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Update: After the commentary posted below, Reid expanded his attack beyond Cliven Bundy's supporters and called the rancher a "domestic terrorist."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the armed supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy are "domestic terrorists."
"These people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not," Reid said at the Paris hotel of the armed horde that descended on the environs of Mesquite, just northeast of Las Vegas. "They are domestic terrorists. What happened in Mesquite was domestic terrorism."
Reid's incendiary words are sure to fan the flames of rightie talkers and GOP politicians trying to exploit...
A federal marshal and local law enforcement should arrest Cliven Bundy and incarcerate him until his cows are removed from public land, a longtime BLM veteran said Wednesday.
"There is only one way to resolve this situation given the current state of affairs," said Mike Ford, who spent a quarter-century in the Bureau of Land Management in five states, including as a deputy director in Nevada. "A judge must issue a warrant for Bundy's arrest for failure to comply with two court orders. A...
I sometimes feel the same way about listening to right-wing talk radio the way I do about watching a Kardashian show: Sooner or later the mindlessness might be contagious.
Perhaps my ears might start to bleed. Or my brains begin to liquefy. Or maybe I’ll believe everything Alex Jones says.
That occurred to me as I listened to 45 minutes worth of Kevin Wall’s KXNT program on Tuesday as he talked to some crazy people and two candidates – they were often difficult to tell apart.
To distill: Harry...
The American Gaming Association, which has been hiring staff, is bringing on three new people at high levels.
The group, which also has hired Obamaites (partly through a front group) Jim Messina and Ben LaBolt as part of its effort to ensure the web can have gambling, now has:
►Ron Rosenbaum, late of the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, as chief operating officer.
►Brian Cohen, who has worked for the Motion Picture Association of America, as Director of Ally Development. (Where do...
The BLM made the right decision to stand down after botching the roundup of Cliven Bundy's cattle, but the rancher is no victim, former state and national BLM boss Bob Abbey said.
Abbey, who was national Bureau of Land Management director for three years before leaving in 2012 and was Nevada director for eight years, was part of an aborted roundup in 2012 before he left.
Here's some of what he told me:
On Bundy: Cliven Bundy and his family members are not the victims here. It is the American...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Exclusive insight into Bundy roundup from ex-national and state BLM boss
2. Analysis from The Weekly Insiders of the governor’s handling of the Bundy mess, Tom Collins’ erratic behavior and the judicial scandal story
3. Smartest/dumbest moves and coming campaign developments
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