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“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — Voltaire San Francisco declares free speech an act of terrorism By Thomas Mitchell pursuit of happiness are unalien- damage to property;” and The San Francisco Board of able rights, and WHEREAS, The United States Supervisors has passed a resolu- WHEREAS, The United States Department of Justice further in- tion declaring the National Rifle Constitution specifically delineates cludes any individual or member Association a domestic terrorist that the country was founded to of an organization commits an act organization: establish justice, insure domestic that the actor knows, or reasonably WHEREAS, The United States tranquility, and promote the gen- should know, affords material sup- Declaration of Independence de- eral welfare, and port, including communications, clared that life, liberty, and the WHEREAS, The United States funds, weapons, or training to any Department of Justice defines individual has committed or plans terrorist activity, in part, as, “The to commit a terrorist act, and My Point use of any … explosive, firearm, or WHEREAS, The National Rifle other weapon or dangerous device, Association musters its consider- of View with intent to endanger, directly or able wealth and organizational indirectly, the safety of one or more strength to promote gun ownership By Rolando Larraz individuals or to cause substantial (See Free Speech, Page 4) I was told that a few people were upset with this newspaper’s pre-cover of the GOP Nevada election edition because I, as the Editor and Publisher, allowed Trump fires Bolton Chuck Muth’s column to be pub- lished before the election where he expressed his opinion about Mi- chael McDonald who was running for reelection as the Chair of the in messy breakup Nevada Republican Party. Too bad! This is the Las Vegas By Morgan Chalfant The president said Bolton sub- Tribune, the only newspaper that and Rebecca Kheel mitted his resignation Tuesday, does not censor its writers; Chuck The Hill but the ex-aide offered a different Muth has been donating his weekly President Trump abruptly ousted accounting, writing on Twitter contribution for a very long time John Bolton as his national security minutes after Trump that he had and even if many times I do not adviser on Tuesday, sending Wash- offered to resign Monday and that agree with his opinion, I have never ington reeling with a particularly the president had responded that censored, altered or changed one messy staff breakup. they should “talk about it” Tuesday. word in his columns. Trump in a series of tweets said The break-up came days after Once Chuck changed his mind he told Bolton on Monday night that Trump stunned Washington with and supported a candidate that he his services were “no longer needed the news that he had canceled a previously had exposed, but I did at the White House,” adding point- planned meeting with the Taliban not stop him from defending her edly that he “strongly disagreed at Camp David to discuss peace and out of respect for him I did not with many of his suggestions, as overtures in Afghanistan. write anything about her, either did others in the administration.” Bolton reportedly disagreed good or bad; not a thing. The content of the tweets and the vehemently with the decision to Once a person I liked and re- manner in which Trump dismissed invite the people who gave shelter spected was called a liar by a writer with Bolton pointed to the harsh to Osama bin Laden to Camp David for this newspaper and my friend feelings between the two sides. (See Trump Fires Bolton, Page 6) was very upset about it and told me not to speak to him anymore. I asked why he got that upset ‘One Moccasin’ Winnemucca is and he told me that as the owner of the paper, I could have stopped that person from writing such an article, a Big Shoe to fill by GOP Chair but luckily for me my friend under- By Denise Mraz Mary Porter, of Douglas County stood that if I would have edited, Political Contributor said, “McDonald won in spite of corrected or censored that column, In his Nevada GOP victory still not delivering on comments the reputation of this newspaper speech Michael McDonald said he that told us what his platform goals would have been under question. was “humbled and honored to be are and how he planned to over- We believe in the freedom of your Chair” after receiving more come previous losses.” Another the press, freedom of opinion than half the votes, at 205, between critique came from an anonymous and freedom of expression. If we him, Dave McKeon, 54 and Annie Central Committee member re- stopped someone who is directly Black with 102 votes. Winnemucca, garding the results. “The party or indirectly part of our team or Nevada, which loosely translates to must still be full of RINOS to have part of our circle, we would be “one moccasin,” was the conven- a McDonald-win today, where the betraying the confidence that we tion host town, in the shadow of the true lead right crowd is considered have offered them and about which Santa Rosa Range. fringe group material.” they could brag. Karl Johnson, Clark County RINOs (Republicans in Name Only once have I stopped some- Deputy Precinct Captain with a Only) herded to protect McDonald one — he showed himself to be a bead on the conservative pulse had when his speech to stand in Trump’s piece of trash who was writing in this to say: “Apparently, it’s about 2016 victory colored his remarks, this newspaper and using our pages PR and not action.” In previous which few conservatives identified for a personal vendetta — but only articles, the Chair’s missteps since with. At one point, McDonald stat- after numerous requests to stop his initial election have been well ed he was “the one who got Trump what he was doing did I have to toss documented — from his lobbyist elected”; and in another comment him out because it IS my newspaper activities, to 81 lost elections, and “brought Trump to Nevada eight after all and I did not appreciate decline from 1200 delegates to just times.” While there may be tempo- what he was doing, to me, to my 355 delegates. (See Big Shoe To Fill, Page 5) paper, and to my readers. The more I told him to tone it down the more he wrote about Meet the New Nevada GOP Boss, same as the Old Boss people I knew, and I was very aware By Chuck Muth let’s face it, the election was a lot from the Republican National that he was not writing the truth. Congratulations to Nevada Re- closer than it ever should have been. Committee Once Mayor Oscar Goodman publican Party Chairman Michael McDonald won 205-156, with —Holding the election imme- came by my office to take me to McDonald on winning a fifth term the 156 split between two challeng- diately after Labor Day at a venue lunch and that piece of trash hap- as Grand Imperial Pooh-Bah of the ers, despite these overwhelming about as far away from the state’s pened to walk in and start talking to state GOP at the party’s meeting advantages… major population center as you can Oscar about the same issue he was yesterday. —Support from the Trump cam- possibly get writing about in this newspaper for Give the man credit; he knows paign, including two endorsement —Running against one op- a very long time. his constituency. letters — one from the current ponent, Annie Black, who was a Mayor Oscar Goodman suggest- But there’s a lot more to what national campaign manager and first-time candidate and virtually a ed that the person should call his happened in Winnemucca than another from a former national complete unknown until just three office and set up an appointment most analysis is reporting. Let’s campaign manager weeks ago before we left for lunch; later that take a look at two… —Support from the entire Neva- —Running against another week the piece of trash wrote in my 1.) Despite the “spin” coming da GOP “establishment” opponent, “Dave for Himself” newspaper that Mayor Goodman from the party’s hired staff — Mis- —Statewide chits among NRCC McKeon, who was a failed former had summoned him to his office. Communications Director Keith (Nevada Republican Central Com- Clark County GOP chairman con- That is when I realized that Schipwreck tweeted that McDonald mittee) members built up over tinually dogged by spousal abuse he was distorting the truth and I “cruised to victory,” while Exec- seven years as chairman allegations that ain’t ever going decided to let him know some of utive Director Will Sexbythehour —Active campaigning by paid away (wish HE would!) (See My Point of View, Page 2) tweeted a “That Was Easy!” gif - MICHAEL McDONALD party staff and campaign assistance (See McDonald Reelection, Page 5) Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 Annual Basque Fry will tout conservative values By Thomas Mitchell was the Republican candidate for owski, who served as President ocratic Party represents today. The With Democrats holding strong governor in 2018. Trump’s campaign manager; John old blue-collar, fairly conservative majorities in the Nevada state Sen- “We’re very excited about the Fund, a columnist for the National Democratic Party that existed in ate and Assembly, as well as every fifth annual Basque Fry,” Laxalt Review; Katie Williams, who had Nevada a few decades ago, maybe statewide constitutional office save said during a recent interview. her Miss Nevada crown taken away even closer than that, is long gone. one, there seems to be a sense of ur- “We’re fortunate this event has for expressing conservative politi- So we have to draw that contrast for gency about this year’s fifth annual taken permanent hold in Northern cal views; and, of course, Laxalt. everyday voters, especially swing Basque Fry coming Sept. 14 at the Nevada. We expect a very large Laxalt said he expects he and voters in our state.” Corley Ranch in Gardnerville. crowd again and think a lot of peo- other speakers will highlight how Laxalt cited for example the The conservative speakers, ple are going to be very enthusiastic radical and left-wing the Demo- Democratic position supporting family entertainment and lamb fries about it. We’ve talked, leading to cratic Party and its presidential open borders and denigrating the fest is put on by Adam Laxalt’s the event, about the importance of candidates have become, saying Immigration and Customs Enforce- Morning in Nevada PAC and is trying to take back our state and their positions do not align with ment agents and the laws they are modeled after the Basque Fries his we plan on discussing that at the Nevada values and are not good duty bound to enforce. grandfather Paul Laxalt, a former Basque Fry.” for our state. He also expects the topic of Nevada governor and U.S. senator, The list of scheduled speakers “Some of our Democrats kind media bias to be addressed. “It’s used to conduct in Nevada and include Mick Mulvaney, acing of hide out and they are not put on just frustrating, because for me it is Washington. Adam Laxalt is the White House chief of staff; Matt the record whether they are going the rule of law. I think that’s what state’s former attorney general and Schlapp, chair of the American to denounce these things or whether has made our country unique and Conservative Union, and his wife they support them,” he said. “So, is an essential piece of what made Mercedes Schlapp, a former White I think it is important to get these America the greatest country in House director of communications; positions on the record and in the modern times. The other side will Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. Adam Laxalt addresses public consciousness of Nevadans, ignore the rule of law whenever it is TRIBUNE attorney general; Corey Lewand- the 2017 Basque Fry. so they understand what the Dem- (See Basque Fry, Page 6) VOL. 21, NO. 29 My Point of View FOUNDER (Continued from Page 1) ing bad about was the newly elected Tribune fixed the “mysterious” because more than two thousand Rolando Larraz the deliberate “mistakes” he had Chair of the Nevada Republican problem. people are subscribers to our on- made—one was telling people that Party, Michael McDonald. I was told that “Michael is upset line delivery, plus fifteen hundred PUBLISHER he owned the Las Vegas Tribune When someone told me that with you” for allowing Chuck to more complimentary subscribers AND when he never even put one dime Michael McDonald’s “crew” had write what he did, but Michael’s and what they do not read today EDITOR IN CHIEF Rolando Larraz into the maintenance or support of boycotted last week’s Las Vegas friend did not tell him that I am no they will read sometime during this newspaper. Also, he did not Tribune edition where Chuck longer a child and when he made the week. GENERAL MANAGER even know the meaning of the word Muth explained why he could not three appointments to meet me at My name is Rolando Larraz, and Perly Viasmensky “truth.” support Michael McDonald this the Starbucks and was a no-show as always, I approved this column. That week, many years ago, time around. Our website was all three times without having the * * * * * MANAGING EDITOR when I got his column I threw it mysteriously taken down and was courtesy to cancel, because his girl- Rolando Larraz is Editor in Maramis Choufani in the trashcan and wrote an ex- down until Saturday. On election friend did not allow him to keep the Chief of the Las Vegas Tribune. planation of why I stopped it and day, I realized it was not a real meeting or even using the normal His column appears weekly in this PRODUCTION I promised the Las Vegas Tribune coincidence; it was deliberately excuse of “something unexpected newspaper. To contact Rolando Don Snook readers that he was not ever going done; but by Saturday morning, just came up.” Larraz, email him at: Rlarraz@ to write for this newspaper again. before the elections took place, two I don’t care if Michael McDon- lasvegastribune.com or at 702- ASSOCIATE EDITOR 272-4634. Colleen Lloyd Among the people he was writ- very good friends of the Las Vegas ald sabotaged our website or not

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City Councilwoman Olivia Diaz promised to cleanup homeless problem in Ward 3 By Rolando Larraz A woman named Susan responded to our Las Vegas Tribune call to City Councilwoman Olivia Diaz but Lots of promises were made during the did not let us speak, despite the fact that we last city election where Ward One and Ward were the one who initiated the telephone Three were in a tied race with candidates call, because she had to explain to us how who had been political figures for a very long the city protocol works — as if it were our time and now that they were the winners, it is first day at work. “business as usual” and of course coverage We are offering a real picturesque event by assistants that are fulfilling the obligations of what we wanted to speak about with of those who were elected to serve their the councilwoman, but it seems like if the constituents. “executive assistant” is the one attending It is important to know that those who the meeting, maybe the councilwoman is were elected are supposed to be serving all “too busy” vacationing or campaigning for constituents alike, the ones who voted for a higher position. them and the ones who did not vote for the The homeless community uses the trailers office-holder. as toilets and neither the city nor the police Several calls made to City Councilwoman attempt to do anything about it. Olivia Diaz were answered by a telephone op- This is what we see in the morning when erator who said she’s “very busy in meetings we are coming to open the small downtown and doing other tasks for the councilwoman.” business.

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Your friendly neighborhood dealer at: Your friendly neighborhood dealer at: 716 South 10th Street 716 South 10th Street (Near the corner of 10th and Charleston) (Near the corner of 10th and Charleston) (702) 262-0703 (702) 262-0703 Page 4 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 50 attorneys general launch Google antitrust investigation By Harper Neidig they said focused solely on advertising. The Hill Google is not the only company in state A coalition of 50 attorneys general will be officials’ crosshairs. investigating Google for potential violations A smaller group of attorneys general, led of antitrust law, a step that could potentially by Democrat Letitia James of New York, lead to a broad legal challenge to the com- announced a similar probe of Facebook’s pany’s market dominance. market power on Friday. Facebook also The investigation, led by Texas Attorney revealed that it is facing an antitrust investi- General Ken Paxton (R) and Washington, gation from the FTC. D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D), was The heightened regulatory scrutiny comes announced on the steps of the Supreme Court as Silicon Valley has lost favor among law- building Monday afternoon after months of makers in Washington following a string rumors about states seeking to turn up the of privacy scandals and growing questions pressure on Silicon Valley. about whether they have suppressed their The probe will focus on Google’s dom- respective markets through monopoly power. inance in the online search and advertising Google is no stranger to antitrust scrutiny. markets. The European Union has fined the company “We have 50 attorneys general from across three times in recent years for violating its the nation who are involved in this investi- competition laws through its conduct in gation that we’re leading from Texas,” said comparison shopping, online advertising and Paxton. “This is a company that dominates mobile operating systems. all aspects of advertising on the internet and But Google has escaped any serious sanc- searching on the internet as they dominate violated competition laws. to cooperating with the Federal Trade Com- tions in its own country. The FTC closed an the buyers’ side, the sellers’ side, the auction The state-led effort comes as Google and mission (FTC) and the Department of Justice antitrust investigation into the company in side and even the video side with YouTube,” other tech companies like Facebook are fac- (DOJ). But they also made it clear that they 2013 without pressing charges over anticom- he said of Google. ing multiple investigations at the federal level were planning to be more aggressive. petitive conduct, though agency staff had “This investigation is not a lawsuit — this over whether they have violated the nation’s When asked for comment, a Google recommended it at the time. is an investigation to determine the facts, and antitrust laws. spokesman pointed to a blog post published Multiple attorneys general, including Ra- right now we’re looking at advertising,” Pax- But many of Silicon Valley’s critics have by Kent Walker, the company’s chief legal cine and Utah’s Sean Reyes (R), have since ton added. “But the facts will lead to where felt that federal law enforcers have been too officer, on Friday after it was revealed that asked the FTC to reopen the investigation, the facts lead.” hands-off with the tech industry’s giants and the DOJ had sent Google requests for records. which focused on Google’s search practices. Paxton and Racine were joined at the see the states’ investigation as a sign they’re “We have answered many questions on “They declined to reopen that investiga- announcement by attorneys general from seeking to fill the void. these issues over many years, in the United tion at the time that General Racine and I Alaska, South Dakota, Indiana, Arkansas, “I suspect it will spur on federal investi- States as well as overseas, across many as- asked them to,” Reyes said Monday. “The Utah, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, gators who will see the states are moving and pects of our business, so this is not new for EU then issued fines and sanctions based on Louisiana and Nebraska. being active and who will feel compelled to us,” Walker wrote. those very same complaints and concerns, The coalition includes 48 states, plus the do the same,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), an “The DOJ has asked us to provide infor- and I’ll just leave it at that.” District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Cal- outspoken critic of Facebook and Google and mation about these past investigations, and Racine added that while they plan to co- ifornia and Alabama are the only two states a former Missouri attorney general, said on a we expect state attorneys general will ask operate with the federal agencies, the group not to join the investigation. call with reporters on Monday. similar questions. We have always worked won’t settle for any course of action “that The probe is in very its early stages, and The group of attorneys general announc- constructively with regulators and we will may fall short” of what the states think needs the group said they weren’t ready to discuss ing the investigation Monday declined to continue to do so.” to be done. what kind of remedy they would pursue if criticize the federal government’s efforts on The state attorneys general sent their own “We’re going to do what we think is right they found that the internet search giant had antitrust and said they were looking forward records request to Google on Monday, which based on our investigation,” Racine said. San Francisco Democrats get nationwide backlash By Frank Holmes Democrats are telling people, if Los Angeles Times writer Mi- The Horn News you want to stay in business, you’d chael McGough wrote that San In their latest insanity, Demo- better agree with us! Francisco’s attempt “to blacklist crats in San Francisco have passed The NRA is all about keeping its contractors who deal with the a new ordinance that threatens to members safe, and our freedoms, NRA” is “problematic from a 1st squash Americans’ constitutional safe, so it did the only thing it could Amendment perspective.” rights — but a patriotic group is do: It sued. Other nationally known writers doing something conservatives in First, the group cleared the good are saying that even passing the California rarely get the chance name of honest gun owners all over politically toxic measure makes San to do. the United States. Francisco look like a circus. They’re fighting back — and “The NRA’s nearly five million “At some point, we may want to there’s a good chance they’ll win. members include countless military consider just putting a big fence up Last week, the city Board of veterans, first responders, and law around San Francisco and charging Supervisors unanimously passed a enforcement officers who have tourists an entrance fee to walk resolution saying gun owners are risked everything to protect Amer- around inside and stare at the curi- no different than radical Islamic icans from terrorism,” the NRA ous residents who live there,” wrote terrorists. enough for San Francisco: They motion “irresponsible,” “slan- says in a court filing. Calling them Jazz Shaw at “Hot Air.” Officials passed a resolution also want to make them homeless. derous and harmful,” and said it dangerous is “a frivolous insult.” But maybe the most important “declaring that the National Rifle The ordinance asks city officials took the City by the Bay to a new, But threatening to crush busi- defense came from Ryan Moore in Association is a domestic terrorist to find out how many of its contrac- “jaw-dropping level of stupidity.” nesses because you don’t like their The San Francisco Chronicle. organization and urging other cities, tors belong to, or do business with, It’s ridiculous to call people owner’s politics is “a nonfrivolous Moore said he was a lifelong states, and the federal government the NRA — and cut off all business murderers because they support the constitutional threat.” Democrat but after he got mugged, to do the same.” with them. legal right to own firearms, wrote The NRA said for the gov- he became a gun owner and even- The measure says that, since the The city’s radical left-wing Henry Olsen at “The Washington ernment to threaten to punish tually joined the NRA. NRA defends the Second Amend- officials would force taxpayers to Post” …that is, “unless political law-abiding people because of their “NRA members are families ment, it’s responsible for mass punish people who support the Con- disagreement is now a criminal political opinions violates the First and law-abiding citizens who love shootings all over the country. stitution… or even have the guts to offense.” Amendment. America and respect our Consti- Preserving the right to keep be associated with them. “Congratulations, average NRA This McCarthyite law threatens tution. NRA members are every- and bear arms means NRA mem- And it asks cities and states member: Your $30 one-year mem- to close any institution tied to any- where — you’ll even find us in San bers are guilty of “arm[ing] those across the country to do the same to bership makes you a terrorist,” he one who is in the NRA. Francisco and in New York City,” individuals who would and have law-abiding men and women from wrote. “In the face of recent, similar wrote Moore. “I truly believe NRA committed acts of terrorism,” the coast to coast. Others said that “no member blacklisting schemes, financial members are more likely to step up resolution says. Backlash soon came from all of the NRA has ever committed a institutions have expressed reluc- and intervene in times of crisis.” But just smearing five mil- over the country. mass shooting, but they sure have tance to provide bank accounts for The NRA proved him right when lion law-abiding Americans isn’t Writers nationwide called the stopped them.” disfavored political groups, and city it intervened in San Francisco’s contractors fear losing their liveli- constitutional crisis. hoods if they support or even work The NRA has spent more than Free Speech with the NRA,” its lawsuit says. 150 years defending the Second (Continued from Page 1) Frankly, the NRA is often too NRA members can be barred from What’s more, the NRA has huge Amendment. and incite gun owners to acts of quick to cower before the gun bidding on contracts in San Fran? support from across the country… Now, it’s going to defend the violence, and grabbers, but terrorists? If that happens expect legal action. and not just from conservatives. First. WHEREAS, The National Rifle The resolution goes on to de- The Wall Street Journal points Association spreads propaganda clare: “That the City and County out that in Board of County Com- that misinforms and aims to deceive of San Francisco should take every missioners v. Umbehr in 1996 the the public about the dangers of gun reasonable step to assess the finan- Supreme Court held that termi- violence, and cial and contractual relationships nating a contract in response to WHEREAS, The leadership of our vendors and contractors have the contractor’s protected speech National Rifle Association pro- with this domestic terrorist orga- violates the First Amendment. motes extremist positions, in defi- nization …” San Fran defines extremist po- ance of the views of a majority of So, does this mean card-carrying sitions. its membership and the public, and undermine the general welfare, and WHEREAS, The National Rifle Association through its advocacy Bob Beckett has armed those individuals who Attorney At Law would and have committed acts of Elected 5 terms as Nye County District Attorney DO YOU NEED AN EDITOR? terrorism; and Have you been embarrassed lately when someone WHEREAS, All countries have Practice areas Criminal defense, Personal injury, Bankruptcy pointed out to you that you misspelled a word in your violent and hateful people, but only report or maybe had a whole sentence all messed in America do we give them ready and debt, Car accident, DUI and DWI up? Have you personally felt that you could’ve done access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, Licensed for 29 years a much better job on that manuscript but just didn’t have the time? in large part, to the National Rifle AVVO CONTRIBUTIONS Association’s influence; now, there- fore, be it Beckett knows Nevada criminal law Why put off doing what you know you should have RESOLVED, That the City and — especially how to get the most out of done before: call in an editor! As a word-, sentence-, and document-doctor, she will fix what needs fixing County of San Francisco intends the probation/monitoring system. to declare the National Rifle As- by adding a little of this or that, and taking out what sociation a domestic terrorist Beckett provides very effective and shouldn’t have been there in the first place. organization ... personable service — His fees are also fair Incite gun owners to acts of vi- Give yourself the luxury of looking your best in print! olence? They’re just making it up [email protected]. 1-775-513-0942 as they go along. (702) 334-4886 September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 5 Wave of GOP retirements threatens 2020 comeback By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis trated a lot of members as well,” Curbelo told The Hill The Hill on Friday. A wave of House GOP retirements that “My work, my record was not really a accelerated during the August recess is cre- relevant factor in 2018,” he added. ating fresh headaches for party leaders and Yet a number of Republicans eyeing the suggesting Republicans see little chance of exits insist the president was not a factor in winning back the chamber in 2020. their decision. So far, 15 Republicans have announced Flores, a former oil company executive this cycle that they are retiring, resigning elected in the 2010 Tea Party wave election, or running for other offices, including eight said he never intended to have a lifelong since the summer recess began in late July. career in Washington. And with his parents A handful of those departing, such as Rep. now in their 80s and a newly married son, Will Hurd (R-Texas), would have faced tough Flores said his “family situation” made it a reelections in competitive districts. good time to leave Congress. But the vast majority occupy safe, conser- and Jim Sensenbrenner (Wis.) said they won’t these [retirements],” said Corbin Casteel, a “I’m optimistic about opportunities for vative seats — a sign that these lawmakers seek another term in 2020. longtime GOP strategist in Austin. “We’ve [the GOP] in 2020,” Flores said in a phone may be fatigued from the chaotic Trump era They joined six other Republicans to an- had members retire before and have held the interview Friday. “When you boil down all and have no desire to wander in the political nounce over the summer recess that they’re seats. This is not meant to be a lifetime job.” the noise, you come up with a couple of key wilderness for another two years or longer either retiring or resigning: Reps. Hurd, Ken- There’s some disagreement about Presi- issues: Are people better off than they were after losing the House in 2018. ny Marchant(Texas), Sean Duffy (Wis.) and dent Trump’s role in the wave of retirements. four years ago? Most people would say yes. “The most likely outcome is a status quo John Shimkus (Ill.) as well as former Natural Privately, Republicans frequently grumble And do we want to go socialist? Most people election for the House. And that certainly Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop about having to respond to the latest presi- would say no.” influences people’s decision [to retire], (Utah) and former Agriculture Committee dential tweet, scandal or attack on sitting Still, the departures mark a new challenge whether they think they can regain the major- Chairman Mike Conaway (Texas). lawmakers. And outside observers say the for GOP leaders and campaign operatives, ity or not,” said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo Democrats have mocked the five GOP chaos surrounding the White House is likely who are fighting to flip the chamber but face (R-Fla.), one of two dozen Republicans swept retirements from the Lone Star state as the contributing to the departures. a growing battlefield as their incumbency out of office during the anti-Trump wave “Texodus.” “I don’t think Republicans envision shrinks. election that handed Democrats control of All told, 15 Republicans have already flipping the House in the near future, and The Democrats’ campaign arm is cheering the House last fall. announced plans to give up their seats, being in the minority is not fun,” said Julian the trend, with 19 Republicans on its retire- “For sure, some of those members who compared to four Democrats. And as the Zelizer, an expert in congressional history at ment watchlist. retired, [staying in the minority] was a factor retirement list has grown this summer, GOP Princeton University. “Some are also tired of Former Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), a in their thinking,” he added. lawmakers and aides are anxiously asking having to defend the party, not just in the era senior member of the GOP whip team who Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said the one another who might be next to go. of Trump but in the era of the Tea Party. So retired last cycle, said another driver of the notion of remaining in the minority is one Among the names being floated around the incentives increase to do something else.” flurry of retirements is the grueling cam- factor driving the wave of GOP retirements, Washington are veteran establishment Re- Curbelo, who represented a heavily His- paigning required to take back the majority. but it’s hardly the only one. publicans such as Reps. Fred Upton (Mich.), panic swing district in the Miami area, said GOP leaders are pressing their members The GOP base has shifted, he said, cre- Steve Chabot (Ohio), Mac Thornberry (Tex- Trump specifically played a role in his defeat to raise money for the House GOP campaign ating new power centers that are forcing as) and Greg Walden (Ore.) — all former to Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell last operation and stump for candidates around once-comfortable lawmakers “to have to committee chairmen — as well as rank-and- year. And the controversial, all-consuming the country, translating to more time away hustle a little bit.” file members such as Reps. Adam Kinzinger president may be why some of Curbelo’s from home. He also pointed to the simple question (Ill.) and Ken Buck (Colo.). former colleagues are calling it quits. “It takes a lot of work to get back to the “Trump is a big part of it. Something of finances, as members of Congress have “The retirements are unnerving,” said Bill majority,” Ross told The Hill. “If they can’t Trump has done is take away Republicans’ not received a pay increase in more than a Miller, a GOP lobbyist and consultant based be everything the team wants them to to be, ability to have their own identity, so you’re decade. in Austin, Texas. “The reality is that life in then they start thinking maybe it’s time for asked to compete every two years, and your But perhaps the most significant factor, the minority is just not as appealing, but at someone else to do it. It’s not bad for the record and your work have little to do with Davis said, are the “changing electoral pat- the same time, in some of these cases, there process to get fresh new people and fresh how people are going to vote. That has frus- terns” brought on by the rise of the populist is a little bit of fear of losing built into the ideas in there,” he added. movement that propelled Trump to the White decisions not to run again.” House — an environment that is hardly Democrats are hardly immune to the trend, Big Shoe To Fill unique to the United States. and retirements don’t necessarily mean losing (Continued from Page 1) individual liberty.” “The overall atmosphere in Washington the seats. rary unity, the next test of the party will be the The process to elect McDonald involved is not very pleasant,” said Davis, who previ- Heading into the 2012 elections, the support of candidates in all races, and county the State Central Committee of roughly 350 ously led the House GOP’s campaign arm. party roles were reversed: Democrats had party will supplant State funding in their members with 100 percent of voters submit- “This is a global phenomenon caused by the the White House, but Republicans held the quest to pursue FEC compliance so they may ting proxies, or in person, votes. While it’s rapidity of change, the instant communica- Speaker’s gavel, and all signs pointed to them work on federal, state, and local elections. possible Conservatives and RINOs may heal tions, the rising expectations of those people keeping it. McKeon stated further, “I ran on further- the division to get Trump elected, the deep who are unhappy with the change, who don’t During that cycle, 22 Democrats retired ing the Constitutional Republic platform with divide created by factions within county see [government] helping fast enough and or sought a different office, but Republicans strong county party programs and I’ll never parties are still in full gear. Dave McKeon who feel their status threatened.” picked up only five of those seats, and GOP stop believing politics are local because the said this, “The sun sets tonight on a job well Whatever the cause, retirements are piling operatives are hoping to have similar success voter lives in the State, but they really ‘live’ done by all. And Republicans are committed up quickly. next year defending the open spots. in the county and when we take care of people to re-electing the Disclosure President for This week, GOP Reps. Bill Flores (Texas) “People are reading entirely too much into locally, everything grows and expands for four more years.” McDonald Reelection (Continued from Page 1) GOP primaries shaping up fea- And the beat goes on… Come on. Under these circum- turing clearly superior candidates Overheard at the NRCC Meeting stances McDonald should have against unknown, inexperienced, I hear a Central Committee won darned near unanimously. In under-funded challengers who member in Winnemucca confronted fact, he shouldn’t have faced a don’t have a prayer. Nevada GOP MisCommunications challenge at all. And what’s the Nevada GOP Director Keith Schipwreck, one of Still, a win’s a win. And McDon- going to do about it? Pull a Pontius Mike Slanker’s out-of-state politi- ald demonstrated an undeniable Pilot, wash its hands, and stay neu- cal cronies, and accused him of not resiliency by hanging on despite tral until the primary’s over. knowing anything about Nevada. undeniable failures by Nevada It’s an inexcusable dereliction of “Do, too,” replied the indignant Republicans at the ballot box over fiduciary responsibility by an orga- Schipwreck. the last two election cycles. nization elected to provide Nevada “OK,” the NRCC member chal- Unfortunately, by re-electing Republicans some leadership, not lenged, “then what’s the capital of McDonald the NRCC actually put followership. Nevada?” RINO-whisperer consultant Mike They don’t call the Republican “N!” Schipwreck proudly re- Slanker in charge of the party’s po- Party the “stupid party” for nothing. plied. litical operations and strategy. And no good can possibly come of that. So while President Trump will surely win Nevada next year, start planning now for a repeat of the Nevada GOP chairman candidate Annie Black speaking electoral disasters of 2016 and with unidentified NRCC member at Winnemucca meeting. 2018 for Republican candidates in tionale behind this — and there’s GEN of doubt that Adam Laxalt congressional, state legislative and merit to it. was overwhelmingly the strongest other races. With President Trump’s nomi- horse for the GOP to ride in that Oh, and get ready for this… nation now a foregone conclusion race against seven lesser wannabes. With Slanker in charge here’s there will be no reason for the three Indeed, his “closest” competitor, what the Nevada GOP can look GOP stooges who have thus far Dan Schwartz, wasn’t even able to forward to in 2022: “Never Trump- announced they’re running against get 10 percent of the vote. er” Dean Heller for governor and him — Bill Weld, Joe Walsh and Yet the Nevada GOP stayed RINO King Brian Sandoval for Mark Sanford — to campaign here. “neutral” and allowed Schwartz to U.S. Senate - both Slanker clients. Which means the Trump cam- nip and yelp at Laxalt’s heels the They don’t call the Republican paign — not the Nevada GOP — entire primary season — softening Party the “stupid party” for nothing. will save money. So there’s that. him up for Sisolak in the general 2.) The NRCC also voted to And, truth be told, the party’s — without so much as a peep of scrap the presidential caucus in pre-primary endorsement of clearly defense from the party. February. Instead, President Trump the strongest candidate with the On what planet other than Ura- will be officially nominated by the best chance to win the general nus does this make strategic and Nevada GOP next year. election in November 2020 is smart tactical sense? The argument in favor of disen- politics. “Yes,” I can hear defenders say, franchising a half-million Nevada But that raises a thorny ques- “but Trump is different. He’s an Republican voters is that it will tion… incumbent.” save the party money. If giving President Trump an Really? OK. Then why didn’t The goofy thing about that is the early pre-primary endorsement and the Nevada GOP give incumbent party still must hold its caucuses shutting off party support for gadfly U.S. Sen. Dean Heller a pre-prima- to elect delegates to the county, candidates who will do nothing but ry endorsement in 2018? state and national conventions. So soften up the inevitable nominee “Humina, humina, humina, there’s no “cost savings.” There’s during a heated primary campaign humina…” still going to be a caucus. is smart politics — and it is — then, Look, if it’s good to give a All this means is that people um… clearly superior presidential goose a who otherwise would show up at Why hasn’t the party done the pre-primary endorsement to avoid a Get first month box the caucus to vote for President same for other races? messy and unnecessarily costly pri- Trump next year will instead just Here, I’ll give you just one mary, why isn’t it good for ganders? rent FREE with any stay home. Hard to see how that example: The 2018 Republican The fact is, in multiple con- helps rebuild the party. primary for governor. gressional and legislative Nevada U-Haul truck rental Now, I DO understand the ra- There wasn’t even a SMID- races for 2020 we’re already seeing Page 6 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 GOP senators say Trump deserves compatible national security adviser after Bolton firing By Rebecca Kheel ative of Trump surrounding himself Most GOP senators took a sim- The Hill with “yes men.” ilar tact as Risch. Republican senators walked a “He doesn’t want anyone who Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said tightrope Tuesday after the ouster presents a countervailing view for “it’s probably a good thing” Bolton of national security adviser John his consideration,” Menendez said. is leaving, even as he expressed Bolton, both praising him for his “And when all you get is yes men some disappointment. service and agreeing with President around you, then the consequenc- “Mr. Bolton and the president Trump that he deserves a more es of that, not only are you in a weren’t seeing eye to eye,” Johnson compatible adviser. bubble, but since the president is said. “People aren’t going to agree One notable exception was often wrong, particularly on foreign on everything, but I think when it Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who policy, well, then the consequenc- reaches that point it’s probably a said he was “very, very unhappy” es of that is somebody’s going to good thing they parted company. Bolton was leaving. embolden him instead of challenge I have a lot of respect for John “His view was not always the him as to what the national security Bolton. I hate to see him leave.” same as everybody else in the room. of the United States is all about.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said That’s why you wanted him there. But Republican Senate Foreign he’s a “big fan” of Bolton’s, but that The fact that he was a contrarian Relations Committee Chairman Jim Trump “has the right to have who from time to time is an asset, not Risch(Idaho) said he is not worried he wants around him.” a liability,” Romney told reporters Bolton’s ouster caps an 18-month position of Mr. Bolton, and I think about instability, saying Trump “In my view he did a good job, after the president tweeted that tenure in which Trump increasingly that maybe that brought things to a needs to have a close relationship but ultimately that’s the president’s Bolton had been fired. broke with his adviser and Bolton’s head,” Paul said. with his national security adviser. decision to make,” Rubio said. “It is a huge loss for the admin- influence in the administration Democrats, who disagreed with “That relationship between the “It’s my personal view that he did istration, in my opinion, and for the steadily waned. Bolton in most areas, blasted the president and the national security a good job, but he didn’t work for nation,” Romney added. Most recently, Bolton was announcement of his departure adviser has got to be a relationship me. He worked for the president, so On the other end of the spec- reportedly fiercely opposed to as the latest sign of instability in that is very solid and that the pres- ultimately the president has a right trum, isolationist Sen. Rand Paul Trump’s scrapped plan to meet Trump’s foreign policy. ident has absolutely 100 percent to people working for him that he’s (R-Ky.) hailed Bolton’s departure, with the Taliban at Camp David for Senate Minority Leader Charles confidence in,” Risch said. comfortable with.” saying the “threat of war worldwide peace talks to end the 18-year-old Schumer (D-N.Y.) called Bolton’s goes down exponentially with John war in Afghanistan. ouster “just the latest example of Basque Fry Bolton out of the White House.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), [Trump’s] government-by-chaos (Continued from Page 2) getting out and that people under- “I think his advocacy for regime a Trump ally, suggested on Tues- approach and his rudderless nation- politically expedient for them, and stand there is a strong alternative to change around the world is a naive day the Taliban meeting was the al security policy.” they rarely have the media holding progressivism, leftism, socialism, world view and I think the world breaking point between Trump and “When Ambassador Bolton’s them accountable for that kind of et cetera.” will be a much better place with Bolton. extreme views aren’t enough for thing,” he said. One of the panels at CPAC West new advisers to the president and Asked if he was given advance you, the United States is headed for This year the Basque Fry is will address the Western lands hopefully somebody who’s actually warning about Bolton, Graham told even more chaotic times,” Schumer being held in conjunction with the policies over the past few decades, listening to what the president says reporters that he “knew there was said. Conservative Political Action Con- which have hampered the economic over and over again: that he wants some concerns about the whole Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) ference West, which is being put wellbeing of rural communities. to bring America’s longest war to Taliban meeting, but I didn’t know said he was “legitimately shaken” on by the American Conservative Laxalt concluded by saying, a close,” Paul said. for sure.” by the news. Trump tweeted early Tuesday Graham said that while Bolton “I’m legitimately shaken by Union at the Grand Sierra Resort “This type of event is important to afternoon that he asked for Bolton’s “served the country well,” Trump the grave instability of American in Reno the day before. encourage people to engage, and if resignation, citing disagreements “deserves a national security advis- foreign policy today,” Murphy Laxalt said it is important for we don’t engage we will lose this with Bolton’s policy advice. er he has confidence in.” tweeted. ”I’m no Bolton fan, but conservatives to build policy in- state and we will lose this country. “I informed John Bolton last “It’s time for him to move on the world is coming apart, and the frastructure. “To have such a na- Unfortunately, many of our voters night that his services are no lon- because the president wants some- revolving door of U.S. leadership tionally reputable organization like they don’t have politics as a hobby. ger needed at the White House. I body else,” Graham said. is disappearing America from the the American Conservative Union They are raising families and run- disagreed strongly with many of Paul similarly speculated that world just at the moment where and CPAC to come to Nevada and ning small businesses and things his suggestions, as did others in the differences over Afghanistan con- a stable American hand is most create a CPAC West, I think is going like that. It is just very hard to get Administration,” Trump tweeted tributed to Bolton’s downfall, but needed.” to be great for us,” he said. “We people engaged in this otherwise Bolton later tweeted that he of- stressed that he didn’t have “inside And Senate Foreign Relations need to rebuild the conservative ugly business, but we need people fered his resignation Monday night. information.” Committee ranking member Sen. intellectual base in this state, which to get more engaged. I still feel “I offered to resign last night and “The president has a great desire Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), stressing we know was not encouraged in confident if we get more and more President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk to bring America’s longest war to his disagreements with Bolton’s the last many years or supported. I people into the system, then we can about it tomorrow,’” Bolton said. an end. I don’t think that’s been the viewpoints, said his ouster is indic- think it is important that message is win back this state.” Trump Fires Bolton (Continued from Page 1) president’s transactional tendencies position of Mr. Bolton, and I think hopefully somebody who’s actually Rubio (R-Fla.). “He worked for the days before the anniversary of the with foreign affairs and his aver- that maybe that brought things to a listening to what the president says president, so ultimately the presi- Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. sion to getting involved in foreign head,” Paul said. over and over again: that he wants dent has a right to people working Democrats, who disagreed with conflicts. Paul, an isolationist, hailed to bring America’s longest war to a for him that he’s comfortable with.” the hawkish Bolton on most points, Bolton, a fierce Iran hawk who Bolton’s departure, saying the close,” Paul said. Bolton is the third national pounced on his firing as the latest advocated for regime change there, “threat of war worldwide goes Notwithstanding Romney’s security adviser to be jettisoned in sign of instability in Trump’s for- and his influence initially coincided down exponentially with John criticism, most Republicans argued the Trump administration, mean- eign policy. with the administration hammering Bolton out of the White House.” Trump has the right to a more com- ing Trump will have four national Senate Minority Leader Charles Tehran with sanctions. “I think his advocacy for regime patible national security adviser, security advisers within less than Schumer (D-N.Y.), who expressed But in recent months, Trump has change around the world is a naive even as they praised Bolton. three years as commander in chief. concerns over Bolton’s appointment expressed an openness to meeting world view and I think the world “In my view he did a good job, Bolton was preceded by H.R. Mc- last year, called his ouster “just the with Iranian leaders, a clear contrast will be a much better place with but ultimately that’s the president’s Master and, very briefly, Michael latest example of [Trump’s] gov- to Bolton. Following Bolton’s oust- new advisers to the president and decision to make,” said Sen. Marco Flynn. ernment-by-chaos approach and his er, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, rudderless national security policy.” who had also clashed with the na- “When Ambassador Bolton’s tional security adviser, suggested a extreme views aren’t enough for meeting between Trump and Irani- you, the United States is headed for an President Hassan Rouhani at the even more chaotic times,” Schumer upcoming United Nations General said. Assembly in New York was likely. A few Republicans were “The president has made very also critical. Sen. Mitt Romney clear he is prepared to meet with (R-Utah), the GOP presidential no preconditions,” Pompeo told nominee in 2012, said Bolton’s reporters at the White House. departure was a loss for the nation. Pompeo acknowledged he dis- White House aides declined to agreed with Bolton on many points address the specific circumstances but downplayed talk his resignation surrounding Bolton’s exit. could foretell a softening of the CENEGENICS MEDICAL INSTITUTE “John Bolton’s priorities and administration’s policy toward Iran. policies just don’t line up with Bolton’s tenure was marked by Ken Small AIA, CSI, LEED the president’s,” White House an early stumble when he spoke 7040 Laredo St, Suite C spokesman Hogan Gidley told about a “Libya model” for North Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 reporters Tuesday afternoon. “Any Korea nuclear negotiations, which sitting president has the right to put prompted Pyongyang to threaten to Office : 702 . 873 . 1718 someone in that position to carry cut off talks. * Commercial out an agenda. It became no longer For a while after that, Bolton * Tenant tenable, and the president made a receded into the background of the Improvements change.” administration. 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But saw his influence wane over the months after the U.S. backed an course of his tenure as he clashed opposition leader, Maduro remains with Trump on various fronts. in power and Trump has reportedly Bolton’s ouster comes after he grown frustrated with the stagnant was reportedly sidelined from the situation. administration’s policy discus- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), sions on Afghanistan. Trump has a Trump ally, suggested the pro- long pushed for withdrawing U.S. posed Taliban meeting was the troops from Afghanistan to end breaking point between Trump and the 18-year-old war, thrusting him Bolton. out of step with Bolton, who has Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) simi- advocated for an expansive military larly speculated differences over presence around the globe. Afghanistan contributed to Bolton’s Trump’s pairing with Bolton, a downfall, but stressed he didn’t national security hawk who held have “inside information.” roles in the Reagan and both Bush “The president has a great desire administrations, was always an to bring America’s longest war to odd-duck relationship given the an end. I don’t think that’s been the September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 7 Congress faces sprint to avoid another shutdown By Jordain Carney through, that would still leave some of the The Hill most controversial areas, including funding Congress is bracing for a three-week sprint for the Department of Homeland Security, to avoid the second government shutdown for later in the year. of the year. The White House is also asking for Con- Lawmakers returned to Washington on gress to lift a restriction on wall spending that Monday, and they’ll have 16 working days to limits construction to the Rio Grande River reach a deal to fund the government by Oct. Valley. A House Democratic aide confirmed 1 or pass a spending patch to kick the fight that the caucus is opposed to loosening the closer to the holidays. restrictions, setting up a likely flashpoint for But the House and Senate are coming the talks about the stopgap spending bill. back to town with plans to move forward Schumer, in a letter to his Democratic on different tracks. House Democrats are colleagues, said their fall priorities included focused on passing a continuing resolution “avoiding another unnecessary, harmful (CR), while Senate Republicans are set to Trump shutdown as we continue the appro- make a late start at moving fiscal 2020 bills. priations process for the year ahead.” But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D- Schumer provided no hints about what red Md.) outlined his plan in a “Dear Colleague” lines the caucus could draw as it negotiates letter while knocking Senate Republicans for too far behind,” the aide said. “So the one “We’ve got to get the appropriations bills the fiscal 2020 funding bills. failing to “introduce a single appropriations we bring up on the floor the week of [the] passed to prevent a government shutdown, House Democrats argue that any talk of bill for the first time in more than three 16th will be a full CR, covering all 12 bills.” which I think represents the ultimate failure trying to get a package of fiscal 2020 bills to decades.” The aide added that in an “ideal world” by to govern,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a Trump’s desk this month is unfeasible be- “As we wait for them to complete their the time the House votes on the CR it would member of the Senate Appropriations Com- cause of the tight timeline and would set up a work so that we can begin conference ne- reflect an agreement with the Senate and that mittee, said during an interview with Maine similar dynamic that led to the last shutdown. gotiations, a continuing resolution will be it was “more likely” the stopgap will have Public Radio. Last year, Congress had passed funding necessary to prevent another government Senate buy-in by the time it comes up on the Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) predicted that for five bills but still needed to get a deal on shutdown like the one we experienced earlier House floor. a shutdown likely wouldn’t happen because other pieces of government funding, includ- this year, which harmed thousands of Amer- Senate Republicans, however, are pushing “Republicans get caught holding the bag on ing the Department of Homeland Security. ican families,” Hoyer wrote in his letter to forward with their plan to start work on the that one.” Instead, the government plunged into the House Democrats. 12 individual appropriations bills. But Braun added that he likely would not longest shutdown in modern history. Leadership hasn’t formally announced Lawmakers need to pass 12 appropriations support a CR unless it also reined in spend- A Hoyer aide said that he would not how long a CR, which would continue fund- bills, either individually or as a package. ing, underscoring the conservative backlash back supporting part of the fiscal 2020 bills ing levels at fiscal 2019 levels, would last. While the House has already passed 10 of the leadership could face as it tries to keep the and then a short-term CR for the rest of the A House Democratic aide said the spend- 12 bills, the Senate held back while Trump government open. government “unless agreement on other out- ing patch would likely go until either late and congressional leadership negotiated a Senate Republicans are hoping to get at standing matters happened first.” November or early December but pegged two-year budget deal. least one package to Trump’s desk before Oct. “For instance, at a minimum, we would the most likely end date as Nov. 22. That Shelby announced on Friday that his com- 1. Shelby and other Republican members of need to reach bipartisan and bicameral agree- would put the next spending deadline up mittee would vote on four bills on Thursday: the Senate Appropriations Committee have ment on all 302(b) subcommittee allocations against a weeklong Thanksgiving recess, with labor, health and human services, and educa- talked up trying to get a package that merged ahead of considering such a package. We are lawmakers expected to leave Washington by tion; energy and water; and state and foreign defense; labor, health and human services, likely going to need a CR to allow for that the 22nd. operations. They’re also planning to approve and education; and potentially energy and negotiation considering Senate appropriators But Senate leadership hasn’t yet signed on top-line figures, known as 302(b)s, for all 12 water development to Trump despite the tight won’t have bills introduced and reported out to the House’s CR plan, as lawmakers have appropriations bills. time frame. for at least another week,” the aide added. been dispersed across the country. Republicans want to avoid a repeat of last “I don’t know if we can get a bill on the Another House Democratic aide separate- The Democratic aide noted that House winter’s partial shutdown, where roughly a president’s desk by Sept. 30 or not, but I ly dismissed talk of trying to get a package Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita quarter of the government was closed for 35 would certainly like to see one of the bills get of fiscal 2020 bills as unrealistic. Lowey (D-N.Y.) hadn’t spoken with Senate days because of a fight over the U.S.-Mexico there,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of “There’s not enough time to do that. Even Appropriations Committee Chairman Rich- border wall. Causing headaches for the par- GOP leadership and chairman of the Senate if the Senate Republicans somehow moved ard Shelby (R-Ala.) about a CR but predicted ty, President Trump said during a televised Appropriations Labor, Health and Human very quickly, I don’t think we have an interest they would speak this week when they are meeting with Senate Minority Leader Charles Services, Education, and Related Agencies in moving some bills but not all of them,” the both back in the Capitol. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nan- Subcommittee told The Hill shortly before aide added. “There’s no conceivable situation “We are operating under the assumption cy Pelosi(D-Calif.) that he would “take the the recess. where we would pass some bills before Sept. that we have to do one. I think the Senate is mantle” for a shutdown. If lawmakers were able to get one package 30 and leave others on a CR.” Media fails to note 6 murder suspects are illegal immigrants, MS-13 gangbangers By Judicial Watch The mainstream media conve- niently manipulates the flow of information to keep with its liberal agenda and this week we have yet another example; widespread coverage involving the gruesome murder of a young Maryland man omits that most of the suspects are illegal immigrants affiliated with a cal affiliates of national television five from El Salvador and one from illegal immigrants sanctuary make local crimes. Only three Maryland violent criminal gang. The 21-year- networks. They variously rehashed Mexico—in the agency’s system the task more difficult. The suspects counties cooperate with ICE and old victim’s body was found at the the crime and cited the medical ex- and members of the Mara Salvatru- in this case should have been turned Democrats are trying to pass broad end of July in Towson, a communi- aminer’s determination that Cuellar cha (MS-13), long designated as a over to federal authorities long ago, legislation to make the entire state ty of about 55,000 located roughly was killed with multiple sharp force transnational criminal organization but like a growing number of mu- an official sanctuary. Along with 11 miles north of Baltimore City. objects. One national news head- by the U.S. government. Last year nicipalities, Baltimore County of- the District of Columbia, Maryland Police said the victim, Daniel Ale- line reads: “Seven People, Includ- ICE removed nearly 6,000 gang- fers illegal aliens sanctuary. Back in is one of 12 states that offer illegal jandro Cuellar, was found lying ing Juvenile, Charged With Murder bangers from the country, including 2017 Baltimore County Executive immigrants driver’s licenses, ac- near an apartment building with After Body Found Near Towson 1,332 MS-13 members, according Kevin Kamenetz issued an order cording to the National Conference “trauma to the body.” Apartment.” Another, published by to agency figures. It marked a 24 prohibiting county law enforcement of State Legislatures. The others are This week seven suspects were a local outlet, simply says “Seven percent increase from the previous officers from asking suspects about California, Colorado, Connecticut, arrested and charged with first Charged In Baltimore County year. immigration status or cooperat- Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, degree murder for Cuellar’s death. Murder.” None of the coverage Local governments, like those ing with federal agents to deport New Mexico, Utah, Vermont and Baltimore County authorities pub- bothers to mention the pertinent throughout Maryland, that offer illegal immigrants who commit Washington. lished the information along with information regarding the suspects’ the names and mug shots of each immigration status and confirmed individual. It is easy to conclude affiliation to a famously violent from the look of the mug shots and criminal gang that operates all the accompanying names that the over the United States. This seems suspects are all Hispanic, though to violate the tenets of journalism, immigration status is not men- which include accuracy, fairness, tioned in the county bulletin. The objectivity and impartiality. arrested are identified as 20-year- We only know this essential old Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez, information about these Baltimore 20-year-old Marlon Leonardo suspects because a conservative Fabian-Flores, 18-year-old Edwin news outlet bothered to do some Edgardo Garcia-Martir, 31-year-old real reporting. In a story appro- Hugo Portillo-Chavez, 19-year- priately titled “Media blackout: At old Joe Fausto Rivera-Coreas, least 6 illegal aliens charged with 20-year-old Odaliz Rosas-Yanez brutal murder in Baltimore suburb,” and 16-year-old Leonel Alexander the Conservative Review reveals Velasquez-Hernandez. All seven that, unlike other media outlets, it are being held without bail at the actually contacted Immigration and Baltimore County Detention Center Customs Enforcement (ICE) to find and face life in prison if convicted. out if the agency had detainers on The recent arrests received any of the arrestees accused of mur- quite a bit of news coverage, from dering Cuellar. 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Counties that McCready carried last CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican Dan McCready’s credentials as a Marine Corps year — Richmond in the central part of the Bishop edged out Democrat Dan McCready veteran and businessman as well as his district and Cumberland in the east — swung in the special election on Tuesday to represent moderate bona fides. The Democratic Con- this time for Bishop, while the Republican North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, gressional Campaign Committee, the House grew his margins in battleground counties, narrowly holding on to a House seat that has Democratic campaign arm, spent millions like Robeson. been in the GOP’s hands for nearly 60 years. of dollars on field operations in the race, Bishop’s victory in the 9th District is a With 99 percent of precincts reporting, delving into paid advertising only in the final respite for Republicans after the party lost 40 Bishop led McCready nearly 4,000 votes, stretch of the race. And national Democrats House seats in the 2018 midterm elections, a or a little over 2 percent of ballots cast — a largely refrained from appearing alongside phenomenon driven largely by suburban and large enough margin to avoid the possibility McCready during the campaign. female voters, who have begun to move away of a recount. Bishop’s win brings to an end Speaking to supporters in Charlotte from the GOP under Trump’s presidency. a political saga in the 9th District that has after the election was called on Tuesday, The special election was also seen as spanned more than two years. McCready said that he had called Bishop to something of a bellwether for 2020, when A regularly scheduled election in the congratulate him on his win. He recalled his Trump himself will face reelection. district last year showed then-Republican 27 months on the campaign trail, reassuring Republicans sought to downplay that candidate Mark Harris leading McCready by staffers, volunteers and supporters that their notion, pointing to McCready’s more than a scant 905 votes. But state officials scrapped efforts weren’t in vain. two years on the campaign trail and massive the results of that race earlier this year after “The people of North Carolina stood up campaign bank account. Asked in an inter- uncovering a massive ballot fraud scheme of testing ground for his political messaging and we faced down the full force of election view on Monday whether the results of the allegedly operated by a contractor for Harris’s heading into 2020. fraud and voter suppression,” McCready said. 9th District election foreshadowed what’s campaign. Indeed, Bishop tied much of his campaign “When the people in power sought to silence to come in 2020, Kayleigh McEnany, the The controversy prompted Harris to step to his support for Trump. On the trail, he often the power of the voters, stole their ballots, national secretary for Trump’s reelection aside as the GOP nominee in the district, talked about the need to build the president’s forged signatures, filled in vote choices for campaign, offered a firm “no.” kicking off a 10-way primary race. Bishop, long-promised wall on the U.S. southern them; when they perpetrated the largest case There were signs, however, that Re- a conservative state senator and the North border and accused McCready of backing of election fraud in recent American history, publicans were concerned about a possible Carolina Republican Party’s preferred can- “socialist” policies, a key talking point of we fought back and we won.” loss in the special election. Republican and didate, emerged as the winner of that contest. Trump and Republicans in Washington. “We were not successful tonight,” he conservative groups spent millions on paid His victory on Tuesday was a major relief In a victory speech to supporters on Tues- continued, “but I want you to remember that advertising in recent months, and Trump for Republicans, who have maintained an iron day night, Bishop cast his win as a triumph victory postponed is not defeat.” and Vice President Pence made last-minute grip on the 9th District since 1963. for Trump. Without the president, he said, McCready’s supporters were somber after appearances in the district on Monday in McCready even liked to remind supporters his election would not have been possible. the race was called for Bishop. an effort to rally support for Bishop ahead at his campaign rallies that former President “Last night I told President Trump we “I knew it was going to come down to a of Election Day — efforts that ultimately Kennedy was in the White House the last time weren’t tired of winning,” he said, referring few thousand votes,” José Santiago, a Union appeared successful. a Democrat represented the district. to his appearance alongside Trump at a Mon- County Democratic Party official, said. “I “The White House, Republican leadership President Trump also carried the district day-night rally in Fayetteville. “We’re not was just hoping those votes would go in our and all our Republican and conservative in 2016 by a nearly 12-point margin over tired of winning. We’re just getting started direction.” partners were there for us every step of the Hillary Clinton, and the special election on winning, because we’re seeing the successful McCready ultimately trailed Bishop by a way because they all understood what was at Tuesday was seen by Republicans as a sort results of President Trump’s agenda.” wider margin than he did Harris in 2018 — stake in this election,” Bishop said. Google, YouTube fined record $170 million for violating children’s privacy By Harper Neidig requiring more substantive chang- cluded a requirement that YouTube The Hill es or doing more to hold Google police its site for potential violators Google will pay $170 million to accountable for harming children who continue to serve up targeted settle charges that YouTube made through years of illegal data col- ads to children without parents’ millions of dollars over the years lection.” permission. from violating children’s privacy The settlement also drew con- She noted in a statement that the laws, the Federal Trade Com- demnation from lawmakers who agreement does not prevent other mission (FTC) and New York’s have raised questions about the state attorneys general from pur- attorney general announced on FTC’s willingness to go after cor- suing a more restrictive settlement Wednesday. porate giants. with YouTube over the privacy The fine is by far the largest ever Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who violations that the FTC uncovered. imposed on a website for violations helped write COPPA as a House “This order will make YouTube of the 1998 Children’s Online member, called the order “tooth- safer for children than it has been, Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), ators the best experience possible the company’s practices that led to less” and said the FTC should have but, without a backstop to catch which requires companies to obtain on YouTube and we are committed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. “put in place critical new rules for inappropriately designated content, parental consent before collecting to getting it right.” Critics argue that, despite the accountability.” it will not make YouTube safe data on children under the age of The settlement comes as Google relatively large sum, the $5 billion Democratic Commissioner Re- enough,” Slaughter said. “More 13. But the settlement also exposed and other Silicon Valley giants are settlement was insufficient to deter becca Slaughter, who voted against action is needed, and I hope that our a sharp partisan divide among regu- facing heightened scrutiny over a firm worth nearly $500 billion Wednesday’s announced fine, said partners in state attorneys’ general lators over how far to go in policing their handling of user data and their from further wrongdoing and said that the settlement should have in- offices can finish the job.” Silicon Valley. market power. A broad coalition of that the conditions of the settlement The FTC alleged that YouTube, state attorneys general is reportedly lacked meaningful restraints. Goo- which is owned by Google, vi- announcing an antitrust investiga- gle’s market cap is nearly twice as olated COPPA by collecting the tion into Google next week. large as Facebook’s. personal information of users who The latest penalty is consider- “I am a little saddened, I have to watched videos that were clearly ably higher than the previous record say, by the partisan divide,” Andrew directed toward children and then COPPA fine, which came earlier Smith, the director of the FTC’s used that data to serve up targeted this year when the popular social Consumer Protection Bureau, said advertising. media platform TikTok agreed to at a press conference Wednesday. “YouTube touted its popularity pay $5.7 million to the FTC. “Personally, I think this is a really with children to prospective corpo- But despite the record fine, strong settlement and I think that rate clients,” FTC Chairman Joseph the FTC is again facing questions it passes muster under anybody’s Simons said in a statement. “Yet about its willingness to adopt tough standards.” when it came to complying with penalties for privacy violations by Wednesday’s settlement marks COPPA, the company refused to large companies. the third time the FTC has sanc- KIOF 97.9 FM acknowledge that portions of its The FTC approved the settle- tioned Google over privacy vio- platform were clearly directed to ment in a 3-2 vote along party lines, lations since 2011. That year, the kids. There’s no excuse for You- with both Democrats on the com- company entered into a consent “Welcome to Tube’s violations of the law.” mission dissenting and criticizing agreement with regulators over “Google and YouTube know- what they see as a weak fine and a charges that it had deceived users ingly and illegally monitored, lack of meaningful constraints on about its privacy practices. A year Fabulous Las tracked, and served targeted ads to Google and YouTube’s business later, the FTC fined Google $22.5 young children just to keep adver- model. million for violating the consent tising dollars rolling in,” New York “This outcome here is also in- agreement by tracking users of Vegas Public Attorney General Letitia James consistent with how we approach Apple’s Safari browser without (D) added in a statement. “These other violators of COPPA,” dissent- their knowledge. Radio and the companies put children at risk and ing Commissioner Rohit Chopra Children’s privacy advocates abused their power, which is why said in a statement. have repeatedly complained about we are imposing major reforms to “When small players and up- YouTube’s practices to regulators Entertainment their practices and making them pay starts violate COPPA, the compa- over the years, alleging that the one of the largest settlements for a nies pay dearly and the executives company was collecting substantial privacy matter in U.S. history.” are investigated and, if liable, held profits by systematically violating Capital of Google and YouTube will pay personally accountable. Here, COPPA. $136 million to the FTC and the where a dominant incumbent en- When privacy groups found out remaining $34 million will go to the gaged in widespread violations, about the proposed conditions in the the World, New York attorney general’s office. the company is paying a slice of settlement earlier this summer, they Under the agreement, YouTube their profits from wrongdoing and argued that a requirement to desig- will also have to require content executives avoid scrutiny.” nate whether content is meant for Where Dreams creators uploading videos to des- In a complaint filed in federal kids would effectively let YouTube ignate whether they’re intended court Wednesday morning, the FTC off the hook and leave the respon- Come true!” for children. Last week, the site detailed how YouTube allegedly sibility of COPPA compliance with announced that it was launching a knew that it was collecting data content creators. YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY NON separate site for children’s content. from numerous children’s video “We are pleased that our advoca- In a blog post on Wednesday channels without seeking parental cy has compelled the FTC to finally PROFIT 501 C 3 RADIO STATION morning, YouTube CEO Susan consent from users. In the filing, address YouTube’s longstanding (Federal Charitable taxpayer ID # 45-4388579) Wojcicki said that the site would be the commission said that YouTube COPPA violations and that there disabling all targeted advertising on collected around $50 million in will be considerably less behavioral See www.lasvegaspublicradio.org videos intended for children. targeted advertising revenue from a advertising targeted to children on (www.lvpr.org) “Today’s changes will allow us sample of channels that it surveyed. the number one kids’ site in the to better protect kids and families The move also comes as the world,” Josh Golin, the executive 400 S. 4th St., Suite 500 on YouTube, and this is just the FTC is still weathering criticism director of the Campaign for a Las Vegas, NV 89101 beginning,” Wojcicki wrote. “We over a record $5 billion settlement Commercial-Free Childhood, said know how important it is to provide it reached with Facebook in July for in a statement. “But it’s extremely (702) 425-4088 children, families and family cre- privacy violations stemming from disappointing that the FTC isn’t September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 9 Trump officials vow to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if Congress doesn’t act By Sylvan Lane firms with less leverage and control Hill in the Democratic-controlled The Hill over the secondary housing finance House. Top Trump administration offi- market. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a cials warned senators Tuesday that “We are the ones holding the moderate who has played a leading they plan to begin moving forward bag at the end of the day after role in previous housing finance with a sweeping plan to overhaul everybody else in the process has negotiations, also doubted the the federal housing finance sys- made money and walked away,” administration’s ability to support tem with or without support from Calabria said. “This is not a safe lending to troubled consumers if Congress. situation to be in.” their plan to downsize Fannie and Treasury Secretary Steven Republicans who have long Freddie succeeded. Mnuchin, Housing and Urban sought to privatize Fannie and “If you’re making the footprint Development Secretary Ben Car- Freddie praised the administration’s smaller,” Warner asked, “isn’t that son, and Federal Housing Finance proposal and urged the banking going to mean a de facto decrease Agency (FHFA) Director Mark panel to move forward with its in cross subsidies in the system? Calabria urged the Senate Banking acted without legislation. eral liberal lawmakers to rule out recommendations. “I don’t respectfully see how Committee to help unwind the A major legislative push just 14 action on the administration plan “There’s common ground that you make that happen,” Warner post-crisis regulatory system that months before the 2020 election to privatize Fannie and Freddie, could be had and it is very unfor- added. lawmakers have struggled to reform would depend on an ample well reduce their footprints, foster more tunate that we are not able to hold Those questions and an already for more than a decade. of bipartisan agreement and good competition in the housing finance a markup on this approach,” said tight work calendar for Congress, Even so, Mnuchin, Carson and will. While senators were unified market, and reduce liability held by Sen. Mike Rounds(R-S.D.). “If this which faces a slew of must-pass Calabria pledged to flex their exec- by concern with rising housing the U.S. government. committee is serious about doing legislation in the months ahead, utive authority to free the Federal prices nationwide, Senate Demo- Fannie and Freddie have been something, I think this is the time.” make housing finance reform un- National Mortgage Association and crats made it clear that there was under federal control since the 2008 Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), a likely in the current year. And with the Federal Home Loan Mortgage no appetite for the administration’s foreclosure crisis spurred losses on conservative who often butts heads the 2020 election approaching, the Corporation, better known as Fan- proposal. mortgages owned by the firms. with Trump on economic policy, debate is also likely to become even nie Mae and Freddie Mac, from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), The two government-sponsored called the administration’s plan more politically charged. Many Washington’s control. the Banking panel’s ranking Dem- enterprises, commonly known as a “very, very constructive set of Democratic presidential candidates “The Administration’s prefer- ocrat, condemned the Trump plan GSEs, seek to help banks extend ideas that we should all consider have made affordable housing an ence is to work with Congress to en- as a “cream-skimming privatization home loans to underserved commu- seriously.” important issue for their campaigns. act comprehensive housing finance scheme.” Brown said the proposal nities and low-income Americans But Democrats insisted that Administration officials, though, reform legislation,” Mnuchin said. failed to reflect basic areas of by buying their mortgages to give the plan offered by Trump lacked said they will push ahead if Con- “At the same time, we believe agreement among lawmakers and lenders more cash to lend. The adequate support for low-income gress doesn’t. The officials provid- that reform can and should proceed advocates. firms then package the mortgages and minority consumers who are ed no time frame but cautioned that administratively,” he added. “Rather than create a system into bonds and sell those bonds often spurned by banks and other lawmakers must begin work soon. There are steps the Trump ad- that addresses the needs of working for profit. Some of those profits go mortgage lenders. “Our priority is to maintain ministration can take on its own, families, the Trump Administration back to the Treasury as payment for Those concerns were a chief affordable housing,” Mnuchin including forcing Fannie and Fred- has put out half-baked proposals access to a government backstop. complaint of Rep. Maxine Waters said, “but also to make sure that die to boost capital reserves before that will make mortgages more ex- The Trump administration has (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the taxpayers are not at continued risk.” releasing them to the private sector. pensive and harder to get,” Brown given lawmakers an open-ended House Financial Services Commit- “There may be a difference in But much of the plan released by said. set of guidelines meant to reshape tee, who’s opposition effectively views on how we get there,” he Treasury last week cannot be en- The Ohio senator is among sev- Fannie and Freddie into smaller dooms the plan across Capitol added. GOP lawmaker calls for investigation into CNN spy story By Justin Wise evidence indicating that Trump reporting. The Hill directly endangered the informant. CIA Director for Public Affairs GOP Rep. Doug Collins (Ga.) Other officials said the extraction Brittany Bramell said in a statement on Tuesday called for an investiga- stemmed from concerns about the to CNN that its narrative for the tion into CNN over the network’s media’s scrutiny of the agency. story was “simply false.” report that said the CIA pulled a As news outlets reported more “Misguided speculation that high-level informant from Russia on topics such as the CIA’s intelli- the President’s handling of our amid concerns that President Trump gence on Russian interference in the nation’s most sensitive intelligence mishandled intelligence. 2016 election, the agency reported- — which he has access to each “To put this out at this time and ly revived an extraction plan for the and every day — drove an alleged to put it such a way that the CIA had top-level informant. exfiltration operation is inaccurate,” to come out and respond to this is The move ultimately caused Bramell said. really a disturbing part,” Collins, the CIA to lose a key source of its White House press secretary the top Republican on the House information about the Kremlin. The Stephanie Grisham also said in a Judiciary Committee, said on Fox spy was key to the CIA’s finding statement that CNN’s reporting was News. other outlets that appeared to con- during a secret mission in 2017, that Russian President Vladimir incorrect and it had “the potential “I really question whose side tradict key parts of the network’s saying it came “at a time of wide Putin ordered interference in the to put lives in danger.” CNN is on,” the GOP congress- story. concern in the intelligence com- 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Beyond Collins, Rep. Bill Pas- man continued. “This is a problem CNN did not immediately re- munity about mishandling of intel- Times reported. crell (D-N.J.) has also called for an we’re seeing. I think it needs to be spond to a request for comment ligence by Trump and his admin- The Post also reported that while investigation into some of the re- investigated. With the CIA coming from The Hill on Tuesday. istration.” Trump’s disclosure of classified porting surrounding the spy, though out like it has, I think it has to be CNN’s report published the CNN reported that the source’s counterterrorism information in a Pascrell is pushing for a probe into something we look at.” previous day was the first to detail removal was driven “in part” by May 2017 meeting with Russia’s whether Trump or members of his Collins’s call for an investiga- efforts by the CIA to extract a top concerns Trump and his administra- foreign minister and ambassador administration played a role in the tion came as the White House and informant from Russia. tion could contribute to the source’s alarmed U.S. officials, it was not the CIA decision to pull the informant. CIA broadly denied CNN’s report, The network noted that the exposure by mishandling classified reason for the source’s exfiltration. “A national security matter of and as new reporting emerged from high-level source was extracted intelligence. CNN did note that U.S. officials the highest importance, House But later reports published by had expressed concerns about the committees of jurisdiction must im- Mitch McConnell: White House is The New York Times and The safety of the source and other Rus- mediately look at what role, if any, Washington Post contradicted part sian assets at the end of the Obama Donald Trump and members of his preparing gun-violence proposal of CNN’s story. administration. administration had in the decision Former intelligence officials told Both the CIA and White House to extract or reveal the source,” he By Alexander Bolton the Times that there was no public fiercely pushed back against CNN’s said in a statement. The Hill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters Tuesday that the White House is preparing a proposal to respond to the “horrendous” shootings last month and that he will withhold To All Attorneys judgment on how to proceed until he sees President Trump’s plan. “We had a briefing at lunch from Eric Ueland from down at the White House. They are working like,” he said. who hate writing on coming up with a proposal that Asked whether he personally NEVADA APPEAL GROUP (“NAG”) offers the president will sign. Until that thought it reasonable to mandate happens, all of this is theatrics,” background checks for all commer- FLAT FEE, high quality services for civil and McConnell said after the Senate cial gun sales, McConnell replied, GOP lunch, which White House “I’m going to wait and assess the criminal Appeals and all Post-Conviction Relief. legislative affairs director Eric proposal that actually could become Ueland attended. law.” “These horrendous shootings, “At that point I’ll be happy to NAG handles all types of appeals in my opinion, deserve a response. explain my vote one way or the I hope we can get something that other,” he said. (misdemeanor, felony and civil) as well as can actually become the law of the McConnell said Republicans Habeas Corpus Petitions, Nevada Supreme United States of America,” McCo- “are engaged here with a level of nnell later added. seriousness that I see as completely Court briefs, and individual motions across the Some Republicans say there is non-existent on the other side,” now more GOP support for expand- referring to Democrats. civil and criminal spectrum, including Motions ing background checks along the McConnell hit Senate Minority for Summary Judgment. Turnaround time can lines of the proposal sponsored in Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) 2013 by Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca- be as minimal and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), which lif.) for calling on Republicans would have required background Monday to take up a House-passed as 24 hours. Federal PCR is also available. checks for all firearms sales on the gun control measure. internet and at gun shows. The GOP leader dismissed their McConnell, however, was care- call as a political “stunt” because Motions starting at $250 flat fee ful not to get out ahead of Trump. Trump has already said he will Asked if there is more support veto it. Appeals starting at $500 flat fee for background checks, McCo- “For months, what I have said nnell said, “I can’t handicap the consistently is let’s see if we can outcome.” actually make a law here. And For more information and immediate response, “We’re waiting for something making a law when you have di- we know if it passed would actually vided government is challenging,” call or email: become law and until the White he said. “My members know the House gives us some indication of very simple fact that to make a law (702) 902-5050 what the president is willing to sign, you have to have a presidential we’re waiting to see what it looks signature.” [email protected] Page 10 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 Judge slams State/DOJ on the Clinton email cover-up! By Tom Fitton personally reviewed archiving ing, or related to the September 11, Judicial Watch procedures with Secretary Clinton 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate We just released the transcript and her departing staff to see what in Benghazi, Libya. of a major court hearing (held last they discussed. —Any and all records or com- week) in which U.S. District Court I also think Judicial Watch is munications concerning, regarding, Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted justified to seek more information or relating to talking points or up- significant new discovery to us on about how Secretary Clinton ulti- dates on the Benghazi attack given the Clinton email issue (Judicial mately determined which emails to Ambassador Rice by the White Watch v. U.S. Department of State were public records and which House or any federal agency. (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). were private. On December 6, 2018, Judge During the hearing, Judge Lam- The final reason I authorized Lamberth ordered Obama admin- berth specifically raised concerns discovery was to determine wheth- istration senior State Department about a Clinton email cache recent- er State adequately searched for officials, lawyers and Clinton ly discussed in a letter to Senator records responsive to Judicial aides to be deposed or answer Charles Grassley (R-IA) and wants Watch’s FOIA request. Now the written questions under oath. The us to “shake this tree” on this issue. Government seeks to duck behind court ruled that the Clinton email [J]ust last week, the Senate’s an unpublished D.C. Circuit opin- system was “one of the gravest — Senate Finance and Homeland ion from 2018 holding the Gov- modern offenses to government Security Committees released I sent marshals over and they got covery on that subject, unquote, ernment has already taken every transparency.” documents revealing that Clinton the box at his house, and I ordered but Judicial Watch’s most recent reasonable action under the Federal The court ordered discovery IT aide Paul Combetta copied all them — the marshals — to seize submission lays out the following: Records Act to retrieve Clinton’s into three specific areas: whether but four of the missing emails to a the records. That was the first case. It appears that in the middle of 30,000 missing emails and no imag- Secretary Clinton’s use of a pri- Gmail account that does not appear The judge also stated that the 2013, State’s Office of Information inable enforcement action could vate email server was intended to to have ever been reconstructed and government has mishandled this and Program Services launched recover any more. stymie FOIA; whether the State searched. The court thinks Judicial case and the discovery of infor- an inquiry into Clinton’s email But just last week, the Senate’s Department’s intent to settle this Watch ought to shake this tree. mation including former Secretary practices. — Senate Finance and Homeland case in late 2014 and early 2015 Judge Lamberth also criticized Clinton’s emails so poorly that we It appears that in August 2013, Security Committees released doc- amounted to bad faith; and whether the State Department’s handling may have the ability to prove they that office directed FOIA respond- uments revealing Clinton IT aide the State Department has adequate- and production of Clinton’s emails acted in “bad faith,” which would ers to stop issuing, quote, no record Paul Combetta copied all but four ly searched for records responsive in this case stating, “There is no entitle Judicial Watch to attorney’s located, unquote, responses to of the missing emails to a Gmail to Judicial Watch’s request. FOIA [Freedom of Information fees. FOIA requests for Clinton’s emails. account that does not appear to Our FOIA lawsuit led directly to Act] exemption for political expe- Judge Lamberth detailed how It appears that by the summer of have ever been reconstructed and the disclosure of the Clinton email dience, nor is there one for bureau- the State Department “spent three 2014, State knew a large volume searched. The Court thinks Judicial system in 2015. cratic incompetence.” months from November 2014 try- of Clinton’s emails had never been Watch ought to shake this tree. Our discovery over the last sev- In the beginning of their oral ing to make this case disappear,” searched, potentially violating And the Court agrees with Ju- eral months found many more de- arguments, lawyers for the State and that after discovering the State FOIA and record management dicial Watch that it should talk to tails about the scope of the Clinton Department wrongfully stated that Department’s actions and omis- obligations. It turns out State had three never-before-deposed State email scandal and cover-up: we could no longer continue their sions, “Now we know more, but a standing meeting every Wednes- officials who raised concerns about —John Hackett, former Direc- discovery. The court stopped their we have even more questions than day afternoon during the summer Clinton’s private email use all the tor of Information Programs and Services (IPS) testified under oath arguments stone cold: answers. So I won’t hold it against of 2014 to discuss Clinton-related way back to 2009. that he had raised concerns that STATE DEPARTMENT: … it Judicial Watch for expanding their FOIA inquiries. Attendees included There is no FOIA exemption for former Secretary of State Hillary is, of course, Judicial Watch’s bur- initial discovery request now.” Secretary Kerry’s Chief of Staff; his political expedience, nor is there Clinton’s staff may have “culled out den to explain to Your Honor why Judge Lamberth stated his goal Deputy Chief of Staff; the Deputy one for bureaucratic incompetence. 30,000” of the secretary’s “person- there has been good cause to reopen was to restore the public’s faith in Secretary for Management and The Government also tries to say al” emails without following strict discovery now that discovery has their government: Resources; the Assistant Secretary this Court [sic] is — no longer — or National Archives standards. He closed in this case. When I authorized discovery for Legislative Affairs; several at- no longer presents a live controver- also revealed that he believed there THE COURT: Well, I didn’t back in December, I described my torneys; and Patrick Kennedy, the sy. This is wrong. Judicial Watch was interference with the formal close discovery. So your premise goal: to rule out egregious gov- Under Secretary for Management. can still obtain fees if they prove FOIA review process related to the is wrong. ernment misconduct and vindicate That’s every Wednesday afternoon. agency bad faith. classification of Clinton’s Beng- STATE DEPARTMENT: Fair the public’s faith in the State and It appears that in August 2014, I’ll close with this. When I au- hazi-related emails. enough, Your Honor. Whether you Justice Departments. That’s still my State began planning for media thorized discovery back in Decem- —Heather Samuelson, Clinton’s want to call it closed or not, it is goal today. This isn’t a case I relish, investigations into Clinton’s emails. ber, I described my goal: to rule out White House liaison at the State still — but it’s the case before me now, It appears that in November egregious government misconduct Department, and later Clinton’s THE COURT: I didn’t close it. I and it’s a case of the government’s 2014, State told Judicial Watch and vindicate the public’s faith in personal lawyer, admitted under said I would have a status after they making.” it performed a legally adequate the State and Justice Departments. oath that she was granted immuni- took this initial discovery, and that’s The court granted us seven search and tried to settle. In fact, That’s still my goal today. This ty by the Department of Justice in what I’m doing today. I didn’t close additional depositions, three in- I think, in my original opinion on isn’t a case I relish, but it’s the case June 2016. discovery. terrogatories and four document authorizing discovery, I noted that before me now, and it’s a case of the —Justin Cooper, former aide to STATE DEPARTMENT: That’s requests related to former Secretary State had given a draft Vaughn in- government’s making. President Bill Clinton and Clinton right, Your Honor, but it is still of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a dex to Judicial Watch at that time. The Court authorizes Judicial Foundation employee who regis- Judicial Watch’s — private email server. Hillary Clinton I don’t think I have ever seen that, Watch to take the additional discov- tered the domain name of the un- THE COURT: So they don’t and her former top aide and current but I think it was given to I think, in ery described in its status report, ex- secure comserver that Clinton used need any good cause — lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 my opinion, I said that it had been cept for deposing Secretary Clinton while serving as Secretary of State, STATE DEPARTMENT: days to oppose being deposed by given to Judicial Watch. Indeed, and her Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills. testified he worked with Huma Whether Judicial Watch. State spent the next three months I will give their attorneys 30 days Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of THE COURT: — Today the Below is the court’s ruling from from November 2014 trying to to file any additional opposition staff, to create the non-government good cause continues from wheth- the bench granting us significant make this case disappear. They kept to their depositions and 10 days email system. er or not State was acting in good new discovery: doing it even after they came into thereafter for Judicial Watch to file —In the interrogatory responses faith, and I’ll tell you everything First, let me clarify the Govern- the possession of Clinton’s emails. any reply, and I’ll issue a separate of E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant they’ve discovered in this period ment’s misunderstanding. We’re Judicial Watch wants to follow ruling on that. Otherwise, the dis- director of the FBI Counterintel- raises serious questions about what not reopening discovery here. up with the State attorney assigned covery should go forward and all ligence Division, he stated that the hell the State Department’s Discovery never closed. Back in to this FOIA request to participate of it should be completed by De- the agency found Clinton email doing here. January, I said, quote, The Govern- in settlement discussions and ne- cember 13th. A status will be held records in the Obama White House, The Court also rejected DOJ ment will — the Court will hold a gotiations. That seems reasonable on December 19th at 10:00 a.m. to specifically, the Executive Office of and State’s efforts to derail further post-discovery hearing to ascertain to me. set a further schedule in this case. the President. Judicial Watch discovery. Judge the adequacy of State’s searches; to [Judicial Watch] wants to ask We uncovered new information —Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Clin- Lamberth called their arguments determine if Judicial Watch needs the Department official responsible about the Clinton email scandal ton’s senior advisor and deputy “preposterous” and cited a prior to depose additional witnesses, for overseeing FOIA requests more that a federal court agrees requires chief of staff when she was sec- Judicial Watch FOIA case in which including Hillary Clinton or her about why he directed his office more answers. We share the court’s retary of state, testified that both he ordered U.S. Marshals to seize former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills; to stop using “no record located” annoyance with DOJ lawyers who he and Clinton used her unsecure records from a Clinton administra- and to schedule dispositive mo- responses to FOIA requests relating continue to defend the indefensible. non-government email system to tion official in a separate Judicial tions, unquote. So June 19th was to Clinton’s emails if that, in fact, It is beyond disturbing that the State conduct official State Department Watch lawsuit: a checkpoint, not a finish line. And is what happened. I’m curious, too. and Justice Departments would business. I’ll tell you another thing. I whether Judicial Watch previously They want to ask the current continue to try to protect Hillary —Eric Boswell, former assistant didn’t like in your brief. I’ll tell you knew about some of the other indi- Department FOIA overseer more Clinton and cover up her email secretary of state for diplomatic right now upfront. You put in your viduals it now wants to depose is about what went on in those weekly scandal. President Trump should security during Clinton’s tenure brief the most preposterous thing, I beside the point. They tailored their 2014 meetings. I look forward to order the agencies to cooperate in as secretary of state, testified that thought, in your brief was the very initial discovery request to the facts hearing what he says. uncovering the truth. Clinton was warned twice against idea that — let me read you the line. and questions then before the Court. They want to ask the Justice The new discovery comes in using unsecure BlackBerry’s and Competitive Enterprise Institute Now we know more, but we Department attorney who led the our July 2014 FOIA lawsuit filed personal emails to transmit classi- was a case of first impression and have even more questions than settlement negotiations to divulge after the U.S. Department of State fied material. that some District Judge bought answers. So I won’t hold it against when he learned Clinton’s emails failed to respond to a May 13, 2014, We are, of course, grateful that and the Court of Appeals re- Judicial Watch for expanding their were missing. He must answer. request for: that a federal judge sees through versed it. Now, that wasn’t a case initial discovery request now. Another reason we had this —Copies of any updates and/or the charade perpetrated by these of first impression at all. The first Remember what got us started initial discovery was to see if talking points given to Ambassador high-ranking officials. I’ll be sure impression with me was a case I down this path in the first place. In Secretary Clinton intentionally at- Rice by the White House or any to update as the case continues to had involving Ron Brown and the late 2014 and early 2015, at least tempted to evade FOIA by using a federal agency concerning, regard- progress. travel records of whether or not, some State Department officials private email. When Judicial Watch in the Commerce Department — knew Secretary Clinton’s emails deposed the Deputy Director who and it was a Judicial Watch case were missing; they knew Judicial oversaw State’s FOIA responses, Bob Beckett — whether or not the Commerce Watch didn’t know that; they knew he recalled an instance when in Department was selling seats on the Court didn’t know that, but the — his office found an email from Attorney At Law trade missions, and I had a Deputy Department pressed forward trying Clinton’s private account and the Elected 5 terms as Nye County District Attorney Under Secretary of Commerce who to settle this case. So, I authorized Public Affairs team said, Remem- Practice areas took a box of records home and then discovery into whether these settle- ber, you’re not supposed to use that they gave a no-records response ment efforts amounted to bad faith. email. How can you spin that? Criminal defense, Personal injury, Bankruptcy and, in the course of that, I found Now, the Government says, I agree with Judicial Watch and debt, Car accident, DUI and DWI out he had taken the records home quote, there is simply no factual that it’s worth deposing the State and they said they had no records. basis to justify any further dis- Department records officer who Licensed for 29 years PROJECT NEON CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY UPDATES, AS OF SEPTEMBER 6: Please follow posted detours for all closures. AVVO CONTRIBUTIONS PROJECT NEON UPDATE Beckett knows Nevada criminal law Location Date Time of Day Details I-15 NB off-ramp to MLK 9/10 Night RAMP CLOSURE: I-15 northbound off-ramp to MLK Blvd closed — especially how to get the most out of

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The cascade of revelations of high-level ment and logical thinking Ultimately the public are going to have criminality — together with further media Decades of media brainwashing and social to decide who is telling the truth: is the mass complicity to cover it up highlights the conditioning have led much of the public to media offering journalism or propaganda? collusion including both the mass published mistrust their own judgment, and to disbe- Can it be really true that they are just one media, as well as social media platforms. lieve the evidence of their own eyes and ears. coordinated narrative under so many seem- YouTube, Facebook and Twitter masquerade The weaponization of mass media against the ingly independent brands? How could such as neutral communications services, but are very citizens it was meant to protect creates an unethical system of mind control ever be really illegal gatekeepers of information. deep social division and mutual distrust. possible in a modern technological age? This denouement to the scandal was long Propaganda has been packaged as journal- The Q operation has been set up with the anticipated: a collapse of credibility of the ism, and the skill of distinguishing these is ultimate catch-22 for a corrupt corporate media institutions that are meant to support not offered in schools. Quite the opposite is media, proving conclusively that it is pure the free flow of information and hold power true: public education has become indoctri- propaganda, and not legitimate journalism. to account. It is a crisis of trust the like of nation. Criminals have taught people to shut How so? The identity of Q is deliberately which has never been encountered before. down rational inquiry on hearing the term opaque. Q is not a “formal” program of the This is where the Q operation comes in: “conspiracy theory,” and hence ignore their U.S. government or military. Yet Q offers we have had nearly two years of preparation crimes, based on the threat of being ridiculed hundreds of data points that demonstrate Q for this moment. Citizen journalists and alter- and socially ostracized. is indeed linked to the Trump administration. native media are already taking up the mantle Q is like a grand boot camp for digital Any ordinary person can seek these out of reliable and truthful sources, overtaking soldiers, who have to learn to deal with and validate them. They are beyond com- the discredited corporate mass media in both this complex and contentious information pelling. Meanwhile, the corporate media audience size and engagement. be the world we live in. Understanding this landscape. The Q drops frequently use the writes endless hit pieces on Q denouncing I was recently asked to summarize “what ugly reality is the key to ending the evil that Socratic method, encouraging learning via everything Q offers as “debunked conspiracy is Q?” and came up with four core functions it perpetuates. asking questions, rather than providing theory.” They write ad hominem attacks on that this military intelligence program imple- 2. Q is a prophylactic against civil war packaged answers. Q incites people to think those who think for themselves and reject the ments for these extraordinary times. and vigilante activity for themselves — rather than telling people media’s false narrative. 1. Q is a multi-year process to disclose The last two years have seen a nonstop what to think — and to use logic rather than Yet these “journalists” never do the most secret illegal government activity battle between the mainstream and alter- emotion. basic investigative activity of asking Presi- There are over 3500 “drops” by Q to date, native media for “narrative supremacy.” It Q has helped us to understand what kinds dent Trump whether Q is legitimate, and if but the core tale of corruption is told in the has involved the mass media pushing the of data we can rely on in a data environment he is connected to it. This “Q question” turns first 100. Anybody can go read them in an Russiagate hoax, which now lies broken and filled with disinformation, and what we Q into the most powerful (and paradoxical) hour or so. The very uncomfortable truth exposed as a fabricated and paid-for lie. should be wary of. We have had to become information weapon in history: the credibility is that the U.S. Government has long been The mass media had to attempt to un- more judicious in our selection of valid sourc- of the entire mass media is on the line, and beholden to an institutionalized system of seat President Trump in order to preserve es, and more discerning about future dates every day they fail to ask it more people transnational crime, which has also hijacked themselves. Whilst the attempted coup it and events that may or may not transpire. Q come to realize they are not in the business many other countries. represents is very serious, in many ways this has validated our trust in evidence and reason of journalism. Q gave open source researchers a frame- has proven to be a distraction. The public over purported authority. The mass media’s refusal to ask this work in which to “dig” for data on this system has been kept engaged — and dare I say Two years of the building of this “Q simple question constantly destroys their of criminality. The belief that Hillary Clinton even entertained — with this drama, whilst Army” has created a mass movement of credibility, with no action or effort required — essentially a puppet of that system — the painstaking process of cleaning up the people who question everything they are told, by the forces of truth. As Spygate and other could not lose the 2016 election had made justice system has quietly taken place in the taking nothing at face value. We have learned scandals unfold, the outrage of the public at them careless, and left an extensive public background. to expand our thinking, and are open to new the complicity of the media will grow, and evidence trail. The result is a vast trove of Q has given activists for justice a focus possibilities that would previously have been demands for the “Q question” to be asked vetted data collated by anonymous citizens that they otherwise would have lacked. Q has dismissed as too “out there.” For the truth will become irresistible. working in collaboration worldwide. offered an angry public hope — grounded in really is stranger than fiction — by far. At that point, the corrupt corporate media To say that what has been uncovered is practical progress — of a peaceful outcome 4. Q is an information weapon against will have triggered their own demise: every disturbing is to miss the point: not only are using the lawful system of civilian and mil- institutionalized crime and corrupted assertion of Q they dispute will necessitate many “conspiracy theories” true; they are itary justice. For the real challenge is not media public proof. An avalanche of disclosure interlinked as part of a single plan to destroy arraigning the traitors, but doing so in a way The corporate media is the most powerful will cascade down and bury them. Every freedom and bring on global totalitarian rule. that doesn’t cause society to collapse. weapon of the criminal “deep state” that is previous hit piece they wrote on Q will act Your worst nightmares of betrayal and geno- As the treason of many trusted politicians, right now being removed from power. The as an epitaph — and a warning to those who cide were being actively implemented — by business leaders, and military personnel media’s deceit has captured the souls of might consider such organized lies in future. those who had sworn to serve you. is now revealed, there is an established Q many of our compatriots into a web of lies * * * * * Specifically, Obama was not a legitimate movement with a track record of peaceful and hatred. To counter this, Q has created a Martin Geddes is an authority on the fu- President, and every part of his legacy will be investigation of the truth, rather than vigilante formidable foe to take on the “fake news,” ture of the telecoms industry, ranging from dismantled. He is the greatest political fraud activity seeking revenge. The collapse of as digital soldiers dissect every falsehood in emerging business models to new network ever perpetrated, and that is against some stiff trust in the mass media — who covered for real time, 24x7. technologies. He is a futurologist, writer, competition from his predecessors. Hillary these crimes — will not leave a vacuum for In the coming battle, the corrupt mass speaker, consultant, and technologist. Martin Clinton was meant to be a continuation of troublemakers to occupy. media will attempt to spin everything to is currently writing a book, “The Internet is that fraud to its destructive conclusion. The The Q drops demonstrate that what is their advantage — no matter how indefen- Just a Prototype,” on the future of distributed corporate media have known this all along, unfolding is all part of a managed process of sible. They have already been working hard computing. He is formerly Strategy Director and exposure of the plot will destroy them. justice that has been thought through with to get ahead of the story, setting up doubts at BT’s network division, and Chief Analyst At the heart of this psychopathic system military precision. It gives ordinary people about video evidence as being “deep fakes”; and co-founder at Telco 2.0. Martin previous- of criminal power is the multi-generational awakening to the nightmare confidence in suggesting that pedophilia is a sexual pref- ly worked on a pioneering mobile web project abuse of children, tied to an ancient sex and the plan for resolution, and a good reason to erence rather than a serious crime; and even at Sprint, where he was a named inventor death cult. Government by occult forces reject those who would wish to cause harm attempting to normalize cannibalism. (The on nine granted patents, and at Oracle as a seems like science fiction, but it turns out to by inciting violence or insurrection. word “pedovore” is one I wish I hadn’t had specialist in high-scalability databases. Joe Biden lying about Iraq shows why our nation has so many wars By Jonathan Turley claimed, “[Bush] looked me in the eye in the Former French President Charles de Oval Office. He said he needed the vote to be Gaulle once explained that “since a politi- able to get inspectors into Iraq to determine cian never believes what he says, he is quite whether or not Saddam Hussein was engaged surprised to be taken at his word.” in dealing with a nuclear program. He got This week, no one is more surprised than them in and, before you know it, we had President Donald Trump and Democratic ‘shock and awe.’” presidential candidate and former Vice Pres- Bush’s staff denies such an exchange ever ident Joe Biden. Trump succeeded in turning occurred. More importantly, Biden himself an innocent mistake about the weather into a said repeatedly that he supported the war and giant lie and then, after days of determined continued to do so ... while it was popular. effort, into a full-fledged scandal. Biden suc- Although he now insists otherwise — “That ceeded in denying his own words in support moment it started, I came out against the war of the Iraq War. Falsely describing the path at that moment” — he is repeatedly shown on of a hurricane can be a serious matter, if not videotape supporting the war. He said public- corrected. However, lying about hurricanes ly before the invasion that it was important does not cause more hurricanes. Lying about for the U.S. not to stop with “covert action,” wars is one reason we have so many of them. long lied about wars. The Framers knew pol- actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I if that failed, but to move to overwhelming Tragically, American voters are accus- iticians would often take the nation into wars voted against it.” “overt action” because “we can’t afford to tomed to politicians avoiding responsibility for stupid, self-serving or shortsighted rea- Hillary Clinton engaged in the same kind miss.” Then, months after the invasion, Biden for their embarrassing or costly errors. Yet, sons. They also knew few politicians would of historical revisionism. She was a reliable told CNN: “I, for one, thought we should Trump has taken that tendency to a truly own up to their roles in costly wars. For that hawk on military interventions, including have gone in Iraq.” Still later, he said at a pathological level with the debacle over Hur- reason, under Article I of the Constitution, the the disastrous intervention in Libya, without Senate hearing, “I voted to go into Iraq, and ricane Dorian. He incorrectly said Alabama Framers expressly required a declaration of even a resolution; regarding Iraq, she jumped I’d vote to do it again.” was in the hurricane’s path. Then, instead war from Congress. Before politicians could on the popular bandwagon for war. When it Still later, he expressly said “we have al- of simply correcting his mistake, he dug in send the nation’s sons and daughters off to became less popular, however, she claimed ways known” about the war in Iraq, namely deeper to avoid admitting it. Ultimately, he war, possibly to die, they would have to do to have been misled, even though she and her that troops “would have to stay there in large produced a hurricane-path map with a juve- so with binding clarity. colleagues ignored those of us opposing the numbers for a long period of time.” He stated nile alteration made with a Sharpie to make During the Pennsylvania ratification con- original war resolution. publicly — again, after the invasion — that Dorian appear Alabama-bound. As ridicule vention, James Wilson explained the need for Ultimately, that war would claim an “contrary to what some in my party might mounted, he refused to drop the matter and congressional approval as a guarantee that estimated 655,000 lives, including 4,500 think, Iraq was a problem that had to be dealt continued to tweet for days about Alabama no one “will ... hurry us into war [since] it Americans with another 47,500 American with sooner rather than later. So I commend being in the path. is calculated to guard against it.” Of course, wounded. It would cost this country more the president. He was right to enforce the Now, the Washington Post reports that politicians are not big on personal responsi- than a trillion dollars. It initially was popular solemn commitments made by Saddam. If White House advisers confirm Trump made bility, at least not in their own conduct. For to send our troops to war — and, when it they were not enforced, what good would the alteration — something he has denied. that reason, virtually all of our wars have been became unpopular, politicians simply denied they be?” The controversy grew to the point that the undeclared and, as the Framers expected, responsibility. This is why lying about wars is It should not be a surprise that politicians normally apolitical Merriam-Webster Dic- politicians routinely misrepresent their roles. not just another spin by the shameless. People who vote casually to send others to war would tionary tweeted out the meaning of “mump- Democratic presidential candidate John died because Republican and Democratic not be particularly troubled about denying simus,” or a “stubborn person who insists on Kerry gave perhaps the most mind-numbing leaders did not have the courage to stand their own responsibility. The problem is that making an error in spite of being shown that example of this. During his party’s primaries against the drumroll for war. undeclared wars often are not just measured it is wrong.” in 2004, Kerry portrayed himself as against In Biden’s case, he attempted to take by the lies, but also by the lives left behind. Voters could easily conclude that all pol- the Iraq War even though he voted for it. a Sharpie to the entire war and black-out * * * * * iticians are mumpsimuses, or some more so Then, in the general election against President his name. In a Kerry-like moment, Biden Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor than others. That, however, would ignore the George W. Bush, he pivoted when confronted insisted in an NPR interview that he voted of Public Interest Law at George Washington gravity of lying about certain subjects — like about his vote against spending $87 billion for the war before “immediately opposing University. You can follow him on Twitter @ war. Both Republicans and Democrats have to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, declaring, “I it” because, he said, he had been misled. He JonathanTurley. Page 12 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019

A governmentE big enough toditorials give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson Our Point of View Can Michael McDonald do the job he was hired to do? The ability of the newly re-elected Chair of the Nevada Republican Party, Michael McDonald, will be put to task sooner than we all expected when four positions in the Clark County Commission will come open. This is the time and the moment when we all were expecting to break the cycle that for thirty years has ruled the county commission by keeping it all Democrats. During the last Clark County Commission election all Democrats were re-elected despite the fact that all four Democrat seats had a Republican candidate running against those socialist incumbents and that was because not even one of the candidates had the support of the Republican Party and all of them were on their own. There is no reason why for the last thirty years the Board of County Commissioners should have kept Dem- ocrats as the ruling party when there are many qualified Republican candidates who—just because they are not to the liking of the Republican Party—are not being Nevada AG joins suit over supported, whether or not they are well qualified. History tells us that the Republican Party has not been immigrant child detention fair to its members. Years ago, Congressional candidate By Thomas Mitchell Nearly half a million such “families” Ken Wegner, who never had any help from either the state Within days of the Trump admin- have crossed into the U.S. and turned or the county party, requested a list of the members so istration announcing that it intended themselves in so far this year. That is he could explain his platform to the members who could to scrap a 1997 court decree known triple the number for all of the pre- as the Flores settlement that prohibit- vious year and 30 times the number vote for him and bring a Republican to the U.S. Congress. ed holding illegal immigrant children from just seven years ago. The Las Vegas Tribune accompanied Congressman for more than 20 days, 19 states and These “families” are being re- candidate Ken Wegner to the Republican Party to obtain the District of Columbia announced leased into the U.S. pending immi- the list; Wegner spent his own money mailing the political they are filing suit to stop the change, gration hearings for which the vast including Nevada. majority never show up. material out, but two weeks later the Las Vegas Tribune In a press release reporting Neva- An op-ed in The Wall Street Jour- and Congressman candidate Ken Wegner learned that da’s joining the litigation, Attorney nal recently noted that this catch and the entire list of Republicans were all deceased, as he General Aaron Ford said, “This latest release policy has created a powerful discovered when the envelopes were all returned to him Trump Administration policy to keep ThoMaS MiTchell incentive for people, largely from and stamped as such, but Wegner was never reimbursed children in cages for an indefinite period of time is Central America, to cross the border and make specious both cruel and shameful. What’s more, it reverses a asylum claims. for the money he spent on those mailings; he was actually longstanding court-approved settlement concerning “It also created an incentive for smugglers to offer ripped off by the Nevada Republican Party. the humane treatment of immigrant children. I stand huge discounts to anyone traveling with a child. Instead Soon Larry Brown and Larry Weekly will end their with other states in fighting this attack on our children of attempting to evade Border Patrol, as they do with terms and two other sitting commissioners will be up for and families using every legal tool at my disposal.” single adults, smugglers could simply bring migrant The problem is that the status quo is untenable. families up to the south side of the Rio Grande and tell re-election and that will be an opportunity to balance the The Flores settlement has resulted in the Southern them when to cross. Families were told to find a Border scales of the Democrat dictatorship that has existed on the border being overrun by illegal immigrant families. (See Mitchell, Page 14) Board of County Commissioners for the last thirty years. We hope that Chairman Michael McDonald realizes An Open Letter to Ward 3 that it is time to give the appearance that he is the Repub- lican servant that some naive people believe he is and start pushing for those who will be running for the Republican Councilwoman Olivia Diaz By Perly Viasmensky services. seats in the Clark County Commissioners’ Board. Since it is so difficult for the working people of My question is the simplest question for the most Someone needs to step in and help Stavros Anthony Ward 3 to communicate with you because you are important issue: “What are you planning to do about the raise money for his campaign because after he comes out always MIA (missing in action) and the only person aggravating situation regarding the homeless people?” with the money for his campaign manager, he may have performing your duties is an assistant claiming to be We are tired of coming to work every morning very busy attending meetings on your behalf and very finding people sleeping right on our front doors. We to fly to Alaska for advice. unfriendly, forgetting the fact that the City of Las pay rent and still need to ask for permission to get into Let’s hope that disgraced former city council Ricki Vegas is not paying both of your salaries, but WE the our buildings. Barlow is not thinking of replacing his former boss, people, residents of Las Vegas, are the ones paying the We are tired of coming to work every morning to Larry Weekly, in District D after he comes out of pris- salaries you happily take home, I find myself feeling clean our parking lots of urine, feces, condoms, sanitary the necessity to send you an open letter to express my napkins, needles and other things. They don’t only on. Barlow was sentenced to one month in prison, three questions, worries and concerns. defecate on the ground, but on the sides of trucks and months in a halfway house, and eight months of house The people in Ward 3 who pay for a business li- trailers and wipe their hands full of excrement around arrest for scheming to steal tens of thousands of dollars cense deserve your attention. During your campaign the equipment. of campaign money in 2015. we saw your Monster Mobile Billboard traveling East Think… We need to clean the equipment in order We hope that this time Chairman Michael McDonald Charleston Boulevard and many times parked in the to be able to rent and make a living. parking lot of the 7-Eleven located on East Charleston You need to inform the Clark County Health Depart- realizes that not only the future of Nevada, but the future and 10th Street, but never saw your physical self at ment that those wastes are health hazards. You don’t of this nation is at risk and there is no time to play games, any location in the neighborhood of Ward 3. need to go to medical school to know that whatever Republicans need to wake up and fight for a better future The people in Ward 3 are not only high-priced disease they may have is being spread in the air (Hep- in the hands of Republican candidates even if we do not attorneys, but other businesspeople providing other (See Viasmensky, Page 17) agree or like some of the candidates. Chairman Michael McDonald needs to wake up and ON A PERSONAL NOTE smell the coffee because surrounding himself with his small circle of friends is not going to help the party, 9/11: It may not be as the state or our nation. Michael McDonald needs to realize that by playing politics the way he is doing it, we’ve always been told he is acting anti-American and giving the Democrats By Maramis newspaper and TV news program in the opportunity to turn this nation into another Cuba or I wasn’t there when it happened. the nation, but the pain and suffering another Venezuela. But anyone who actually was, or saw could not fit within such limited con- the planes crash into the Twin Towers fines, to say nothing of the toll it took Chairman Michael McDonald needs to realize that on TV, can testify to the amazing job on those who dropped everything to the United States is in serious danger and the country that the first responders did on the instantly respond to that catastrophe. needs all the help that we can offer if we want to save site. There is no question as to the While the best of the best were our freedom and our independence; we need to save the devastation, shock, and confusion those who responded to the need that engulfed not only the city, but that September 11th in 2001—and country and we need to do it now. the entire country once it showed up stayed on the job as long as they were Chairman Michael McDonald needs to realize that on everyone’s television. needed and could stay awake—it’s just because he is on good terms with President Donald Those who saw the smoke and hard to say what the total long-range Trump does not mean that he is above everyone, and the flames and heard the screams and effects of their heroism will be, since Chairman Michael McDonald needs to be aware that were surrounded by the panicking MaraMiS choufani many of them are still in need of New Yorkers running hither and yon can never forget healthcare for the consequences of responding to that President Donald Trump doesn’t like to play games and the day, the hour, or the moment when New York disaster. Of course the cost of their care is amazingly does not tolerate people who like to play games. City’s Twin Towers became ground zero and a sym- high, but without their services, to say nothing of the We hope that whoever is whispering in the ear of Chair- bol of the hate and evil in someone’s heart and mind, fact that most of them risked their life at the time, man Michael McDonald against the Las Vegas Tribune which was perpetrated upon all of us as though that many others would not be here with us today. Most of someone, or perhaps several someones, had targeted us would expect that whatever it took to take care of and against every human being in this organization, will that particular spot as if it were the heart of the nation, those first-responders would be automatically covered; realize that they are doing a disservice to him, to the and chose it to instill fear in the hearts of everyone that they would never go without care; that they would Republican Party, to President Trump and to our nation. in our country. never be forgotten for all they did. We are not afraid of anyone because we believe in the Fear is one thing, yet it was so much more than Yet as time went by, apparently they were being United States of America fear that was perpetrated on us that day. The impact forgotten, at least when it came to paying for their care, and devastation was enough to fill the pages of every (See Maramis, Page 17) September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 13

VEditors note:iew The views expressed are entirely those of the writersP and do not necessarilyoints reflect the opinions of the Las Vegas Tribune. Schip-Wreck: NV GOP mouthpiece throws hissy fit at website critic By Chuck Muth meeting of GOP party leaders in & you’ll see for yourself (unless One of the guys who I’ve learned which various candidates running you’ve gone in since this morning the most from about copywriting for state party officer positions and added items that weren’t there and communications was a bona made presentations. until I pointed it out).” fide direct response marketing guru Anyway, one of the candidates And Black was absolutely cor- named Gary Halbert (RIP). He was for state party chairman who spoke rect. simply the BEST. at the meeting that night, Annie She even posted a screen shot of And one of Gary’s favorite ways Black, posted a column criticizing the Nevada GOP’s website showing to describe particularly insufferable Schip-Wreck’s miscommunica- the June 18th News Release and the human reprobates was: sh*t-wea- tions work on the Nevada GOP’s new August 30th one, confirming sel. Always loved that term. website. that they were the ONLY two News And if you add the descriptor She accurately pointed out that Releases posted on the party’s web- “lying” in front of it, that’ll bring the website’s “News Release” page site for the public to see… us to the Nevada Republican Party’s only featured one release dating all But Schip-Wreck, obviously Director of Miscommunications, CHUCK MUTH the way back to June 18th. And that KeITH SCHIPPer ignorant of the First Rule of Holes Keith “Schip-Wreck” Schipper. ticular talent for communications the release was actually nothing their first news release since June (“Stop Digging!”), decided to When last visiting with Schip- incompetence to the Nevada GOP. more than a re-print of a statement 18th — over two months ago! We double down with this rather con- Wreck here at Muth’s Truths, he With the inevitable results. by the Republican NATIONAL get results.” descending tweet in reply… was captain of the ham-hand- Not only is this clown perhaps Committee chair, not the NEVADA And Schip-Wreck had a verita- “Ms. Black, I’m guessing you ed communications team for the the least talented communications GOP chair. ble conniption over it! hadn’t been to the @NVGOP’s doomed 2018 SS Heller re-election flak at this level that I’ve seen in Well, later in the day the Nevada “Um yeah that’s not true,” website prior to announcing for effort. Under his expert, “profes- over 25 years in this business, but GOP issued a news release on a Schip-Wreck tweeted back. “If you chair, but we recently redesigned sional” guidance, Sen. Heller’s he presents himself in public like subject Black had already weighed want on the press list, email me and and overhauled it a couple weeks campaign was steered right into the some over-weight beach bum. in on earlier in the day (follow the I’ll get you on there.” ago. The designer didn’t move all rocks…and obliterated. At least he doesn’t scare animals leader!). To which Black tweeted… To which Ms. Black replied… the press releases over as they were But in the Republican tradition and small children by wearing a “After publishing this morn- “You seem to be having a little dated.” of political consultants failing Speedo! So there’s that. ing’s AnnieGram slamming the @ difficulty reading for compre- Well, he certain put the little lady upwards, Schip-Wreck earlier this I ran into Schip-Wreck earlier NVGOP’s sorry communications hension. The operative word was in her place, didn’t he?!! year was tapped to bring his par- this week at an important town hall operation, they suddenly posted ‘posted.’ Look at your own website (See Muth, Page 15) Don’t tell your wife about that murder, at least in New Mexico By Mace yampolsky are aware that the privilege exists, the third party. His case “illustrates Spousal immunity is gone in and that they rely on it when de- that abandonment of the privilege New Mexico. The New Mexico ciding how much information to is unlikely to chill candor between Supreme Court has abolished the share, the New Mexico Supreme spouses,” the court said. spousal communication privilege Court said. Those assumptions are The court abolished the privilege in a murder case based on testimo- untested and do not survive scru- in future cases, but nonetheless ny by the defendant’s ex-wife and tiny, according to the court. What upheld Gutierrez’s conviction. Of estranged current spouse. happens if you are married to an course, they did! In Gutierrez’s The court said the privilege attorney? case, the court said admission of “has outlived its useful life.” Jus- Some commentators have ar- the first wife’s testimony was a tifications that have been cited gued the cited justifications don’t harmless error because she was for the privilege “seem little more justify the suppression of valuable allowed to testify about his acts — than soaring rhetoric and legally evidence and are no longer relevant which included bringing her to the irrelevant sentimentality,” the court in a contemporary world where privilege is obvious and odious,” murder location where she saw the said in its August 30, 2019 opinion. Americans increasingly share their the court said. I don’t buy it. The victim’s corpse. “We believe that the privilege is a marital and family problems with a privilege runs both ways. The court also said admission vestige of a vastly different society MaCe yaMPoLSKy public audience. The court agreed Don’t brag to your exes of the second wife’s testimony than the one we live in today and marriage (as they still can in every with that view. But not everyone (unless you’re in Texas) was allowed because Gutierrez has been retained in New Mexico other state), even after the marital shares everything. that you killed somebody was unable to prove he made his simply through inertia,” the court relationship ends. Several policy The court also noted that the The defendant in the case, David statements about the crime only said in a majority opinion by Chief justifications have been cited in privilege was adopted at a time Gutierrez, was convicted after his after their marriage, rather than Justice Judith Nakamura. support of the privilege, the court when the wife’s legal existence ex-wife and his estranged second before the marriage. Timing is The decision makes New Mex- majority said. was deemed to be suspended during wife (Hell hath no fury like a everything! Vigil’s partial dissent ico the only state in the nation that Why should there be marriage or incorporated into the woman scorned) testified about said the court majority should not does not recognize any form of spousal immunity? husband’s legal existence. Critics his confessions. The court said have abolished the privilege “by fiat marital privilege, according to a They include protecting the point to that history and say the Gutierrez’s decision to talk about in this opinion.” Instead, the matter partial dissenter, Justice Barbara solace of marriage and the marital privilege creates a disparate gender the murder with his wives was not should have been referred to a rules Vigil. Defendants in New Mexico relationship, protecting privacy in impact because it is more often in- based on any legal guarantee of committee, the dissent argued. In could invoke the spousal commu- intimate relationships, and avoiding voked by men than women and is confidentiality because he had also any event, Vigil said, the spousal nications privilege to prevent their unwarranted government intrusion often used to isolate families from bragged about the crime to third privilege should be preserved be- spouses from testifying about confi- into marriage. But the privilege state interference, the court said. parties. But in my opinion that is a cause marriage “creates for many a dential communications during the rests on assumptions that spouses “The misogynistic history of the separate issue; he wasn’t married to (See Mace, Page 17) I’m ‘pathologically litigious’? Sure, and proudly so! Larry Klayman quotes Thomas Paine to counter ‘pure evil termites’ of Deep State By Larry Klayman citizens grand juries to indict and think that I am “pathologically li- Arpaio, Chief Justice Roy Moore, The Southern Poverty Law Cen- then try and convict these dastard- tigious,” in the words of our great Cliven Bundy and his sons and ter (SLPC), that ultra-leftist band of ly felons who are eating away at former President Ronald Reagan, family, Laura Loomer and a host of miscreants now in deep trouble for the ethical and moral fabric of the “they ain’t seen anything yet!” others who have laid their lives and unethical misconduct, repeatedly nation, like the pure evil “termites” This was the reason I conceived reputations on the line — people features me and other conservatives they are. of and founded Judicial Watch 25 continually smeared if not threat- on its website as purveyors of hate. Indeed, in this context, I am years ago, to investigate and then ened with harm by the radical left In reality, it is SLPC and its proud to proclaim that I accept the prosecute — yes PROSECUTE! and their enablers in the fake news colleagues on the left who are pejorative characterization given — government and legal corrup- media — in their quest to bring spewing hate not just toward Pres- to me by the SLPC as a “patho- tion and abuse; not just to obtain light to and prevent the nation from ident Donald Trump but anyone logically litigious” attorney. What documents, go on cable news and going dark and then to hell in the who supports him. From many other choice do I have, as someone boast, and then beg our Deep State proverbial hand basket. Democrat-appointed federal judg- who ideologically and in practice corrupt government to take action. This is why you fellow patriots es, to left-leaning bar disciplinary believes in an honest and just gov- The fate of the nation cannot be cannot and should not, again, in the counsels who are trying unethically ernmental and legal systems, short treated like a Hollywood television powerful words of Thomas Paine, to remove pro-Trump conservative of taking to the streets armed like reality mini-series! We live in very fail to act and instead relegate your lawyers from the practice of law, Larry KLayMan our forefathers in colonial times? dangerous times, and dangerous concern to simply watching the to the Democratic leadership of the pronounced with each passing year In this regard, I get up every times require hard-hitting action, television reality shows that play U.S. House of Representatives and since then. morning thinking of what Freedom peacefully and legally, to right out each evening, in particular on U.S. Senate, to radical groups such Frustrated and disgusted by Watch and I can do to right the the ship of state! In the words of Fox News, and not be like “The as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the the lack of courage and desire by course of the nation’s downward Thomas Paine, which I have quot- summer soldier and the sunshine New Black Panther Party, the Coun- my former alma mater, the U.S. slide toward leftist socialism, fas- ed in these columns from time to patriot (who) will, in this crisis, cil on American Islamic Relations, Department of Justice, to combat cism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christi- times, and as Paine wrote in the shrink from the service of their the American Civil Liberties Union, this by enforcing the law equally anity and atheism and defeat the days leading up to the signing of country.” elements of the liberal Jewish An- and not allowing the elite political onslaught of barbarians who are the Declaration of Independence Paine added: ti-Defamation League and other and legal classes — infesting both now at the gates, armed and ready and the ensuing revolution: “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily leftist entities funded by World War the Democratic and Republican like newly minted and rabid rad- “The real man smiles in trouble, conquered; yet we have this con- II Nazi collaborator George Soros, establishments — to be exempt icals Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, gathers strength from distress, and solation with us, that the harder all backed and promoted by the fake from the rule of law, much more the Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — all grows brave by reflection. The the conflict, the more glorious the news media — it is clear that the Constitution — and Bill and Hillary figuratively foaming at the mouth harder the conflict, the more glo- triumph. What we obtain too cheap, vision and institutions conceived of Clinton, James Comey and Special and poised to take total control of rious the triumph. I love the man we esteem too lightly: it is dearness and implemented by our Founding Counsel Robert Mueller are just a the levers of power in the deepen- that can smile in trouble, that can only that gives every thing its value. Fathers are under extreme attack. few examples of these “protected ing swamp known as our nation’s gather strength from distress, and Heaven knows how to put a proper This leftist onslaught began species” — my only recourse on capital. grow brave by reflection.” price upon its goods; and it would long ago, even before I conceived behalf of the American people has So it has come to pass that I This recitation of true courage be strange indeed if so celestial an of and founded Judicial Watch 25 been to bring hundreds of hard-hit- pledge to you, fellow patriots, that not coincidentally describes my article as FREEDOM should not be years ago, but it has grown more ting lawsuits and commission if the SLPC and its vile leftist allies clients Dr. Jerome Corsi, Sheriff Joe (See Klayman, Page 14) Page 14 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 The Entropy of Politico-Economic Systems Communism, as a closed system, is doomed to failure because it relies on impractical and harmful economic systems that have demonstrably not worked. By José Azel Entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, is not a promis- ing topic for a newspaper column. However, its ramifications for polit- ico-economic systems is a matter of common sense. In essence, entropy is a measure of the disorders that exist in a system, and here I am applying the Law of Entropy to the disorders that occur in politico-eco- nomic systems. Entropy can be described in many different ways. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that, for an isolated system in which neither energy nor matter can enter isolationist and autarchic econom- The Law of Entropy governs iat class, as Marxism claims, with nor leave, entropy never decreases. José Azel ic policies is Communist North the politico-economic systems of little regard for the natural rights of For our purposes, we can simply the Caribbean beginning in the Korea. Different brands of isola- isolated nations. Inevitably, things the individuals that make up that say that in closed politico-economic 1950s. Prebisch became influential tionist politico-economic systems fall apart. The best antidote is class. This is also the case for na- systems, things fall apart. The two as executive director of the Eco- can also be found in some Latin the replenished energy provided tionalism based on ethnicity, race, politico-economic systems I want nomic Commission for Latin Amer- American countries, particularly by an open flow of sociopolitical or religion, where the systems are to consider are capitalism and ica, and later as secretary-general of in Communist Cuba beginning in and economic information. The closed to all but the righteous ones. Communism. the United Nations Conference on 1959, and more recently in the prescription to slow down entropic Scientists recognize the Sec- Generally speaking, Commu- Trade and Development. Venezuela of Chavez and Maduro. processes is for nations to adopt, ond Law of Thermodynamics as nism is a politically and economi- Fundamental to Import Substitu- All are examples of how in closed and sustain, open politico-econom- essential to their understanding of cally closed system; whereas cap- tion Industrialization, was a belief politico-economic systems, things ic systems. scientific affairs. Similarly, we need italism, with its emphasis on free in state-directed central planning fall apart. At best, closed systems Closed systems, are destined to understand the entropy inherent markets, is an open system. In the and socialist politico-economic the- manage an equilibrium of medio- to fail, period. But open systems in closed politico-economic sys- Soviet era, leaders sought not only ory. The emphasis of Import Sub- cre dysfunction from which they also have to be vigilant to resist tems. Such systems fall apart, and to isolate Communist countries stitution Industrialization was on cannot escape. entropy. Democratic free-market cannot contribute to happiness in politically, but also economically in discouraging foreign investments, There are, of course, many op- systems can succumb to various human affairs. pursuit of autarchy within the So- and on the development of internal erational reasons as to why these forms of elite rule that hinder the * * * * * viet Bloc. The goal was for Soviet markets for goods and services. As closed systems fail; disregard politico-economic participation of José Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a Bloc countries to become self-suf- such, ISI sought to create a closed for the rule of law, contempt for the citizenry. Democratic systems 13 year-old political exile in what ficient, and not reliant on imported economic system. That is, a system property rights, excessive govern- can then become would-be closed has been dubbed Operation Pedro goods from the capitalist world. subject to entropic disorders. ment controls, and more. And, by systems. Pan — the largest unaccompanied A similar autarchic policy was n the 20th century, seventy mil- the way, when capitalist systems Closed politico-economic sys- child refugee movement in the his- pursued in the developing world un- lion people died in major famines. show contempt for the rule of law, tems often originate with some tory of the Western Hemisphere. der the rubric of Import Substitution Of these, 80 percent were victims disregard for property rights, or form of collectivism that favors a He is currently dedicated to the in- Industrialization (ISI). Based on of Communist regimes’ forced col- disenfranchise sectors of the popu- class, a religion, a race, an ethnic depth analyses of Cuba’s economic, the works of structural economists, lectivization and central planning. lation, they too activate the Second group, or a nation. These closed social and political state, with a such as Raul Prebisch, ISI gained Today the most dramatic example Law of Thermodynamics. Things systems seek to improve the collec- keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba prominence in Latin America and of a country that has practiced do fall apart. tive well-being of, say the proletar- strategies. ON THE HOLMES FRONT Bernie Sanders’ climate plan: Fire you and 10 million Americans By Frank Holmes A total of 10.3 million Ameri- Bernie might not just have “ag- Last night, CNN treated its cans’ jobs are impacted by the U.S. gressive” government employees dwindling number of viewers to oil and natural gas industry. tell Americans what energy to use seven hours of Democrats debat- 10.3 million people out of work, — in the past, he’s proposed seizing ing climate change… but they still overnight? That would not only all fossil fuel plants by force and didn’t report the main story. more than double U.S. unemploy- closing them down. It’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.T., ment—it would break the all-time As long ago as 1973 when he plan to force 10 million American record for unemployment in the was running a socialist party called out of their jobs to save the envi- U.S. the Liberty Union Party, Sanders ronment. Right now, 6 million Americans wanted the government to steal Sanders has outlined plans for a are unemployed, down from a re- energy plants from their owners. Communist-style takeover of ener- cord-setting 15.3 million in October “The oil industry, and the entire gy agencies, where the government 2009 under President Obama. energy industry, should be owned would just seize gas or oil plants… But President Sanders would by the public and used for the public and, Sanders has promised, it will break that record his first day in good — not for additional profits shut them down and leave Ameri- office. for billionaires,” Sanders said in a cans in the dark. Sanders’ plan would set more fossil fuels — oil, gasoline, and He would also pump the well 1973 letter to his senator. “There will be some transition, than a trillion dollars of the U.S. coal. of our national economy until it Three years later, he called for and there will be some pain there,” economy on fire and put Donald “It is no secret that we must ran bone dry. “the public ownership of Vermont’s the Democratic presidential hopeful Trump’s red-hot economy on ice. transition away from fossil fuels, All in all, oil and gas alone ac- private electric companies without admitted. Sanders, who is a Democratic period. End of discussion,” the count for $1.3 trillion of the GDP… compensation to the banks and The Vermont Senator owned up Socialist, talked about doing away Brooklyn-born Sanders said in a or almost seven percent of every wealthy stockholders who own to the fact that, if he’s elected pres- with the “internal-combustion speech in California last month. dollar paid to a worker. the vast majority of stock in these ident, Americans who are forced engine” and “old-fashioned light “There ain’t no middle ground.” The $16 trillion dollar price tag companies.” to embrace his vision of the envi- bulbs.” Say goodbye to your car Bernie, who’s never held a real on the Vermont Senator’s bloated “In the long run, the problem ronmentalist lifestyle are “going and get used to riding the subway. job outside of government or com- version of the Green New Deal of the fleeing corporations must be to be a little uncomfortable”… but But there’s something else Sand- munity organizing, is either clueless would be enough to tank the econ- dealt with on the national level by that’s sort of like telling a woman ers wants to trash: America’s entire about how many Americans that omy. But that’s just the beginning. legislation which will bring about in labor she’s going to experience energy industry. will leave out on the streets—or he He’d close the industry only the public ownership of the major some “pressure.” He wants to end the use of all just doesn’t care. after the government took it over, means of production and their Hugo Chavez-style. conversion into worker-controlled He has proposed that the U.S. enterprises,” Bernie said. Mitchell government take control of the en- What would Bernie Sanders do (Continued from Page 12) tire energy industry — lock, stock, after he seized gasoline, oil, or coal Patrol agent, turn themselves in, and smokestacks. plants? We know: Shut them down and not worry — they’d soon be MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked and turn off the lights. released,” the op-ed by John Daniel Sanders, “You propose essentially That’s bad news for the 81 per- Davidson, a senior fellow at the a federal takeover of the whole cent of Americans who get their Texas Public Policy Foundation, thing,” extending a “Tennessee energy from gas, coal, or oil. recounts. Valley Authority” to the whole Millionaires with multiple hous- Davidson said children have country. “Am I understanding that es like Bernie would get by fine, of become “passports” into the U.S. correctly”? course. But it’s never the rich and and officials have encountered “You’re in the ballpark,” Sand- powerful that suffer under social- thousands of fake families and in- ers replied. “That’s right.” ism’s boot heel. stances in which children are being Sanders went on to say that “we It’s always the middle class and “recycled” — crossing the border need to have an aggressive federal poor that are left broke, in the dark, multiple times with different adults government” to set up windmills and out in the cold. posing as parents. Migrant families at the border in Texas. and solar panels. Frank Holmes is a reporter for The original Flores settlement of family detention centers, which suit are all Democrats. Government officials would The Horn News. He is a veteran declared that children could not are not state licensed facilities and Ford is not acting in the best force Americans to “go from [oil journalist and an outspoken con- be held in custody with unrelated have historically caused increased interest of Nevada taxpayers, who and natural gas to] solar and from servative that talks about the news adults for more than 24 hours, but trauma in children. The rule will already are paying to educate the wind and from other sustainable that was in his weekly article, “On the current catch and release pro- lead to prolonged detention for highest percentage of children of energies.” The Holmes Front.” gram allows those same children children with significant long-term illegal immigrants in the nation to be released into the custody of negative health consequences. In — 17.6 percent, according to Pew unrelated adults, many of whom are addition, the attorneys general Research. Ford should withdraw Klayman in the country illegally themselves. argue the rule violates both the from this litigation and let the ad- (Continued from Page 13) dangerous and continued leftist According to Davidson, the Administrative Procedure Act and ministration at least come up with highly rated.” Deep State cancerous tyranny em- number of minors ordered deported the due process clause of the Fifth a plan before suing. Heed Paine’s words and join in bedded in our governmental and after failing to appear for an immi- Amendment to the U.S. Consti- * * * * * the modern-day equivalent of the legal systems! gration hearing has risen from 519 tution.” Thomas Mitchell is a former colonial army by going to www. * * * * * in 2010 to 6,700 in 2018. That’s just But the greater harm is due to newspaper editor who now writes freedomwatchusa.org by enlisting Larry Klayman is a former Jus- the minors. Congress failing to act and require conservative/libertarian columns in and supporting Freedom Watch’s tice Department prosecutor and Ford’s press release argues the immediate deportation of per- for weekly papers in Nevada. Justice League. You, fellow patri- the founder of Judicial Watch and that the administration’s attempt- sons, whether in a family unit or You may email Mitchell at thom- ots, no longer have the luxury of Freedom Watch. His latest book is ed change in detention practices not, who enter the country illegally. [email protected]. He blogs at acting like “summer soldiers and “Whores: Why and How I Came to “would result in the vast expansion The 20 attorneys general filing http://4thst8.wordpress.com/. sunshine patriots” in the face of Fight the Establishment.” September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 15 Paper ballots essential to securing our elections and our democracy By Lee C. Bollinger with tens of millions of ballots may require and Michael A. McRobbie that as few as several hundred randomly Public confidence in the integrity and selected ballots be inspected by hand. If security of our elections is essential for an election’s results were tampered with, democracy to be a trusted means of govern- risk-limiting audits would detect it. States ing, and that very confidence is now under should start by piloting risk-limiting audits unprecedented attack by foreign adversaries. and proceed to full implementation for all A newly released report from the Senate federal and state elections. Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as To be sure, at a time when nearly everyone recent congressional testimony by Special has a cell phone and uses the internet daily, Counsel Robert Mueller, indicated that in some will wonder why we cannot devise a 2016 Russia attempted intrusions into the technical solution to securing our election election infrastructure of all 50 states. In systems. The very idea of counting paper one of the most dramatic moments of his ballots, especially in large metropolitan areas, testimony, Mueller said that Russia is at it might seem quaint and unsophisticated. again “as we sit here.” The extraordinary technical advancements With just 15 months until the next round in recent years have proven no match for the of major state and federal elections, and as confidence levels required to secure online Congress continues to debate the sources of voting, and voting systems are especially and steps to combat the cyberattacks, it is First, we must increase the cybersecurity measures that together can safeguard public vulnerable when they are connected to the sobering to consider the effect that a deep of systems used in elections, such as voter confidence in our elections — paper ballots internet. There is no basis for confidence erosion of public confidence in the election registration databases and voting machines. and audits of election results. that secure internet voting will be feasible process could have. Since state and local governments do not Paper ballots are evidence of voters’ anytime soon. Paper is feasible now. It would be devastating to Americans’ possess, on their own, the ability to guard choices that cannot be altered by compro- Further delay, squabbling among levels of faith in our democracy and the legitimacy of election resources against attacks by foreign mised software or hardware. They can be government, lack of funding or naive faith in our elected government. nations or other malicious actors, they must marked either by machine or by hand — and technology alone put our democracy at risk. For these reasons, state and federal leaders work together with the federal government counted either by machine or by hand — but Paper can help protect it. must act with urgency to secure our elections. for greater insight, training and rapid intel- it is this paper record that is crucial. And only * * * * * As co-chairs of the committee convened in ligence sharing. paper ballots can enable the third action. Lee C. Bollinger is president of Columbia 2016 by the National Academies of Sciences, Yet, enhanced cybersecurity and in- Audits inspect a sample of paper ballots in University. Michael A. McRobbie is presi- Engineering and Medicine to address voting tra-government coordination will not be order to verify that votes have been counted dent of Indiana University. They co-chaired security, we concluded that the nation should enough. The evolving nature of cyberthreats correctly and that the election results are a committee of the National Academies of immediately take three actions to strengthen means that securing the election data and accurate. A particular type of audit known Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that the safeguards for election systems against infrastructure can never be 100 percent sure. as a risk-limiting audit is our best defense. A wrote the report Securing the Vote: Protecting the mounting cyberthreats. Because of this, we need two additional risk-limiting audit performed on an election American Democracy. Prediction: 2020 election is set to be hacked, if we don’t act fast By Adam Levin tion machines connected to the internet when Since 1993, hackers have traveled to Las they shouldn’t be, and the persistent threat of Vegas from around the world to demonstrate state-sponsored attacks on our democracy. their skills at DefCon’s annual convention, Think DARPA’s $10 million un-hackable and every year new horrors of cyber-inse- election machine proves all is well? Not curity are revealed as they wield their craft. quite. Bugs during the set up of the DARPA Last year, for example, an eleven-year-old wonder machine meant that DefCon’s partic- boy changed the election results on a replica ipants didn’t have enough time to properly of the Florida state election website in under break the thing. In the absence of definitive ten minutes. proof to the contrary, we have to assume it This year was no exception. Participants can be hacked. revealed all sorts of clever attacks and pa- What Now? thetic vulnerabilities. One hack allowed a Instead of discussing the nation’s Voter ID convention attendee to commandeer control laws, we need to focus on securing the vote. of an iPhone with a non-Apple-issue charging It is well-established fact that Russia cord, one that is identical to the Apple ver- attempted to interfere in the 2016 election sion. Another group figured out how to use a in all 50 states, and Israel — an ally of the Netflix account tosteal banking information. president — recently disclosed that the Rus- But for our purposes, let’s focus on election sian government identified President Trump security because without it democracy is as the candidate most likely to benefit Russia, imperiled. And if you think about it, what and used cyberbots to help him win. The fact are the odds of something like DefCon being are vulnerable… and that should worry you. After a midterm election featuring irregu- that President Trump won the election on the permitted in the People’s Republic of China? DefCon participants are instructed to larities in Georgia, North Carolina and other strength of just 80,000 votes spread across Speaking of China (or Russia or North break things, and they do just that. This smaller hacks, and warnings from the likes of three key swing states shows how important Korea or Iran or…) will the 2020 election year, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) toured Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, there has it is to address the issue. We’re not talking be hacked? DefCon’s Voting Village and he left with been no meaningful action nationwide when about a blunderbuss approach to hacking the In a word: Yes. these words: “We need paper ballots, guys.” it comes to election security, while the specter election here. Plausible outcomes can be con- In 2016 Russia targeted elections systems Was the Senator right? It’s the easiest of serious interference remains. Senate Ma- structed. It’s been known to happen before. in all 50 states. solution, but not the only one. Because jority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has Some experts think it may soon be too A CNN article about DefCon’s now annual elections machines are thus far preeminently steadfastly refused to allow even bi-partisan late to secure 2020 against the threat of Voting Village, described the overall prob- breakable, we still need audited paper trails. election security legislation to come to the state-sponsored hacks. I do not. But I think lem: Many election officials and key players Paper trails are mission critical floor for a vote, much less a debate, and for the time to delay to score political points has in the election business are not sufficiently After railing against previous findings of that reason he and the Republican party are passed, and now is the time for action. worried to anticipate, recognize and meet the DefCon participants, Election Systems and blameworthy for placing politics above pro- Adam K. Levin is chairman and founder of challenges ahead. Software (ES&S) CEO Tom Burt reversed tecting our most cherished democratic right. CyberScout (formerly IDT911) and co-found- While many organizations welcome the his position in a Roll Call op-ed that called While the news is on overheated cycles er of Credit.com. He is a former director of hijinks of DefCon participants — including for paper records and mandatory machine covering every tweet, or sound bite, uttered the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs the Pentagon — the voting machine manu- testing in order to secure e-voting systems. by President Trump, critical issues like cy- and is the author of Swiped: How to Protect facturers don’t generally seem eager to have It’s a welcome move as far as cybersecurity bersecurity are not being addressed, and this Yourself In a World Full of Scammers, Phish- hackers of any stripe show them where they experts are concerned. matters — given recent DefCon news of elec- ers, and Identity Thieves. Muth (Continued from Page 13) News Release was highlighted featuring a Chairman McDonald on the Senate confir- over to the new website, then why, oh why, Except for the fact that he’s a lying statement issued by Nevada GOP Chairman mation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court were the four “Carson City Updates,” dat- sh*t-weasel. Here, I’ll prove it… Michael McDonald relating to the late-July nominee Brett Kavanaugh ing back to May 12th, posted on the new Black announced her run for chairman on Democrat presidential debates. —September 4, 2018: NVGOP Statement website? August 16th. Being generous, let’s say Schip- Sorry, Schip-Wreck, but August 3rd is of Sisolak I mean, if May 2019 News Releases Wreck’s definition of a “couple weeks” goes decidedly NOT “dated.” Especially consid- —September 24, 2018: RNC Response to were considered “dated,” why weren’t the back a full month, to August 1st, OK? ering the website designer had posted a News Michelle Obama Rally: Republicans Have May 2019 Carson City Updates considered Now let’s hop into the Wayback Machine. Release — its one and only one — dating the Edge in Nevada “dated,” hmm? But first… back to June 18th. —October 4, 2018: RNC Chair: The Then again, maybe Schip-Wreck’s flurry Apparently Mr. Schip-Wreck doesn’t Now, if a June 18th News Release wasn’t Democrats’ Political Spectacle Has Gone On of News Releases were actually issued and know about the Wayback Machine. It’s an “dated,” how could an August 3rd news re- Long Enough. posted between April 16th and May 12th in online website archive application that can lease be “dated”? Which means there were no News Re- the missing archive window on the Wayback take you back in time and show you exactly Hmm. leases posted on the Nevada GOP website Machine. what a given website looked like on certain But hang on, we’re not done with this. between January 1, 2019, when Schip-Wreck And if you believe that, I have an invest- dates in the past. Let’s hop back into the Wayback Machine took the helm, and April 16, 2019 — midway ment in a Nigerian diamond mine I’d like And according to the Wayback Machine, and travel through cyber-space to April 16, through the legislative session. you to consider! the new party website design was actually 2019. That would be well past the midway That’s incompetence, if not malpractice, Look, Republicans all across the state in place at least as early as June 19, 2019. point of the 2019 Nevada legislative session. for a well-paid, supposedly “professional” keep telling me the reason Nevada Republi- Oops. But before we get to that, we need to es- communications director for a major state cans keep losing so many races is lousy mes- But hey, I’m in a generous mood this tablish something else… when Schip-Wreck political party. saging that stinks like yesterday’s diapers. morning. started heading up the Nevada GOP’s Mis- But hey, let me move beyond generous to And considering this Schip-Wreck clown So let’s give Schip-Wreck the benefit of communications Department. magnanimous. was the Miscommunications Director for the doubt and concede that even though the And according to the party’s FEC report, Maybe Schip-Wreck was busy watching Heller, and, unbelievably, now the Nevada website “redesign and overhaul” was done a that was last January. BEFORE the Nevada the “March Madness” college basketball GOP, we know why. couple MONTHS ago, not a couple WEEKS Legislature convened. tournament during the session and just Abandon schip! ago, maybe it’s true the “designer” did in fact I now present to the jury Exhibit #2… couldn’t find time to do that silly political BTW: If I got any of this wrong, Schip- fail to move the “News Release” content over OK, let’s hop back into the Wayback stuff he was being paid for. Wreck, please feel free to email me and try in a timely fashion. Machine. Maybe he hit his stride and started banging to correct the record. But remember, we’re dealing with a lying According to the Nevada GOP’s old web- out and posting news releases left and right But I might suggest you’d be better served sh*t-weasel here. site on April 16, 2019, there were only five going after the crazy legislation being pushed learning and honoring the First Rule of Holes. And Schip-Wreck’s claim that “all the News Releases — three of which were sim- forward by Democrats after April 16th. * * * * * press releases” weren’t moved over because ply re-prints of RNC news releases - posted And maybe all those News Releases after Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Out- they were “dated” is pure sheep dip. between April 16, 2018 and April 16, 2019. April 16th were considered “dated” by the reach, a non-profit public policy grassroots I present to the jury Exhibit #1. They were… new website designer and didn’t get moved advocacy organization and publisher of Ne- On August 3rd, in one of the few tweets —July 4, 2018: RNC Independence Day over and posted. vadaNewsandViews.com. He may be reached posted by the Nevada GOP (@NVGOP) prior Statement But, um, if all those News Releases were by email at [email protected]. He to Ms. Black entering the race for chair, a —September 4, 2018: A Statement from considered “dated,” and therefore not moved blogs at MuthsTruths.com. Page 16 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 The NRA as a terrorist organization? San Francisco took one step too far By Jonathan Turley but that does not mean it is a ter- It is not everyday that a public rorist organization, any more than official uncovers more than five environmental groups are terrorist million terrorists living in the Unit- organizations when their members ed States, including many working engage in such raging acts. in some of the highest offices of the Likewise, many people applaud- land. Yet, San Francisco District ed Democratic candidate and South Two Supervisor Catherine Stefani Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg after he managed to achieve precisely that called for all groups deemed “white this week, when the city board of nationalist” to be declared domestic supervisors passed her resolution terrorists. Columnist Derek Beres declaring the National Rifle Asso- explained that “such a label also ciation to be a domestic terrorist denies another related idea, mani- organization. fest destiny, which, like American For Stefani and other board exceptionalism, states that America members, it is not enough to dis- has a mandate to change the world. agree with gun rights advocates. By calling Americans terrorists, we They must be declared terrorists. can identify the actual root of racial Otherwise, this would be a mere and nationalist tension on our soil.” political disagreement. The San So it is that easy. You sim- Francisco resolution encourages ply declare whole groups to be cities, states, and the federal gov- terrorists, and you effectively ernment to follow suit. It states that criminalize their “related ideas.” NRA terrorism includes spreading The counterparts to Stefani in the “propaganda” and arming “those The resolution is the very defi- agree. You must condemn the very no longer confined by notions of pro-life community could declare individuals who would and have nition of demagoguery. It also is act of speaking or advocating as a free speech. pro-choice organizations to be committed acts of terrorism.” a sign of our time as the perfect virtual crime. That way, you relieve Indeed, Antifa is dedicated to terrorist organizations that kill the The resolution follows a dec- resolution for the age of rage. Many yourself of any responsibility to lis- defeating free speech. Dartmouth unborn, while Texas could declare laration from New York Attorney people of good faith have criticized ten or respond to an opposing view. University professor Mark Bray, vegan advocates to be terrorists for General Letitia James in launching the NRA for years, while the orga- Many academics and advocates author of a handbook on Antifa, spreading “propaganda” against an investigation of the NRA and nization has opposed many reason- now believe they can stop people explained, “At the heart of the meat. After all, San Francisco de- declaring that it is not a “charita- able limits on gun ownership and from speaking by declaring them anti-fascist outlook is a rejection clared five million Americans to be ble organization” but a “terrorist has painted anyone on the other side to be racists or terrorists. of the classical liberal phrase” that terrorists, so what about the other organization.” Of course, the NRA as enemies of freedom and liberty. At the University of California “says I disapprove of what you say 322 million citizens in this nation? promotes the Second Amendment, Yet, it is not uncommon for at Santa Barbara, feminist studies but I will defend to the death your The question is what terrorism which the Supreme Court has re- organizations advocating for in- associate professor Mireille Miller right to say it.” He defined anti-fas- ultimately means if everyone is peatedly affirmed as the basis of dividual rights to be “extreme” in Young criminally assaulted pro-life cists as “illiberals” who reject the declared a terrorist. That answer an individual constitutional right their support for that right. NARAL advocates on campus, and later notion that far right views deserve can be found in a scene from the to bear arms. Thus, San Francisco is a pro-choice organization op- pleaded guilty to the crime. She was to “coexist” with opposing views. George Orwell novel “1984,” is declaring that advocacy of a posing virtually any limit on the defended by faculty and students, The goal of Antifa is not to coexist when O’Brien is torturing the hero constitutional right is akin to being right of women to secure abortions, including many who said she was but “to end their politics.” Winston in the Ministry of Love. an arm of the Islamic State. including supporting “partial birth “triggered” by a pro-life display As someone who has spent a O’Brien explains to Winston, “The For her part, Stefani expressed abortion” which most Americans and that pro-life advocates were lifetime advocating for free speech, object of terrorism is terrorism. The nothing but glee in declaring those oppose. Environmental groups like “terrorists” who did not deserve I have long denounced Antifa as a object of power is power. Now do on the other side of the gun debate Greenpeace oppose most measures free speech. The university refused despicable organization. But I was you begin to understand me?” to be terrorists. “The NRA has it that undermine the environment. to suspend or fire her, who has since also one of the first to object to Pres- Yes, I am beginning to under- coming to them. I will do every- PETA opposes almost any use of been celebrated as a leader in femi- ident Trump supporting the decla- stand. thing I possibly can to call them animals, even calling for a robotic nist activism. ration of Antifa a domestic terrorist This is all about the object of out on what they are, which is a “Punxsutawney Phil” groundhog. It is now routine for many facul- organization. That is the problem power. domestic terrorist organization,” Most advocacy groups follow ty and students on college campuses with free speech. You often have * * * * * she said. For the other supervisors, the view of Barry Goldwater that across the country to prevent others to fight for those who least deserve Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro voting against the declaration might “extremism in the defense of liberty from speaking by claiming they it, like an organization dedicated Professor of Public Interest Law have risked being accused of giv- is no vice.” Such advocacy is no act are acting to stop violent or racist to denying it to others. There is no at George Washington University. ing material support to a terrorist of terrorism. In politics these days, speech. Such declarations are in- question here that Antifa supporters You can follow him on Twitter @ organization. however, it is not enough to dis- credibly liberating in that you are regularly engage in violent acts, JonathanTurley. Why the trade war will hurt Trump By Douglas Schoen cerned about the impact of the relations between the United States Sunday, the latest round of tar- escalating trade war. “There is no and China as harmful. This finding iffs will be placed on imports from question that trade uncertainty is does not bode well for Republi- China, including many everyday contributing to the slowdown,” cans, especially given 50 percent items such as plastic goods and Toomey said. “We are in a very of Americans say that the growing electronics. These tariffs come one good place. The danger is, where Chinese economy is a good thing week after President Trump took to are we going to be a year from now for the United States, while only Twitter to “hereby order” American if concerns about trade continue 41 percent say that the growing companies out of China, citing the to be an irritant to growth?” His Chinese economy is a bad thing. International Emergency Econom- concerns are shared by Wisconsin In 2020, the economy will cer- ic Powers Act of 1977. While the Senator Ron Johnson, a Repub- tainly be an issue at the forefront legality of executive authority to lican who said, “The biggest risk of the national conversation. If the order American companies out of to the economy is the whole trade trade war continues to escalate, China is questionable at best, his situation.” Trump can expect to face a great tweet and the latest round of tariffs It has become clear that mem- deal of political backlash for these indicate that Trump will not dees- bers of the same party as the White tariffs, which will adversely impact calate his trade war any time soon, House are growing frustrated with not just his reelection chances, even with 2020 on the horizon. the retaliatory tariffs implemented but also the reelection chances of Following his announcement of While the president will certain- of the inverted yield curve, the low- by the president, as they are unwise members of his own party. Waging the additional round of tariffs, Chi- ly face a great deal of political back- ering of interest rates by the Federal both practically and politically. a trade war that negatively impacts nese officials asked for fresh trade lash, Republicans up for reelection Reserve, or some of the largest one Furthermore, the ongoing trade American businesses and consum- talks and negotiations, rather than are also becoming especially un- day losses in stock market history, war has greatly impacted Amer- ers is an questionable strategy, an immediate tariff retaliation that easy with the neverending trade Republicans are beginning to fear ican perceptions of China and of especially leading up to an election, would hurt the Chinese economy dispute and haphazard implemen- that the trade war will prevent them our economic relationship with the that the president must abandon and the global economy in clear and tation of tariffs. On the campaign from being able to take credit for global superpower. both for his own sake and for the profound ways. Moreover, as the trail, Trump and top Republicans a strong economy. Even Republi- A poll conducted by the Pew sake of the country he represents. ongoing trade war with one of the frequently tout the strong economy cans who are not up for reelection Research Center found that 60 Douglas E. Schoen (@Doug- largest American trading partners as the primary accomplishment of have been raising their concerns, percent of Americans have an lasESchoen) served as a pollster for wages on, the impact continues to their party, pointing to key data especially given that the otherwise unfavorable opinion of China, the President Clinton. He is a political push businesses and consumers in such as low unemployment and strong economy is showing signs highest share of Americans to hold consultant, Fox News contributor, the United States to their limits, increased consumer spending. of decline. this opinion ever recorded in the and the author of “Collapse: A with great potential for harm to the However, as slowdown concerns Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toom- survey. Not only that, but 53 percent World in Crisis and the Urgency of domestic economy. begin to rise, whether it be because ey is one of the Republicans con- of Americans see current economic American Leadership.” Is a Dark Ages disease the new American plague threat? By Dr. Marc Siegel sometimes blindness can occur. among the homeless population in Diseases are reemerging in some According to the CDC, there are an area such as Los Angeles Coun- parts of America, including Los between 100 and 200 new cases of ty, with close to 60,000 homeless Angeles County, that we haven’t leprosy reported in the U.S. every people and 75 percent of those commonly seen since the Middle year. A study just released from the lacking even temporary shelter Ages. One of those is typhus, a Keck Medical Center at the Univer- or adequate hygiene and medical disease carried by fleas that feed on sity of Southern California looked treatment. All of those factors make rats, which in turn feed on the gar- at 187 leprosy patients treated at its a perfect cauldron for a contagious bage and sewage that is prominent clinic from 1973 to 2018 and found disease that is transmitted by nasal in people-packed “typhus zones.” that most were Latino, originating droplets and respiratory secretions Although typhus can be treated with from Mexico, where the disease is with close repeated contact. antibiotics, the challenge is to iden- somewhat more common, and that I am much more concerned tify and treat the disease in resistant, there was on average a three-year about the permanent disabilities hard-to-access populations, such as delay in diagnosis, during which that come with leprosy — given the homeless or the extremely poor time the side effects of the disease that 2 million to 3 million people in developing countries. — usually irreversible, even with are affected worldwide — than I also believe that homeless ar- treatment — began to occur. I am with the associated stigma. eas are at risk for the reemergence (CDC), there are more than 200,000 to one that is more common. Leprosy is still more prevalent in Nevertheless, leprosy appearing of another deadly ancient disease new cases of leprosy reported in the Untreated, Hansen’s disease Central America and South Amer- among the homeless in L.A. is a — leprosy, also known as Hansen’s world every year, with two-thirds causes disabilities over time, with ica, with more than 20,000 new sure recipe for instant public panic. disease. Leprosy involves a myco- of them in India, home to one-third the peripheral nerves affected and cases per year. Given that, there is * * * * * bacteria (tuberculosis is another of the world’s poor. The poor are the fingers and toes becoming certainly the possibility of sporadic Marc Siegel M.D. is a professor mycobacteria) that is very difficult disproportionately affected by this numb. Multibacillary Hansen’s cases of leprosy continuing to be of medicine and medical director to transmit and very easy to treat disease because close quarters, disease, the more serious version, brought across our southern border at Doctor Radio at NYU Langone with a cocktail of three antibiotics. poor sanitation, and lack of prompt also causes skin lesions, nodules, undetected. Health. He is a Fox News Medical Yet according to the Centers for diagnosis or treatment easily can plaques and nasal congestion. With And it seems only a matter of Correspondent. Follow him on Disease Control and Prevention convert a disease that should be rare eye involvement, corneal ulcers and time before leprosy could take hold Twitter @drmarcsiegel. September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 17 Difference between primaries and caucuses matters in this election By Bill Schneider presidential nomination usually get it (Rich- Repeat after me: A primary is an election. ard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mon- A caucus is a meeting. Got it? It’s important dale, George H.W. Bush, Al Gore). A vice because the four early events on the calendar president’s job is to be loyal, and primary for the 2020 Democratic nomination include voters tend to value and reward party loyalty. two caucuses (Iowa on Feb. 3 and Nevada on The 2020 Democratic contest looks in- Feb. 22) and two primaries (New Hampshire creasingly like the 2016 race, with Biden on Feb. 11 and South Carolina on Feb 29). playing the Hillary Clinton role and Warren They are likely to produce divergent results. the Bernie Sanders role. Clinton nearly Attending a meeting is a bigger commit- lost Iowa to Sanders in 2016. Warren has ment than voting in an election. Not only that, the organization and enthusiasm to make a but caucuses require something that should strong showing in Iowa. But Sanders is still have gone away with the fall of the Soviet a contender and he continues to draw support Union — public voting. Caucus goers have cess. Nine states that held caucuses in 2016 cans and Latinos. African-Americans are the from younger progressive activists. to stand up in front of their friends and neigh- have switched to primaries for 2020. But not key to Biden’s strength in the polls, just as In New Hampshire, Biden faces a different bors and God and everybody and declare their Iowa and Nevada, the two early caucus states. they were for Hillary Clinton in 2016. kind of problem. Massachusetts and Vermont choice for the Democratic nomination. That Iowa and Nevada parties have been ex- Is it because Biden was Barack Obama’s both border New Hampshire. Sanders and is something most voters don’t want to do. As ploring ways to expand caucus participation, man? Possibly, but what may be more import- Warren are familiar figures to New Hamp- a result, voters who participate in caucuses maybe by allowing mail-in ballots or voting ant is the desire to defeat Donald Trump. “We shire Democrats. Biden could very well come are often ideologically committed activists. by telephone. But any changes that threaten want to win. We just want to win,” former in third in New Hampshire, behind the two On the Democratic side that usually means to turn the caucuses into a primary would Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who is “locals.” voters who favor the most progressive can- trigger countermoves by New Hampshire, African-American, told Politico. “Donald In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy was didates — like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie which insists on its right to hold the nation’s Trump is so damaging and so frightening … saved by African-American and Latino vot- Sanders, not relatively moderate candidates first primary. The primary theme is ‘I just want to be with ers — the same voters Biden has to rely on like Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Joe Biden in The 2020 Democratic race is taking on someone who I believe can actually win.’” in 2020. He should be able to do that so long 2020. a familiar shape. Elizabeth Warren is build- Biden’s wife Jill made that case in Au- as two black candidates (Kamala Harris and In 2016, the voting age population of Iowa ing a base with highly educated, liberal, gust when she said, “You may like another Cory Booker) and a Latino candidate (Julian (2.3 million) was more than twice as large as upper-middle-class white voters. Call them candidate better, but you have to look at who Castro) don’t suddenly catch fire with minori- the voting-age population of New Hampshire “NPR Democrats.” (National Public Radio is going to win.” With Trump weakening in ty voters — and so long as Biden maintains (1 million). But voter turnout in the New is often their favorite news source.) Bernie the polls, all of the well-known Democratic his strong lead over Trump in the polls. The Hampshire Democratic primary (249,567) Sanders’ appeal is more and more concen- candidates are now leading him. But Biden’s key to winning the 2020 Democratic nomi- was much higher than voter turnout in the trated among young voters. lead is the largest. Biden has the advantage nation is to look like a winner. Iowa Democratic caucuses(171,109). Meanwhile, Joe Biden has little competi- of familiarity. “Joe Biden is stability for me, Bill Schneider is a professor at the Schar The Democratic Party establishment has tion for moderate working class Democrats. stability and common sense,” an Iowa voter School of Policy and Government at George been pressuring state parties to make caucus- The working class Democratic vote now told The New York Times. Mason University and author of ‘Standoff: es more accessible to voters. With some suc- comes predominantly from African-Ameri- Vice presidents who run for the party’s How America Became Ungovernable.’ It is time for lawmakers to come together on immigration reform By Casey Higgins put forth a solution to address the immigration. The administration During my time in Congress, If you want to get something broader undocumented population. is preparing a plan to reform our I sat in countless meetings with comprehensive and politically They should pass a bill to deal immigration system with an eye Republicans and Democrats. There sensitive done in Congress, half the with the humanitarian crisis at the toward unifying the party. As with are people of goodwill on both sides battle is finding the right political southern border and improve the Democrats, this is an important genuinely interested in crafting a moment and the other half is being overburdened asylum system. They goal given the complex political solution through compromise. Both ready when that moment arrives. should even advance legislation to dynamics, and one that has so far sides must set aside harsh rhetoric While the Supreme Court ruling strengthen and modernize border proven elusive for Republicans. If and come together to solve this on the constitutionality of Deferred security. Staking out a clear posi- Kushner and his team are success- problem for the greater good. All Action for Childhood Arrivals tion on issues like these will show ful in crafting a starting point for Americans have a vested interest looms large over next year, we are that they are serious and ready to Republicans, it will be a crucial in Congress achieving a permanent unlikely to see a major overhaul of get to work on a compromise. step for immigration reform efforts. solution, whether it be the desire to our immigration system during this If Democrats are willing to en- Kushner has described the White secure our borders, to provide our presidential election cycle, but the gage on a bipartisan basis, there are House objectives in this plan, which farmers and our employers with next year will be critical to laying good indications that Republicans are to protect American wages, the workers they need to grow our the groundwork for meaningful the cap for family based visas, and will respond in kind. Senate Ma- fully secure the border, ensure our economy, or to address the undoc- reform. several bills to address the condi- jority Leader Mitch McConnell has country is welcoming and able to umented population. Democrats in the House are tions in the detention centers. opened the door to bipartisan talks, attract the best and brightest from A recent Gallup Poll found moving immigration legislation. This is a good start. But if saying it is “long past due” for both around the world, maintain our that immigration is the second This includes the Dream and Prom- Democrats are truly interested in sides to sit down together and try humanitarian values, including the most important issue to Americans ise Act to address those who are reforming our broken immigration to address the issues with our sys- reunification of families, and allow right now, behind concerns about under Deferred Action for Child- system, they will keep legislating tem. Senate Judiciary Committee our country to be competitive in the broken government. What clearer hood Arrivals and with temporary with the intent of inviting a negoti- Chairman Lindsey Graham has a long term. These are the kind of ba- indication do we have that Ameri- protected status, the Fairness for ation with Republicans. Democrats long history of reaching across the sic principles that both Republicans cans want to see their government High Skilled Immigrants Act to should move forward legislation to aisle to legislate on this topic and and Democrats should be able to working through compromise to remove the per country caps for em- reform our guest worker programs is working now on a bill to address embrace in their efforts to fix our address immigration? Our elected ployment based visas and increase and green card system. They should our asylum system. Many other Re- immigration system. leaders should not write off the next publicans in the Senate have intro- So when lawmakers on both year when there is progress to be Viasmensky duced legislation to address other sides have staked out their posi- made and plenty of middle ground (Continued from Page 12) the City Information Office of the aspects of our immigration system. tions, they should get in a room to be found on an issue that affects Senator Rand Paul, for instance, has and start hashing out a compro- not only our lives, but also greatly atitis-C, just to mention one, while City of Las Vegas will take note of introduced the Believe Act aimed at mise. Sure, this will not happen impacts our economy. there may well be several others). the issues and inform your office of reforming legal immigration. overnight, it will not happen in a * * * * * residents’ concerns. The Courtyard Homeless Re- At the White House, Jared month, and it may take years, but Casey Higgins is a fellow with source Center that the City bragged My name is Perly Viasmensky Kushner has shown interest in using when the political stars align and the Bipartisan Policy Center. She so much about and spent hundreds * * * * * the model that led to successful the moment arrives, they need to be previously served as an assistant to of thousands of dollars on, is not This column was intended to be enactment of broadly bipartisan ready. That is why the next year will Speaker Paul Ryan for policy and working because the majority of an Open Letter to the City of Las criminal justice reform to tackle be absolutely crucial for reform. trade counsel. the homeless people claim they Vegas Councilwoman Olivia Diaz, want to be free. but national news came out that If you don’t want to consider President Trump fired his national Mace(Continued from Page 13) privilege should be abolished but civil ceremony. But at the end of the doing anything about the situation, security adviser, John Bolton. I am sacred space to share oneself with said the proper procedure is to use day, if your spouse is supposed to you could at least arrange to have glad President Trump came to his a chosen other. That space should the established rules process. Both be your soulmate, your best friend, some porta potties in the area park- senses. I met the man, John Bolton, remain free from state intrusion and Daniels and Vigil agreed with the your raison d’etre, shouldn’t what ing lots and also arrange a City crew several years ago. In my personal compulsion that would demand one majority that Gutierrez’s conviction you say be free from government to come and clean them on a regular opinion, he is a liar, and he has NO spouse to reveal the intimate secrets should be affirmed. intrusion and non-consensual dis- basis before the odor sends the respect for women, whatsoever. I of the other.” I agree with the dissenters that semination? 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(ContinuedMaramis from Page 12) Republican lawmakers. None of the Demo- did not do the research. I have my thoughts are good at heart, and would stoop to help and it took someone like Jon Stewart (former cratic sponsors of the bill were present in the on the subject, but just as what I learned a fellow man in need, just as it seemed the host of The Daily Show) to stand up and be Rose Garden, although all members of Con- firsthand in the army does not have to make entire city came together that devastating day, their advocate, to lobby for them, as it were. gress were invited to the signing, according anyone change their mind about their own without knowing any of the details except After his speech in front of Congress this to a White House official. experiences with the army or with any other what they saw with their own eyes and heard past July, shaming those who had not passed So much for the care of the very many military service, and does not have to water with their own ears. the former 9/11 Victim Compensation Bill, first responders, including both police and down the good that the military does. Things are not always as they seem, nor a new bill was drawn up to make that fund firefighters, and a slew of others who rallied To me, life is all about experience. We are they always as we are told they are. How available for all those still in need, for the to the cause. No matter who or what caused learn from experience; we grow from expe- they are we cannot always say, yet there are rest of their lives. that horrific disaster, no one can ever take rience, and each of us goes through our own two other ways to look at how things are: anything away from those brave and dedi- Many were killed and many more injured, experiences that may well be quite unlike One is how we want to believe they are and cated souls. to say nothing of the illnesses that would still another’s. It is not for any of us to discount the other is simply the truth. They don’t al- come because of that Sept.11 terrorist attack, But so much investigating has been done another’s experience just as we do not want ways match... and that is the stuff of which but while the signing of the new bill was not by so many parties since all that happened, our personal experiences to be downplayed discord, conflict, political “correctness,” and what one would call a day of celebration, the and if one has read all that is available to read, or cast aside as unbelievable. cover-ups are made. day it was signed by President Trump brought to hear about, or even see in videos available a major sigh of relief for all those suffering on YouTube or elsewhere, one will be sure We cannot ever learn and grow if we have No matter what, I’ll always opt for the the additional stings from the financial bur- to find different versions of what “really” closed minds, and sometimes it can be quite truth. dens they might have to bear. happened. Perhaps what happened with that difficult to open our minds to truths we would * * * * * The signing was attended by more than 60 third building can give one more cause for rather not know or believe. But if there are Maramis Choufani is the Managing Ed- first responders and victims’ families, as well doubt, or more cause to be certain about the some difficult truths to be learned about that itor of the Las Vegas Tribune. She writes a as former New York Gov. George Pataki and other explanation. fateful day back in 2001, I pray that we can weekly column in this newspaper. To contact former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, I am not going to report on what others learn them and not let the knowledge stop us Maramis, email her at maramis@lasvega- who served during the terrorist attacks, and hold steadfastly to in that regard because I from believing in the fact that most people stribune.com. Page 18 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 EntErtainmEnt Blanc de Blanc’s flamboyant opening at the Sahara Hotel By Sandy Zimmerman Las Vegas Tribune Photos by Sandy Zimmerman Most Las Vegas shows celebrate their openings with red carpets but the “Blanc de Blanc” show is different. They cleverly designed three settings — a lounging couch surrounded by balloons and signs, another with neon lights and balloons, and a third mega-billboard with a video! That reminded me of the Las Vegas’ Pzazz I experienced as a show reviewer in the ’80s and ’90s. I interviewed many celebrities as they filled “Blanc de Blanc’s” lobby. Interview with Scott Maidment, “Blanc de Blanc” show creator and director at the Sahara: SZ: “That’s so important to create the con- cept of a new show with so many pieces to put together. Is “Blanc de Blanc” a big show?” Scott Maidment: “We have been doing the show for three years with a two hour version and filed it down to a smaller version so the show is even more exciting, punchier than it’s ever been. We sold out in Australia, London, and New Zealand and are very happy to be here at the launch of “Blanc de Blanc” at the Sahara.” SZ: “What does “Blanc de Blanc” mean?” Scott Maidment: “It’s a type of cham- pagne, a white grape drink. It’s fun, I like the sound, the name sounds like champagne corks are popping! Have a good time at the party!” SZ: “From the photos I saw, your show looks like it’s going to be a party.” Scott Maidment: “It is more of a party than a show. The audience are invited to kind of come on the journey with us, party, and get involved as well. We are looking forward to seeing how much Las Vegas loves ‘Blanc de Blanc.’ The rest of the world has loved it so we’re ready to come before you in Vegas.” Interview with David Goldrake, Illusionist of “Imaginarium” at the Tropicana: SZ: “I interviewed you in your dress- Scott Maidment, “Blanc de Blanc” show creator and director at the Sahara Hotel (formally the SLS). ing room at the closing of your successful material, new people, and a new cast. I’m show, very different and am wishing them a Canyon North Rim National Park, and real “IMAGINARIUM” and happy to see you very excited about that.” lot of success and a very long run.” Cattle Drive similar to the early westerns back in action on the red carpet again.” SZ: “Your first show, “Imaginarium” was Blanc de Blanc shows appear at 7 p.m., in Reno, Nevada. With 25 years’ experience David Goldrake: “We have been traveling so good! Similar to our production shows I Thursday to Monday, in the Blanc de Blanc as a syndicated Show and Dining Reviewer, all over the world having a lot of fun perform- reviewed in the ’80s and ’90s.” Theater, from August 16-December 30, 2019. Travel/ Luxury writer, Photographer/ Vid- ing my bigger show and my smaller shows David Goldrake: “I am happy to have * * * * * eographer, and Talk Show Host of Sandy since the closing. started my Las Vegas career at the Tropicana Award-winning Sandy Zimmerman pro- Zimmerman’s Las Vegas TV Show and Dis- SZ: “You are producing a new show, will and now we are ready for new adventures.” duced television programs, documentaries, cover the Ultimate Vacation travel specials. it be all new or have parts of your previous SZ: “Have you heard about “Blanc de and travel specials in Beijing, on the Yangtze For information, questions, comments please show?” Blanc?” River Cruise in China, Italy and around the contact Sandy Zimmerman: call (702)-515- David Goldrake: “We are going to have David Goldrake: “It is exciting to see world as well as for Bryce Canyon National 0846, visit Facebook@SZLVTV or email some parts of the old show but some new “Blanc de Blanc” because it is such a unique Park, Zion Canyon National Park, the Grand [email protected].

Blanc de Blanc’s exciting new version of the Red Carpet — A loung- ing couch surrounded by balloons and a large bottle of Champagne!

Illusionist David Goldrake, star of “Imaginarium,” at the Tropicana. September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 19 “Sake To Me,” Kumi Japanese Restaurant + Bar by Chef Akira Back at Mandalay Bay

RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! hits the stage at Flamingo Las Vegas in early 2020. Vegas is the recipe for the perfect Vegas experience, and we know that audiences are in for a night they’ll never forget.” “We are thrilled to welcome This Week RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! to Fla- mingo Las Vegas,” said Chris Holdren, chief marketing officer of in Las Vegas Caesars Entertainment. “RuPaul’s legacy is rooted in acceptance, di- versity and authenticity. Embracing By Mike Kermani who you are while having an amaz- ing time could not be better suited for Las Vegas, and we are incredibly Premiering on Saturday, Sep- Fourth Grade students by teaching proud that the message will find its tember 14th at 6 p.m., Sax Under etiquette, good manners, com- home at Flamingo.” the Stars will transport live music mon courtesy, and commitment * * * * * enthusiasts, jazz aficionados and to gracious behavior. In addition, By Mike Kermani Seven queens will be featured “SAX UNDER THE STARS” social locals alike to the iconic ballroom dancing will be taught by Las Vegas Tribune in each show from a rotating cast LAUNCHES AT CLUB 172 era of Las Vegas glamour as Sid professional instructors from dance Join us for “Sake To Me,” every of Aquaria, Asia O’Hara, Coco Sax Under the Stars creates a The Kid’s Saxsation Big Band and studios in Las Vegas. Friday night starting at 5:00 p.m. Montrese, Derrick Barry, Eureka renaissance of romance and ele- “The First Lady of Jazz” Michelle Sax Under the Stars premiers The modern Japanese restaurant O’Hara, India Ferrah, Kahanna gance with the debut of its monthly Johnson croon guests during an September 14th and continues ev- provides a new social experience Montrese, Kameron Michaels, Kim jazz-inspired dinner and dance at elevated evening of fine dining and ery 2nd Saturday until December. every Friday featuring an exclu- Chi, Naomi Smalls, Shannel and The Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel dancing the night away. For $120, Formal length dresses, white tie & sively curated secret menu by Yvie Oddly. & Casino’s Club 172 — an intimate guests will also enjoy a 3-course tails preferred. Tickets are available Michelin Star Chef Akira Back Presale tickets will be available live music venue complete with a dinner by 172’s Executive Chef online for $120 per person, and at paired with half-off bottles of Sake, starting Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. retractable roof allowing guests Joe Richardson including dishes the door for $140. Limited seating specialty cocktails and sushi rolls at rupaulsdragracelive.com, and to enjoy an evening of fine dining like Scottish salmon with lemon available; to book your reservation, while the DJ sets the vibe as the fans can sign up for access begin- and dancing under the starry Vegas caper butter sauce, organic chicken call 702-514-0488 or visit sax- perfect destination to kick off the ning today. WOW and Voss Events night sky. With a 9-piece jazz band with Peruvian purple potatoes and underthestars.com. Vegan dinner night. subscribers will also receive presale helmed by Sid The Kid and fea- teriyaki sauce, to name a few. options available. 5:00 to 11:00 p.m., Every Friday access by email. Caesars Rewards turing contemporary jazz vocalist A portion of ticket proceeds will 172 is a live music club at The Kumi Japanese Restaurant + members, Caesars Entertainment’s Michelle Johnson, Sax Under the benefit the Fourth Grade Cotillion, Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel & Bar by Chef Akira Back, 3950 Las loyalty program, as well as Live Stars is poised to jazz up Las Vegas. a five-part class benefitting 50 Casino that features nationally Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas Nation and Ticketmaster customers acclaimed bands in Las Vegas. Kumi Japanese Restaurant and will also have access to a presale 172 provides access to artists in Bar by Akira Back at Mandalay beginning Wednesday, Sept. 11 at an intimate, up close, and personal Bay Hotel and Casino features 10 a.m. experience, while allowing guests a modern Japanese menu with a RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! will to enjoy upscale cuisine and craft Korean-American twist. Guests perform Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, cocktails from around the world. are welcomed by an extraordinary Saturday and Sunday at 9:30 p.m. For more information, visit https:// ambience of raw natural woods, starting in January 2020. Tickets www.caesars.com/rio-las-vegas/ hammered steel accents and touch- starting at $49, plus applicable tax things-to-do/172. es of red lacquer to complement the and fees, go on sale to the public be- * * * * * dining experience. ginning Friday, Sept. 13 at 10 a.m. Mike Kermani is an entertain- Kumi’s menu features Chef Aki- For more information and a com- ment writer for the Las Vegas ra Back’s signature Korean-Amer- plete show schedule, please visit Tribune newspaper. He writes a ican twist on traditional Japanese ticketmaster.com/dragracevegas. weekly column in this newspaper. dishes. Constantly inspired by his Directed by RuPaul and To contact Mike Kermani, email childhood and global travels, menu award-winning choreographer and mkermani@ lasvegas tribune.com items include a variety of shared filmmaker Jamal Sims (Aladdin, plates such as Whitefish Carpaccio Step Up, When The Beat Drops), with hirame, dried shallot, Nan- RuPaul’s Drag Race Live! is pro- banzu and Rock Shrimp Tempura duced by World of Wonder, the with Siracha ranch, micro celery. creative team behind RuPaul’s Drag Traditional Japanese entrees are Race, with Voss Events. This marks complemented by Chef Akira’s a Las Vegas reunion for RuPaul creative specialty rolls, which in- and Sims, who first collaborated clude the Seoul Garden with baby in 1994 with Sims dancing in spinach, carrots, grilled shiitake, RuPaul’s show at the Sahara Hotel. Pop Rockin’ withspicy tuna, crab, Original music for RuPaul’s Drag salmon, avocado and pop rocks, and Race Live! is written by RuPaul, the 007 Octopussy with crab salad, RuPaul’s Drag Race composer spicy octopus and crispy potatoes. Leland and Tom Campbell, Chief * * * * * Creative Officer at World of Won- THE QUEENS ARE WILD! der. The score includes RuPaul’s All tea, no shade! Some of the hit songs from the past 11 sea- most famous drag queens in the sons of Drag Race, plus original world are taking over the Las Vegas show-stopping numbers created Strip when RuPaul’s Drag Race especially for this residency. Live! hits the stage at Flamingo Las “RuPaul’s Drag Race has be- Vegas in early 2020. come an international phenomenon, From the creative team behind as have the fan viewing parties the Emmy Award-winning series that take place all over the world. RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul’s TheRuPaul’s Drag Race Live! Las Drag Race Live! will be the most Vegas residency show will immerse sickening eleganza extravaganza audiences in that experience in in Las Vegas herstory. The revue is the most interactive way possible. everything you love about the TV With original music, world-class show and then some. “RuPaul’s performances by America’s favorite Drag Race Live! is an immersive, queens, and all of the self-aware- interactive thrill-ride for everyone ness and attitude of the televi- who loves to laugh, dance and sing- sion show, RuPaul’s Drag Race along when a fabulous drag queen Live! will leave audiences wanting shakes her padded ass on stage,” more!” said show co-producers said RuPaul. Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey Each live performance is packed of World of Wonder. with outrageous comedy, eye-pop- “As the entertainment landscape ping fashions, over-the-top singing in Las Vegas continues to evolve, and dancing, heartwarming mo- we know that the next natural step is ments, plus twists and turns that bringing a live version of one of the will leave the audience “gagging” most popular shows on television to for more. The atmosphere of the The Strip,” said Kurt Melien, presi- show is interactive and encourages dent of Live Nation Las Vegas. “An audience members’ participation, as entertainer as iconic to pop culture if they were attending a live episode as RuPaul combined with a prop- of the world-famous competition. erty as legendary as Flamingo Las Page 20 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 ALS Association to host annual ‘Food is Art’ event a 3-course dinner by 172’s Execu- tive Chef Joe Richardson including dishes likeScottish salmon with lemon caper butter sauce, organic chicken with Peruvian purple po- tatoes and teriyaki sauce, to name a few. A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit the Fourth Grade Cotillion, a five-part class benefitting 50 Fourth Grade students by teaching etiquette, good manners, com- mon courtesy, and commitment Society 15, a production company, and its eventual eradication from to gracious behavior. In addition, Lust Army Productions, and a line the casino industry. Discussions ballroom dancing will be taught by of performance-enhancing supple- will dig deep into subject matter professional instructors from dance ments, Entice. involving mobsters such as Meyer studios in Las Vegas. * * * * * Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Sax Under the Stars premiers MOB MUSEUM ANNOUNCES Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Tony September 14 and continues every SEPTEMBER PROGRAMS Spilotro. Breakfast, lunch, a tour of 2nd Saturday until December. The National Museum of Orga- The Mob Museum’s distillery and Formal length dresses, white tie nized Crime and Law Enforcement, a gift bag are all included. & tails preferred. announces its roster of public pro- Becoming America’s Playground: Tickets are available online for grams for September. Las Vegas in the 1950s $120 per person, and at the door Science of Crime: Date: Sunday, Sept. 22 for $140. Drug Chemistry Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Limited seating available; to Date: Saturday, Sept. 14 Location: In the Oscar B. Good- book your reservation, call 702- Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. man Room on the third floor fol- 514-0488 or visit saxunderthestars. Location: Organized Crime To- lowed by a book signing in the com. day Exhibit on the first floor at The retail store. Vegan dinner options available. Mob Museum. Cost: Free for Museum Mem- * * * * * Cost: Free for Museum Mem- bers or with Museum Admission. bers with Museum Admission. Description: Las Vegas hosted 1 Description: A forensic scientist million tourists in 1950. It hosted 10 from the Chemistry Detail of the million in 1960. During the 1950s, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police De- Las Vegas grew into the leading partment Forensic Laboratory will destination for postwar America discuss the basic concept of what a to enjoy vices illegal or frowned By Jerry Fink attendees.” “drug” is, the different drug classes upon back home. Historian Larry Las Vegas Tribune Food is Art sponsors include and how unknown samples are re- Gragg will discuss his latest book, The ALS Association Nevada Golden Entertainment, Inc., Ac- covered and tested in the laboratory “Becoming America’s Playground: Chapter will host its fourth annu- tion Gaming, Kaercher Insurance, to determine their composition. Las Vegas in the 1950s,” which al Food is Art event at 4 p.m. on Gaming Arts, The Godfather of Community Safety Forum: explains how this pivotal decade Friday, Oct. 4. This year’s theme, Las Vegas, Konami and United Emergency Preparedness transformed Las Vegas forever. Black Ties & Blue Jeans, encour- Healthcare. Date: Sunday, Sept. 15 The IRS and Organized Crime: ages guests to show off their best In 2018, Food is Art raised more Time: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. 100 Years of Following the Money black tie and denim look. than $200,000 and showcased the Location: In the Historic Court- Date: Monday, September 23 “Food is Art has grown year af- cuisine of local chefs from 12 Las room on the second floor. Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ter year through the support of our Vegas restaurants, including: Top of Cost: Free, including free Mu- Location: In the Historic court- local food and beverage community the World at The STRAT, Sage at seum admission, thanks to spon- room on the second floor. and the generosity of donors,” said Aria, Robert Irvine’s Public House sorship provided by NV Energy. Cost: Free for Museum Mem- April Mastroluca, Executive Direc- and The Vineyard Ristorante at The Mob Museum will provide bers or with Museum Admission tor of the ALS Association Nevada Aquarius Casino Resort in Laugh- live streaming of the presentations Description: This detailed panel Chapter. “Plus, it’s a fun, laid-back lin, Nevada. online. discussion includes insights and event to take in the beautiful fall Top selling auction items includ- Description: Southern Nevada case reviews by John D. Fort, the Las Vegas weather while benefiting ed a 16-person suite at T-Mobile Community Emergency Response chief of the IRS criminal inves- a wonderful cause.” Arena for a Vegas Golden Knights Team (CERT) will lead a program tigation unit. Fort was appointed This year’s event will honor game; and dinner for 20, prepared on emergency preparedness. the position in June 2017 and is Christopher J. Curtis, a life-long in the top bidder’s home by chefs Garden State Gangland: A Book responsible for a worldwide team Nevada resident and retired senior from Aria, Bellagio and Get Fresh. Signing with Scott Deitche of special agents who investigate partner of Thorndal Armstrong. Ticket prices start at $250. All Date: Saturday, Sept. 19 criminal violations of the tax code, Curtis’ efforts are the inspiration proceeds will benefit the ALS As- Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. money laundering, police corrup- behind TeamCurtis4ACure, an or- sociation Nevada Chapter. For more Location: In the Museum Retail tion, cyber, identity theft, narcotics ganization founded to assist in the information on the event and the Store. and terrorist-financing around the fight to raise awareness and funding ALS Association Nevada Chapter Cost: Free globe. The discussion covers the for ALS. visit www.alsanv.org. ADULT FILM STAR KENDRA Description: New Jersey’s or- Treasury Departments initial case The dine-around event will fea- * * * * * LUST TO HOST BIRTHDAY ganized crime history has been 100 years ago where Elmer Irey ture an evening of food, wine and SAX UNDER THE STARS PARTY AT CRAZY HORSE 3 one of the most colorful in the created a special unit to crack down art with local chefs, sommeliers and LAUNCHES AT CLUB 172 IN LAS VEGAS country. Scott M. Deitche, author on tax evaders. Irey’s “T-Men” be- mixologists. Sax Under the Stars creates a Crazy Horse 3, 3525 W. Russell of “Garden State Gangland: The came a leading force against corrupt Participating restaurants in- renaissance of romance and ele- Road, will host a late-night birthday Rise of the Mob in New Jersey,” politicians and crime bosses. Its clude Golden Entertainment, Inc.’s gance with the debut of its monthly celebration for adult film star and which details the New Jersey Mob signature case put Chicago Mob restaurants, Top of the World and jazz-inspired dinner and dance at entrepreneur Kendra Lust starting from the Prohibition era through the boss Al Capone behind bars in BLVD & MAIN Taphouse at The The Rio’s Club 172 — an intimate at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14. peak of the Mob’s power, will sign 1931. The Intelligence Unit evolved STRAT Hotel, Casino and SkyPod, live music venue complete with Best known for winning multi- copies of his book. into the IRS Criminal Investigation and SG Bar, STK at The Cosmopol- a retractable roof allowing guests ple adult film awards throughout The Summit: Division, which today follows the itan of Las Vegas, Café Americano to enjoy an evening of fine dining her career, including four Adult The Mob in Las Vegas money to build cases against tax at Caesars Palace, Sambalatte, and and dancing under the starry Vegas Video News Awards consecutively Date: Saturday, Sept. 21 cheats and money launderers. With The Great American Pub. night sky. for MILF Performer of the Year and Time: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 3,100 employees worldwide, IRS Attendees may participate in With a 9-piece jazz band helmed Hottest MILF in 2016 and 2017, the Location: In the Oscar B. Good- CI fills a unique niche in federal both silent and live auctions, a raf- by Sid The Kid and featuring con- former gentlemen’s club dancer will man Room on the third floor. law enforcement, exposing so- fle, mystery boxes and enjoy live temporary jazz vocalist Michelle get down for her birthday at Crazy Cost: Regular price is $225; phisticated schemes to defraud the entertainment. Johnson, Sax Under the Stars is Horse 3. Fans purchasing bottle member price is $180. government. The Food is Art event is orga- poised to jazz up Las Vegas. service will win a free meet and Description: Hosted by keynote For more information, please nized by a committee led by Steve Premiering on Saturday, Sep- greet with the stunning Lust. speaker Oscar Goodman, this call (702) 229-2734 or visit the- Arcana, COO of Golden Enter- tember 14 at 6 p.m., Sax Under Following years working as a one-day conference centers on mobmuseum.org. tainment, Inc. “This event means the Stars will transport live music Registered Nurse, Lust enjoyed a the Mob’s four-decade-long reign * * * * * so much to me and my family as enthusiasts, jazz aficionados and successful career in the adult en- in Las Vegas. Guests will engage Jerry Fink is an entertainment my mother was taken from us as social locals alike to the iconic era tertainment industry. in conversations with historians, columnist for the Las Vegas Tribune a result of contracting ALS,” said of Las Vegas glamour as Sid The The stunning brunette is also the journalists, agents, regulators and newspaper and writes a weekly col- Arcana. “The time and passion Kid’s Saxsation Big Band and “The owner of several adult businesses, others on the Mob’s arrival in umn. To contact Fink, email him at committed every year is something First Lady of Jazz” Michelle John- including a boutique talent agency, Las Vegas, its control of the Strip jfink@ lasvegastribune.com. that we are all very proud of, and son croon guests during an elevated this event wouldn’t be possible evening of fine dining and dancing without the support of an incredible the night away. group of sponsors, volunteers and For $120, guests will also enjoy September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 21 LifestyLes Cinnamon’s Restaurant celebrates its new menu By Sandy Zimmerman World-famous Red Velvet Pancakes located at 7591 West Washington Las Vegas Tribune with a vanilla–white chocolate Avenue, #110, Las Vegas. For addi- Photos by Sandy Zimmerman sauce; as well as the Banana, tional information visit the website and Cinnamon Restaurant Blueberry, Cinnamon Roll, and www.cinnamonsvegas.com. Hawaiian cuisine is a fusion of Buttermilk Pancakes. A message from Cinnamon’s: many styles because of its diverse A twist on a Hawaiian-Chinese Aloha! Our ‘Ohana (family) opened Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and favorite is the warm, grilled Ginger the original location in Kailua, traditional Hawaiian population. Chicken with fresh ginger-cilantro, Oahu, in 1985. We opened a second When you see the 4-page-menu, Chinese “Chimichurri.” location at the Ilikai Hotel in Waiki- there’s such a wide selection, it is The OMG Wasabi Rib-eye 9 ki and have partnered with a couple difficult deciding. ounce steak is topped with imported of Japanese groups for a Cinna- At Cinnamon’s Restaurant, it chopped wasabi. mon’s in Tokyo (Omotesando) and is not just a serving of chicken, Interview with Cinnamon’s a Cinnamon’s in Yokohama. meat, pork or other foods, the Manager Chelsey Santiago * * * * * many flavorful delights will thrill SZ: “It’s different eating at Cin- Sandy Zimmerman produces your palate! namon’s Restaurant because there television programs, documenta- They pack a lot into their reci- are so many flavors in Hawaiian ries, and travel specials around food!” the world-in Beijing and on the pes like this seafood for breakfast Chelsey: “We add a lot of love.” Yangtze River Cruise in China, and or lunch- Cinnamon’s Signature SZ: “Cinnamon offers 10 lunch in addition to travel specials in Italy Eggs Benedict Crabcake has all entrees but do they have Hawaiian and other countries as well as for of the flavors of real crab, shrimp, breakfasts?” Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion and imitation crab together with Chelsey: “We have pork Ada- Canyon National Park, the Grand spinach and spices make every bite bo, Kalua pig, Lau Lau, and other Canyon North Rim National Park, different. Or order the crab cakes by Hawaiian favorites. If anyone is in- a real Cattle Drive similar to the themselves. Choose from six other terested in a party they can reserve early westerns in Reno, Nevada, Eggs Benedicts. a room and the other room has half and other destinations in the U.S. Cinnamon’s Hawaiian-style booths, a booth on one side and With 20 years’ experience as a syn- Omelette offers Pork Adobo, Kim chairs on the other.” dicated Show and Dining Reviewer, Chee fried rice, and a mini-scoop For the health conscious, you Travel/ Luxury writer, Health, as of potato-mac. Try any of their five can order any selection grilled with- well as a Photographer/ Videogra- Omelettes. out gravy. With big portions and pher, Editor, and Talk Show Host The different off-the-griddle such taste delights, this restaurant of Sandy Zimmerman’s Las Vegas Pancakes will surprise you! Their attracts everyone. TV Show and Discover the Ulti- Pistachio Cream topping makes SZ: “Aloha! Thanks for the mate Vacation travel specials. For the pancakes so luscious. Here are interview.” information, questions, comments some of the other pancakes: Gua- For information, call 702-478- please contact Sandy Zimmerman: va Chiffon-Voted #8 in America; Sandy interviewed Chelsey Santiago, Cinnamon’s Manager 7027. Cinnamon’s Restaurant is [email protected]

Brian’s “Phoenix Beef” Loco Moco Schezwan-style. (Photo by Cinnamons)

Cinnamon Roll Pancake

Red Velvet Pancake (Photo by Cinnamons) Page 22 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 CITY BEAT Bikers for Trump endorses the Guns & God Appreciation Day Saturday, September 14 and my family, and I am proud to valve was misplaced, causing an North America. call Boulder City home.” issue with the blood flow in his “As the only Commemorative Boulder City is utilizing Man- heart. This resulted in Brennan be- event in the state of Nevada and agement Partners, a municipal ing born with a rare heart condition with this challenging moment in consulting service agency to bring called Ebstein’s Anomaly. Every history, this is an opportunity to in an interim Chief. Steve G. Wal- few months, Brennan has to wear come together and transform our- ton will serve as the interim Fire a heart monitor for a full 24 hours, selves and our communities,” said Chief. “Steve brings 34 years of and soon he will undergo open heart Chris Usigbe, Executive Director. experience and great leadership valve surgery. “Especially with our growing qualities,” said Noyola. “He has Despite not being able to run community of Africans and African served as Division Chief in the long distances or play contact Americans, it was important for City of Henderson, holds State and sports, Brennan is an avid NFL, Afrikfest to commemorate this time Regulatory Agency certifications NBA, MLB, and NHL fan and loves in history.” he continued. and taught fire science courses at shooting hoops in his backyard Africans and African Americans College of Southern Nevada. I look every day. He also enjoys travel- in the diaspora, are working togeth- forward to his efforts leading the ing, cooking, geography, math, er to preserve, restore, and elevate department as we start the search singing and playing the piano. In ancestors’ stories, which are vital for a new Chief.” fact, Brennan has participated in to our growth and contribution to * * * * * musical theater since he was seven our community in the next 400 years old. Brennan participates in years. The afternoon will see the the Kids Heart Challenge because community coming together in he wants to help other kids, just synergy to reflect, establish integral like him, get better and love life as and purposeful connections with much as he does. each other within and across their “I want people to know how sectors of interest and expertise. good the American Heart Associ- The 400th commemorative Bikers for Trump has become at its resident Las Vegas location, ation is and how much they help ceremony, produced by Ms. China the latest organization to join the with the same choice of vehicles people with heart disease, and Hudson, will feature an extraordi- coalition of God fearing Second and activities. help healthy people prevent heart nary lineup of performers, attendees Amendment advocates headed by Built to standards like no other disease. The Kids Heart Challenge will experience an evening of story- the Constitutional Rights PAC. The racetrack in the nation, Spring helps you exercise to keep your telling, an African ancestral parade, coalition notes that “noticeable lack Mountain Motor Resort and Coun- heart healthy and you can help kids spiritual circle, healing ceremony, of faith in God is to blame for the try Club is set against a stun- with heart disease,” says Brennan. drums, and musical performances. rise of violent crimes, not firearms”. ning mountain backdrop just 55 A true heart hero, Brennan’s Also, there will be a Diaspora Mar- Guns & God Appreciation Day miles West of the Las Vegas Strip. Working Women of WW II wish is that everyone can have a ketplace with vendors and exhibi- 2019 will be held on September The racetrack combines two fast American Rosie the Riveter healthy heart. During his accep- tors, and attendees will experience, 14, 2019 shortly after congress straightaways with a total of 11 Association is trying to locate tance speech he further stated, authentic food, a fashion show in reconvenes from its August recess. thrilling corners. Its half-mile women who worked on the home “Even if your kid isn’t how you a festival and carnival type atmo- Guns and God is excited to bring straightaway allows for top speeds front during WW II. Thousands of expected him to be, worse or better, sphere. To cap off the evening, live Bikers for Trump, an organization above 140 mph, while steep ele- women worked to support the war I will be donating money to help his entertainment produced by celeb- with nearly 90,000 members and vation changes will make guests’ effort as riveters, welders, electri- heart, even if it’s good.” rity African recording artist, Yinka an outreach of close to 400,000 stomachs drop. This state-of-the-art cians, inspectors in plants, sewing When speaking about Bren- Rythmz and the Team Somebody people into the broad coalition of facility encompasses the longest clothing and parachutes for the nan that night, his mother Donna Band, plus other musical artists will God fearing, Second Amendment road course in North America, military, ordinance workers, rolling Rosenberg explained, “The fact provide a combination of elements supporters. Dale Herndon, Director with over six miles of challenging bandages, clerical, farming, and that Brennan was born with a ‘heart of West African musical styles with of Bikers for Trump states, “Bikers racetrack and more than 50 unique many other jobs such as volunteer defect’ sounds more like an oxymo- American funk and jazz influence. for Trump is proud to throw their configurations. workers collecting scrap metals ron to me than a medical diagnosis The event will take place. Sep- support behind the Guns and God Upon request, the compli- and other critical materials. These because he has the most beautiful tember 27, from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm campaign. We’re all about believ- mentary Exotics Racing shuttle will women have stories of their WW heart of anyone I have ever met.” p.m. at the Conference Center of ing in the faith of God, country and pick up and drop off guests at the II experiences that are of historical The Kids Heart Challenge en- Las Vegas (CCLV), 6590 Bermuda our flag. Our right to the Second Aria Hotel and Casino Tour Lobby, value and perhaps have never been courages heart-healthy behavior Road, Las Vegas, NV. Amendment ensures that we will be as usual. For more information, told. American Rosie the Riveter as students pledge to be more Afrikfest is a FREE EVENT, able to defend these beliefs against please call (702) 405-7223. Exotics Association would like to acknowl- physically active, drink more wa- and the entire community is invited a tyrannical government and we Racing will be closed on Sept. 13 edge these women with a certificate ter and be kind. For teachers, the to attend. Attendees are encour- will always fight to protect it.” and Sept. 15. and have their stories placed in our Kids Heart Challenge offers four aged to dress in traditional African The demonstration comes at a * * * * * Archives. activations to get students’ hearts fashion. To learn more about the time of heightened tension between American Rosie the Riveter pumping: jump rope, basketball, organization, please visit our web- gun rights backers and the gun Association is a patriotic/non-profit dance and an obstacle course-style site at http://www.afrikfest.org or control lobby. An extraordinary organization whose purpose is to event. The program is celebrating for vendor opportunities, call 702 amount of pressure has been placed recognize and preserve the history the Association’s 40th year working 649-2000. on Republicans and the President to and legacy of working women in schools with exciting new con- * * * * * cave to the Democrats’ demands. during WW II. This organization tent that meets the changing needs But that hasn’t stopped Larry was founded in 1998 by Dr. Fran- of today’s youth and educators Ward, President of the Constitu- ces Carter, Birmingham, Alabama and helps prepare kids for success tional Rights PAC and founder of and now has over 6200 members through physical and emotional the Guns and God coalition. Since nationwide. Current elected offi- well-being, all while fundraising Monday, the campaign has gained cers from Connecticut, Maryland, for the American Heart Association. the support of Gun Owners of Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma and More information about Kids America and garnered nearly 5,000 Alabama all serve on a voluntary Heart Challenge is available online signatures. “The message resonates basis. at www.heart.org/schools. Edu- with our supporters”, Ward claims. If you a woman (or descendant cators and Kids Heart Challenge “The language used in the Second of a woman) who worked during coordinators may also join the new Amendment is not vague. The WW II, or if you are just interested Kids Heart Challenge Facebook Outlook great for recently founder’s intent is clear and today’s in more information, please check group to share stories, best practices impounded cats politicians are ignoring it.” our web site www.rosietheriveter. and event successes. To learn more The process of rehoming 43 cats Constitutional Rights PAC is Boulder City Fire Chief net or call the toll free number about other school programs, or to and three dogs recently removed urging supporters to be prayerful retires after 1-888-557-6743 or e-mail ameri- make a donation to the American from a home in Boulder City took about returning our nation to God as 12 years of service [email protected]. Heart Association, please visit a giant leap over the weekend, the only solution to the hatred and Boulder City Fire Chief Kevin * * * * * www.heart.org. according to Boulder City Animal mass murder plaguing our blessed Nicholson announced that he is * * * * * Control Supervisor Ann Inabnitt. nation. Once again, coalition orga- retiring, effective immediately. He The best news, she explained, nizers are asking demonstrators to spent 12 years leading the depart- was that six feral cats were placed peacefully show up en masse to gun ment. with rescue groups over the week- stores, gun ranges, state capitals and Amongst some of his accom- end and commitments were re- town squares across the country to plishments, he led a department ceived from other groups for the celebrate our God-given Second with more than 40 employees and remaining cats that can not be Amendment Rights and protest established an Office of Emergency Las Vegas student top placed in adoptive homes. against the government’s attempts Management under the Fire Depart- fundraiser in the nation Although a few cats in the group to undermine them. ment umbrella. “Chief Nicholson for American Heart had been spayed or neutered previ- * * * * * has been actively involved in Boul- Association’s Kids ously, Inabnitt said the remainder Exotics Racing announces der City activities since becoming Heart Challenge of those impounded — 30 cats — it will operate from Spring Chief here,” said Al Noyola, City Brennan Rosenberg, fifth-grade were altered and vaccinated last Mountain Motor Resort and Manager. “We appreciate his ser- student at Southern Highlands Afrikfest Las Vegas week. Country Club on Sept. 14 vice and wish him the best in his Preparatory School in Las Vegas, commemorates 400th Approximately 20 cats Inabnitt On Sept. 14, while race driv- endeavors.” was honored as the American Heart anniversary of the first considers “special needs cases” are ers are revving up their engines Boulder City Fire provides ser- Association’s 2018-2019 Kids enslaved African brought to responding to efforts to condition for the big race at the Las Vegas vice to an area of approximately Heart Challenge top fundraiser. colonial America on them to human touch, eating and Motor Speedway, Exotics Racing 250 square miles. The department The award was given during the September 27 in Las Vegas drinking from bowls and using will operate its supercar driving is staffed with one engine and Youth Market annual staff meeting Afrikfest Las Vegas a 3-day a litter box. She said they are re- experience on Spring Mountain two rescue units 24/7. “I’ve been in Phoenix, AZ last month. event planned for September 26 sponding very well to their new Motor Resort and Country Club’s blessed to work with dedicated, Students at Southern Highlands to 28, will kick off its second day situation and believes they will be challenging 1.6-mile racetrack. brave men and women at the Boul- Preparatory School raised more with commemorating 400 years ready for adoption soon. Exotics Racing’s multi-award- der City Fire Department,” Chief than $42,000 for the Kids Heart of African-American History on Inabnitt said there are five cats winning supercar driving experi- Nicholson said. “The people in this Challenge last spring, with Brennan September 27 at the Las Vegas ready for adoption and six kittens ence will unfold the same way as community have been good to me raising over $28,000 on his own! Conference Center. A dark part of should be ready for adoption within When he received the Top Fund- history that shaped this country 10 days. raiser award, Brennan spoke from happened in Virginia in 1619; the The other bright spot of the the heart in addressing and thanking first enslaved Africans who were weekend, she said, was that more the American Heart Association brought to North American col- than 1,000 pounds of food and for honoring him. His impromptu onies. In 2017, the United States nearly 1,000 pounds of litter was speech brought forth laughter and Congress passed the 400 years of donated to the shelter to help the tears from the audience. Brennan African-American History Com- cats. She said area residents, some exclaimed, “$28,000, that’s a lot. mission Act which is charged with from as far as Summerlin, answered That’s like an NBA player’s salary developing activities throughout the call for the donation of crates per day!” the country to commemorate the and that at this time, the Shelter Brennan’s passion for the Kids arrival of Africans in the English has enough to house all of the cats. Heart Challenge is personal. When colonies in 1619, an event widely Pictures of the cats that were his mom Donna was pregnant, doc- regarded as the commencement of impounded can be seen at www. tors found that Brennan’s tricuspid the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in facebook.com/bouldercitynv. September 11-17, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 23 CITY BEAT UNR School of the Art’s Dmitri Atapine performs with the Chamber Music Society in Greece resulting in PBS film projects for San Manuel Casino Resort, Chi- nook Winds Casino Resort, Fremont Hotel and Casino, Rivers Des Plaines (Chicago), Pittsburg and Philadelphia; Maryland Live! hotel and event center; and UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Modernization with its ‘Strip-view’ Pavilion and the Fertitta Football Complex. “We are beyond excited to lend our expertise, historical knowledge and experi- ence with the property over the past several decades, in bringing both JC Hospitality and Virgin Hotels vision to Las Vegas.” — Brian Fink, Principal, Klai Juba Wald. Studio Collective, an award winning, bou- tique design agency based in Venice Beach, have established themselves as the designers for some of the most coveted destinations in hospitality while simultaneously striving to create venues which place an emphasis on both originality and craft. “We are extremely excited to be a part of the reimagining of this iconic property,” remarked Adam Goldstein, design director and partner at Studio Collec- tive. “For our portion of the project, we have chosen to seek inspiration from the surround- ing landscapes, both natural and synthetic, of the American Southwest and when woven with the DNA of the Virgin Hotel brand, have sought to create something that is both playful and comfortable, seductive yet surprising.” Taylor International Corporation, a name that’s been intertwined with Southern Nevada for more than half a century, having con- structed MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, The Palazzo Las University of Nevada, Reno Professor of Music Dmitri Atapine with his cello and Hyeyeon Park Vegas and Stratosphere. “The entire Taylor are the artistic directors of the University’s Apex Concert series. Family is excited to be involved with the College of Liberal Arts Professor of Re-branding of such an iconic property and to Music Dmitri Atapine recently performed work with and to work alongside such a group the Mendelssohn Octet at the Stavros Niar- of highly talented and professional Designers, chos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Architects and Construction Professionals.” Greece. The performance was filmed for this said Jim Mason, President and part Owner of year’s PBS Special, “Odyssey: The Cham- Taylor International. ber Music Society in Greece.” The special McCarthy Building Companies, recog- marks the beginning of The Chamber Music nized as one of the top 10 entertainment Society’s celebration of its 50th Anniversary construction companies in the country, has Season and it is also the first of the triennial been helping to shape the Las Vegas skyline Live From Lincoln Center to be performed for more than 40 years. With a strategic and broadcast internationally. approach to hospitality construction, McCar- As part of The Chamber Music Society’s thy’s team of local builders collaborates with 50th Anniversary Season, Professor of Piano owners, design teams and industry partners to Hyeyeon Park and Atapine were chosen to bring the vision to life, assuring quality and close the “Art of the Recital” series at the safety from start to finish. Their local team Lincoln Center in New York City May 14, of builders has contributed to $700 million 2020. The concert will feature the world of entertainment projects in the last 5 years, premiere of a brand new sonata for cello and including several high-profile property reno- piano by one of America’s most prominent vations and will be an integral part of building composers, Lowell Liebermann. The sonata Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. is a co-commission between The Chamber “We are looking forward to bringing our Music Society and the University’s College expertise and collaborative, team-driven ap- of Liberal Arts. The performance will stream proach to the development of the new Virgin live on The Chamber Music Society’s website Hotels Las Vegas,” said Jeff Wood, Executive that day and for 48 hours afterward. Vice President of McCarthy. “Working in “What an amazing program the Odyssey partnership with so many well-respected in Greece looks to be,” College of Liberal stakeholders towards the common goal of Arts Dean Debra Moddelmog said. “What creating a new lifestyle hotel in the heart of a great experience for Dmitri and the other Las Vegas is an amazing opportunity and we members of the Chamber Music Society of can’t wait to get started.” the Lincoln Center, and congratulations to President and CEO of JC Hospitality, Dmitri and Hyeyeon on being selected to LLC and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Musicians from around the country performed Mendelssohn Octet in Athens, Greece. close the Chamber Music Society’s Art of Vegas Richard “Boz” Bosworth said of the The taping of the performance was made into a special broadcast film for PBS the Recital series.” acclaimed partnerships, “We are thrilled to celebrate the 50th Season of The Chamber Music Society. Atapine and Park are also the artistic to have such great partners who have a Design and construction partners include: the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award; directors of the University’s Apex Concert vision for the lifestyle hotel that represents Rockwell Group is an interdisciplinary and the Presidential Design Award. series, which will commence its ninth sea- the Virgin Hotels brand. The expertise of architecture and design firm based in New “We are thrilled to be partnering again son with “Bohemian Rhapsody” on campus our construction, architecture and design York with a satellite office in Madrid that with Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and Virgin Thursday, Sept. 12. partners is unparalleled and collectively we emphasizes innovation and thought leader- Hotels,” said Greg Keffer, Partner, Rockwell “The Chamber Music Society is coming to look forward to delivering a fresh, modern ship in every project. The firm’s notable Las Group. “The Las Vegas project continues our town for our Apex Concerts performance on desert oasis to the Entertainment Capital of Vegas projects include KAOS Nightclub, relationship with Virgin Hotels, helping to Feb. 20, 2020,” Atapine said. “So if people the World.” Bobby Flay’s Shark, Greene St. Kitchen and further develop the brand’s signature playful want to see them live perhaps after seeing “The key role our design partners play the Kingpin and Hardwood Fantasy Suites spirit while tapping into the wider context of the PBS special, they don’t have to travel to distinctively capture the “Virgin Hotels” at Palms Casino Resort; OMNIA Las Vegas; the desert landscape.” to the Lincoln Center, they can come to the experience and unique point of view is vital Nobu Hotel Las Vegas; and The Cosmopol- Klai Juba Wald Architecture + Interi- University and hear them.” to the brand,” says Virgin Hotels CEO Raul itan of Las Vegas. Other projects include ors, recognized as a premier Hospitality / The PBS special Odyssey: The Chamber Leal. “I look forward to working closely Virgin Hotels Chicago (the first Virgin Hotels Gaming Resort Design Firm for more than Music Society in Greece, airs locally on with our design partners to further anchor property in the U.S.); Nobu restaurants and twenty-three years in creating award-winning KNPB this Friday at 9:30 p.m. The special our lifestyle offerings to ensure Virgin Ho- hotels worldwide; W Hotels (New York, integrated resorts. will also be available to stream on the PBS tels Las Vegas delivers the best in design, Nashville, Paris, Madrid, Suzhou, Singapore KJWA+I most recently responsible for website after it airs this Friday until the end heartfelt service, entertainment and culinary and Vieques); Moxy Chelsea, Moxy Times the $2.2B property-wide expansions for the of September. excellence.” Square and Moxy East Village in New York; Seminole Tribe of Florida’s two flagship * * * * * The property, located at 4455 Paradise Virgin Hotels Las Vegas and set designs for “Tootsie,” “She Loves Hard Rock properties, including the iconic Road, will continue full-service operations announces design partners Me” and The Shed’s inaugural commission, guitar-shaped +600-key hotel tower in Hol- under the Hard Rock flag until it opens as a “Soundtrack of America.” Honors and rec- lywood, Florida. The company also proudly Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, part of Curio Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. To learn more about ognition include 2016 Tony and Drama Desk continues to lead efforts at the Las Vegas Collection by Hilton, has announced that five what is happening on property, visit www. Awards for Best Scenic Design for “She Convention Center Phase 3, Venetian, Bel- world-class design and construction partners hardrockhotel.com. Loves Me;” the AIANY President’s Award; lagio and Palms; and expansion and remodel Rockwell Group, Klai Juba Wald Architec- * * * * * ture + Interiors, Studio Collective, Taylor International Corporation and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. — have joined the project to re-conceptualize and develop the new Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Designs for the new property are nearing completion and construction is set to begin February 2020. The re-imagined Las Vegas lifestyle casi- no resort slated to open at the end of 2020 will feature innovative design and function with 1,504 exceptionally appointed Chambers, Grand Chamber Suites and Penthouse Suites which will include the Virgin Hotels patented bed and in-room technology; an exhilarating and immersive 60,000 square foot casino; over five acres of luxury poolside spaces and outdoor event venues amidst a modern desert landscape; a portfolio of dining options from some of the country’s hottest restauranteurs; captivating lounges and bars featuring the flagship Commons Club as well over 110,000 square feet of re-inspired meeting, event and convention spaces. Page 24 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 It’s All About Your Perspective By Doug Dickerson But one thing is certain, we all have “One person’s craziness is perspectives that influence us. another person’s reality.” — Tim As a leader, the accuracy of Burton your perspective is important. You After a particularly long and want to be accurately informed and bumpy flight, the crew was tired. make decisions that reflect sound This was even made more apparent judgment. But sometimes our by the rough landing. This particu- perspective turns out to be wrong. lar airline had a policy that the pilot Here’s how. must stand by the door as people Your perspective can be exit to thank them for flying with wrong when your the airline. The pilot was dreading attitude is wrong this because of the landing but he Nothing alters our perspective stood faithfully by. Surprisingly like our attitude, especially if it’s a enough, the people filed off and bad one. Your perspective is what none said a word. Then came the you see and your attitude deter- last passenger, an elderly lady mines how you see or interpret walking with a cane. As she got up DoUg DICkErsoN it. If your attitude is one that is to the captain, she said, “Can I ask when I felt like maybe I had been predisposed to being negative then a question?” “Sure,” answered the shot down. that’s the lens through which you captain. “Did we land or were we Our perspective in leadership is see things. shot down?” shaped by many factors. Often our This can have unintended conse- I’ve been on a few flights when perspective is driven by our own quences for you as a leader. If your I felt the same way. And in leader- experiences or biases. It can be attitude bends toward being a bad then do the people around you truly goal or project within your organi- ship, there have been many times driven by the opinions of others. one or is predominantly skeptical, get a fair shake from you? zation? I know I have. And thank If your attitude bends toward goodness I was wrong! BEHIND THE MIKE being a bad one or is predominantly The mark of sure and steady skeptical, then do the people around leadership is found in not rushing to you truly get a fair shake from you? judgment and in not making wrong Having a good attitude is im- assumptions. It’s giving other peo- Coaching portant to you as a leader. But it ple the same benefit of the doubt By Michael A. Aun reach our ultimate goals. takes discipline to work on it and you’d want to be given yourself. Coaching is about more than Development is an ongoing keep it positive. You may have a The thin line between your winning or losing. As a matter of process and is constantly on the dozen reasons a day to justify a perspective and instincts can be a fact, it is about neither. The closest upgrade. There is no such thing as a bad attitude. I get it. But the effects hard one to differentiate at times. profession to a coach is a teacher. “final product” because experience of your attitude determine your On both counts, you want to get it The training, development, prac- teaches us that we can always be perspective. So don’t let a bad at- right. One is innate and learned over tice, education, skill development better, faster, and new and improved titude reflect in a bad way on your time (instincts), while the other is and ultimate results of the endeavor no matter what. leadership. fluid and should never be rushed. are built right in. What you never hear about and Leadership Takeaway: Your Leadership Takeaway: Your Success or failure is academic. will likely never even think about people are looking to you for lead- people are looking to you for lead- Done correctly, even failure yields is the coaches’ role. Like mentors, ership and the right perspective to ership and for someone to believe in positive results provided one is coaches are selfless people. What guide them. Watch your attitude. them — not someone to write them willing to learn from them. most will tell you is they benefit Your perspective can be off because of a wrong assumption I cannot help but think of many far more than they contribute to the wrong when your you’ve made about them. descriptors when I think of coach- coaching relationship. The prayer assumptions are wrong Doug Dickerson is a syndicated ing. Mentor is one. The most criti- to St. Francis has a line in it that How many times have you columnist. He writes a weekly col- cal part of mentoring? The mentor describes this nicely: “It is in giving made a wrong assumption about a umn for this newspaper. To contact must care enough to tell you what MICHAEL A. AUN that we receive…” person? How many times have you Doug Dickerson, email him at you are doing wrong as well as what fact, become the first American in In my experiences coaching oth- made a wrong assumption about a ddickerson@ lasvegastribune.com. you are doing right. history to become Pope. er speakers and sales people in my Instructor is another of those In many ways, he embodied agency over the past four decades words that come to mind. It goes the attributes of a coach, teacher, I can clearly confess that I learned directly to the heart of teaching. mentor and communicator. We far more from the people I mentored One of the most demonstrative called him Father Bernadin before than I was able to impart. instructors I had in school was a he was promoted to Monsignor and Coaches must actively listen, diminutive little man named Har- later Bishop or Joseph Cardinal build rapport, ask penetrating ques- vey Halfacre. Bernadin. I would have settled for tions, express empathy, monitor Mr. Halfacre was my algebra calling him “coach” because that with intuition, give feedback and and math teacher. He could not was what he was to me. establish achievable and yet chal- seem to get into our thick skulls that Coaches train by example. Like lenging goals. you had to invert to make fractions professors, they have earned the I find it useful to journal my work. Not until the day he held a right to instruct others vicariously notes with the people with whom I desk upside down above his head through their own example. Unfor- work. Documenting development did most of us dim-wits get the tunately, professors at the collegiate is critical to monitoring progress message to INVERT! level are protected by tenure, a with the people you are helping. Speaking is another of those word that rhymes with manure and Remember, winners keep score! relative words that support the con- constitutes about the same value. * * * * * cept of teaching, tutoring, training Success, be it in business, on Michael Aun is a syndicated and mentoring. One of my early football field or in life, is about get- columnist and writes a weekly col- inspirations was my first grade Sun- ting the proper guidance and then umn for this newspaper. To contact day school teacher Father Joseph honing those skills into the right Michael Aun, email him at maun@ Bernadin, who later in life became direction and knowledge to help us lasvegastribune.com. Joseph Cardinal Bernadin. He was a Priest at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Assembly Street in Columbia, SC. He and Bob Beckett his family were friends and clients Attorney At Law of my dad, who had remodeled his Elected 5 terms as Nye County District Attorney parent’s home in Columbia. Practice areas Another mentor of mine, my grandfather Eli Mack, Sr., taught Criminal defense, Personal injury, Bankruptcy me early in life to journal and one and debt, Car accident, DUI and DWI of the people I chose to write about Licensed for 29 years in my journal was Father Bernadin. AVVO CONTRIBUTIONS He was a remarkable communi- cator, wordsmith and a storyteller. Beckett knows Nevada criminal law He taught me early on in my life — especially how to get the most out of that the best way to communicate the probation/monitoring system. any message was on the wings of Beckett provides very effective and humor wrapped around a remark- Sundays from 11.30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. able story. personable service — His fees are also fair Please call 702-706-6875 Many observers felt had his pre- for more information mature death not occurred in 1996, (702) 334-4886 Joseph Cardinal Bernadin might, in OUT WITH CABLE. 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In particular, they should be thankful for the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, which enables tens of millions of seniors to afford their medications. Traditional Medicare plans cover physician and hospital visits, among other basic health services. But for many seniors — particularly those battling chronic conditions — basic Medicare coverage isn’t enough. That’s why many benefi- ciaries purchase supplemental drug coverage through Medicare Part D stand-alone plans, or Medicare Advantage plans that include Part D benefits. covered drugs. — which is even cheaper than the in hospitalizations, according to a Given Part D’s ample plan Part D is Medicare’s privately However, all plans must meet previous year. recent study by Johns Hopkins Uni- choices, low premiums, and life- administered prescription drug certain standards. For instance, These low premiums are no acci- versity and University of Illinois saving results, it’s no wonder that program. Since 2006, it has helped every plan must cover at least two dent. Part D forces private insurers researchers. A 2016 analysis from 85 percent of seniors are satisfied seniors fill billions of prescriptions. drugs in six vital categories: immu- to compete against one another for North Carolina State University, with their coverage. Currently, three in four Medicare nosuppressants, antidepressants, seniors’ business. Indeed, insurers meanwhile, revealed that Part D Choosing the right health plan is beneficiaries — or more than 40 antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, negotiate directly with drug com- shrank beneficiaries’ likelihood of crucial — seniors shouldn’t wait for million people — are enrolled in a antiretrovirals, and antineoplastics. panies — and the government is developing high blood pressure, the foliage to change before signing Part D plan. This regulation ensures that people prohibited from negotiating or set- which can lead to heart attacks and up this open enrollment season. Part D plans aren’t one-size-fits- with severe chronic diseases have a ting prices. The end result is quality strokes. Part D has curbed senior * * * * * all. In some states, seniors have choice of medications. coverage at an affordable price. mortality by 2.2 percent each year Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA as- as many as 30 different plans to Plans are quite affordable. In Part D is a literal lifesaver. Se- since its implementation, according sociate commissioner, is president choose from, each of which features 2019, the average Part D monthly niors who enroll in Part D coverage to a study in the Journal of Health of the Center for Medicine in the different premiums, co-pays, and premium will cost just over $32 experience an 8 percent reduction Economics. Public Interest. Beware of scammers pretending to be from Social Security By Barbara Duckett Callers sometimes state that your Social Social Security Public Affairs Specialist Security number is at risk of being deacti- in Las Vegas vated or deleted. The caller then asks you In the digital age, frauds and scams are to provide a phone number to resolve the an unfortunate part of doing business online. issue. People should be aware the scheme’s During the holiday season, Social Security details may vary; however, you should avoid has traditionally seen a spike in phishing engaging with the caller or calling the num- scams, and we want to protect you as best ber provided, as the caller might attempt to we can. acquire personal information. We urge you to always be cautious and to Social Security employees occasionally avoid providing sensitive information such as contact people by telephone for custom- your Social Security Number (SSN) or bank er-service purposes. In only a few special account information to unknown individuals situations, such as when you have business pending with us, a Social Security employee over the phone or internet. If you receive a may request the person confirm personal call and aren’t expecting one, you must be information over the phone. extra careful. You can always get the caller’s Social Security employees will never information, hang up, and — if you do need threaten you or promise a Social Security more clarification — contact the official benefit approval or increase in exchange phone number of the business or agency that for information. In those cases, the call is the caller claims to represent. Never reveal fraudulent, and you should just hang up. personal data to a stranger who called you. If you receive these calls, please report the Please take note; there’s a scam going information to the Office of the Inspector around right now. You might receive a call General at 1-800-269-0271 or online at oig. from someone claiming to be from Social ssa.gov/report. Security or another agency. Calls can even Remember, only call official phone num- display the 1-800-772-1213, Social Secu- information, such as your Social Security your benefits if they do not confirm your bers and use secured websites of the agen- rity’s national customer service number, number (SSN), on file. Other callers claim information. This appears to be a widespread cies and businesses you know are correct. as the incoming number on your caller ID. Social Security needs additional information issue, as reports have come from people Protecting your information is an important In some cases, the caller states that Social so the agency can increase your benefit pay- across the country. These calls are not from part of Social Security’s mission to secure Security does not have all of your personal ment, or that Social Security will terminate Social Security. today and tomorrow. Understanding Social Security Disability Benefits By Barbara Duckett read more about Social Security Disability Social Security Public Affairs Specialist Insurance at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/ in Las Vegas EN-05-10029.pdf and more about SSI at Disability is something most people don’t www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/EN-05-11000. like to think about, but the chances that you’ll pdf. become disabled probably are greater than When you apply for either program, we’ll you realize. Studies show that a 20-year-old collect medical and other information from worker has a 1-in-4 chance of becoming you and make a decision about whether or disabled before reaching full retirement age. not you meet Social Security’s definition of Social Security pays disability benefits disability. In addition to meeting our defi- through two programs: nition of disability, you must have worked —The Social Security Disability Insur- long enough — and recently enough — under ance (SSDI) program and; Social Security to qualify for SSDI benefits. The amount needed for a work credit —The Supplemental Security Income changes from year to year. In 2018, for ex- (SSI) program. ample, you earn one credit for each $1,320 Social Security Disability Insurance is in wages or self-employment income. funded through payroll taxes. Social Security When you’ve earned $5,280, you’ve earned Disability Insurance recipients have worked your four credits for the year. In 2019, you for years and have made contributions to earn one credit for each $1,360 in wages the Social Security trust fund in the form of or self-employment income. When you’ve Social Security taxes – either FICA (Federal earned $5,440, you’ve earned your four Insurance Contributions Act) for employees credits for the year. or SECA (Self-Employment Contributions To see if you meet the requirements for Act) for the self-employed. disability benefits, visit www.socialsecurity. SSI is a means-tested program, meaning gov/planners/disability/qualify.html. it has nothing to do with work history, but Social Security covers millions of people, provides payments to people with disabilities including children, wounded warriors, and who have low income and few resources. people who are chronically ill. And this is just Social Security manages the program, but condition that’s expected to last at least one partial disability or short-term disability, a part of what we do. Remember, you can also SSI is not paid for by Social Security taxes. year or result in death. Federal law requires Social Security does not. apply for retirement, spouse’s, Medicare, or Social Security pays benefits to people who this very strict definition of disability. While It’s important that you know which bene- disability benefits online at www.socialsecu- can’t work because they have a medical some programs give money to people with fits you may be qualified to receive. You can rity.gov/forms/apply-for-benefits.html. Page 26 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 What You Need To Know By Dr Nina Radcliff Understanding Postpartum Anxiety By Dr. Nina Radcliff, MD intense and persistent anxiety. Despite being nearly as common PPA goes beyond normal and and just as debilitating as postpar- expected anxious thoughts about —Disturbed sleep, which admit- ful way — including, connecting within 24-hours after delivery. This tum depression (PPD), postpartum the new baby, generally beginning tedly is challenging after the arrival with their newborn. hormone roller-coaster can contrib- anxiety (PPA) often goes unrecog- sometime prior to birth and the of a newborn What Causes PPA? ute to PPA and PPD — and it can nized and undiagnosed. If you, or baby’s first birthday. And, estimates —Lack of appetite Anxious thoughts, fear, and affect any birth or adoptive mom. someone you know is feeling “off” are that nearly 50 percent of women —Physical symptoms like diz- worry are normal human emotions While PPA can resolve on its around the time of the arrival of a who are diagnosed with PPD also ziness, hot flashes, nausea, muscle that are built-in to help people own, the key to getting better begins new child, it could be postpartum have PPA. tension in the neck, shoulder, and survive. For example, if you see with awareness. And responsibility anxiety disorder. And while adop- Some experts explain PPD as a back a car racing towards you, you belongs not just to the mother, but tive women don’t have the same loss of heart and PPA as a loss of Also, the arrival of a newborn experience fear which works in also her partner or spouse, loved physical experience that a birth balance or calm, that manifests as: can infringe on sleep, affect rela- unison with your body to get out ones and healthcare providers. mother does, there are still similar —Worry that is constant and tionship dynamics, cause exhaus- of the way. Similarly, the arrival of Because not much is known about emotional and mental stresses that excessive which can also be seen tion, and create an added respon- a new baby can provoke anxious PPA, too many mothers go untreat- come with welcoming a new child with postpartum depression sibility of a precious life that is feelings that improves a mom’s ed with symptoms unrecognized. into the home — and PPD and PPA —Feeling on edge, pending dependent on mom. These stressors alertness and vigilance, which are If you (or someone you know) is can affect an adoptive mother. doom, or catastrophizing. An ex- can also factor into the equation, essential to protect the health and feeling overwhelmed with any of Even today, as PPD has gained ample of this is concerns their baby even provoke PPA — along with safety of the newborn. However, the PPA or PPD symptoms, get greater awareness as more women will die in their sleep and in turn, cultural, societal, and familial ex- these anxious thoughts and worry help, talk to your family, your ob- share their struggles, PPA often constantly watching their chest pectations that this is the happiest become problematic when they gyn or pediatrician. goes undiagnosed. Often referred rise and fall. Or, that harm will fall time of life. overshoot reality. This article is for general in- to as “the hidden” disorder, it on the child because “mom” is not Some women experience panic And while not completely un- formation only and should not be isn’t recognized, despite affecting breast feeding them, causing guilt. attacks with a sudden onset of derstood, both PPA and PPD are used for the diagnosis or treatment approximately 10 percent of new —Racing thoughts, or the mind intense fear and doom — often likely the result of a “complex in- of medical conditions and cannot moms. PPA, or “the other baby jumps from one thing to another. accompanied by physical symp- terplay” of genetics, hormones, and substitute for the advice from your blues” is a cousin of PPD but with This can interfere with the enjoy- toms of shortness of breath, racing stress. Pregnancy is associated with medical professional. Dr. Nina has some distinct symptoms. ment of precious moments, caring heart, chest pain, sweating, upset significant hormonal changes nec- used all reasonable care in com- PPD causes moms at the time for the baby, or yourself. stomach, and dizziness. essary for the growth, development, piling the current information but of welcoming their new child to —An inability to remember Emotional symptoms include and delivery of the unborn baby. it may not apply to you and your experience extreme sadness and, things panic or feeling a loss of control. In fact, estrogen and progesterone symptoms. Always consult a doctor often, disinterest in their new ba- —Restlessness, constantly mov- Symptoms can become debilitat- levels can increase by a hundred or other health care professional bies. Whereas PPA manifests itself ing or fidgeting (unable to be still) ing, affecting mom’s ability to eat, times during pregnancy! And, then for diagnosis and treatment of mainly in the form of experiencing —Irritability with minor things sleep, and function in any meaning- suddenly drop to near zero levels medical conditions.

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Award-winning Bob Anderson sang as himself with many humorous celebrity tributes, Bob Anderson sang as himself, with many celebrity impressions at vocals, expressions and gestures at the South Point August 30, 31, and September 1. the South Point August 30, 31, and September 1. (Photo by Sandy Zimmerman during Bob Anderson’s South Point show.) (Photo by Sandy Zimmerman during Bob Anderson’s South Point show) Bob Anderson performed at South Point Hotel Las Vegas By Sandy Zimmerman Say It’s Me That You Adore,” “The Las Vegas Tribune Laughs on Me,” “Green Grass of Photos by Sandy Zimmerman, Home,” and more numbers. the 3-in-1 photograph by PR The audience enjoys more than Tonight, at the South Point, was just the songs of the past, Bob per- very special because Bob Anderson sonalized each song by reflecting rekindled the past not as his present on his own life intertwined with unforgettable impression of Frank stories about the stars matched with Sinatra in “Frank, The Man, The singing their music. Music” but as himself when he Those who were there in the began singing tributes to many of audience at the Palazzo for “Frank, the famous stars. This was the song- The Man, The Music” or South book which made him famous as Point can see why Bob Anderson is the “First Singing Impressionist.” so successful. He strives for perfec- Bob Anderson sang a wide vari- tion! You’ll immediately say that’s ety of songs, all of these in one eve- Sammy Davis, Jr., Andy Williams, ning- “I Only Have Eyes for You,” Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Frank “Once in a Lifetime,” “Learning Sinatra, Tom Jones, or whoever the the Blues,” “Rules of the Road,” star, they are recognizable. “Don’t Go Away Mad”, “It’s Im- For additional information visit possible,” “Mac the Knife” and the website: www.bobanderson. “San Francisco,” “Moon River,” com. “Room Without Windows,” “Ev- Announcement erybody Loves Somebody Some Bob Anderson mentioned that Time,” “What Kind of Fool am I?,” his “Frank, The Man, The Music” “Come Back to Me,” “Don’t Get production show will be appearing Around much Anymore,” “I am a on Broadway next year and is also Singer,” “Saturday Blues,” “Never planning a world tour. Going to Fall in Love Again,” “Just In 1973, he snuck into the Sa-

Bob Anderson sang as himself, with a slate of many celebrity impressions at the South Point August 30, 31, and September 1. (Photo by Sandy Zimmerman during Bob Anderson’s South Point show) hara’s Congo Room to watch a engagement at the Sahara. Shortly Drive similar to the early westerns Nancy Sinatra rehearsal. During after that engagement, Anderson in Reno, Nevada, and other desti- that rehearsal, Nancy’s opening accompanied Nancy Sinatra to The nations in the U.S. With 25 years’ act, the Everly Brothers, got into Merv Griffin Show. experience as a syndicated Show an argument and walked out. En- * * * * * and Dining Reviewer, Travel/ Lux- ter 23-year-old Bob Anderson. He Award-winning Sandy Zimmer- ury writer, Health, Photographer/ told the musical conductor that he man produces television programs, Videographer, Editor, and Talk was a singer, so with only a few documentaries, and travel specials Show Host of Sandy Zimmerman’s hours until the start of the show in Beijing and on the Yangtze River Las Vegas TV Show and Discover and no opening act, Nancy Sina- Cruise in China, travel specials the Ultimate Vacation travel spe- tra’s producer handed Anderson in Italy and around the world as cials. For information, questions, a mic and let him prove himself. well as for Bryce Canyon National comments please contact Sandy He did. Anderson went on in place Park, Zion Canyon National Park, Zimmerman: call (702)-515-0846, of the Everly Brothers that night the Grand Canyon North Rim Na- visit Facebook@SZLVTV or email and played the entire two-week tional Park, authentic real Cattle [email protected].

Bob Anderson’s “Frank, The Man, The Music” performance at the Venetian, 2014. (Photos by Sandy Zimmerman during Bob Anderson’s “Frank, The Man, The Music” show) Page 28 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 11-17, 2019 July 10-16, 2019 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 27 Universityis, predictions found based that on students lots of emdid- lessthus thanfar to $100,000, look in more a drop detail in the on didn’tmate modeling stop the toschool do groundbreak district in- significantlypirical data about better how on muchstandardized global bucketa regional of the basis, state’s especially $10.6 billion given Whiteing research Plains, into New the York, likelihood though, of Englishaverage teststemperature and marginally is expected bet to- K-12that climatepublic schools change budget. has not only whichthings purchased like floods five in electricthe Pacific buses terrise in and math by when.when they spent their large-scaleAnd beginning but also in October local conse 2018,- lastNorthwest, year with expected financial moisture help fromflux commutes“Global ridingclimate in models school (GCMs) buses thequences. U.S. Environmental These so-called Protection regional theconvergence local utility, and Consolidated ensuing drought Edi- retrofittedsimulate the to interactionsreduce emissions between by Agencyclimate (EPA)models set (RCMs) aside $9 work million by son,in the and Southwest, a grant from and, the even state. further 95the percent atmosphere, as compared ocean to and students land tomagnifying help pay the for resolution upgrading of GCMsolder afield,These projected outside climatecontributions change ridingto project in non-upgraded future climate, buses. based The on dieselin a small, school limited buses area nationwide. of interest, helpedand impacts bring thein Southeastfinal cost Asia.to the researchers conclude that “engine School districts and other public school district down to something assumptions about future emissions typically within a 3,000 square The analytical techniques being retrofits can have meaningful and agencies charged with transporting along the lines of buying new diesel of greenhouse gases,” reports the mile radius. Only by creating and pioneered at UW are being shared cost-effective impacts on health and school kids can apply for rebates of buses. While ConEd gets the benefit Climate Impacts Group at the Uni- analyzing RCMs can we assess the with researchers around the world cognitive functioning.” up to $20,000 per bus to help cover of good public relations and good versity of Washington (UW). influence of myriad fixed geograph- with the hope that more and more Luckily the retrofits are easy to the retrofits on up to 10 individual karma, it also gets to use the buses According to ClimatePrediction. ic conditions and other local factors scientists will start to run RCMs in come by and relatively inexpensive, buses. during the summer as excess elec- especiallynet, a volunteer when you computing factor in andthe suchRetrofitting as land height, is a landgreat use, start, lakes, but tricitytheir own storage regions that to can help be planners moved costsclimate of modelinghealth care project to treat out sick of evensea breeze, better mountain would beranges replacing and lo- aroundplan and to improvewhere it’s people’s needed mostlives kids,the UK’s not to University mention the of price Oxford, tag oldcalized buses weather with new, patterns more on efficient climate (whendespite the the air warming conditioners climate. are blaz- forglobal raising climate kids’ test models scores (GCMs) in other all-electricimpacts for models. a particular But fewmetropoli school- ing).GCMs White and Plains RCMs is hopingare both other im- ways.are designed Retrofitting to calculate 10 percent what of the districtstan area, canstate justify or country. the $300,000 schoolportant districts tools in across figuring the countryout how averageclimate schoolis doing district’s (in terms bus of fleet wind, in price“For tag theto replace practical perfectly planning func of- willto cope follow with a similarthe effects model of toclimate clean EarthTalkDear EarthTalk:® Whatis pro are so-- thinktologists again. specifically A March love 2019 to studycreate called regional climate models frommodels researchers of how the at Georgiaplanet and State its Georgia,temperature, for instance, humidity, would etc.) costat a tionallocal issues older such diesel as water buses. resources That upchange, their acts.whether a worst case sce- andduced why bydo weRoddy need themScheer given various natural systems and cycles number of discrete points on the or flood defenses, countries require nario is borne out or something not thatand we alreadyDoug have Moss pretty decentfor will react with the input of way too Earth’s surface as well as in the information on a much more lo- quite so cataclysmic. atmosphere and out at sea. The cal scale than GCMs are able to * * * * * globalthe 501(c)3climate models? nonprofit -- Rich W., many greenhouse gas emissions in Seattle, WA the atmosphere. Climate science points are then laid out in a grid provide,” adds ClimatePrediction. EarthTalk® is produced by EarthTalkScientists (and. Toeconomists donate, and has come a long way since its covering the planet’s surface. The net. “Regional models provide one Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss for businessvisit www.earthtalk.org. people) love to create early days a few decades back, but more points at play, the finer the res- solution to this problem.” the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. models to help predict future out- most of what we think will happen olution (and accuracy) of the model. UW’s Climate Impacts Group To donate, visit www.earthtalk. comesSend as questions a way to direct to: quesplanning- regarding global warming comes Nowadays climate researchers has been able to leverage its exper- org. Send questions to: question@ [email protected]. preparedness efforts. Clima- from global climate models — that are applying what they have learned tise in global and now regional cli- earthtalk.org. Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard that school buses cause a lot of pollution, especially for the kids riding inside. Is anyone making greener school buses yet? — Jake McConnell, Philadelphia, PA Now that school is back in ses- sion, those big yellow diesel-fueled school buses are all over the roads again. While they’re relatively safe — and definitely old school — they’re also big polluters, chugging along at 4-6 miles to the gallon while creating a cloud of harmful airborne pollutants. According to the non-profit Clean Air Trust (CAT), some 25 million American kids travelling on half a million school buses every day are exposed to five to 15 times more air toxins than the rest of us. “Those buses travel more than four billion miles each year and these kids spend three billion hours on [them],” reports the group. “About 90 percent of these buses run on diesel fuel, annually emitting 3,000 tons of cancer-causing soot and 95,000 tons of smog-causing compounds.” If you don’t think all that pol- Research shows that replacing or retrofitting dirty old diesel school buses can reduce the pollution inhaled by students significantly lution is having a negative effect, and can even lead to better health and higher standardized test scores. This graphic shows the United Kingdom as represented in a Global Climate Model (GCM), a Regional Climate Model (RCM) and actual observations. LASLAS VEGASVEGAS TRIBUNETRIBUNE CLASSIFIEDSCLASSIFIEDS

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