Harry Reid

Eye for an eye: Karma snaps back on Harry

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We won?t say Harry Reid is dumb as a post. We?d need an official IQ test from the post. What we can say, however, is that what goes around comes around for Reid, and in the case of the so-called ?Nuclear Option? for Senate appointees, it?s coming around with a vengeance. Reid changed Senate rules so that presidential confirmations no longer take 60 votes, but only 50+1. That … [Read more...] about Eye for an eye: Karma snaps back on Harry

Congress or Trump Could Undo Monument Designation

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There is a word for what President Obama did this past week in declaring Gold Butte a national monument: dictatorial. In just more than a year Obama has unilaterally declared off-limits to productive economic uses 1 million acres of Nevada land ? first the 700,000-acre Basin and Range National Monument straddling the border between Lincoln and Nye counties and now the … [Read more...] about Congress or Trump Could Undo Monument Designation

Reid in Farewell Speech Calls on Press to Criticize?We Oblige

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In what Harry Reid himself called ?my final speech? this past week on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Nevada?s senator for the past three decades and minority or majority leader of Senate Democrats for more than a decade rambled for 77 minutes in his customary monotone through a disjointed litany of accomplishments and a painfully personal autobiography of his ascent from poverty … [Read more...] about Reid in Farewell Speech Calls on Press to Criticize?We Oblige

Which Senate Candidate is Correct on Handling Social Security?

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The race to replace Harry Reid in the Senate is one of the most closely watched and highly contested elections in the nation this year. The most recent poll has Republican Rep. Joe Heck leading Reid?s hand-picked Democratic opponent, former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, by 3 points ? 38 percent to 35 percent with the substantial remainder undecided. More … [Read more...] about Which Senate Candidate is Correct on Handling Social Security?