14+ hour, 10+ min ago   (634+ words) At Republicans’ recent midterm convention, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, began his remarks with his own version of a land acknowledgment. “I’d like to acknowledge that we stand here today in the great state of Texas and the United States of…...

14+ hour, 10+ min ago   (139+ words) Disdain and disregard for American troops. Because he can’t figure out how to end the war in Iran, his sacrifice is to play golf most weekends, costing taxpayers more than $150 million and counting. His main interests are devoted to developing…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (217+ words) The return of the handwritten note. I read the opinion piece by syndicated columnist Tom Purcell about handwritten letters (Sept. 3 Review-Journal, “The handwritten letter makes a comeback”). Over the past several months, I’ve discovered that trying to increase my customer…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (142+ words) Economic malaise and a war? The Iran war is now more than six months old. I also hear that our president doesn’t care if 99 percent of us are feeling an economic pinch. So much for Donald Trump’s campaign promises and…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (742+ words) The Founding Fathers who fought for liberty wouldn’t recognize how people define the word today. A recently released survey from the indispensable Institute for Family Studies shows vice has a vice grip on young men. Among men 18 to 29 years old,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1129+ words) The socialists did not swallow the old Clinton Democrats; those Democrats were already gone. The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Clinton-era Democratic politicos such as Rahm Emanuel and James Carville insist that Democrats have divorced themselves…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1282+ words) Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said the Trump administration’s scrutiny of the state’s election process is an effort to intimidate officials and suppress voting ahead of the November midterm election. “This is all an effort to really force Nevada…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (291+ words) We can’t listen to the naysayers. In his syndicated column in the Aug. 31 Review-Journal, John Stossel claims that transitioning off fossil fuels is impossible and unwise. It ran alongside a headline story about unprecedented Grand Canyon flooding, a few days…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (539+ words) California teenagers are having a hard time finding a job. Nevada gas prices aren’t the only thing California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to raise. Mr. Newsom recently put out a release touting California’s economic growth. He says the state is…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (385+ words) While government squanders every penny and more. Politicians talk constantly about billionaires, corporate greed and the unequal distribution of wealth. Those are legitimate debates. But perhaps we should ask another question: Where does the wealth come from in the first…...