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Harmful Error: Nevada Supreme Court reverses murder conviction

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:56:45 -0500

The Nevada Supreme Court issued one decision today - Fields v. State. The Court reverses a murder conviction based upon the trial court's abuse of discretion in admitting bad act evidence. [...]

Desert Beacon: Wrong Way Gibbons: Leading NV To Economic Stagnation

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:27:00 -0500

Recommendations: Do stop by at the Scandalmonger's place to read up on the latest undoings of one of the nation's worst governors -- the one who has now decided we have a budget crisis in Nevada! "While he has not decided to call the Legislature into a special session" [...]

Blue Lyon: Obushma

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:34:11 -0500

George W. Bush could have given this speech. I was agape as I read it and had to stop reading when I came to this paragraph (for fear I would throw up). Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct. And even [...]

Various Things & Stuff: Hold on a second!

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:47:38 -0500

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Sue Lowden, running for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Harry Reid next year, says in a CQ Politics blog that “…she was aware there had been a police report and some news coverage of a device found underneath his family’s car. She faced criticism for making light of [...]

Various Things & Stuff: Was Ensign stupid, or just caught in the moment?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:29:31 -0500

Why do cheaters text, and leave a digital evidence trail of their infidelities? That’s what this New Republic writer pondered in a short piece that (of course) brings up the case of U.S. Sen. John Ensign, who was famously found out when his best friend (and employee) Doug Hampton found [...]

Various Things & Stuff: Right-wing paper doesn’t like Democrat

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:52:04 -0500

Our own U.S. Sen. Harry Reid came in for some criticism from the Wall Street Journal yesterday, with writer James Taranto calling Reid’s remarks comparing obstructionist Republican senators to those who blocked slavery, civil rights and suffrage as “splenetic, inappropriate and ignorant.” He especially singles out Reid’s criticism of Supreme [...]

Various Things & Stuff: AG schedules newser on Krolicki case

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:40:56 -0500

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Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki and his supporters may think he’s been exonerated, but the real decision on his future will be announced at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, when Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto has scheduled a news conference to address the criminal case against [...]

Ralston's Flash': State GOP chairman: I gave "groundbreaking" speech and the audience loved me!

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:43:00 -0500

To the Republican Men's Club!

Upon what meat doth Chris Comfort feed that he doth grow so great?

No idea. But whatever it is, it's a sure cure for modesty.

Comfort is the same fellow who in March 2008, eight months before the GOP lost a congressional seat, the state in the presidential [...]

Blue Lyon: Scientific American names first woman Editor-in-Chief

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:41:04 -0500

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Awesome! From the formal announcement: Scientific American, the leading science magazine, today announces Mariette DiChristina as its new Editor-in-Chief. DiChristina becomes the eighth Editor-in-Chief in the 164-year history of the magazine, and the first woman to assume the role. In her role, DiChristina oversees the print and online editions of Scientific [...]

Sherman Frederick: Real hope ... for a change

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:02:00 -0500

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