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On the last day of his legislative career in 2001, Joe Dini invited me into his inner sanctum.
I had been in his office many times to chat, not that he ever gave up much information. But this time was different. This was it.
Mr. Speaker – he didn’t have the title anymore but he still was in spirit – did something he had never done before, as if to consecrate this as a special moment. He pulled out a couple of his familiar styrofoam cups, the ones he seemed to have up at the rostrum during most...
Hey, Reince, you know these numbers?
Pretty obvious Dallas is way too liberal, much more than -- ahem -- Clark County:
Dallas100.0% Reporting
B. Obama (i)
Dem
57.1%
403,170
M. Romney
GOP
41.7%
294,339
G. Johnson
Lib
0.9%
6,680
J. Stein
Grn
0.2%
1,752
Obama won Dallas County by 15.4 points.
PRESIDENT/VICE-PRESIDENT
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Precincts Reporting: 1059 of 1059 (100 %)...
Tim Wildmon warns of a “Gay Gestapo.”
Andrea Lafferty raises the specter of “Islamic shariah law at home and abroad.”
James Dobson foresees the apocalypse if gays are allowed to marry, saying it will "destroy the Earth.”
These people? These people!
So now the lines are as clearly drawn as they could be in the battle of good vs. evil, a k a the fight between the obvious site for the 2016 Republican National Convention and those who would try to frighten the RNC away from Las Vegas.
The...
One day after Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins referred to some Utahns as "inbred bastards" and warned of violence if they came to support rogue rancher Cliven Bundy, his colleagues were mulling whether it's time for an intervention.
Collins' bellicose comments were first exposed on a website designed to support Bundy. Collins confirmed to me that he made the comments to Piute County Commissioner Darin Bushman, but said he was only concerned about violence.
"He called me yesterday morning...
Do six figures in fines for underage gamblers getting into his casino in Pennsylvania show Sheldon Adelson's hypocrisy or buttress his case against full-blown online gaming?
That's the latest front in the war between advocates for web gaming and the Las Vegas Sands chairman.
His enemies have discovered $220,000 in fines at Sands Bethlehem since 2010. To wit, courtesy of the PA gaming regulators:
DATE OF FINE
VIOLATION
AMOUNT OF FINE
September 2013
Four instances of underage gambling...