Delinda Epstein, 51, was living in a townhouse in the swanky Las Vegas suburb of Summerlin, a few years ago. She owned a brand new truck, worked as an administrator for a Henderson construction company.
But she lost her job in the recession. She lost her truck and had to move into a smaller apartment in a less fancy neighborhood.
On Friday, President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Here’s where I’m supposed to establish I’m not some kind of grumpy, sour-grapes Obama-hater by saying all Americans should share some national pride in the Norwegian committee’s decision to honor our freshman president’s efforts and intentions, blah blah blah.
“Consumers’ confidence in the economy falls in September as Americans’ worries about job security offset any enthusiasm about the rally in the stock market,” read the Sept. 29 news flash.
How come? The big bankers running our economy — it’s essentially the same gang under Barack Obama that it was under George W. Bush, make no mistake — keep telling us the recovery is well under way.
In my opinion, we shouldn’t have troops in Afghanistan.
The country can’t be conquered or held, because it’s not a country. It’s a mountain range sparsely settled by a loose coalition of anarchist goatherds and opium farmers.
Caught the Sept. 25 Fab show at the Cannery on Craig Road, North Las Vegas.
Pat Woodward’s The Fab has been going strong in this town for 14 years, through thick and thin. (I actually caught them one night more than a decade ago playing to a bunch of head-bangers at Mad Dogs & Englishmen. The band was great; it was the audience who appeared to have turned down the wrong alley in some Twilight Zone search for Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten.)
Imagine with me that you’ve offered to help a teen-age relative prepare a school report on American politics of the early 1970s.
Using the Internet or hieing yourselves down to the local university library, you start reading the 36-year-old reports of the developing scandal that began when some very unusual burglars were apprehended attempting to break into the Democratic national campaign headquarters at Washington’s Watergate Hotel.
Dozens of times a day now, we at the Review-Journal receive e-mailed letters very similar to the following, which arrived at the newspaper on Sept. 16, signed by one Mary White of Russell Road, Las Vegas:
“I am disappointed in the media and the RJ for not reporting on all the undercover journal reporting done on Acorn by ordinary citizens,” Ms. White opines. “You guys are only interesting in making Obama president and turning our country into communists. I am look thru Sundays paper for any real news like what is reported on Fox News and Glenn Beck and am hugely disappointed. I cannot buy your paper anymore until you decide to really report news. Today, for your information since you are not paying attention, it is reported on Fox News that the senate is introducing legislation to ban all Federal dollars to acorn. Of course, we will not read this in the paper. Thought you might like to know. I may give you more updates in the future, just to keep you informed.”
Touring the country to peddle his collectivist schemes, President Barack Obama made stops in New Hampshire and then in Phoenix, Ariz. during the month of August.
Entry into the actual halls where Mr. Obama speaks is carefully controlled, the better to create for the TV cameras the visual image of cheering throngs.
Following Barack Obama’s speech to Congress on health care Wednesday evening, and despite unified opposition from minority Republicans, Democratic congressional leaders said Thursday they expect to pass “reform” legislation within the next few months.
They have the votes; there’s little reason to believe they won’t.
Nevada reported taxable sales fell 20.5 percent in June, marking the eighth straight month of double-digit declines, the state Department of Taxation reported Friday.
For the fiscal year ended June 30, sales dropped 12.7 percent from 2008. And 2008, recall, was not exactly boom times.
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