernandez Chavez, 23, of Reno was one of seven soldiers killed Monday when a helicopter crashed in Darreh-ye Bum, Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said in a news release Thursday. Chavez was on a MH-47 heavy lift helicopter with four other soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Regiment from Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., and two from the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group out of Fort Bragg, N.C.
  • Harry Reid the Survivor? (The embattled Nevada Senator could still win. Here's how...)

    10/30/2009 7:26:37 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies · 1,092+ views
    National Review ^ | 10/30/2009 | Mark Hemingway
    If youve been reading the papers lately youve probably concluded that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids political future doesnt look good. The headlines speak for themselves: Poll: Reids re-election numbers dont add up; Harry Reid Seen Losing 2010 Reelection, Poll Shows; Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election just to name a few. If youre just glancing at the polls, Reids two likely challengers are clobbering him in hypothetical match-ups and some polls show Republican challenger Danny Tarkanian has a double-digit lead over him. Further, Reids approval rating ranges between 20 and 40 percent, with some polls showing...
  • Who are the real proponents of hate speech on campus?

    10/30/2009 9:23:15 AM PDT · by GodGunsGuts · 36 replies · 1,155+ views
    Evolution News & Views ^ | October 29, 2009 | John West, Ph.D.
    Supporters of Darwins theory continue to distinguish themselves on Americas college campusesnot for their reason and logic, but for their incredible ill manners and an almost pathological inability to engage in civil discussion. Last week, a factually-challenged attack on intelligent design was published in The Nevada Sagebrush, the student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nothing new in that; I see ill-informed articles on intelligent design all the time. But after my colleague Rob Crowther posted a short comment suggesting that readers might actually want to hear from intelligent design proponents themselves (imagine that!), the Darwinist thought-police came out...
  • Guns for sale: No background check needed(NV)

    10/30/2009 8:29:37 AM PDT · by marktwain · 21 replies · 994+ views
    unlvrebelyell.com ^ | 29 October, 2009 | Husna Najand
    UNLV REBEL YELL 2009 click image to enlarge To capture the essence of a classic Socratic quandary, imagine this scenario: You know that the right thing to do is to return your friends gun to him or her if you have taken it. But should you return it if you know that person is mentally unstable and would use it against others? Im betting that most people would say no, and with good reason. Even though the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, in reality, not everyone has the right to gun ownership the background check is...
  • Fight Erupts In Line At Nev. Swine Flu Clinic

    10/29/2009 8:31:47 PM PDT · by The Magical Mischief Tour · 26 replies · 835+ views
    WSMV Nashville, TN. ^ | 10/29/2009 | WSMV
    RENO, Nev. -- A fight broke out Thursday at a Reno, Nev., clinic giving shots for swine flu when someone reportedly tried to cut in line. Washoe County Health District spokeswoman Judy Davis says she didn't have any details of the incident, but it involved people in high-risk groups waiting for a chance to get the shot. A witness told the Reno Gazette-Journal that a man took a swing at a woman, then jumped on her and they fell to the ground. They left after a security guard stepped in and broke up the fight. Davis says 1,200 vaccines were...
  • THOUSANDS TURN OUT FOR TEA PARTY EXPRESS RALLIES!

    10/29/2009 2:46:09 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 14 replies · 1,293+ views
    TeaPartyExpress.org ^ | Oct 29. 2009 | Levi Russell
    LATEST RALLY DRAWS OVER 1,000+ IN LIBERAL SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (ON THE ROAD IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA) - Crowds continue to build as the Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) gains momentum! Yesterday in the very liberal San Francisco Bay Area, more than 1,000 people turned out to show their support for smaller government, less deficit-spending, and opposition to government-run healthcare. The rally held particular importance as a Special Election for Congress takes place on November 3rd in California's 10th Congressional District. Conservative candidate for Congress, David Harmer, spoke at the event. The Tea Party Express II...
  • US Airways, American Airlines to trim workforces in 2010

    10/28/2009 6:23:58 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 7 replies · 424+ views
    marketwatch ^ | October 28, 2009 | By Christopher Hinton
    US Airways Group and American Airlines said Wednesday they will continue to downsize their operations next year in the wake of falling air-traffic demand. In a statement, US Airways (LCC 3.13, -0.01, -0.32%) said will realign its business and reduce departures from Las Vegas and Philadelphia, and close stations in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Wichita, Kan. In turn, it will focus on its core strengths in Charlotte, N.C.; Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington's National Airport. By the end of 2010, the Tempe, Ariz.-based carrier said those four cities will represent about 99% of its capacity, compared to 93% today. "These centers...
  • Foreclosure surprise: 10 fastest-growing problem cities are newcomers

    10/28/2009 1:45:38 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 6 replies · 1,130+ views
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | 28 October 2009 | Laurent Belsie
    Just about everyone has become familiar with Americas foreclosure capitals metropolitan areas like Las Vegas with the nations highest rate of foreclosed properties (1 in 20) or No. 2 Merced, Calif., (1 in 27). But the problem is expanding to new cities. In fact, as the subprime-mortgage crisis eases for some of the top metro areas, like Merced and No. 3 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., economic pressures are creating new foreclosure capitals. One of them, Reno-Sparks, Nev., broke into the Top 10 foreclosure metros in the third quarter, according to a RealtyTrac report released Thursday. And others are gaining...
  • Harry Reid and sons' political dynasty

    10/28/2009 9:19:08 AM PDT · by Colofornian · 15 replies · 624+ views
    Mormon Times ^ | Oct. 24, 2009 | Joel Campbell
    Could a dynasty of Reids, Harry and son Rory, both get elected to high office in Nevada a year from now? Of course, Harry Reid is the highest-ranking Mormon in political office. His son, not as well-known outside of Nevada, is also running for governor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is looking at a tough battle in his home state. More than half of likely Nevada voters think Harry Reid is a "weak" leader -- with 84 percent of Reid's Democratic base supporting a public option for health care reform, according to a poll sponsored by a progressive group...
  • NV 2010: NV GOP group forms PAC to oppose Lowden [Paul backers say Lowden, RNC shut down convention]

    10/26/2009 8:14:10 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 13 replies · 751+ views
    The Mercury-News, San Jose, Calif. / AP ^ | 2009-10-26 | Sandra Chereb
    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Nevada Republicans who supported Ron Paul in last year's GOP presidential contest announced a political action committee Monday to oppose the U.S. Senate bid of former state party chairwoman Sue Lowden. Robert Holloday, spokesman for the Fair Nevada Elections PAC, said Lowden's handling of last year's state convention when delegate selections were stopped amounted to betrayal. "Sue Lowden's leading role in improperly halting the delegate election disqualifies her for any position of trust in government," Holloday said. "Our group hopes to raise awareness of the dismal record of Sue Lowden and to oppose her election to...
  • Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election

    10/26/2009 12:19:57 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 17 replies · 791+ views
    AP via Breitbart ^ | October 26, 2009 | By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
    Along a curve of desert highway near the gated home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, mechanic Bill Johnson is struggling to keep his checkbook balanced. With Nevada's economy poisoned by recession and the nation's highest foreclosure and bankruptcy rates, business at Johnson's boat-repair shop has nose-dived 40 percent since last year. He cannot afford health insurance, and his sewer bill jumped to $875 a year. "I really have to pose a question: Harry, what have you done for me lately?" asks Johnson, who vows to vote against Reid and other incumbents unless health care is made affordable. Johnson's exasperation...
  • Reid to announce push for public option

    10/26/2009 10:54:58 AM PDT · by MissesBush · 12 replies · 609+ views
    Politico ^ | 10/26/09 | Glenn Thrush
    Senate Majority Leader will announce this afternoon that he plans to push ahead with a public option vote -- one that includes an opt-out provision for states -- even though he's currently short several votes for passage, according to people close to the situation. The Nevada Democrat has a 3:15 p.m. press conference to discuss details. Leadership sources tell me that Reid, who spoke with virtually every member of his 60-member caucus this weekend, currently has between 56 and 57 votes for the opt-out, which is being pushed by Sen. Charles Schumer, according to Democratic aides. A public option with...
  • Today Lets go after Senator Harry Reid about Obamacare and Cap n Trade

    We need to start blasting all his phones, emails , twitter account, facebooks, and writing to the newspapers. Even if you don't live in the district you need to still be active on them and tell them no business in Neveda as long as Harry and his liberal ideas are sinking the USA. I will provide all the info you need. Senator Reids offices 1.Reno Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse & Federal Bldg 400 S. Virginia St, Suite 902 Reno, NV 89501 Phone: 775-686-5750 Fax: 775-686-5757 2.Washington DC 522 Hart Senate Office Bldg Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327 Toll...
  • More smoke and mirrors in healthcare debate

    10/25/2009 6:19:53 PM PDT · by redreno · 2 replies · 253+ views
    OneNewsNow ^ | 10/23/2009 | Pete Chagnon
    Christian medical group says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to buy off physicians with Medicare payments. In an attempt to garner more physician support for healthcare reform, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is promising legislation that would halt cuts in Medicare reimbursements. The Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) says the move highlights how "morally bankrupt this politicization of medicine is becoming."
  • Woo hoo!! The Tea Party Express II launches today from San Diego!! [FReepathon thread X]

    10/25/2009 12:30:16 AM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 126 replies · 3,590+ views
    The Tea Party Express II launches at 11:00 am today from San Diego's Tuna Harbor Park, just across from the USS Midway!! Woo hoo!! We'll be there!! The coast to coast Tea Party Express schedule includes San Diego and Los Angeles today, Bakersfield and Fresno tomorrow, and then it's on to Nevada and beyond to Florida!! Conservative groups have joined forces to make this massive national effort possible. Besides the lead sponsor, the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, the Tea Party Express II enjoys support from Grassfire.org, ResistNet, Free Republic, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, National Tax Limitation Committee, Americans for...
  • PERSONHOOD MOVEMENT LAUNCHES IN NEVADA

    10/22/2009 1:46:27 PM PDT · by EternalVigilance · 8 replies · 487+ views
    AIPNews.com ^ | October 22, 2009 | Katie Walker
    American Life League FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 October 2009 CONTACT: Katie Walker540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org  Washington, DC (22 October 2009) – Nevada became the seventh state to launch a “personhood” initiative yesterday. The amendment reads simply: “In the great state of Nevada, the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being.” “We are thrilled the people of Nevada are finally taking steps to fulfill the dream of the civil rights movement,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “They are working for the fundamental right to human personhood, without which, no other rights exist. For the people of Nevada and the...
  • Harry Reid Lashes Out at Republicans After Senate Sinks Medicare Measure

    10/21/2009 7:47:06 PM PDT · by markomalley · 59 replies · 2,327+ views
    Politics Daily ^ | 10/21/2009 | Patricia Murphy
    After a month of praising bipartisanship, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lashed out at the GOP on the Senate floor Wednesday when a Medicare measure he brought up for a vote failed amid concerns about its impact on the deficit. The bill would have prevented a 20 percent drop in Medicare reimbursement rates to doctors that is scheduled to take effect in January. Reid angrily blamed the loss on bad intelligence from the American Medical Association, which he said promised him 27 Republican votes (he got none), as well as Republican dirty tricks designed to impede Democrats' progress on meaningful...
  • I-Team: Terror-Related Arrest Began in Las Vegas

    10/21/2009 4:29:27 AM PDT · by Cindy · 7 replies · 719+ views
    LAS VEGAS NOW.com ^ | Updated: Oct 20, 2009 8:56 PM | Investigative Reporter Jonathan Humbert and Photojournalist Alex Brauer
    ADD to post no. 105: http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_complaint.pdf http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_indict.pdf LAS VEGAS, NV SNIPPET: The real end, however, came in a Minnesota Federal Court. Two weeks ago, the FBI arrested Abdow Munye Abdow for two counts of making false statements to a federal official. The FBI believes Abdow lied about his trip to Las Vegas, and a passenger he was with who was on the terrorism watch list. The Nevada Highway Patrol pulled over Abdow and four other people on October 6, 2009 for speeding. Trooper Alan Davidson, a spokesperson for NHP, said the officer on the scene began asking questions. SNIPPET:...
  • Harry Reid plan: 'Vaporize' 2010 GOP opponent

    10/20/2009 12:45:15 PM PDT · by pissant · 55 replies · 2,293+ views
    Politico ^ | 10/20/09 | Manu Raju
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply negative campaign if thats what it takes to win reelection next year, with a top adviser predicting that the Nevada Democrat will vaporize his Republican challengers with attack ads. Trailing in the polls and under constant attack from the GOP, Reids campaign has just launched a warm-and-fuzzy million-dollar ad campaign to reintroduce the veteran senator to his constituents. But Reids team also wants to be the one that introduces lesser-known opponents to the electorate and will be ready, when the time comes, to unleash a torrent of ads...
  • (RINO) Graham Joins Kerry On Cap-And-Trade

    10/19/2009 6:59:45 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 47 replies · 1,824+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 19, 2009 | IBD editorial staff
    Politics: Move over, John McCain and Olympia Snowe. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is fast becoming the Democrats' favorite Republican as he partners with John Kerry to push cap-and-trade through the Senate. Earlier this year, eight Republican congressmen made it possible for Waxman-Markey, the 1,400-page job- and economy-killing cap-and-trade legislation, to barely pass the House of Representatives. At the time it seemed dead on arrival in the Senate if it was brought up there this year. Once again, as with their medical plan, the Democrats seek to better the odds by putting a GOP hood ornament on a Democratic clunker....
  • Steve Irwin's Aussie Zoo in Las Vegas to open featuring crocodile wrestling

    10/18/2009 5:15:01 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 21 replies · 776+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 19th October 2009 | Carly Crawford
    CROC hunter Steve Irwin's dream of opening an Aussie zoo in Las Vegas is to be realised, three years after his death. Nevada officials say plans for an Australia-themed zoo in desert gaming mecca are back on the agenda. Representatives for the Irwins met Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman last week to discuss resurrecting their proposal for a US Australia Zoo featuring crocodile wrestling. "It looks like a great project with a crocodile-type enclosure where they would wrestle with the crocodiles and feed the crocodiles and have a real educational component to it and we're going to continue those discussions,"...
  • Why theres hope for Reid: Nevada isnt South Dakota

    10/18/2009 2:27:32 PM PDT · by freespirited · 23 replies · 1,368+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | 10/18/09 | J. Patrick Coolican
    <p>Two normally savvy observers weighed in on Sen. Harry Reids electoral prospects, and both were, well, sort of wrong.</p> <p>The fundamental dilemma that Reid faces how to carry Obamas agenda effectively while also appealing to Nevada voters to whom that agenda is too liberal is quite similar to the puzzle that (Tom) Daschle tried (and failed) to solve six years ago, however.</p>
  • Roethlisberger countersues accuser, seeks unspecified damages

    10/17/2009 10:31:32 PM PDT · by malkee · 9 replies · 896+ views
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | October 17, 2009 | Dan Majors
    Attorneys for Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger yesterday responded point-by-point to the civil lawsuit filed against him by a Nevada woman accusing him of sexual assault and countersued her for unspecified damages. In the filing, John Echeverria, Mr. Roethlisberger's Reno-based attorney, said the woman, an employee of Harrah's Lake Tahoe, willingly entered Mr. Roethlisberger's room on July 11, 2008, with plans to seduce him. "At all times while she was in Mr. Roethlisberger's room, [the woman] acted voluntarily," Mr. Echeverria said. "Mr. Roethlisberger did not sexually assault, assault, batter, falsely imprison, or otherwise commit any crime or tort against [her]." The...
  • Intruder fatally shot at LV home (NV)

    10/17/2009 6:53:56 AM PDT · by marktwain · 20 replies · 915+ views
    Las Vegas Review Journal ^ | 16 October, 2009 | na
    An intruder was shot dead by a resident in a northwest valley home Thursday night. Las Vegas police said four men broke into a house at 3025 Red Bay Way, near Cheyenne Avenue and Buffalo Drive, about 9:30 p.m. One of the four intruders was shot and killed. The other three fled the scene. Nobody else was injured, according to police, who gave no motive for the break-in.
  • Vice President Biden Stumps for Sen. Reid in Reno

    10/16/2009 4:46:06 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 20 replies · 619+ views
    KTVN ^ | Oct 16, 2009 | ap
    Vice President Joe Bidencame back in Reno for the first time since last year's presidential election.Hundreds of backers and a handful of protesters gathered at the University of Nevada, Reno, where Biden and Sen. Harry Reid spoke after a $2,400-a-plate invitation-only fundraising breakfast.The former U.S. senator from Delaware touted the progress of the federal stimulus package as well as help raise money for Democratic Sen. Reid's re-election campaign.The visit comes at a time Nevada continues to suffer more than other states from the recession. The unemployment rate continues to increase. Taxable sales are down, and gaming revenue continues to drop.To...