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  • Program note

    The perfect vacation Readers, we’ll be on “staycation” this week, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll be idle. As always, you can follow us on Twitter, for breaking news, random thoughts and the like. We’ll be back with all-new blogs on Monday, unless there’s something we just can’t keep to ourselves [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:31am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Ensign says words on radio show

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    U.S. Sen. John Ensign went on the Alan Stock show on KXNT-AM 840 this morning, agreeing to talk about his personal issues for a few minutes before spewing right-wing talking points for most of the rest of the hour. While Ensign addressed his affair in now-familiar terms (”a huge mistake” and [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:30am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

    Mmmmmmm, turkey! To all our readers from us at Various Things & Stuff: Happy Thanksgiving! Normally it goes without saying, but today seems like a good day to say it: We’re thankful for our readers! [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:42pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Oh, no, he didn’t!

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    If somebody were to have asked us to make a list of the members of Nevada’s state Senate who we thought would park illegally in a handicapped space, we’d have ranked Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford pretty close to the bottom. He’s a bright, intelligent guy who’s been an advocate [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:56pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Ensign cried like a little boy

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    Never has U.S. Sen. John Ensign cheered for The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman more than on Monday, when ABC’s competing Nightline aired its interview with Ensign’s former best friend and top aide, Doug Hampton. Most of the details in the interview were not new — Ensign had [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:12am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • We’re scared, but excited!

    One of the revelations to be aired on ABC’s Nightline this evening is exactly how Doug Hampton discovered U.S. Sen. John Ensign was having an affair with Hampton’s wife, Cindy. It was around Christmas 2007, and Hampton found this text message from Ensign on his wife’s phone. “How wonderful it is. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:25pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Are you f-ing kidding?

    Number of comments: 2
    We didn’t have time to attend the anti-Harry Reid news conference call held this morning by former Gov. Bob List, not that his excellency or his peeps were good enough to let us know when it was being held. But if the report in the Las Vegas Sun is any [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:49pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • TV time

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    Eliza Dushku: Once again a victim of shortsighted, tasteless network executives. Well, those bastards have done it again: Fox has canceled Eliza Dushku’s cult favorite Dollhouse. Sure, they say they’ll air the remaining episodes that have already been ordered, but after that, the show goes away. Why, Fox? Why? We feel [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:14am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Monday night … Ensign?!

    These lovely ladies will have some viewing competiton on Monday -- Doug Hampton's star turn on Nightline! That’s right, readers, our long wait is over! On Monday (that’s Nov. 23), ABC’s Nightline will air its interview with Doug Hampton, the husband of the woman with whom U.S. Sen. John Ensign had [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:18pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Oh, that’s going to be awkward

    Number of comments: 2
    Apparently, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mentioned no one from the ranks of Nevada conservatives in her new book, Going Rogue. That is going to make for a very awkward time during the Costco book signing slated for next month in Reno. [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:57pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Where’s the cops when you need them?

    There are plenty of outrages, petty and great, in Las Vegas on any given day. But this one makes our blood boil. As reported today by Review-Journal Editor Tom Mitchell and by the AP’s hard-working Ken Ritter, bailiffs in Family Court improperly and illegally detained a group of journalists inside a [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:27pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • SenEnsign: vulgar, offensive, deceptive

    Senator Vulgar, Offensive and Deceptive, aka John Ensign Yes, “vulgar,” “offensive” and “deceptive” are certainly adjectives that could be applied to U.S. Sen. John Ensign. He did, after all, sleep with his best friend’s wife when both were working for Ensign in campaign and official capacities, respectively. And then he got his [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:54pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Pro-lifers against personhood amendment? What?

    Number of comments: 3
    Everybody knows that the so-called personhood amendment proposed for the Nevada Constitution is aimed at outlawing abortion in all its forms once and for all. According to organizers — and drawing on language found in the famous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade — if a fetus [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Set your TiVo: More Ensign programs coming

    Number of comments: 2
    These days, Ensign really doesn't want to meet the press... Let’s just say we’re glad we’re getting our brand-new HD television set up this weekend, because next week promises to be a big one in political media. Politico reports today that ABC’s Nightline will finally air its interview next week with' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:10pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Classy and constitutional don’t always mesh

    Number of comments: 1
    We were going to leave the whole “strippermobile” thing alone, because, let’s be honest, why be cliche? After all, we edit a newspaper partially supported by sex ads in the back, so we’re really not ones to talk. But then we read the comments of one Marla Letizia in the Las [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:03pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • BREAKING: Mendy Elliott quits state job

    Number of comments: 1
    Mendy Elliott, the governor’s former deputy chief of staff who was exiled to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation after a staff shake up this summer, has announced her resignation from the job, sources confirm. Stacey Woodbury, the governor’s current deputy chief of staff, said this in response to an [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:58pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • If only McCain had listened to Lowden!

    Number of comments: 4
    Could these women have helped John McCain win Nevada? John McCain’s embarrassing 12-point loss to Barack Obama (by a margin of 120,909 votes) in 2008 may have been avoided, had the Arizona senator only listened to then-Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden. She wanted to make McCain seem more interesting [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:17am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Thanking the vets

    Number of comments: 1
    Amen. Years ago, upon reaching the age of 18, we went down to U.S. post office on Atlanta Avenue in Huntington Beach, Calif., and registered with the Selective Service System. It was a small thing at the time, and we didn’t think much about the fact that, in the event of [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:40pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Not to say we told you so, but…

    Number of comments: 2
    We totally did tell you so, back in December, when we wondered aloud if former KVBC Channel 3 weatherman John Fredericks was totally insane. Before that, even. Like, way before that. Well, we were right, according to the KLAS Channel 8 I-Team. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:22am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • BREAKING: Sun managing editor quitting

    Number of comments: 2
    This just in: Las Vegas Sun Managing Editor Mike Kelley has announced his resignation retirement today. Kelley oversaw the paper’s switch from an independently published afternoon daily to an eight-to-10-page section inserted inside the daily Review-Journal, a transformation that relieved the Sun of having to cover daily happenings in Las [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:11pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Reid: The most interesting race in the world

    Number of comments: 3
    This is NOT a picture of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid Nobody would ever confuse our own U.S. Sen. Harry Reid with the most interesting man in the world. For one, Reid never drinks beer, and the most interesting man in the world occasionally sips Dos Equis. But Politico says today that Reid’s [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:33pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • There’s a new ombudswoman in town!

    Number of comments: 3
    Let the cyber media criticism begin Progressive activist, former reporter and columnist Erin Neff today dropped a 15-megaton nuclear bomb on her former employer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, in the form of a new website aimed at media criticism of Nevada’s largest daily. Although the Las Vegas Journal Review site crashed [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:25pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Opting in to democracy

    Is vox populi always vox Dei? U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian is going to start circulating an initiative that would allow Nevada voters to decide whether to opt-out of the public option in the health-care bill that’s slowly forming on Capitol Hill. It hasn’t been entirely clear how the opt-out [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • When people aid in their own deception

    Number of comments: 1
    The scientific method: It's a handy guide to how we're supposed to figure things out. You may sometimes wonder why people believe things that aren’t true. You know, things such as the Earth is but 10,000 years old. Or that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Or that the health-care' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Governor: California’s trash could be Nevada’s treasure

    Number of comments: 7
    At least one constituency supports Gov. Jim Gibbons's call for more recycling at landfills: Seagulls! Gov. Jim Gibbons today called for Nevada to become a national leader in recycling materials sent to landfills. His comments come after a controversy erupted over a huge landfill project near Winnemucca that will host thousands [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Med Board chief makes case for dissolving medical board

    Number of comments: 1
    The Nevada state medical board should go, it's chief says (unwittingly) in a new rant Dr. Charles Held, chairman of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, today made a compelling case for disbanding the board due to impotence, incompetence and inability to, well, do things. In a two-page rant, apparently occasioned [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:12pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • Recovering drug addict yells at president

    Number of comments: 5
    Some people say Fox News is biased in favor of conservatives, but Sunday’s edition showed the network is anything but. Host Chris Wallace traveled to sunny Florida to interview a conservative former drug addict about President Barack Obama, and proceeded to let the poor man make a complete fool of himself. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:33pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • The Hill: Liberals love Reid

    Number of comments: 1
    The Washington, D.C., newspaper The Hill says today that U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has been shoring up his liberal base with a series of actions that culminated last week in his pledge to include a public option in the health-care bill. Certainly Reid did garner some accolades from us at [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:11pm EST
    by Steve Sebelius

  • WTF is this?

    Number of comments: 3
    Can anybody tell us what in the hell this is all about? You know, we can’t help thinking that KTNV Channel 13 might need some help. And we know just the guy: Nina Radetich’s boyfriend Jack Finn. Dealing with media is, like, his favorite thing to do. Seriously, he’d do it [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:18am EST
    by Steve Sebelius
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