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THE REAL LESSON FROM BALTIMORE
As a Baltimore native, the sh*t-storm there naturally has my
attention. Knowing the area in question,
I’m not the least bit surprised. My dad
was a Baltimore City firefighter for 20 years working in that
neighborhood…including during the summer riots of 1968.
Oh, the stories he can tell!
Look, I don’t know what happened to Freddie in the back of
that paddy wagon. But I do know this
from the police report of the incident: When Freddie saw the cops, he took off
running, “unprovoked.”
Now, is anyone surprised that the cops chased him? I mean, who sees a cop and just takes off
running without a reason?
If Freddie hadn’t run away from the cops, he wouldn’t have
been arrested and he’d be alive today. Which
is not to say the cops didn’t do something wrong while transporting him to the
police station. It’s to say Freddie’s
own actions led to him being put in that paddy wagon in the first place.
The lesson here is really pretty simple. Don’t run away from the cops.
ANTI-BEERS BIAS?
In a Las Vegas Review-Journal story yesterday afternoon
about all the Democrats who have already lined up to back Democrat Catherine Cortez-Masto for Sen. Harry Reid’s sixth term, reporter Laura Myers initially wrote that “no
major Republican candidates have announced” in the Nevada 2016 U.S. Senate
race.
Curious, since conservative Las Vegas City Council Bob Beers – a former Nevada state
senator, a former Nevada state assemblyman, a former Nevada GOP party official,
a former Republican candidate for governor, the father of Nevada’s Tax and
Spend Control (TASC) initiative, the leader of 2003’s anti-tax “Lean 15” group
in the state assembly, and the primary mover-and-shaker in the successful
effort last month to kill the taxpayer-subsidized Las Vegas soccer stadium
proposal – has officially been in the race for over a year.
Sounds like a “major Republican candidate” to me.
The story was corrected before this morning’s print edition,
but how could such an omission be made in the first place? Was it just an inadvertent oversight…or an
example of liberal media bias?
Remember, it’s not paranoia when they’re really out to get
you.
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR CABS
The Las Vegas
Review-Journal published a story on Friday about a “ride-hailing”
application called “Curb” which is “exploring entry to the Southern Nevada
market.”
Here’s how Curb is different from ride-sharing services such
as Lyft and Uber: With Curb, you can only request a ride from a traditional
taxicab company.
As such, according to the RJ article, your ride is taxed and
regulated like a taxi. That means you’ll
pay an additional fee to the government of up to $3 per ride, a penalty of $10
if you cancel your ride request “three minutes or more after requesting it," and
an additional $3 fee if you prefer to pay with a credit card instead of cash.
Gee, I wonder why so many people prefer to use Lyft or Uber
instead of taking a taxi? Duh.
Nevada legislators, mostly Democrats, are trying to kill the
popularity and wild success of Lyft and Uber – private membership clubs – by
forcing the technology companies to be regulated just like the taxicabs that so
many people love to hate.
Proving Ronald Reagan correct…again. Government is not the solution to our problems;
government IS the problem.
ANOTHER POWER GRAB BY THE GOVERNMENT
Some 200 Nevada attorneys signed a letter to the Legislature
this week in opposition to a bill (AB193) that would seriously erode the rights
and protections of citizens accused of a crime.
“This is not a victim’s bill,” defense lawyer Tom Pitaro told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“This is a power grab by the government so that the district attorney can win
everything, and the judges don’t have to do anything.”
The attorneys declared in their letter that any legislator
who voted for the bill would be denied support and donations in future
elections. That “threat” caused Jon Ralston (D-UI), Nevada’s #2
liberal-blogger-with-a-
But the “threat” to withhold support from elected officials
who vote for this bill is no different from similar threats constantly made by
other groups, especially organized labor.
It’s called “free speech.”
Ralston should look it up.
So bravo to the 200+ lawyers who had the balls to publicly
put their names on the letter, regardless of what Jihad Jon says. Speaking of whom…
RALSTON’S RANTS
Jon Ralston
(D-UI), Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger-with-a-taxpayer-
But without someone else doing his research for him, the guy
is hopelessly behind the curve and has almost no access to conservative circles
or leaders whatsoever. Which helps
explain why it took him SIX WEEKS to find out that the effort to recall
Speaker-of-the-Weak John Hambrick
had been aborted way back in the middle of March.
He’s also an intellectual plagiarist when trying to explain
the conservative side of issues. Indeed,
Jon tweeted the following yesterday afternoon…
Hmm. Now where have I
heard that before? Oh yeah, here…over
a week ago!
On the other hand, I guess I should be flattered that Jihad Jon
feels the need to use my intellectual capital for his own material. Just tryin’ to help!
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
GOPAC published a list of “emerging leaders” this week. Among them: Nevada Assemblyman Derek Armstrong of Las Vegas, a
freshman moderate who, as chairman of the Taxation Committee, has yet to meet a
tax he didn’t hike.
GOPAC’s “leadership” standards certainly appear to have
fallen dramatically since the days when Newt ran the organization.
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