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By ROBERT RINGERSpecial to the Penny Press

Just when you think you’ve heard and seen it all in the Republican campaignathon, along comes prom king Paul Ryan displaying an arrogance that makes Donald Trump look like the Dalai Lama by comparison. Millions of

American jaws must have dropped in unison when chameleon Ryan casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s “just not ready” to support Trump.

Really? Where do I even begin to address such a remarkable display of unflinching arrogance? How about just stating the obvious — that the litmus-test conservative crowd still doesn’t get it.

That’s right, hard as it is to believe, after ten months of watching Trump swat every political fly who’s annoyed him, the pathetic “Never Trump”

crowd really and truly still does not understand what’s taking place in America.

Specifically, what they don’t get is that this is a genuine revolution. And it’s not a revolution about Trump. It’s a revolution about the corruption and arrogance of the leadership of the Republican Party — and, on a broader scale, the entire Washington political establishment.

That’s right, it’s taken eight long and destructive years, but the Republican Party’s base is now in full revolt against the Ryans, the McConnells, the McCains, the Grahams, et al. You’d have to be blind, deaf, and stupid — or totally delusional — not to have figured that out by now. Nevertheless, the guys who have run things for decades have chosen to stubbornly remain in a state of denial.

They do not understand that the so-called leadership is not the Republican Party. The Republican Party is the Republican voters. Had party leaders been able to do so, they were fully prepared to ignore the will

of their rank-and-file members at the Republican National Convention in July and use their crooked, self-serving rules to get their way.

Now, since Trump put Cruz and Kasich on the canvas much earlier than expected, their state of self-righteous panic has quickly intensified and they’re talking about forming a third party. LOL. Would that they would actually do it, because it would be yet another episode of Road Runner Trump versus Wile E. Establishment. And, as with the real Road Runner and real Wile E. Coyote, it’s Wile E. who always end up on the losing end of these clashes.

There are three things about which you can be certain if the panicked Republican ex-leadership actually moves forward with a third party:

1. It will give Trump yet another big boost in the polls.

2. They will lose badly to Trump in the general election.

3. They will forever be persona non grata in the new Republican Party that they once controlled. Talk about

poetic justice.Who in the hell does Paul Ryan

or any of the other Never-Trump RINOs think they are to proclaim that Trump will have to prove to them that he’s willing to adopt their platform? Attention all RINO wusses: Trump steamrollered everyone in the field because he refused to go along with your ideas!

Giving in to the establishment’s platform would, in fact, be Trump’s first big mistake. Millions of his supporters, who got on the Trump Train because they agreed with what he was saying, are counting on him to hang tough.

So, what’s at the heart of the inability of establishment guys like Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, and so many sitting members of the House and Senate to put on their big-boy pants, suck it up, and concede the fact that their own party’s base has resoundingly rejected their phony conservative principles?

They would like us to believe that they’re mad at Trump because he’s not conservative enough, but that’s total

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Penny WisdomYou have to listen to people that have chosen the nomi-nee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them. —John McCain

The Conservative Weekly Voice Of NevadaInside:Trump To GOP:I Won The Election

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The Arrogance of the Prom King

Commentary

Continued on page4


B.S. The truth is that they’re mad because Trump has threatened their power and easy access to myriad ways of stealing from taxpayers.

If they want to find out why they are now on the outside looking in, they need only look in the mirror. True, Barack Obama deserves the most credit for bringing about the 2016 revolution against the establishment, but the RINO crowd is a respectable second by virtue of doing what it does best: enable Democrats. And, in the process, they have also enabled Obama in his efforts to destroy what’s left of America.

The establishment crowd loves to rail on about how important it is for a presidential candidate to have “core conservative principles,” but which conservative principles are they talking about? The kind that have turned the Middle East into a living hell for millions of innocent people caught in the crossfire? Or the $500 billion that Ryan personally handed over to Obama — without even a debate in Congress! — thus putting every American citizen deeper in debt? Or the refusal to enforce existing law when it comes to illegal immigration?

What establishment Republicans have discovered, to their disbelief, is that most voters don’t give a damn about their self-serving conservative principles. And the reason for their rejection is that these are the very principles that have helped Obama and his Marxist base destroy America. Yet Paul Ryan now insists that Trump must adopt the very principles that the Republican base has already resoundingly rejected. Give me a break.

In their upcoming meeting, what Trump needs to say gently to Paul Ryan is: “Screw your conservative principles!”

Of course, the Never Trumpers insist that not only is he going to lose badly to Hillary, he will also take many on the “down ticket” along with him. I find is amazing that so many otherwise intelligent people believe that Trump can’t win the general election because today’s polls have him so far behind Hillary the Horrible … behind with women … behind with blacks … behind with Latinos. They can’t seem to grasp the fact that the election is six months away — an eternity even when two normal candidates are running against one another.

But the fact is that Trump and Hillary are not normal candidates. Trump is a problem-solving, job-creating, blue-collar billionaire with a magnetic, in-your-

face personality who is capable of destroying anyone who’s stupid enough to try to take him on. (Are you listening Paul?) And Hillary is an incredibly dislikeable serial criminal who’s on life support with the FBI.

As Democratic strategist Dave Saunders said the other day, “Trump will beat Hillary like a baby seal.” Saunders went on to say, “I know a ton of Democrats — male, female, black and white — here [in southern Virginia] who are going to vote for Trump. It’s all because of economic reasons. It’s because of his populist message.”

Allow me to repeat: economic reasons. One of the least-mentioned facts gleaned from the exit polls in Indiana is that 92 percent of voters said that the economy was their number-one concern. That’s horrible news for Hillary the Horrible, because she’s linked herself inextricably to Barack Obama’s bring-down-America’s policies. (Cutting her some slack, she probably had no choice, because Obama undoubtedly has the key to her cozy little prison cell tucked away in his pocket.)

This is why, contrary to what you’re hearing from the media and scared-to-death Dirty Dems, Trump is likely to wipe out Hillary’s lead in the polls early in the race, then increase his own lead rapidly as the public becomes saturated with the criminal deeds and lies of the Face of Evil. Her trademark response to Trump’s devastating attacks are likely to be alternate tears and hysterical shrieking as he slaps her around like … well … like a baby seal.

We are now in a whole new political universe, and those who don’t adapt to it will be left behind. Glenn Beck is mentally ill, so he has a legitimate excuse. But there’s still time for “conservatives” like Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, and Mitt Romney to save their reputations if they grow up quickly and start acting like responsible adults rather than tantrum-throwing children.

Robert Ringer (© 2016)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily insights, visit www.robertringer.com.

Most Voters Don't Give A Damn About Your Self-Serving PrinciplesContinued from page 3


The Right Stuff: We Need a Lot More of It Now

When we’ve had enough of politics and politicians, we need a good fun exhilarating movie like The Right Stuff. After a long hard week, take Saturday evening to watch this rollicking 1983 classic with great casting, script, directing, settings, performances, action, music, editing and themes. Plus hot planes and some explosions.

There are many great aspects of the film, but we want to note one we find profoundly appealing. Something the world needs these days.

Sure, it’s about glory, macho, cool, heroism, humor dark and light, etc. But an important perhaps overlooked message is that a key part of having the right stuff is that real men pay quiet respect to their peers, predecessors and successors. You’re not really in the club without acknowledging the right stuff when you see it in others.

America’s space program was fueled by high tech and big bucks and built on rigorous testing, vetting, selection and training of our finest. It was high profile, media-centered and glamorous.

But Tom Wolfe, the author of the 1979 book, and Phillip Kaufman, the screen writer and director, draw a direct line from the hard-scrabble roots of brave, resourceful, determined, under-

paid cowboy and hotdog test pilots at Edwards Air Force base in the eastern California desert after World War II to the epic exploits of astronauts in the Soaring Sixties.

The earlier generation is best represented by test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. When another pilot demands $150,000 to challenge the barrier in the new X-1 rocket plane, Yeager agrees to try for free, saying the Air Force already pays him. How much? Two-hundred-eighty-three dollars per month. He wants in for the adventure.

The evening before his historic flight, he breaks some ribs while horsing around. Thus injured, the next morning he’s unable to close the latch on the canopy of the plane. Jack Ridley, his side-kick, saws about 16 inches off a broom stick and Yeager is able to close the latch with the stick. Everything about the early days was that down to earth.

Eventually, two future astronauts, Gus Grissom and Gordo Cooper, become his neighbors on the base. Despite their initial braggadocio, they learn some lessons of respect before being chosen to be among the first seven astronauts.

When Grissom’s capsule sinks in the sea after he exits it on splashdown, some guys back in California disdainfully say the astronauts aren’t real pilots, just passengers on a craft controlled by ground crew. Indeed, a chimpanzee was the passenger on an early launch before any manned flight.

But Yeager sets things right with express respect for his successors.

He notes that the chimp that flew had no idea about the dangers involved, but the astronauts know them very well. “It takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially when it’s on national TV,” he says. “Ol’ Gus, he done okay.”

The movie chronicles the rest of the Mercury space program, leading to the flight of Cooper, the youngest and last of the seven and, while charming, the biggest hot dog of all. He becomes known for asking folks, “Who’s the best pilot you ever saw?” Then, with a big grin, before they can answer, he says, “You’re looking at him.”

When the press interviews him before his flight, that kind of cheese is exactly what they want to spice up their coverage, and so they ask him. But in that moment of truth, he also rises to the occasion, even though he knows what they want.

He says he’s seen a lot of great ones, brave men going up every day in hurtling pieces of machinery to push out the envelope of speed and altitude and hauling it all back in. … But, obviously now thinking of Yeager, he says, there was one guy who embodied the right stuff perhaps more than any other …

And even though the press goads him into cracking his usual joke, it’s clear that he has paid in his own mind and heart the respect due to his predecessors and peers.

We could use more of that mutual respect these days. And more films like The Right Stuff.


The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:Mark Jackson, the Douglas County district attorney, who told the state Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice that it’s difficult to advocate for changes in prison sentences without specif-ics on Nevada’s prison population. “If we’re going to have a serious discussion about what’s best for Nevada,” he said, “then we need to figure out who’s in prison.” Apparently, we spend so much effort in putting people into prison, we really don’t keep track of why. That’s plain old stupid.

The unnamed Mexican judge who ruled the extradition of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman can move ahead, but the country’s foreign ministry must still approve it and the defense can appeal. The federal Judiciary Council said Monday the judge had agreed that the legal requirements laid out in the extradition treaty between the two countries had been met. They must really want to be rid of him.

The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:. The Obama administration for threatening North Carolina for passing a law regulating the use of bathrooms by “transgender” individuals. While the law may not be a particu-larly elegant solution to a potential problem, it was duly passed by both houses of the state legislature and signed by the Governor and the Attorney General has no right to simply demand the law be changed. Let the courts decide. They clearly will as a lawsuit was filed.


Tips Of Our Capand

Bronx Cheers

Commentary: Ron Knecht & Geoffrey Lawrence

RON KNECHT and GEOFFREY LAWRENCE

So Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, the two President Bushes and Mitt Romney won’t endorse Donald Trump.

I’ll give George W. Bush props. I think he’s a decent guy who was a decent President but made a few mistakes. If, out of loyalty or even pique, he chooses not to endorse the standard bearer of the party which made him the most powerful man in the world for eight years, I understand. To a somewhat lesser extent, I can also give his 90-year old father the same pass.

Graham and Romney, however, are the exact reasons that Trump is the nominee today.

If I had to pick a one word description of those two, it would be LOSER.

The complete lack of vision exhibited by both during this campaign is nothing short of stunning. Graham is pretty close to the most liberal members of that do-nothing debating society, the United States Senate. To quote Conservative Review, “During Senator Graham’s tenure in the Senate, he has not only voted with Democrats on a number of key issues, he has embraced a public role of bucking conservatives on these policies while working with the Left. His most noteworthy dissensions with conservatives include immigration, global warming legislation, and aspects of foreign policy.”

Yet, his non-endorsement contained the following language:

“I don’t think he’s a reliable Republican conservative.” Seriously? Global Warming Graham doesn’t think Donald Trump is a conservative? Please. And then there’s Mitt.Mitt Romney might have actually been a good President, save for the fact that he made himself unelectable. The difference between Mitt and Trump is that Mitt is rich and seems to think that being rich is his God given entitlement while Trump is rich and points out that he worked real hard to get there, anybody can, and that a fair amount of luck helped get him there.

Frankly, if Donald Trump had to pick two so-called Republicans to campaign against him, he could do a lot worse than Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney.

That said, I also have a fair amount of disdain for rest of the so called “conservative establishment” which doesn’t think that Donald Trump should know their secret handshake because he doesn’t meet their secret litmus test.

Yes, Paul Ryan, I’m talking about you. Your “agenda” really doesn’t matter as much as Trump’s because the voters just said so.

You may be Speaker of the House, but you also cave to the Obama administration enough to be called GOP’s spelunker in chief.

You, at least, seem willing to talk, but, you and your predecessor

have given most Republican voters reason to intensely distrust your motives.

Essentially, in words we can all understand, Donald Trump just led a successful proxy fight of Republican voters in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.

And what’s wrong with that?

Think of the GOP as a widely held public company (it, in effect, is). Each voter holds one share.

The current management has a vested interest in not changing anything. It controls both houses of Congress and would, in a perfect world, like to control the Presidency.

But to the management—with their cushy, well paid jobs—it really doesn’t matter that much. They make just as much money and have just as many perks with or without the White House.

So, to them, a Presidential campaign with one of their buddies—even if it ultimately loses—is an excuse to spend a billion dollars of someone else’s money with virtually no risk.

So along comes an investor who rounds up enough proxies (votes) to toss them all out on their big, fat butts.

There’s a lot of bluster, but it’s pretty hard to argue with the majority of the shareholders.

What you are hearing is the howls of people who have to find new jobs and new ways to appear influential.

The “establishment” just had Donald Trump point to them and say, in his immortal words, “You’re fired”.

The media is treating it as if this is a bad thing for Trump.

But if it’s so bad, how is it that he won so convincingly?

I, for one, don’t take the Trump-Hillary polls that show him losing badly seriously. It’s not that they’re crooked. It’s just that they’re poorly sampled and do not reflect the reality of Trump’s actual results since last June when he announced.

There is only one poll which actually counts and that is a poll taken on November 8. Its sample is every registered voter who votes and its margin of error is plus or minus 0.

My educated guess is that if Hillary hasn’t been indicted by then she’ll be conceding that night. When it’s over, prepare for the next round of moaning and pissing. It’ll come from career bureaucrats just like Lois Lerner, late of the IRS.

FRED WEINBERG


OPINIONFrom The Publisher...

One Word To Describe Graham And Romney: LOSER!


Stacking Liberal Judges On Top Of Liberal Judges

How many appointments will the next president make to the federal judiciary? And what might that mean for the American people’s First and Second Amendment rights?

Since 1952, U.S. presidents have nominated and had confirmed an average of 163 federal judges, including 1.6 Supreme Court Justices, every 4 years.

The important factors are deaths and retirements. Meaning, a President Hillary Clinton may get to seat about 160 federal judges or so, including one or two Supreme Court Justices or maybe four.

Which would come atop the 462 judicial appointments already seated by Democrat presidents, including four Supreme Court Justices — out of the 853 currently seated federal judges according to data compiled by the Federal Judicial Center.

The current partisan composition of the federal courts including district and circuit courts of appeals is 54 percent to 46 percent in favor of Democrats.

Now, of the 165 oldest judges currently on the courts born on or before 1946, 113 of them were appointed by Republicans. Meaning, if those 165 die or retire in pretty much that order — Democrats would yield a net gain of about 113 judges.

Meaning, a potential President Clinton might replace 53 Democrat judges and 113 Republican judges by 2020, bringing the number of judges appointed by Democrats to 575.

That would bring the partisan composition of federal courts to 67 percent Democrat. Two out of every three judges will have been appointed by Democrats, and who knows what might happen on the Supreme Court?

And that’s just in her first four years in office.That should be a sobering assessment even for the most ardent

#NeverTrump whiner. Are they certifiably insane?Contrast that with a Republican win in November by presumptive

nominee Donald Trump, who some party members now suggest they cannot support. He might only get a net gain of 53 judges, bringing the Republican total to 445, or 52 percent of the total, since Trump would mostly be replacing Republican judges.

Going forward, if one assumes Clinton actually wins two terms, the Republican judicial outlook looks even bleaker. In her second term, if you take the next 176 oldest judges born on or before 1951, 101 of them were appointed by Republicans, too.

A second Clinton term might net another 101 judges for Democrats, bringing their federal judge total to 676 — or 79 percent of the total.

Just to keep balance, then, means Republicans really, really need the White House for about the next 8 years.

Now, the death and retirement rates will certainly vary, but the key point is that since 1952, the partisan composition of the federal judiciary has been somewhat balanced in accordance with the composition of the White House. It went from 8 years Republican (1953-1960) to 8 years Democrat (1961-1968) to 8 years Republican (1969-1976) to 4 years

Democrat (1977-1980) to 12 years Republican (1981-1992) to 8 years Democrat (1993-2000) to 8 years Republican (2001-2008) to 8 years Democrat (2009-2016).

So, it tends to go back and forth. But throw more than two terms in a row for one side or the other, and the balance of the courts will shift dramatically almost overnight.

Which, if the only thing one cared about was ensuring that the judiciary not become overly partisan, then a Clinton presidency would be nothing short of a generational catastrophe.

Has #NeverTrump considered the true, judicial consequences of a Clinton presidency?

What does one suppose might happen to the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms, upheld in the Heller 5-4 decision? Or the First Amendment right to say what you like during elections, upheld in the Citizens United 5-4 decision?

The answer is that with the Supreme Court’s current composition at 4 to 4 with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the risk for the American people is that the First and Second Amendments might be summarily reinterpreted if Clinton wins. Throw in subsequent applications of those decisions at the district and circuit level with scores of new liberal judges, and who knows how bad it might get?

If Republicans cared about nothing else than who appoints judges to uphold a constitutional, limited government with strongly interpreted Bill of Rights protections, then they cannot allow Clinton to win under any circumstances. There is too much at stake.

We suspect cooler heads will prevail, and the madness of #NeverTrump will end shortly. No less so than because the very Constitution hangs in the balance, and Republicans — and the country as a whole — cannot afford to wait another four years for conservatives to begin restoring their ranks on the federal judiciary. Time’s up. ROBERT ROMANORobert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.


Commentary: Robert Romano


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Commentary: Dick ReschTo Educate the Next Generation, Reinvent the Classroom

Quick — pop quiz! More education funding plus smaller class sizes equals better test scores, right?

Wrong. Foreign students outperform Americans on numerous tests: literacy, math, technological knowledge, even everyday skills.

That’s despite the fact that the United States spends over$15,000 a year to educate each student from kindergarten through college — $6,000 more than the average for other economically advanced countries. U.S. schools also reduced average class sizes by over 13 percent between 2000 and 2010; classes are smaller here than in other similarly situated countries.

American schools don’t need more money. They need to ditch their 20th-century teaching methods. Research shows that games, technology, and practical applications speak to them. Schools need to respond by redesigning classrooms to allow teachers to put these methods to work.

Take videogames. They’re not just ways to avoid doing homework. They’re teaching tools.

A University of Southern California study found that fifth-graders who played an iPad math game about fractions for 20 minutes a day for five days boosted test scores by 15 percent. Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego recently used a videogame to teach 8-12 year olds how to code. In seven days, the students learned to write commands in the Java coding language.

Simply swapping out textbooks for tablets — which enable students to swipe through content as they would in a game — can boost academic performance. At one California middle school, 20 percent more students scored “proficient” or “advanced” in Algebra I comprehension when they read from iPads instead of conventional textbooks.

Teachers can also enhance students’ skills by simulating real-world events — known as “virtual learning.”

For instance, instead of watching a nurse administer medication or oxygen to

a patient, nursing students at New York University practice their skills on Human Patient Simulators. These robots have pulses and respond realistically to stimuli. Students can practice responding to medical emergencies without putting real patients at risk.

Simulators dramatically improve students’ performance. Residents in a general surgery program saw their speed go up 97 percent and the efficiency of motion increase 59 percent after using simulators.

Project-based learning doesn’t just teach the” what.” It teaches the “how” — how to work together and solve problems. These skills are in high demand in the workplace.

Consider the case of a class of 10th-grade students studying World War II. One group was given a problem-based learning assignment to advise President Truman how to end the war, which forced them to actively research the issues to formulate recommendations. The other group received traditional lectures.

The problem-based learning students exhibited greater knowledge of the subject matter than those who studied it passively via lectures, according to a study from the non-profit Buck Institute for Education.

To deploy these newer teaching methods, schools must redesign classrooms so that teachers and students seamlessly transition from one task or learning tactic to the next.

Games and virtual learning make frequent use of technology, so students need quick access to computers and tablets. Instead of stationary computers on desks, teachers could stow tech devices in mobile storage units until students need them.

At Michigan State University’s Design Center, students already utilize such dual-purpose furniture. They tuck their urban design projects into storage units, which convert into workspaces when opened.

Teachers also need to be able to mold learning environments for each lesson. If they want to break students into small teams for project-based learning, they should be able to reconfigure lightweight, mobile tables.

Schools must adopt more effective teaching methods — and give teachers flexible classrooms that make such tactics feasible. Doing so will help ensure that American students can ace whatever pop quizzes come their way. DICK RESCHDick Resch is CEO of Green Bay, Wisc.-based manufacturer KI (www.ki.com).


Cronyism Between Big-Labor and Big-Government Costing Nevada Taxpayers Billions

For the last half century American labor unions have been increasing their control over local and state governments by colluding with big-government advocates to create laws that protect their influence.

And taxpayers have been paying the price.A new study by The Heritage Foundation — coauthored by Nevada

Policy Research Institute’s former director of research, Geoffrey Lawrence — shows that this crony relationship between big government and big labor results in big costs for local budgets.

When Nevada passed its first collective bargaining law in 1965, it expressly prohibited government from engaging in collective bargaining. Had the Silver State simply maintained that prohibition on public-sector unionization, state and local spending in 2014 would have been between $1 billion and $1.8 billion lower.

In states that have mandatory collective bargaining laws, the difference was even greater. Nationwide, if union membership was simply made voluntary, state and local governments would have been able to save between $127 and $164 billion in 2014 alone.

As impressive as these numbers are, the study shows more than just raw data. It highlights thecronyism inherent in collective bargaining laws, and quantifies the burden taxpayers carry for this marriage between big government and big labor.

By their very nature, public sector labor unions — tasked with “protecting” the interests of public sector workers — are dedicated to growing both the size and cost of local and state governments. It’s not

necessarily some nefarious conspiracy. It’s merely self-preservation. As the size and cost of government continues its upward trajectory, so do the union’s membership and collected dues.

When representing workers in the private sector, union bosses must balance their demand for more generous collective bargaining agreements with the company’s ability to turn a profit. Refusing to do so, after all, results in the employer being fiscally incapable of employing any additional labor.

But in government, where a seemingly endless supply of taxpayers fund operations, there is no such organic cap on what the unions can, and often do, demand. While private businesses are limited by the amount of cash they bring in, governments are only limited by the amount they can tax.

And as we know all too well in Nevada, politicians seem perfectly willing to raise taxes.

It’s no surprise then that the burden government has placed on taxpayers has grown exponentially along with the rise of public sector unionization. While this study supplies us with hard data, the theory has been around as long as unionization.

In fact, even the most stalwart union-sympathizers — such as Franklin D. Roosevelt — warned against government-sector unionization early in the 20th Century. Nevada’s first collective bargaining law also reflects this common-sense apprehension about public sector labor unions.

Considering that such a ban on public-sector collective bargaining could have saved Nevada more than $1 billion in 2014 alone, maybe it’s time taxpayers begin paying closer attention to big labor’s influence over, and collaboration with, big government. MICHAEL SCHAUSMichael Schaus is communications director of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a nonpartisan, free-market think tank. For more visit http://npri.org.

Commentary: Michael Schaus

A Christian Letter to Nominee TrumpDear Mr. Trump:

One of the things I appreciate about you is that you’re exceptionally direct. So am I.

And so I’ll be direct.I am a Ted Cruz supporter and part of what they’re calling the

“#NeverTrump” crowd. As it now stands, and, speaking of directness, absent some direct revelation from the Holy Spirit Himself, I cannot, and will not, vote for you in November. (I hope you’ll continue reading. I do not intend this as an attack in anyway.)

Still, and before I jump into my profound reservations about your presidential candidacy, let me share a few more things that I appreciate about you. First, though many people, yourself included, have said that you “are the establishment,” I nonetheless appreciate that you took on the mealy-mouthed GOP establishment this primary season. The conservative base of the Republican Party is sick of their empty campaign promises, gutless lack of resolve and failure to use all means necessary to rein-in Obama.

Next, I, and others, love your often witty, always delightful smackdowns of the mainstream media – a media so marinated in leftist ideology and political correctness that they wouldn’t recognize objective journalism if it bit ’em in the … well, you get the idea.

Finally, you have quickly come to both signify and personify Middle America’s utter disdain for all things politically correct. “I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness,” you told Megyn Kelly in the GOP’s first presidential debate. “And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either.”

Amen.Now for the negatives. While there are many, for the sake of brevity I’ll

address but a few. These negatives alone, to me, are absolute deal breakers.Mr. Trump, I don’t oppose you because I’m Republican and you’re not.

I don’t even oppose you because I’m conservative and you’re not. I oppose you, sir, because I’m a Christ follower.

Now, let me be clear. I know that I don’t speak for all faithful, Bible-believing Christians. In fact, there are many I both know and respect who plan to vote for you, some who even publicly endorsed you from the onset. I do not intend to indict them, judge them or even persuade them to do otherwise.

Still, there are many more who, like me, cannot, with a clear conscience, vote for you.

Let’s start from 30,000 feet and bring it in for a landing. Some of my Christian brothers and sisters have noted, accurately, that God has a wonderful way of using unlikely, broken and even wicked people for good (we are none righteous, not even one [see Romans 3:10]).

He may be doing that with you, and I pray He is.Still others have even compared you to King David, a “man after God’s

own heart,” who was both a murderer and adulterer. I love David’s story because it reminds me of my own. I’ve done some pretty horrible things in my life that, but for Christ’s amazing grace, forgiveness and sacrifice on the cross, I’d be getting exactly what I deserve – eternal separation from God.

King David was a sinner. I’m a sinner. You’re a sinner. But, as best I can tell, it is gross error to compare you to King David in any way. David, you see, was contrite. He was more than contrite. He was humble because he was humbled. He basked in humility because he willingly received God’s well-deserved humiliation and discipline. David was utterly broken and gloriously repentant for his many sins. He begged God with some of the most sincere

and beautiful words ever written, for forgiveness most undeserved.And God forgave Him.Humility does not mean weakness. David was meek, he was not weak.

Meekness is restrained strength.Here’s where I must be direct. You and I, Mr. Trump, are no King

Davids. Not only is there no evidence that you are broken, contrite, humble and repentant for your own very public sins; you, even today, continue, unrepentantly, to commit those sins and boast of them on the campaign trail. Hell, some of them, like crowing about your book, wherein you brag about all the hot chicks you scored and the times you cheated on your wives, are even part of your stump speech.

For his adultery David begged God, “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin” (Psalm 51:1-2).

By contrast, when recently asked about God’s forgiveness for your own storied past, you said, “I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness. Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?”

Well, because God demands it, for starters.And so you remain an unrepentant serial adulterer who personally

attacks his political opponents as “stupid liars,” sleazily suggests that their wives are ugly, absurdly intimates that their fathers conspired to assassinate JFK (you admitted the next day you were lying), brags about the size of his manhood from the debate stage, even now says that Planned Parenthood, an organization that gets filthy rich tearing live babies limb-from-limb and selling their body parts, “does wonderful things and we should not defund it,” essentially stated, just weeks ago, that men in miniskirts have a right to shower alongside our wives and daughters, and, neither last nor least, habitually and unapologetically verbally abuses women – somebody’s wives, mothers and daughters – by calling them “pigs,” “ugly,” “fat” or “great pieces of a–.”

Moreover, Mr. Trump, if elected you will be the very first U.S. president to have owned (and/or presently maintain stock in) strip clubs. Your Trump Taj Mahal strip club “Scores” in Atlantic City, for example, among the most mundane. You, sir, have profited, and continue to profit, from the sexual exploitation of precious young women created in the image and likeness of Almighty God – women who, not long ago, were not unlike my 11 and 12-year-old daughters.

You’re a worldly man, Mr. Trump. You know that many of these women are drug-addicted and were sexually abused as children. You also know that strip clubs (particularly Vegas/Atlantic City strip clubs) are hotbeds for sex trafficking (sex slavery) and prostitution.

This misogynistic exploitation of women and girls, on your part, is both reprehensible and inexcusable. Not only is it unbecoming of any man who wishes to hold the highest office in the entire land; it is decidedly unwise of any man who doesn’t wish to have some father or brother jerk him out of his limo for roadside dental work.

By all indication, you have neither asked these girls’ forgiveness, God’s forgiveness, nor ceased this shameless exploitation.

You have not repented.And so I will not vote for you.But I will pray for you.

MATT BARBERMatt Barber is founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com. He is an author, columnist, cultural analyst and an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. Having retired as an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer, Matt has taken his fight from the ring to the culture war. (Follow Matt on Twitter: @jmattbarber).



Commentary: Matt Barber

Survey Says: Donald Trump!I’m absolutely lovin’ all the head-scratchin’, navel-gazin’ angst the

“expert” political pundits, professional inside-the-beltway consultants, and the media talking heads are suffering over Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination for president.

“Who could possibly have seen this coming?” they ask with deer-in-the-headlights incredulity.

Actually, many of us down at ground zero in the grassroots saw it coming a mile away. In fact, here’s what I wrote way back on July 28th of last year…

“Folks, a political campaign is a sales and marketing campaign. And no matter what else you think about Donald Trump, he is a MASTER at sales and marketing. And he’s getting better on the stump every…single…day. Write him off as the GOP nominee at your peril.”

I haven’t voted *for* a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Instead, I’ve been forced to hold my nose and vote against the Democrats’ nominees thanks to the Republican Party establishment shoving, in succession, George “Read My Lips” Bush, Bob Dole, George “Compassionate Conservative” Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney down our throats.

But this time the foot’s on the other shoe. This time the establishment lost. As such, ‘tis they who will swallow

the bitter taste of the lesser-of-two-evils choice grassroots conservatives have had to make for the last 32 years.

But make no mistake. The problem grassroots conservatives have with the establishment GOP hasn’t been limited to the party’s presidential nominees.

At the congressional level you can go all the way back to 1995 when Newt Gingrich and the new Republican House majority RIGHTLY shut down the bloated federal government only to see Bob Dole and the Senate moderates open it back up. It’s been downhill ever since.

Indeed, the main roadblock to true conservative reform and governance has been establishment GOP leaders more often than Democrats. Proof positive was the failure to advance a bold conservative agenda after the 2004 elections in which Republicans won the White House as well as full control of the House and Senate.

And what did the GOP establishment give us? A bridge to nowhere in Alaska!

Bringing this point closer to home here in Nevada, in 2014 voters elected a Republican governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and controller, as well as a Republican majority in both the Senate and Assembly.

And what did the GOP establishment give us? The largest tax hike in state history!

Indeed, the true enemy of conservative governance has been weak-kneed, go-along-to-get-along moderate Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). And twenty years of their sell-outs, betrayals and obstruction are why so many conservatives in 2016 are hitching their wagon to a man everyone knows isn’t a movement conservative, but who they believe will smash the stranglehold the establishmentarians have on the party.

The Trump Train is leaving the station. All, aboarrrrd! CHUCK MUTH(Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and publisher of NevadaNewsandViews.com. You can reach Chuck at ChuckMuth.com.)


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