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Review-Journal puts target on Oscar Goodman’s back

For years the Las Vegas Re-view-Journal, the alleged largest newspaper in Nevada, has enjoyed attacking the famous criminal defense attorney and former Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman.

And now that the owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is also the owner of the convention center, which could compete with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority where Oscar Goodman is employed, the former mayor is the perfect target.

Goodman’s salary at the LVCVA is perhaps the smallest salary he has earned in a very long time, and for the job he performs, it is a very small salary indeed.

A group of reporters — that could be doing better things to help the community — has been assigned to find reasons to criticize the well-known Goodman.

Oscar Goodman is supposed to be the Las Vegas Ambassador, and as part of his job he is supposed to be in contact with hotels and casinos, but now the Las Vegas Review-Journal is concerned with how Goodman is getting from point A to point B in our city.

So far none of the trips that Goodman has taken at the ex-pense of the LVCVA have been for personal use; he has not been taken to any of his favorite places, such as the Bagel Café or Piero’s Restaurant.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is too concerned with how the LVCVA spends its money, but they have not commented on the half million dollar salary paid to the new Higher Education Chancellor with taxpayer’s money.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has not shown any concern over how the Clark County Commis-sioner Chairman forced an extra tax on the people to help with the construction of the new stadium that up to now is not even a reality.

There is nothing wrong with having a new stadium that could be beneficial to Las Vegas and to our economy, but it should not be forced onto our residents just to make it easy for a bunch of billionaires, or to be on their good

(See My Point of View, Page 2)

By Rolando Larraz

Volume 19, Issue 27 September 6-12, 2017

My Pointof View

Democrats dead set on punishing the rich no matter the outcome

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Could North Korea actually defeat

the United States?Page 4

Postal workers caught in drug trafficking ring

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FROM THE DESK OF GORDON MARTINES

By Gordon MartinesI would hope that the powers

that be are preparing to get hit by a sledgehammer when the Recre-ational Marijuana bill goes into full effect. The associated problems with Recreational Marijuana Use

For instance, the three letter designation “RMU,” meaning Rec-reational Marijuana User, should have an additional designator after the RMU, such as A for Addicted; BD for Brain Damaged; DUI for Driving Under the Influence; MR (See From the Desk, Page 4)

will become very apparent to ev-eryone once it gets into full swing.

A beginning suggestion would be to designate its particular kind of use for the police department, and make it easier and fairer to ev-eryone else when violations occur.

for violating Marijuana Restric-tions; FMU for Flaunting Marijua-na Use in public; and so forth.

The RMU designation could also be used for resident home warnings to be placed near or

Get ready for the Recreational Marijuana explosion

lasvegastribune.com

By Thomas MitchellThe vitriol being rained on Pres-

ident Trump for ending Obama’s unilateral executive order to defer deportation of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children is over the top.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto called Trump a racist and a xeno-phobe.

Obama called the decision cruel. Rep. Jacky Rosen said it was

wrong to invite “these young people to come out of the shadows, raise their hands, and make themselves known, the United States made a promise to those who came here as children. President Trump is now Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces end of DACA.

(HORN NEWS) — Hurricane Irma strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Tuesday as it roared toward the northeast Carib-bean on a path that could take it to the United States.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Irma had sustained winds of 175mph (280 kph) and was centered about 270 miles (440 kilometers) east of Antigua. It was moving west at 14 mph (22 kph).

The center said there was a growing possibility that the storm’s effects could be felt in Florida later

By Thomas MitchellWhether you think the defen-

dants in the Bunkerville standoff are a bunch of lunatic, dangerous gun-nuts who should be locked up and the key thrown away or upstanding patriots defending prop-erty and constitutional rights in the face of belligerent bureaucrats, it matters not what you think.

What matters is what jurors think.

So far jurors seem less than en-thusiastic about embracing the pile of charges heaped on the first of the standoff defendants.

When Bureau of Land Manage-ment agents and their hired cow-boys showed up at Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014 to confiscate his

Bunkerville standoff.

By Rolando LarrazLas Vegas Tribune

In what appears to be a vindic-tive move from the City of Las Vegas’ officials against the only weekly newspaper that is indepen-dent and doesn’t take orders from anyone has been taking place in the last few days.

It all started when a represen-tative of the newspaper appeared before the city council to bring to

City may be declaring war on the Las Vegas Tribune

light to what appears to be a dys-functional negligence in the code enforcement department of the city government.

Everyone at the time jumped to defend the behavior of the depart-ment head and others involved in the case.

The city rushed to send an ex-planation that while it did not make any sense, it was highly appreciat-

ed, so we learned how the city uses its “rules” as it conveniently needs.

If the project information is available (A/P#, address, or parcel number) a link on the bottom of the page is available to “Check Status of Permits and Applications.”

How many feet are required, by law, in which to build an apartment between the fences separating one property from the other one?

There is no one answer that fits all situations in all cases. This varies based on the zoning requirements for specific areas, and variances may be granted for individual cases.

What’s the fee for such a permit? Permit, plan review, user fees and taxes vary based on the type of construction, occupancy use, and square footage of the building. Again, there is no one answer that

applies to every situation.Aren’t city inspecting agents

supposed to inspect all buildings under construction?

The Department of Building and Safety inspects all permitted construction during the course of the work. In some cases, permits may be exempt based on scope and/or size of the construction activities

(See City Declares War, Page 3)

Anger aimed at Trump over the DACA decision is off the mark

reneging on that promise …”Rep. Ruben Kihuen, noting

that he was once undocumented, said in an email that the decision tramples this country’s values and shatters the hopes and dreams of the 800,000 who have signed up for DACA.

Days before the announcement, Rep. Dina Titus said, “Ending DACA appeals to xenophobic be-liefs and goes against the founding principles of our nation.”

Pay no heed to the fact it was Obama who made a promise he was not constitutionally empowered to make. Since 2001 there have been

(See DACA, Page 6)

Hurricane Irma strengthens to Category 5this week and over the weekend, though it was still too early to be sure of its future track: “Everyone in hurricane-prone areas should ensure that they have their hurricane plan in place.”

Irma’s center was expected to move near or over the northern Lee-ward Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday, the hurricane center said. The eye was then expected to pass about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Puerto Rico late Wednesday.

Authorities warned that the storm could dump up to 10 inches

(See Hurricane Irma, Page 5)

Release Bunkerville defendants on bail

(See Bunkerville Page 5)

NOTE: There will be no Scott Holper story this week due to special circumstances (time out for Rolando’s recovery from

surgery). It will return next week.

(25 centimeters) of rain, cause land-slides and flash floods and generate waves of up to 23 feet (7 meters). Government officials began evacu-ations and urged people to finalize all preparations as shelves emptied

out across islands including Puerto Rico.

“The decisions that we make in the next couple of hours can make the difference between life and

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(Continued from Page 1)My Point of Viewside when the Chairman runs for governor of the state.

The billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, who also owns one of the most luxurious and largest casino-hotels on the Strip, also owns the convention center, which is in some kind of competition with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authori-ty, a facility that has been serving our gaming industry and working together with the local media for over half a century.

For a very long time most of the pictures that appear in almost every one of the local publications were coming out of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority pressroom.

At one time Las Vegas used to be a normal city, and as such, was proud to have more than one news-paper (in fact there was a time when Las Vegas had three daily newspa-pers, two of them with a morning and evening edition like any other normal city) and perhaps even a dozen weekly newspapers, plus a

few magazines and one Spanish language newspaper.

All that until the Las Vegas Re-view-Journal decided to eliminate all the competition — because even some of the weeklies were better publications than the “largest Nevada newspaper,” known as the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Back in the sixties the Las Ve-gas Sun, under the direction of its founder, the late Hank Greenspun, was considered the most read news-paper and the best in the city.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal wanted to control the minds of the locals and brainwash those who read their newspaper, but thanks to social media and radio talk show hosts Kevin Wall, Allan Stock and Wayne Allyn Root, the newspaper has not been able to succeed.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal needs to make better use of its reporters; instead of attacking Os-car Goodman for keeping the Las Vegas casinos busy making money to be used within the community, the supposedly “largest newspaper” needs to keep a better eye on our

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government that is out of control, dig into why the Nevada System of Higher Education is spending half a million on one man who never stays put more than a few years in any job he ever had.

Tom Reilly may be the wonder-boy for some elected officials and perhaps could be the wonder boy for the LGBTQ of Las Vegas, but again it may not be all it seems to be and many wonder how long he will stay at the Nevada System of Higher Education before jumping ship again when he finds another sucker that will offer him a few dollars more.

Thom Reilly left the county job where he was earning $230,000 to accept a job with the System of Higher Education as Vice Chancel-lor; three months later he jumped ship and left that position with the System of Higher Education to join Harrah’s Corporation for more money, and quietly ended up in Ar-izona, until he lined up this new job for half a mil, making his reputation a little flaky and his position up for sale to the highest bidder, ignoring

“It’s about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”

—Rudy Giuliani

loyalty and dependability with four high-priced jobs in one single decade — averaging less than four years per job; a good and reason-able Director of Human Resource or a decent and intelligent CEO would not see his record as positive as the System of Higher Education apparently sees it.

Reilly also parlayed an extra ten grand for his car allowance and another eight G’s for incidentals; the Las Vegas Review-Journal questioned why Goodman could not afford to pay for his own trans-portation, and Las Vegas Tribune asked if with half a million dollar salary, why Mr. Reilly still could not afford to fill his gas tank and pay for his own meals.

My name is Rolando Larraz, and as always, I approved this column

* * * * *.Rolando Larraz is Editor in

Chief of the Las Vegas Tribune. His column appears weekly in this newspaper. To contact Rolando Larraz, email him at: [email protected] or at 702-272-4634.

(HORN NEWS) — Sixteen postal workers in Atlanta and the surrounding area accepted bribes to deliver packages of cocaine, federal prosecutors said last Wednesday.

In exchange for bribery pay-ments, the postal workers provided special addresses where the drugs could be shipped and then inter-cepted the packages and delivered them to a person they believed was a drug trafficker using the postal system to ship multiple kilograms of cocaine at a time into the area, the U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta said.

But it was actually a sting oper-ation: The supposed drug trafficker was working with law enforcement and the packages contained fake drugs.

“Postal employees are entrusted to perform a vital service as they

Postal workers caught in drug trafficking ringout to someone they knew to be a drug dealer, and simply for cash in their pockets they were willing to endanger themselves and the residents on their routes and bring harmful drugs into the community.”

Some of the postal workers re-cruited others to join the trafficking scheme and got extra money for packages delivered by their recruits, prosecutors said.

The postal workers were charged in three separate indictments that were unsealed last Tuesday.

“While the vast majority of U.S. Postal Service personnel are

hard-working and trustworthy individuals who are dedicated to delivering mail and would never consider engaging in criminal be-havior, these charges reflect the se-lect few who decided to betray the trust,” said Paul Bowman, special agent in charge of the Atlanta area office of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General.

Those charged include 15 letter carriers and one clerk who worked for post offices in Atlanta, Decatur, Doraville, Marietta, Riverdale and Sandy Springs. All sixteen have been arrested.

travel through our communities, often visiting our homes and inter-acting personally with our citizens,”

U.S. Attorney John Horn said in a news release. “The defendants in this case allegedly sold that trust

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that are occurring.When the newspaper appeared

before the city council it was told that someone from Councilwoman Tarkanian’s office would be getting in contact with us; they did twice to inform the newspaper that they would let us know when they did have an answer to give, but that answer never came.

Now, after three years of pub-lishing the Las Vegas Tribune on line only, with no advertisement

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It may not be called an apartment, but it is much more than a shack.

An average of six to eight cars on a daily basis are waiting to be repaired in this residential neighborhood.

sales team, and operating from home with a State Exempt License, the city of Las Vegas is asking the newspaper to produce a business license that it is not needed.

Either the Building Officials and the Director of the Department of Building and Safety, Chris Knight, who never talked to the Las Ve-gas Tribune directly, but always through a city spokesperson, or the new city councilman in Ward 3 who did not have the support of the newspaper in the last election,

must be behind this attack on the newspaper.

While they are now asking the Las Vegas Tribune to produce a business license that is not needed, a clandestine auto repair garage functions openly in a residential area, and a clandestine car wash operates, not so clandestinely, with orange cones and all to protect their cars from accidents, with the bless-ing of someone in city hall.

In responding to Las Vegas Tribune allegations that the city

was protecting a Mexican that was building in his backyard, the city explained that “shacks” do not need permits.

However, after asking many people about it and showing a pic-ture of the alleged “shack” being built without a permit, most of those agree that they have never seen a shack with a porch, glass door and lighting.

Those questioned by the Las Ve-gas Tribune also agree that shacks are never higher than houses in a

neighborhood block, as is the one built by a group of Mexican friends without a permit.

The City of Las Vegas walks on eggshells around Mexican minorities due to political correct-ness and fear of threats. With over 3,000 local attorneys, the city is also employing the services of an out-of-state attorney to intimidate longtime residents.

Is it a direct attack on Las Vegas Tribune, or are city officials acting questionably by favoring others?

By Thomas MitchellWhat a difference a single word

makes.The Nevada Policy Research

Institute’s (NPRI) legal arm, the Center for Justice and Consti-tutional Litigation (CJCL), this week filed notice with the Nevada Supreme Court that it is appealing the decision of a Carson City judge dismissing its lawsuit against a state senator for violating the state Constitution’s Separation of Pow-ers Clause.

“Defying the clear language of the Nevada constitution, Nevada

Separation of Powers Clause interpretation going to state Supreme Court … once again

Supreme Court precedent, and a 2004 Attorney General Advisory Opinion by then-attorney-general Governor Brian Sandoval, Judge

(James) Russell relied upon a non-binding opinion from the Legislative Counsel Bureau in his ruling from the bench — but we

believe the actual words of the state constitution should matter more,” declared CJCL Director Joseph Becker in an email press release.

CJCL sued state Sen. Heidi Gan-sert because she also is an employee of UNR.

The Constitution says any per-son serving in one branch of gov-ernment may not perform “any function” of another branch. But the Legislature’s lawyers, the Legisla-tive Counsel Bureau (LCB), back in 2004 penned a non-binding opinion that stated a person my serve in the Legislature if they do not exercise “any sovereign functions” in an-other branch.

The word sovereign, whatever definition one may ascertain, is no-where to be found in the Separation of Powers Clause.

But apparently the judge ac-cepted the LCB’s rewrite over the original as law.

“We believe the plain language of the Constitution should take precedent over a non-binding LCB opinion, or the preferences of the ruling class,” commented Becker. “And we look forward to the ap-peals process finally giving further legal clarity on the issue.”

This fight has been going on for years.

There have been years in which nearly half the lawmakers in Car-son City were either government employees or the spouses of gov-ernment employees. In some years every Senate and Assembly lead-ership post was held by a public employee. Currently nearly a dozen lawmakers hold down state or local government jobs.

In 2004 then-Secretary of State Dean Heller asked the Supreme Court to remedy this skirting of the Constitution. Heller asked the court to find that service in the Legislature by unidentified execu-

tive branch employees violates the concept of separation of powers and to direct the Legislature to enforce the Separation of Powers Clause.

But the court ruled that doing so would violate — wait for it — the Separation of Powers Clause, because the Constitution also states that the Senate and Assembly are to determine the qualifications of their members, thus the judicial branch telling the legislative branch who its members may be violates the Sep-aration of Powers Clause. Got it?

Never mind that the reason for separation of powers is not to allow each branch to stand totally autono-mous and unanswerable to anyone, but to provide checks and balances when one branch runs amok.

But the court did allow that “declaratory relief could be sought by someone with a ‘legally pro-tectible interest,’ such as a person seeking the executive branch posi-tion held by the legislator.”

Under that guidance, the CJCL first sued state Sen. Mo Denis on behalf of a person who wanted Denis’ $56,000-a-year job at the Public Utilities Commission. A judge declared the case moot when Denis resigned his PUC job.

NPRI’s lawyers came back with a similar suit against state Gansert on behalf of a person who wants her public relations job at the Uni-versity of Nevada, Reno — a job that yields $210,000 a year in pay and benefits.

Now that the district court judge has ruled that the Separation of Powers Clause is meaningless, it is back to the Supreme Court.

In a 1967 case, the Nevada Supreme Court flatly stated, “The division of powers is probably the most important single principle of government declaring and guaran-teeing the liberties of the people.”

That was 50 years ago.

By Thomas MitchellIn the wake of Trump’s tax

reform speech in Missouri, Dem-ocrats are doubling down on their No. 1 priority — rich people must be punished for the sin of success and not be allowed to get one red cent in tax relief ever.

Pay no attention to the fact tax-es are meant to fund the services needed by the people, to Democrats taxes are a weapon of social redis-tribution and retribution.

Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer said Demo-crats would not support any plan that cuts taxes for the top 1 percent of earners.

This echoes a letter signed by 45 Senate Democrats — including Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto — on Aug. 1. That letter states “any reform effort should not benefit the wealthiest individuals, who have already seen outsized benefits from recent economic gains while work-ing-class wages have remained

Sen. Minority Leader Charles Schumer opposes any tax cuts for the rich.

Democrats dead set on punishing the rich no matter the outcome

stagnant. … Tax reform cannot be a cover story for delivering tax cuts to the wealthiest. We will not support any tax reform plan that includes tax cuts for the top one percent.”

The letter also declares, “We will not support any effort to pass deficit-financed tax cuts, which would endanger critical programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Se-curity and other public investments

in the future.”Where have they been for the

past couple of decades as deficit spending has skyrocketed?

Rep. Dina Titus also echoed the party line class warfare paean by saying, “The President’s so-called tax reform plan, which is full of vague promises, rigs the system to benefit the wealthy. We should

(See Democrats, Page 5)

refrigerated, banking accounts to be accessed, fuel pumping, com-munications, electronics in many vehicles and so much more.

How big a threat is EMP? One report from a couple of years ago estimated as much as 90 percent of the population of the U.S. might die from starvation, disease and social tumult after such an attack.

In a 2015 newspaper column I wrote about what was being done to protect the country from such an attack. The answer: Virtually noth-ing. Because our “leaders” deemed global warming the biggest threat to mankind.

A year a ago I again wrote about the impact of an EMP attack.

In December I wrote about how Nevada coulld play a role in defense efforts. And there are a half dozen other blogs posted here about EMP.

The cost to harden the power grid against EMP has been placed at somewhere between a half a bil-lion dollars and a couple of billion. Washington spends three times that in one minute.


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From The Desk(Continued from Page 1)around someone’s front door, warning people that enter that they would most likely be exposed to marijuana smoke, and likely fail an employment drug testing program.

Businesses that have allowed the cloud of marijuana hovering over areas open to the public should be held liable and fined for any subse-quent criminal acts associated with inhaling marijuana.

Laws already on the books under the NRS connected to drug use and being under the influence, should be immediately redacted to meet the latest challenge of Recreational Marijuana Use.

The DUI laws are already a

nightmare, as new testing and ad-ministering a field sobriety test so that a driver can legally submit to a qualifying test, is again going to be rather challenging.

There should be some mention of the additional consequences if cited under this law three times within a period of say, ten years.

I imagine the level of THC in a person’s blood would have to be very high in order to get a conviction.

I personally had to throw my former brother-in-law out of my home because of the residual mar-ijuana smoke and ingredients that were still present on his clothing, body, hair and breath and in his

lungs. I could tell he was inside my home visiting his sister and my three-year-old son as soon as I walked through the front door. My point is that just because they are not smoking a joint right then and there, does not mean that they will not contaminate any closed environment, and will not cause a person to ingest the substance by breathing their residual marijuana smoke.

For the public’s sake, I do hope that the powers that be take all this into consideration before they put the stamp of approval on this rec-reational marijuana law. And let us

not forget the possession of firearms and narcotics that don’t mix.

Remember to keep your Gun, keep your faith, and they can keep their change.

In God We TrustP.S. It is going to be a scream

and unenforceable when the City Counsel and Clark County Com-mission have their meetings, and the smell of burning marijuana is permeating the air for all to enjoy together. Maybe some hymns would be in order?

* * * * *Gordon Martines is a former

LVMPD detective who has served

in many capacities over his 39-year career in law enforcement. He was a candidate for sheriff in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014, with the intention of bringing integrity and accountability back to the depart-ment, and filed a federal lawsuit against LVMPD in 2011. Martines has appeared on “Face The Tri-bune” radio show several times and is currently the host of “Open Mic” on Tuesdays and Thursday at 11:00 a.m. He contributes his opinions and ideas to the Las Vegas Tribune to keep the public informed and help improve policing in Las Vegas.

By Mallory ShelbourneThe Hill

South Korea on Tuesday conducted live-fire exercises for a second straight day in a show of strength after North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb, The Associated Press reported.

Seoul simulated a strike against Pyongyang in drills on Monday. The exercises come after North Korea claimed Sunday that it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that can be placed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The test was met with international condemnation, while South Korea has said it believes the North is preparing to conduct additional missile tests.

By Rebecca SavranskyThe Hill

North Korea is warning the U.S. of “more gift packages” in the wake of Pyongyang’s latest hydrogen bomb test.

“The recent self-defense mea-sures by my country, DPRK, are

By Thomas MitchellDecades ago while I was writing

about the threat of a nuclear attack on the nearby Strategic Command Air Force base, my managing edi-tor informed me who would be the unlucky ones in that eventually: Those who would look up and ask: What was that?

The threat then was the Soviet Union. Now North Korea has open-ly stated the possibility of attacking the U.S. with a single nuclear weapon at high altitude that could destroy much of this country’s electronic infrastructure.

The Wall Street Journal reports that North Korea’s state news agency on Sunday morning, after detonating another nuclear weapon test, specifically stated that it has “a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack.”

EMP is an electromagnetic pulse that could cripple the power grid and destroy electronics that allow water to be pumped, food to be Kim Jong Un with a reported hydrogen bomb.

Could North Korea actually defeat the U.S.?

South Korea conducts live-fire exercises for second day

President Trump in a Monday call with South Korean President Moon Jae In agreed to lift limits

North Korea warns of more ‘gift packages’ for the USA

on South Korea’s missile payload capabilities in light of the recent claim from North Korea.

a gift package addressed to none other than the U.S.,” Han Tae Song, the ambassador of the Dem-ocratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said on Tuesday to the United Nations in Geneva, Reuters reported.

(North Korea, Page 5)


know by now that ‘trickle down’ economics is a myth which allows the rich to get richer while causing middle-class families to fall further behind.”

But tax cuts can stimulate the whole economy, whether you call it trickle down or the Laffer Curve.

You tax the rich for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks, because that is where the money is, not as punishment.

If everyone gets to spend more of their own money, rich or poor, that will spread the wealth.

Democrats are short sighted. They can’t see past their hatred of the rich and their special interests.

For example, Titus recently said, “It is important that any federal tax reform keeps in place the ability to deduct state sales tax,” which of course would also keep the income tax deduction.

Pay not heed to the fact Nevada is in the bottom 10 of states for benefiting from local and state tax deductions, and that cutting the deductions could cut Nevadans’ actual overall tax rate.

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death,” Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said. “This is an extremely dangerous storm.”

Residents on the U.S. East Coast were urged to monitor the storm’s progress in case it should turn northward toward Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas.

“This hurricane has the potential to be a major event for the East Coast. It also has the potential to significantly strain FEMA and other governmental resources occurring so quickly on the heels of (Hurri-cane) Harvey,” Evan Myers, chief operating officer of AccuWeather, said in a statement.

In the Caribbean, hurricane warnings were issued for 12 island groups, including the British Virgin Islands, where the governor urged people to evacuate the tiny island

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cattle — for which he had refused to pay grazing fees for decades — hundreds of people showed up to exercise their First Amendment right to protest. Some also exer-cised their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

A year and half ago prosecu-tors filed charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy, extortion, assault and impeding federal of-ficers among other things against 17 of those protesters, including Bundy and four of his sons. Until this past week all remained jailed without bail.

The defendants were separated into three groups for trial. The first trial took place in April with the other two to follow shortly there-after. But those plans went awry.

The April trial of six men end-ed with no one being convicted of conspiracy, the most serious

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“The U.S. will receive more gift packages from my country as long as its relies on reckless prov-ocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” he said.

The comments come after North Korea said this past weekend it had successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that can be placed in an intercontinental ballistic mis-sile (ICBM).

President Trump tweeted Sun-day that North Korea’s words and actions “continue to be very hostile and dangerous” to the U.S.

He also warned that the U.S.

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with countries doing business with North Korea.

On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, is “begging for war” with his “abusive use of missiles.”

“Enough is enough,” Haley said.“The time for half measures in

the security council is over. The time has come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it is too late. We must now adopt the strongest possible measures. Kim Jong Un’s action cannot be seen as defensive,” she said.

of Anegada if they could ahead of the storm.

Vivian Wheatley, proprietor of the Anegada Reef Hotel, planned to stay behind. She said she would stay in one of the hotel rooms and take advantage of the generator since there were no guests.

“We know it’s a very powerful (storm), and we know it’s going to be very close,” she said. “Let’s hope for the best.”

People in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico braced for blackouts after the director of the island’s power company predicted that storm damage could leave some areas without electricity for four to six months. But “some areas will have power (back) in less than a week,” Ricardo Ramos told radio station Notiuno 630 AM.

The utility’s infrastructure has deteriorated greatly during a de-cade-long recession, and Puerto Ricans experienced an island-wide outage last year.

Both Puerto Rico and the U.S.

Virgin Islands expected 4 inches to 8 inches (10-20 centimeters) of rain and winds of 40-50 mph with gusts of up to 60 mph.

“This is not an opportunity to go outside and try to have fun with a hurricane,” U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth Mapp warned. “It’s not time to get on a surfboard.”

A hurricane warning was posted for Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten and St. Barts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. and British Virgin islands. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Guadeloupe and Dominica.

Meanwhile in Florida, resi-dents took advantage of the Labor Day holiday to empty many store shelves of drinking water and other supplies in advance of the storm. Also Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for the state’s 67 counties to give local governments “ample time, re-sources and flexibility” to prepare.

charge. Two men were convicted of some of the charges and jurors hung on the remaining four. Jurors told defense lawyers after the trial they never came close to convicting four defendants, voting 10-2 in favor of acquitting two of them and splitting on the others.

Despite the majority of jurors in the first trial voting to acquit, all four were retried. This past week the jurors in that trial — despite not being allowed to hear defense argu-ments about constitutional rights or possible law enforcement excesses —reached not-guilty verdicts on 34 of 40 counts.

The six men and six women acquitted Ricky Lovelien of Okla-homa and Steven Stewart of Idaho of all charges.

The jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on four counts against Eric Parker and two counts against Scott Drexler. Parker’s

attorney told The Associated Press that a juror told him that votes were 11-1 for acquittal on those six counts.

Prosectors nonetheless have decided to retry Drexler and Parker on those six counts in September, meaning the remaining 11 defen-dants will have their trials pushed back yet again, even though the Sixth Amendment guarantees a speedy trial.

Drexler and Parker, both of Idaho, are being allowed to return home pending their third trial on ever dwindling charges.

Cliven Bundy’s attorney, Bret Whipple, and the attorneys for several other defendants have filed motions seeking to have their cli-ents released pending trial.

“Our position has always been that it’s political instead of crimi-nal,” Whipple told the Las Vegas newspaper. “And now it seems to

be subjective instead of factual. There’s a whole fairness issue that I think is overlooked.”

Etched on the facade of the Su-preme Court building in Washing-ton is: “Equal Justice Under Law.”

In the Bunkerville standoff prosecution thus far two have been convicted of some charges, two acquitted of all charges and two face retrial on some charges, reportedly due to the intransigence of one juror.

Only one man has been sen-tenced, and his conviction may have had less to do with what he said and did at the standoff than what he said afterward.

Gregory Burleson, an avowed Arizona militiaman, told an under-cover FBI agent posing as a docu-mentary filmmaker, “I was hell bent on killing federal agents that had turned their back on we the people.”

Burleson testified, “Yes, I said a lot of crazy things. I’m ashamed of them actually. … Looking back at them, it’s like, ‘Wow, obviously

I shouldn’t drink.’”He was sentenced to 68 years in

prison. For shooting off his mouth, not his guns?

Shortly after Cliven Bundy, 71, was arrested the prosecution argued that “Bundy is a danger to the community and poses a risk of non-appearance,” even though he agreed to any travel, firearm or GPS tracking restrictions the gov-ernment might impose.

“Cliven Bundy is about as likely to hurt someone or to flee Nevada as a desert tortoise,” attorney Joel Hansen argued at the time. “It just isn’t going to happen.”

It costs nearly $90 a day to house a federal prisoner. Perhaps it is time the judge considers freeing the remaining defendants on bail pending trial.

Update: According to the AP, a federal judge has scheduled jury selection to begin Oct. 10 for the trial of Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and four others — including two whose recent retrial ended in a hung jury on some charges.

(HORN NEWS) — Remember how the liberal media put politics aside and rallied around President George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina?

Of course you don’t. It never happened. They slammed him — rightly — for a badly botched response to the storm and its af-termath.

Yet in the latest example of open hostility to anything and everything President Donald Trump has done, they’re pretending the Bush team somehow set the standard for di-saster response.

They even had the nerve to get former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer to lecture Trump on everything he’s supposedly doing wrong, saying in a Fox News interview that the president lacks “empathy” for storm victims.

Like he would know!Want to see a lack of empathy?

How about Bush’s infamous com-ments to then-FEMA chief Michael D. Brown.

“Brownie, you’re doing a hecku-va a job,” he said as the Katrina re-lief effort crumbled before his eyes.

The most memorable image of the storm isn’t Bush directing the relief effort, as Trump has done. It’s of him impotently circling in

Hurricane Harvey coverage exposes mainstream media’s shameful bias

Air Force One, viewing the dam-age above as FEMA failed on the ground.

Trump is supposed to take ad-vice from THOSE people?

He’s clearly taking the opposite approach, on purpose.

After confirming that rescue and relief efforts were under way, he offered cautious praise for his team.

“We won’t say congratulations. We don’t wanna do that,” Trump

said. “We don’t wanna congratu-late. We’ll congratulate each other when it’s all finished, but you have been terrific.”

No “heckuva job” here, but a supportive pat on the back from the president as well as a firm-but-gentle reminder that the real work is to come.

Yet he’s STILL getting blasted by the media.

Even the White House pool

report — which is supposed to be an objective statement of facts about what the president has done — couldn’t resist getting in some digs at Trump.

“Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them,” the account reads. “The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK.”

Leaving aside the basic fact

that that Trump has repeatedly ex-pressed sympathy for the victims of the storm, what precisely is wrong with that message?

“Texans can handle anything,” the president said at that event. “We are going to get you back and operating immediately.”

That’s at once a message of hope and support combined with a vow of the kind of action Bush failed to deliver on.

Even Trump’s decision NOT to meet storm victims had a perfectly good reason behind it: Bringing the president into a disaster zone is a logistical and security nightmare that could end up pulling precious resources away from helping sur-vivors.

“The president wants to be very cautious about making sure that any activity doesn’t disrupt any of the recovery efforts,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told re-porters. “I don’t know that we will be able to get to some of the really damaged areas.”

If Ari Fleischer and the left-wing media want an example of how a di-saster should be handled, he should look no further than a president who refused to turn human suffering into a photo op for political points.That’s empathy by any definition.


several bills introduced in Congress to do precisely what Obama did with a stroke of his pen, all those bills failed.

In a statement announcing the DACA decision, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said:

This policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal concern after Congress rejected legislative proposals to extend similar benefits on numer-ous occasions to this same group of illegal aliens.

In other words, the executive branch, through DACA, deliberate-ly sought to achieve what the leg-islative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions. Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an uncon-stitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.

The effect of this unilateral exec-utive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of unac-companied minors on the southern border that yielded terrible human-itarian consequences. It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same

DACA(Continued from Page 1) jobs to go to illegal aliens.

We inherited from our Founders — and have advanced — an unsur-passed legal heritage, which is the foundation of our freedom, safety, and prosperity.

As the Attorney General, it is my duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are enforced and that the Constitutional order is upheld.

No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed.

Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering.

Trump is giving Congress six months to pass such legislation, if it can, before dropping Obama’s promised deportation exemptions.

The criticism of Trump is mis-directed in this case. It is Obama who opened this can of worms. One of the founding principles of our nation is that Congress makes laws, not the president.

By Rafael BernalThe Hill

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump administration will end an Obama-era program allowing young people who came to the country illegally as children to live here free from fear of deportation.

“The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions announced Tuesday.

Sessions said the Deferred Ac-tion for Childhood Arrivals pro-gram would be phased out. No new applications from people who hope to be DACA recipients will be taken after today.

While framed as a six-month phase-out, however, the new guide-lines still allow for DACA enrollees to remain in the program and retain work permits well beyond that date, in some cases.

For example, for those whose eligibility is set to expire within the next six months, DHS is ac-cepting renewal applications until Oct. 5 — creating the potential for enrollees to remain in the program almost two years after the so-called phase out.

Sessions said the Department of Justice advised President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “begin an or-

By Jordan FabianThe Hill

President Trump on Tuesday defended h is cont rovers ia l decision to end an Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation while calling on Congress to address their status.

In a lengthy written statement, Trump said he is giving lawmakers “a window of opportunity … to finally act” by winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood

Trump rescinding ‘Dreamers’ program

derly, lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program.”

“This will enable DHS to con-duct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for Congress to act — should it so choose. We firmly believe this is the responsible path,” Sessions said.

DACA recipients, commonly known as “Dreamers,” are undoc-umented immigrants brought to the country as children. They had passed background checks and paid a fee to get deferral from depor-

tation and a work permit. Former President Obama put the program in place through a 2012 executive order.

Approximately 800,000 people are recipients under the program.

Trump on Tuesday suggested that he wanted Congress to take action on the program, tweeting that lawmakers should “get ready to do your job” on the issue.

It’s unclear what the GOP Con-gress will do, however.

DACA has long divided Repub-licans, and GOP leaders will face pressure from some conservatives

to let the program die.Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in

a statement released shortly after Sessions’s remarks said he hoped Congress could take action. He said Trump was right to rescind the Obama program, but that the recipients benefitting from it had done nothing wrong.

“It is my hope that the House and Senate, with the president’s leader-ship, will be able to find consensus on a permanent legislative solution that includes ensuring that those who have done nothing wrong can still contribute as a valued part of this great country,” Ryan said.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized Trump’s decision, saying it risked sending innocent young people out of the United States.

“President Trump’s decision to eliminate DACA is the wrong approach to immigration policy at a time when both sides of the aisle need to come together to reform our broken immigration system and secure the border,” McCain said in a statement.

“I strongly believe that children who were illegally brought into this country through no fault of their own should not be forced to return to a country they do not know.”

The future of the program has been uncertain ever since the election of Trump, who ran on a platform promising a crackdown on

illegal immigration and a promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Sessions and other administra-tion officials had suggested that they believed the program would not survive a court challenge.

Trump, however, has offered mixed messages, promising to deal with Dreamers “with heart.”

Sessions, a long-time critic of the program, said Obama’s actions in creating it were an overreach by the executive branch.

“If we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional or-der and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this overreach,” Sessions said.

The decision comes the same day as a deadline imposed by Texas and nine other states, who threat-ened to challenge the program in courts if Trump did not rescind it.

The end of the program has led to fear that those benefitting from it could be deported, and that their participation would make it easier for authorities to find them.

Recipients had to renew their benefits every two years. As a re-sult, the government has records on people in the program.

Some state officials had suggest-ed the could mount a legal defense of DACA if the Department of Justice did not.

Trump defends decision to end DACA, urges Congress to act

but he did not rule out that many could be ordered to leave the country.

“Our enforcement priorities remain unchanged,” Trump said. “I have advised the Department of Homeland Security that DACA recipients are not enforcement

priorities unless they are criminals, are involved in criminal activity, or are members of a gang.”

Trump did not endorse a specific legislative proposal to address the status of DACA recipients or others who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children.

The president noted, “legislation offering these same benefits had been introduced in Congress on numerous occasions and rejected each time,” an apparent reference to the long-stalled DREAM Act, which was first introduced in 2001 by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

Trump did plug a bill written by two GOP senators that would overhaul the visa system and dramatically cut the number of immigrants admitted to the U.S. legally.

Speculation has swirled that Trump could seek a grand bargain including that measure, funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border and a solution for DACA recipients. But Democrats have rejected such a proposal as a non-starter.

Arrivals (DACA) program over the next six months.

“As I’ve said before, we will resolve the DACA issue with heart and compassion — but through the lawful democratic process,” Trump said.

“It is now time for Congress to act!”

Trump also said any immigration proposal must provide “enduring benefits for the American citizens we were elected to serve.”

“We must also have heart and

compassion for unemployed, s t r u g g l i n g , a n d f o rg o t t e n Americans,” he said.

The president said that the more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S. under DACA will not become priorities for deportation,

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The White House on Tuesday placed the onus on Congress to extend protections for young undocumented immigrants after President Trump scrapped an Obama-era program shielding them from deportation.

“I think that the American people elected them to do it,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. “And, again, if they can’t, then they should get out of the way and let somebody else take their job that can actually get something done.”

Sanders would not describe how Trump wants Congress to address the legal limbo recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will face once it expires.


President Trump on Tuesday expressed hope that Congress “will be able to help” young immigrants after he moved to end an Obama-era program shielding them from deportation.

“I have a great heart for the folks we are talking about, a great love for them,” Trump told reporters of so-called Dreamers before a White House meeting on tax reform.

“I have a love for these people and hopefully now Congress will be able to help them and do it properly. Hopefully now Congress will be able to help them.”

The remarks represented Trump’s first in-person comments on his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced earlier Tuesday.

Trump’s controversial move drew backlash from Democrats, immigrant-rights activists and some Republicans, who said it punished young people who were brought to

By Cristina MarcosThe Hill

Lawmakers returning to Wash-ington on Tuesday after the month-long August recess face a long to-do list and just 12 scheduled legislative days this month to finish it all.

Federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Harvey is high on the list, with an expected House vote Wednesday on approving a down-payment so the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has enough money to last through September.

Congress already has to pass a government-wide spending bill by the end of the month to avoid a shut-down on Oct. 1. Additional Harvey aid is likely to be included in that package, along with an extension of the debt limit, which is also slated to expire by the end of the month.

The Trump administration is seeking an initial $7.85 billion in emergency funding from Congress. That includes $7.4 billion for FE-MA’s disaster relief fund and $450 million for the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan pro-gram to help small businesses and homeowners.

Separately, the Trump admin-

This week: Harvey aid at top of long to-do list as Congress returns

istration is asking Congress to au-thorize letting FEMA to use funds at an “accelerated rate” to make up to $6.7 billion available during the duration of the short-term spending bill Congress is expected to approve later this month.

“This request is a down-payment on the president’s commitment to help affected states recover from the storm, and future requests will address longer-term building needs,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney wrote in a letter to congressional

leaders.The National Flood Insurance

Program is also slated to expire at the end of the month, which could be another addition to the spending bill or dealt with separately. Devas-tation from historic flooding in the Gulf region is likely to hasten law-makers’ push to renew the program.

As recently as two weeks ago, Congress appeared to be heading for a showdown with President Trump over providing money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a top priority from his 2016 cam-

paign. But the bipartisan urgency to help Harvey victims appears to have led the Trump administration to become willing to hold off on a fight over the wall.

It’s the second time this year that Trump has apparently backed down from his demands for wall money. Congress previously de-clined to include wall funding in a government spending package this spring in the face of a Democratic filibuster and even opposition from some Republicans.

Lawmakers are expected to pass a short-term spending bill this month that would last into December. That could result in a holiday-season fight over the wall if Trump wants to push for the funds for a third time this year.

House Freedom Caucus Chair-man Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a Trump ally, warned that a Harvey relief package should be dealt with separately from the debt limit.

Many lawmakers from the af-flicted Texas and Louisiana regions had previously voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy victims in 2013, citing unrelated spending attached to the measure. Multiple fact checks in recent days have shown that the

spending cited by these conserva-tives was not “pork” as described.

The emergency funds for Har-vey victims are not expected to be offset, either. Conservatives have maintained that it’s more important that the aid package simply not include any extraneous, unrelated provisions.

House to vote on eight-bill fiscal packageDespite the plan to approve a

short-term measure at the end of the month to keep the government open, the House is slated to vote this week on an eight-bill package for fiscal 2018.

The House passed a national security-themed spending package with the other four annual appropri-ations bills in July before leaving for recess that included $1.6 billion for Trump’s wall.

The Senate is not expected to be able to complete those bills in time, but House GOP leaders still want to move all 12 measures before the end of the fiscal year.

More than 900 amendments have been filed to the spending package, which include proposals to prevent displays of Confederate symbols on federal property, ensure federal funds can’t be spent at Trump busi-nesses, defund controversial White House aide Stephen Miller’s salary, and withhold federal grants until the Justice Department puts neo-Nazi groups participating in the white supremacist march in Charlottes-ville, Va., on the terror watch list.

The House Rules Committee will meet to decide which amend-ments can get floor votes, and will likely avoid green-lighting particularly controversial ones from Democrats like eliminating Miller’s salary.

Decision day on DACAPresident Trump is expected to

make an announcement on Tues-day on whether he will allow the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) pro-gram to continue.

Since the program’s inception in 2012, nearly 800,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as minors have been granted work per-mits and shielded from deportation.

Trump has pledged to crack down on illegal immigration and originally said on the 2016 cam-paign trail that he would eliminate

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White House states: If Congress can’t act on immigration, ‘they should get out of the way’

She said Trump wants “a more permanent solution through the legislative process,” preferably in a series of “really big fixes” on issues like the country’s visa system and a wall along the southern border.

But Sanders did not delve into specifics, such as whether the president supports granting a pathway to citizenship or legal status to DACA recipients. She also did not rule out the possibility that

Trump would extend protections for DACA recipients if Congress fails to act in six months, when the program is set to expire.

She said, however, that Congress has no excuse for inaction.

“Congress has six months, which is a pretty long time to get something done,” she said.

Former President Barack Obama approved the DACA program in the summer of 2012 after Congress failed to pass a bill that would have offered a pathway to citizenship to people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Lawmakers also failed to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would have allowed millions of undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship in exchange for enhanced border security measures. The Senate passed such a bill in 2013, but it was never taken up by the House.President Trump says he

has ‘great love’ for Dreamersthe U.S. illegally by their parents.

The president, however, said the ball is in Congress’s court to grant them legal protections, alluding to the six-month delay included in the administration’s push to wind down the program.

“I can tell you, speaking to mem-bers of Congress, they want to be able to do something and do it right. And really we have no choice, we have to be able to do something, and I think it’s going to work out very well, and long term it’s going to be the right solution,” he said.

Trump’s tone on DACA dif-fered significantly from comments

made by Sessions, who said earlier Tuesday that the program “denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also said that any fix for DACA recipients should accompany significant changes to border security and the country’s visa system.

“This is not an easy one, and certainly something where he wants to be able to make a decision with compassion,” she said of Trump. “But at the same time, you can’t allow emotion to govern.”

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By Jonathan EasleyThe Hill

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is blam-ing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for doing “lasting damage” to her campaign and of “paving the way” for President Trump’s attack against her as “Crooked Hillary.”

According to excerpts of Clin-ton’s new campaign tell-all book, “What Happened,” Clinton claims that she wanted to fight back against Sanders’s characterization of her as beholden to corporate influence but that former President Obama and others advised her to stay quiet.

“Throughout the primaries, every time I wanted to hit back against Bernie’s attacks, I was told to restrain myself,” Clinton writes. “Noting that his plans didn’t add

Hillary Clinton is blaming Sen. Bernie Sanders for doing “lasting damage” to her campaign.

Clinton blames Sanders for Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ attack

up, that they would inevitably mean raising taxes on middle-class fam-ilies, or that they were little more than a pipe-dream — all of this could be used to reinforce his argu-

ment that I wasn’t a true progres-sive. My team kept reminding me that we didn’t want to alienate Ber-nie’s supporters. President Obama urged me to grit my teeth and lay

off Bernie as much as I could. I felt like I was in a straitjacket.”

Clinton ripped Sanders’s sup-porters — the so-called “Bernie Bros” — claiming that some of the attacks against her were “sexist” and arguing that Sanders’s attacks against her for raking in tens of mil-lions of dollars for paid corporate speeches made it impossible for her to appeal to progressives during the general election campaign.

“Some of his supporters, the so-called Bernie Bros, took to harass-ing my supporters online,” Clinton writes. “It got ugly and more than a little sexist.

“When I finally challenged Bernie during a debate to name a single time I changed a position or a vote because of a financial con-tribution, he couldn’t come up with

anything,” Clinton wrote. “None-theless, his attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ campaign.”

In post-election interviews, Clinton has blamed her shocking election loss on Russian interfer-ence, former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the criminal investigation into her private email server and latent sexism.

She has been criticized for re-fusing to take responsibility for her campaign’s shortcomings.

Clinton’s latest explanation for why she lost — blaming Sanders and his supporters — will reopen old wounds from the bitter primary between the two.

Sanders’s enthusiastic base of supporters has long felt that es-tablishment Democrats, led by the Democratic National Committee, conspired against them to give Clinton the nomination. They say they’ve been treated as interlopers by Democrats, who didn’t take them into the fold and so failed to capitalize on their grassroots energy.

According to the latest Har-vard-Harris Poll survey, Sanders is the most popular active politician in the nation, at 54 percent favorable and 36 percent unfavorable. Clin-ton’s favorability has not improved in her time out of the spotlight. She remains underwater at 42 percent positive and 53 percent negative.

This Week(Continued from Page 7)DACA. But since then, he has ex-pressed sympathy for the program’s recipients.

“We love the Dreamers. We love everybody,” Trump said Fri-day. “We think the Dreamers are terrific.”

Trump’s hand is being forced on DACA because of a threat from several conservative state attorneys general to challenge the program in court if he doesn’t make his plans clear by Tuesday.

Some Republicans are pushing for Congress to take legislative action to protect the young undoc-umented immigrants from being deported.

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), along with several Democrats, have submitted amendments to the government spending package on the floor this week to keep DACA intact.

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) plans to file a discharge petition to force a vote on a bill he introduced with Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) earlier this year to extend DACA protections for three years.

Coffman acknowledged in an interview with The Hill that he would need to rely on Democrats to succeed with his discharge petition, but it’s unclear whether Democrats would sign Coffman’s discharge petition given that most support a more permanent legisla-tive solution.

Meanwhile, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged Trump not to re-scind DACA, saying Friday, “I ac-tually don’t think he should do that and I believe that this is something Congress has to fix.”

Gutiérrez is discussing with other members of the Congres-sional Hispanic Caucus whether they should withhold votes for the spending bill later this month unless they secure protections for DACA recipients.

“Rep. Gutiérrez is talking to CHC Members and other Demo-crats about not making those votes available to Republicans unless immigrant youth are protected,” said Gutiérrez spokesman Douglas Rivlin.

That would be another major headache for Ryan and his leader-ship team: they’ve relied on Dem-ocratic votes to carry government spending bills in recent years thanks to regular conservative defections.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urged Ryan in a letter on Friday to meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Democratic leadership to

“discuss a comprehensive legis-lative solution for our country’s DREAMers.”

Nominations, McCain returns

The Senate is expected to spend time this month confirming nom-inations, starting with a vote on Timothy Kelly to be a U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia on Tuesday evening.

It’s also possible the Senate could take up the annual defense policy bill as soon as this week, if not later this month.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, is expected to return to the Senate after recently completing his first round of chemotherapy for brain cancer.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to move to the defense bill after the healthcare bill went down in flames in July, but was blocked by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

The House passed its version of the defense authorization in July. Ahead of its passage, Trump announced that he would ban transgender people from serving in the military amid concerns from some House conservatives about the Pentagon paying for gender reassignment surgeries.

Defense Secretary James Mattis announced last week that transgen-der troops could still keep serving in the military pending the results of a study conducted by experts.

If the defense bill moves to the Senate floor, Democrats and Republicans who support keeping the Obama-era policy could use the opportunity to offer amendments.

Health care hearingsThe Senate Committee on

Health, Education, Labor and Pen-sions is slated to hold hearings this week about bipartisan proposals to stabilize the ObamaCare health exchanges.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled over the August recess that the reconciliation measure that Re-publicans were using to circumvent a filibuster for their ObamaCare repeal bill will expire at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

That means Republicans’ time to repeal the law will run out by then, unless they want to forgo their plans to use the reconciliation measure for the next fiscal year for tax reform.

After the Senate GOP failed to pass its bill to partially repeal and replace the healthcare law along party lines, Republicans like Com-mittee Chairman Lamar Alexander

(R-Tenn.) have suggested it’s time to turn to some kind of bipartisan fix.

State insurance commissioners will appear before the panel on Wednesday, while five Republican and Democratic governors are slat-ed to testify on Thursday.

Among those governors will be Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), who unveiled a bipartisan plan with Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) to stabilize the insurance markets. Their plan would keep the health-care law’s individual mandate and commit the administration to funding key cost sharing payments

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We were not sure if we heard it right or if we were lis-tening to a member of the Castro militia. Now the culinary local 226 is not only demanding a salary raise to $15.00 an hour, but also wants part of the management profits; are they serious?

Nevada State Senator and Harry Reid protégée, Yvan-na Cancela, in the middle of the controversial march on Labor Day, was like a copy of Reid’s Socialist mentality trying to brainwash the naïve or desperate audience who felt impressed with a state senator being part of the march.

A very important point that many people do not know is that the only reason Harry Reid was a friend of the illegal immigrants is because that was the only way he could “be someone.”

Back in 1993 Harry Reid was a freshman in the US Senate and he needed a gimmick to continue his political career that up to that point looked like a failure after losing a couple of local races, including a try for the city mayor.

So what was there to do after stating that “No Sane Country Would Give Illegal Immigrants Citizenship”? Turn the table around and become a White Knight for the Illegal Immigrants that “No Sane Country Would Give Citizenship to.”

Those who claim to live in the shadows but have a steady job, have a bank account, a driver’s license and good credit to buy big expensive trucks don’t need anything else, and of course do not need to become legal in the country that had offered them the opportunity to have all of the above benefits. So they not only receive those benefits, but also lots of free time to protest, to travel and to be seen on television badmouthing the government officials that do not support their issues and do not share their opinion on the migratory status they face.

How can one claim to be living in the shadows and have their face blasted across every television screen, while calling themselves activists? That is a question to which we have not found an answer as yet.

We would like to see those so-called activists become active in their own country. We would like to see any of those “fighters for justice” talking that way about the gov-ernment of their native country (whatever the country might be) and acting toward their country of origin publicly, the way they treat this country.

At the time of writing this editorial we saw on a televi-sion newscast a woman protesting wearing a skirt made out of a Mexican flag, yet never seeing such disrespect for a flag from any country.

If they are protesting because they do not want to leave this country, why are they not waving the American flag instead? And we are saying waving the flag — not using it as a skirt or a dress.

It is sad to see how these people have no problem break-ing the laws of this nation, but do not have the courage to go to their own country and break the laws over there.

Here they complain about bad treatment and how the system is broken when they face any type of confrontation or irregularity, but do not realize that the system in other countries is way more difficult and abusive than it is here. If anyone does not believe us, they can ask any Central American or South American that is caught crossing the borders in Mexico.

We have been told that the prisons in Mexico are way more difficult and abusive than they are here; Mexican border patrols abuse the ones that are crossing the borders without permit.

Those crossing the Mexican borders are abused, the women are raped and even killed when they get caught crossing the borders of Mexico, but here they cry that they want fair treatment and call for justice.

What Mexico does with their prisoners cannot even be compared to how they are treated here and yet they still complain and demand justice.

But as long as they have people like Harry Reid, Yvanna Cancela and other socialists that come to their defense, they will have no problem; they just need to keep protesting and playing the role of victim whenever it is convenient for them.

We would like to know what Cancela’s family was doing in Cuba; we would like to know if her father was at one time a member of Castro’s communist government; we would like to know a little more about their political, social and economic status in their native island.

Harry Reid once stated that he did not know how a Latino could be a Republican, and we cannot comprehend how a Cuban-born or a Cuban descendent could associate with anyone as socialist as Harry Reid.

EditorialsA government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson

Our Point of View

A spokesman for GBWN called the ruling a victory because the judge is requiring a revision of the Environmental Impact Statement to add details on how damage to wetlands and wildlife habitat will be monitored and addressed.

“We now have multiple victories in state and federal court showing that this process hasn’t followed the requirements of science or law,” said GBWN’s Howard Watts. “Today SNWA has none of the water rights they’ve applied for with the state, and no permission to build the pipeline.

By Thomas MitchellIt is not too often a judge’s ruling

is greeted by all sides as a victory, but that is what happened after fed-eral Judge Andrew Gordon issued a 39-page opinion in the fight over the Clark County water agency’s bid to tap groundwater beneath White Pine, Lincoln and Nye counties.

Judge Gordon said the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) could grant right-of-way for a 300-mile network of pipelines across public land, but first it has to address plans to mitigate the potential loss of wildlife habitat due to a draw down of the water table.

The suit was brought by White Pine County, the Great Basin Water Network (GBWN), several Indian tribes and environmental groups against the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and the BLM.

The water agency issued a statement saying offi-cials were pleased the judge rejected “the vast majority of the plaintiffs’ claims.”

After passing the buck at both the state and federal lev-els, SNWA and BLM can no longer kick the can down the road on developing specific plans to identify and prevent the severe environmental damage this project would produce.”

Gary Perea, a White Pine County commissioner, said, “SNWA has been told again they can’t prove they

(See Mitchell, Page 12)

Judge orders more studies for water grab

means, or what it is intended to do, might that not mean the law needs to be rewritten to become more clear? And might the lawmakers not spend more time in drawing up the laws in the first place to avoid so much confusion and controversy? And so much leeway in deciding if it’s a law that should be enforced or not?

Maybe the problem is the legaleze in which most laws are written. If one has to decipher a word like “is” within a law, no doubt there will be room for both interpretation and

By MaramisThis is an amazing country! We

have laws for free speech (well, at least in some arenas and for some people —- I hear that some people actually oppose free speech if you don’t agree with them); laws to help reduce chaos and keep things running smoothly (except when people choose not to obey them and get away with flouting of those laws — do we dare include certain politicians in that category?); laws regarding benefits for our citizens (if there’s enough to go around — I’ve heard it said that sometimes those who do not deserve the benefits get to them first); laws regarding our rights if we‘re ever arrested (even if our lawyer doesn’t want to believe we’re innocent); laws regarding who can come and go into and out of this country (some people want to flee, but far more try to sneak in); and on and on. And aren’t those laws supposed to be the same for everyone? For politicians, preachers, teachers, athletes, movie stars, or even the president of the United States?

If there is that much controversy over what a law

misinterpretation.How would any of us feel if we were arrested for

breaking a law, and instead of being given our day in court to prove our innocence, we found out that the verdict was already given to the judge and that judge had to pronounce us guilty? And while that would be shocking, and perhaps some have already suffered something to that effect, there is also the opposite problem that we seem to have in this country: those who are blatantly guilty, and the verdict has already

(See Maramis, Page 14)

ON A PERSONAL NOTELaws: Aren’t they supposed to

be the same for everyone?

ThoMaS MiTchell

MaraMiS choufani

(See Viasmensky, Page 12)

By Perly ViasmenskyI always believe that we should not accuse others

unless we are sure of the facts. There are several people on the Internet blaming

former President Barack Obama for a lack of response, as president, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. However, Obama did not become president until 2008. George W. Bush was president at the time Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and he was highly criticized for failing to respond to the crisis of the country’s worst hurricane by cutting short his month-long vacation for just three days.

Obama was very much involved when Hurricane Sandy hit the coast of New Jersey in 2012. At the time, he was campaigning for reelection against Mitt Romney and needed to impress some voters.

Yet we cannot allow our like or dislike of any pres-ident to turn us into the same kind of liberal-minded reporter with a socialist mentality like those in today’s mainstream media.

It is in fact true that many other times (other than during Sandy) Obama was too busy vacationing or playing golf to respond to a situation in a timely

manner as president; the problem is that many people have a bad memory when it is convenient.

The mainstream media is so involved in its own hate and non-acceptance of President Trump that they need to find whatever issue they can to hurt him. They even slammed our first lady, Melania Trump, for wearing stiletto heels to board Air Force One on a nice, dry Washington, D.C. day for a trip to visit the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

It has been such a long time since those reporters have seen a classy, well-dressed lady that they forget what it is like. That includes Univision’s Raul De Molina, who once upon a time was a paparazzi and now hosts an afternoon entertainment show called “El Gordo y la Flaca” (the Fat and the Skinny), and who spent fifteen minutes of his show slamming the first lady to later end up with a black eye when Melania descended from the plane wearing different clºothes and tennis shoes.

I honestly admire a convenient lack of memory on the part of those who reported on the first lady at the time, and who reflect back on her now in comparison

Illegals: Demands, deceptions, and

disrespect


Convenient memory gaps by the mainstream media

View PointsEditors note: The views expressed are entirely those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Las Vegas Tribune.

James Comey’s corrupt ‘Carnac’ impersonationBy Larry Klayman

The most famous late-night co-median of all time, Johnny Carson, used to have skit called “Carnac the Magnificent,” whereby, clad in a turban, the soothsayer would ordain the future by first giving the answer, and then the question. Embedded visually below, but only for comic amusement, is one of Johnny’s schticks. Unfortunately, however, while Carson was a genius, and funny to boot, our former director of the FBI, one James B. Comey, was neither smart, humorous nor honest during his tenure. In fact, we have now learned more about just how corrupt, dishonest and criminally minded he is.

As revealed Thursday by Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judiciary Committee and reported by Katie Pavlich of Townhall:

“According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential candidate for prosecu-tion long before ever interviewing key witnesses. Members of the Committee allege Comey made the

decision months before FBI agents were finished with the criminal investigation into her criminal investigation into her mishandling of classified information during her time as secretary of state.

“The transcripts were revealed in a letter sent to current FBI Di-rector Christopher Wray, in which lawmakers are demanding an explanation and more documents surrounding the case.

“‘According to unredacted por-tions of the transcripts, it appears that in April of May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he

would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was long before FBI agents had finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts,’ the letter, signed by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Committee member Lindsey Graham states. ‘Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard that that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.’

“According to the letter and an ongoing investigation into the mat-ter, Comey started drafting a state-ment exonerating Clinton in April or May of 2016. At this point, he had not interviewed Clinton herself or her closest aides. This included Bryan Pagliano, who set up the per-sonal server where Clinton hosted and shared top secret information, and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, who was granted immunity. On July 5, 2016, Comey made his public statement that the FBI would not be

referring Clinton to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”

Grassley and Graham are too polite! This cover-up by Comey, de-signed to save his own skin should the Wicked Witch of the Left, Hil-lary Clinton, be, as was thought at the time, a “certainty” to be elected president, is criminal. Comey not only violated his oath of office, he obstructed justice. While President Trump did not obstruct justice by firing his FBI director, clearly and ironically the opposite is true.

Do not, however, expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to do anything about this. The Re-publican establishment blowhards on the committee play for show and not legal dough. Indeed, as I wrote about in an earlier column, when I approached Sen. Grassley about Comey’s equally felonious deep-sixing of the supposed FBI investigation of massive illegal and unconstitutional surveillance by the FBI and intelligence agencies of hundreds of millions of Amer-icans, Supreme Court justices, 156 federal judges, The Donald and his family and associates, and yours truly, not to mention other prominent citizens, hard proof of

By Chuck MuthA Category 5 storm of stupidi-

ty — Hurricane Kaepernick — is sweeping across the NFL.

Last year San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to protest what he falsely claims to be rampant racism in America by refusing to stand during the National Anthem. His insulting act of disrespect then spread to a handful of other highly-paid in-grates. Which resulted in a rather significant boycott of the NFL by fans in the stands.

After the season, Kaepernick walked away from his multi-mil-lion dollar contract with the 49ers and — get this — no team has hired him for the 2017 season. Go figure.

In the meantime, other players have stupidly continued Kaeper-nick’s “take a knee” sideline she-nanigans during the pre-season, including 49er strong safety Eric Reid. And when asked recently what he hopes to accomplish by spitting in the eyes of NFL fans, Reid replied…

“Change. The goal is to just create some change.”

Well, mission accomplished, bozo. Because every time an NFL game pops up on my TV screen now I change the channel!

“I feel like I needed to regain control of the narrative and not let people say that what we’re doing

is un-American, because it’s not,” Reid continued. “It’s completely American.”

To be fair, that’s true. Protest-ing in our country is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Donald Trump. But the prob-lem isn’t that his silly protest is UN-American; it’s that it’s AN-TI-American.

And the disrespect shown is ab-solutely a slap in the face to Amer-ica’s law enforcement officers and members of the military — most of whom get paid a comparative pau-per’s wage to risk their very lives and limbs defending our nation and fellow citizens.

To put this insulting temper-tan-trum by these spoiled, pampered “athletes” into perspective, go to Google, click on “Images” and enter “flag draped coffin” in the

search box. Or consider the fact that 64 law enforcement officers were shot and killed in the line of duty last year, including five who were ambushed and gunned down by a sniper in Dallas.

THAT’S what the outraged back-lash by Americans coast-to-coast is all about.

Making matters worse for the NFL is that coaches and team own-ers are standing by and letting these jerks get away with it. 49er coach Kyle Shanahan, when asked about Reid’s new protest, said flatly, “I’ve got no issue with it.” And there’s been no public “You WILL stand” edict issued by any of the team owners that I know of.

By the way, for the constitu-tionally ignorant among us, there is no First Amendment right to speak without consequences from your private employer. The First Amendment only protects you from GOVERNMENT reprisal.

If coaches, owners and the NFL refuse to put an end to this insult-ing clown act, the fans will. There will be an even bigger boycott this season, which will cost the NFL billions in lost revenue. You take a knee; we take a hike.

To paraphrase the immortal words of “South Park’s” Eric Cart-man, “Screw you guys, I’m staying home.”

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Larry Klayman flays ex-FBI director over mid-probe exoneration of Hillary

Arpaio Hate Unleashed It didn’t take long for the alt-left

to notice our announcement that former Sheriff Joe Arpaio would be keynoting our 2017 Conservative Leadership Conference awards dinner and would be the recipient of our “Courage Under Fire Award.”

The amnesty crowd on the left hates Sheriff Joe because he didn’t just talk about enforcing America’s immigration laws; he actually EN-FORCED America’s immigration laws. And, boy, are they throwing a hissy fit!

Nevada Congresswoman Dina

Titus immediately burp-tweeted… “Arpaio doesn’t belong in Las

Vegas. He belongs in jail.” I guess that means she won’t

be sitting at the head table with us! Another alt-left troll wrote… “Can only guess at the knuckle

dragging droolers that would ac-tually pay to attend this massive display of idiocy.”

Then there was this gram-mar-challenged email I received from what I can only imagine was a star pupil at one of Clark Coun-ty’s public re-education camps

Dear NFL: If players take a knee, we take a hike

Larry KLayMan

(See Muth, Page 13)

which was given to Comey and his minions by Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA/CIA contractor, the senator took no action. Nor did the chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, all of whom I also lob-bied to investigate.

Why do these so-called public servants, like Grassley and Graham, sit by and write “love letters” to get them on Fox News and other media, but otherwise do not push for criminal prosecutions? The answer is simple: Comey and the intelligence agencies have “dirt” on them, so why rock the boat and risk upending their personal lives and careers?

That is the sad story of the swamp in Washington, D.C., and the government justice system in general. Its all for show; no real re-medial actions ever result. How else can one explain how the Bonnie and Clyde of American politics, Bill and Hillary Clinton, continue on like the Energizer Bunny, racking up more and more cold cash that is literally stuffed into their pockets by persons and entities of all persuasions —

CHUCK MUTH

(See Klayman, Page 12)

Financial regulators need to fix the plumbing firstBy allan D. Grody

The Hill opinion contributorThe financial crisis and its af-

termath have fostered an unprec-edented number of regulatory requirements on the major financial institutions of the world, while, at the same time, they must adjust to the new technologies of the digital age.

The lessons of the financial cri-sis taught us that global financial institutions transcended sovereign boundaries of regulation and that the ability of regulators to observe risk building up in the financial system is critically dependent on accurate, timely and aggregated financial transaction data. A more fundamental observation is that the discipline of risk management had for too long neglected improve-ments in data management.

Now the Trump administration has the chance for a regulatory redo within the new order of a global, in-formation-based financial system. It needs to harness separate regulatory efforts into a cohesive integrated plan lest we fall behind others, who were previously less advanced but now take advantage of the newest

technologies to advance their mar-kets and banking systems.

New regulations have generat-ed new and significant demands for data transparency and data management at both the financial institution and regulatory level. However, in the U.S., there is still no understanding of how to operate, interconnect or reconcile the finan-cial system’s legacy technology and operational obsolescence with its lightspeed straight-through-pro-cessing automated future.

The response in the U.S. has seen many experiments with nar-rowly focused solutions but no consensus on using the new tech-

nologies for fundamental redesign. The most “advanced” thinking on fundamental redesign is epit-omized by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) system, a next-day accumulation of financial transactions related to stocks and options, and the security industry’s move to a two-day set-tlement and payment system from today’s three days.

Both of these are yet to be im-plemented and yet, when finally implemented, will be well behind the already understood need to observe and mitigate the risk of trading already done in real-time.

To the credit of some regulatory agencies, notably the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), they are providing regulatory freedom for technical experimentation by non-regulated financial technology start-ups, as well as existing regu-lated financial entities.

However, still left to do is a future-facing architecture for the fundamental redesign of the whole of the United States’ financial infrastructure in the context of its relationship to the global financial system and its digital future.

One of the least understood is-sues of the rethinking of finance’s digital future is the linkage of risk management with data manage-ment. Required is an understand-ing of complex interactions over multiple financial market partici-pants and other financial industry stakeholders.

These other stakeholders include non-financial intermediaries, like corporate issuers of securities; hedgers and corporate users of contract markets; participants in currency markets; commercial trade

parties that utilize the financial industry’s payment and settlement systems; global and sovereign government agencies and financial ministries; infrastructure utilities; regulators; computer, communi-cations and software companies financial transaction and economic data vendors and distributors.

How this complexity is under-stood and managed by the senior management of financial institu-tions is important to regulators, so much so that the largest of them have been designated Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) and are the subject of an overwhelming number of compli-ance and regulatory mandates.

It is further understood that without an ability to view their holdings and cash flows, valued in standard ways and aggregated by counterparty through common identifiers, neither risk triggers nor risk exposures can be observed nor can systemic threats be detected in any timely way.

It has been accepted by regu-lators that the very first pillar of global financial reform is a standard

(See Grody, Page 14)


Sarah McKinney, widow of SPC rafael a. nieves, Jr. who was killed in action in afghanistan, leaving behind two young children.

can build this pipeline without hurt-ing the environment and the people that live in these areas.”

Marc Fink, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, another plaintiff in the case, said, “The federal government has to go back to the drawing board and try to come up with some plan to compen-sate for the massive environmental damage that would be caused by draining these ancient aquifers.”

Considering that federal studies of the interconnected aquifers in the various valleys involved are already at equilibrium — water that is already being drawn from the aquifers is being replaced gallon for gallon annually with no leeway for additional withdrawal — mitigation might not be feasible.

Judge Gordon noted the impor-tance of the case to both sides, “I am sensitive to the strong feelings and weighty interests at stake in this contest over Nevada’s water — after all, in the West, ‘whisky’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin’ over.’ There can be no question that drawing this much water from these desert aquifers will harm the ecosystem and impact cultural sites that are important to our citi-zens. On the other hand, southern Nevada faces an intractable water shortage.”

The very same issue of how to monitor and mitigate the draw down of the aquifers already is go-ing to be addressed in hearings by

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Mitchell

the state engineer starting Sept. 25. The state Supreme Court ordered the engineer’s office to further ad-dress this issue before finalizing the approval of 84,000 acre-feet a year for SNWA. The outcome of those hearing could obviate the federal court ruling if the engineer finds there is no way to mitigate.

Simeon Herskovits, an attorney representing many of the plaintiffs in both state and federal courts, said, “We expect this fall’s hearing will more fully reveal the dangers posed by SNWA’s project to senior water rights and the environment in the affected region, as well as the flaws in their analysis of these problems to date.”

Time and money may be on the side of the opponents of the water grab.

It is estimated the groundwater project will take 40 years to com-

plete at a cost of $15 billion — a cost that would require the tripling of water rates in Clark County. Ac-cording to an SNWA resource plan the water is not needed until 2035.

Meanwhile, the state has cut a deal with Mexico that nets 54,500 acre-feet of additional Colorado River water for a mere $7.5 million.

Even though the SNWA claims it needs more water, it continues to issue “will-serve” letters to new residential and commercial devel-opments.

Surely Clark County can find cheaper and less damaging ways to slake its thirst.

Thomas Mitchell is a former newspaper editor who now writes conservative/libertarian columns for weekly papers in Nevada. You may email Mitchell at [email protected]. He blogs at http://4thst8.wordpress.com/.

foreign and domestic — while or-dinary citizens who commit crimes get sent to the slammer?

There is a dual system of justice in this country, where the elites in the end protect each other, and that is why I conceived of and founded Judicial Watch and later Freedom Watch. See www.freedomwatchu-sa.org. And, it is why I continue to bring hard-hitting lawsuits, hoping that by the Grace of God I draw unbiased and uncompromised judg-es, such as the Honorable Richard J. Leon in the recent case I filed against Comey over his obstruction of justice, as well as our corrupt “Deep State” intelligence agencies and their heads, primarily under President Obama.

The nation is in the midst of revolution in the streets, and its not just the likes of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and

Klayman(Continued from Page 11) other degenerates who are to blame.

Its our own do-nothing politicians and federal judges in particular who flout the rule of law to further the corrupt objectives of those political hacks that got them their jobs.

Yes, James Comey is not funny like Johnny Carson’s Carnac the Magnificent! He is simply a two-bit dishonest political hack and crook. Besides the efforts of entities like Freedom Watch and its Gideon’s army of patriots and supporters, what are we going to do about Comey and the hordes of other swamp creatures of similar ilk to prevent the republic from going up in flames?! Please join our peaceful but powerful counter-revolution by going to www.freedomwatchusa.org.

Larry Klayman is a former Jus-tice Department prosecutor and the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. His latest book is “Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment.”


Viasmensky(Continued from Page 11)to Mrs. Trump. Michelle Obama did not wear high heels or flat shoes or any shoes to that effect to visit the site of New Jersey after hurri-cane Sandy because she was too busy in her mansion in Chicago to bother accompanying her husband to extend a hand to people who had opened the doors of the White House to her husband and, there-fore, to herself.

It really surprised me that all those so-called journalists and

reporters never noticed Michelle Obama returning from one of her many vacations, descending from Air Force One, wearing shorts, something very unbecoming on a first lady. Mrs. Obama was free to travel any way she wanted, even naked, but at the time of arrival she was supposed to pay some respect to the people of this nation, the very same people who elected her husband — if not all the people.

The mainstream media ignored the lack of class of Mrs. Obama,

José Azel

By José AzelThe malevolence of the Castro

brothers during their six decades regime is well documented: 3,615 executions by firing squad, 1,253 extrajudicial killings, the impris-onment of thousands of political prisoners in subhuman conditions, the 1994 tugboat massacre, the depravation of basic freedoms and the impoverishment of the coun-try’s entire population, countless violations of human rights and much more.

Unquestionably, Fidel Cas-tro’s 1962 Armageddon letter to Khrushchev advocating a Soviet preemptive nuclear attack on the United States is an expression of unmitigated evil.

Also known is the gentility and heroism of the Ladies in White, recognized by the European Par-liament in 2005 with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. This group of incredibly brave and devout women attends Mass each Sunday and then silently stands up to the regime by walking through the streets wearing white clothing to symbolize peace.

Both Fidel Castro and the Ladies in White requested an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during his 2012 Cuba visit. The Ladies in White requested only a minute of his Holiness’ time. In Joseph Ratzinger seemingly chauvinistic calculus the Ladies in White did not merit his time and Ratzinger elected to disown his most loyal flock on the Island and chose instead to meet with Mephistopheles.

The Church leadership’s obse-quiousness in accommodating the Cuban government and its concern with sparing the Castros any politi-cal discomfort responds to a Church strategy of gaining space in society for its ecumenical and humanitarian work. The bargain is a dangerous one as the Church has, in fact, made a deal with the devil.

It may very well discover, as did Faust, the protagonist of the classical German legend, that It has surrendered Its moral integrity and that at the end of the term, Mephis-topheles will claim his due.

Biology dictates that the end-game for Castroism is not too far in the future. When Castroism ends, the Cuban economy and society will be in deep crisis and in total disarray. These objective conditions will constitute the Cuban collective memory of communism and its leadership, including the memory of the recent sycophancy and close-ness of the Church leadership with the communist leadership.

Behavioral economists speak of the “peak-end rule” which states

Faustian Bargain

that we judge the past almost entirely on the basis of how the experience was at its peak and at its end. In other words, it is the positive or negative experience at the end of a process that stays with us rather than some net average for the entire duration of the event. In the years to come, when Cubans look into their political rearview mirror they will see the Communist Party and the Catholic Church as effete institu-tions collaborators to their misery.

At the end of Castroism, prior fondness for Catholicism may be negated and what will be remem-bered will be inglorious events such as Cardinal Jaime Ortega’s betrayal of the Church’s sanctuary tradition by requesting that the Cuban gov-ernment evict activists that had taken refuge in the Church, or Pope Benedict’s failure to condemn en-ergetically the human rights abuses of the Castro regime, and to meet with the Ladies in White.

In aligning itself with the Cuban government and not with the Cu-ban people the Catholic Church’s leadership has miscalculated and entered into a Faustian bargain exchanging its soul for political favors.

I long for the courage of the Marist brothers of my youth in Cu-ba’s Catholic schools. They taught us by day and led us daringly in the anticommunist resistance under-ground by night. Cuba’s Catholic Church will have limited opportu-nities in the future to extricate Itself from Its pact with the devil. Let us pray It chooses to do so.

* * * * *José Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a

13 year-old political exile in what has been dubbed Operation Pedro Pan - the largest unaccompanied child refugee movement in the history of the Western Hemisphere. He is currently dedicated to the in-depth analyses of Cuba’s economic, social and political state, with a keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba strategies.

but wasted ink and airtime insult-ing, criticizing and bullying an eleven-year-old child for wearing a red T-shirt.

ºApparently no member of the media has ever been blessed with a child like Barron Trump.

* * * * *Perly Viasmensky is the General

Manager of the Las Vegas Tribune. She writes a weekly column in this newspaper. To contact Perly Vias-mensky, email her at pviasmensky@lasvegas tribune.com.

ON THE HOLMES FRONT

By Frank Holmes(HORN NEWS) —So far, the

administration of former President Barack Obama has gotten away scot-free with targeting Tea Party groups, using the IRS to harass conservatives, and denying patriots their First Amendment rights.

But that could all change soon. Experts say it looks like liberal lawbreakers could be getting set to face some jail time after a federal judge gave an order that could blow the entire conspiracy wide open this week.

The judge looked the IRS’s law-yers in the eye and demanded that they name every official involved in the scandal to deny Tea Party groups their First Amendment rights. He wanted all the details that would let him punish the guilty parties.

“Lay it on the line. Put it out there,” Judge Reggie B. Walton said.

The Horn News readers will remember the IRS Tea Party scan-dal. From the minute Obama took office in 2009, he used the tax agency to harass his opponents, es-pecially conservatives from Middle America.

When conservative groups ap-plied for tax-exempt status, the IRS demanded massive amounts of unnecessary paperwork about every aspect of their operation — anything to slow them down.

The interference was illegal, unconstitutional, and absolutely ludicrous.

When one pro-life group in Iowa said it planned to hold prayer meet-ings, the IRS wrote back saying, “Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”

This is the same IRS that thinks George Soros’ goons have the right to beat up Trump supporters and tear down statues as a form of “free speech.” But they don’t think citizens have a right to pray to God in private meetings without getting the government’s approval?

If Tea Party groups ever got IRS permission to organize, the Obama administration flagged them to be audited in the future. One of the

Federal Judge Reggie B. Walton

Judge drops a bomb on IRS Tea Party scandal

players, Holly Paz, wrote that she’d make sure to “refer these organiza-tions to the Review of operations for follow-up in a later year.”

Lois Lerner, the far-Left wom-an Obama chose to lead the IRS, finally admitted some of the scan-dal in 2013. But she tried to lie that just a few rogue agents in the Cincinnati office were responsible for it all. That blew up in her face when e-mails showed the Obama administration was behind it the whole way.

Then she stonewalled the Con-gressional investigation and retired with a nice, fat government pension — estimated at $102,600 a year. She even got $129,000 in bonuses. All funded by you.

But now a federal judge says that’s all over, and the IRS officials could be in hot water.

The hero is Reggie B. Walton, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., who was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush.

On August 17, he told the IRS to name the names of every official who was involved in this travesty of justice, explain exactly why they targeted conservatives, and what the IRS has done since then to prevent this from ever happening again.

He gave the IRS until October 16 to destroy search for all the records related to the five-and-a-half years of Tea Party persecution under Barack Hussein Obama.

The 38 groups suing the gov-ernment say it’s about time. The Democrats tried to deny them their First Amendment rights.

Obama knew these hometown patriots would speak out about his blatant corruption. They weren’t interested in getting a D.C. job and couldn’t be bought off like his Republican “opposition.” They’d tell the truth about Obamacare, Fast and Furious guns, mass amnesty for illegal immigrants, gun control, trillions more in national debt, and every other illegal action he took during his eight years in office.

But he knew something else; the Tea Party people were just average working Americans — moms and dads with families, struggling to find a job after he wrecked the economy. They had bills to pay... and sometimes their children’s and grandchildren’s bills. They couldn’t afford to fight the IRS or pay a high-powered lawyer, the way George Soros’ radicals can.

So, they say the government persecuted them until the minute Obama left office. And to this day, the IRS is still trying to hide the names of people responsible.

Judge Walton called them on the carpet for it. “Why hide the ball?” he said. “If there’s nothing there, there’s nothing there.”

He knows there’s plenty there — including possibly jail time for the Obama officials who conspired

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and maybe an intern in Rep. Titus’ office…

(Warning: potty-mouth words ahead)

From: [email protected]: Arpio-Root “What a despicable piece of

DOG SH*T, you are. You call the above people worthy of anything. Nothing could be as bad as this group and not worthy of any men-tion in any publication of any kind. This state does not deserve you, in any way. DISPICABLE. WHAT KIND OF A HUMAN BEING WOULD BRING THAT Arpio to the state of Nevada. Shows just what a low life group this is.”

That’s us! A group of low-life “deplorables,” right Hillary?

And some still wonder why I’m known as Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals?

Now…you wanna watch their heads explode?

Wait’ll they put two-and-two together and find out that Sheriff Joe is speaking on Saturday, Sep-tember 16th, the same night as… MEXICAN INDPENDENCE DAY!

Shhhhh! Don’t tell ‘em. I wouldn’t want to get any more hate mail/tweets.

* * * * *In the Fight Against Sex

Trafficking, Let’s Not Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater

I don’t know about you, but I still get a lot of spam. Despite the

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best efforts of my SPAMfighter program, some of it still makes its way into my inbox.

With much of it, the entire domain from which the spam emails derive are clearly fake, such as [email protected]. And if the government wants to go after whoever is behind backpaiins.bid…fine. The domain itself is clearly set up for the sole purpose of breaking the law against unsolicited emails.

On the other hand, I also receive unsolicited spam from individuals letting me know my website isn’t sufficiently “optimized” who use well-known and recognized domains such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook and AOL.

In those cases you have an individual abusing and misusing a legitimate email domain service. That’s not the Email Service Provider’s fault any more than it’s the fault of FedEx if an individual ships an illegal drug via

its overnight delivery service or if someone boards a Greyhound bus and then assaults passengers.

There are laws against the actions of those individuals. You go after those individuals. You don’t go after FedEx or Greyhound and hold THEM responsible for the bad, unlawful actions of their customers.

Which brings us to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) as passed by Congress in 1996.

That law provides limited immunity to online platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube, etc., when an individual uses their communication platform to post unlawful material — such as libelous statements, defamations, copyright infringements, child pornography, etc.

Those l imi ted immuni ty protections against prosecutions and lawsuits for the unlawful acts of individuals have enabled such online communications platforms

to grow and thrive in ways that were totally unimaginable back in 1996 when the CDA was enacted. The law provided an imperfect but generally effective balance between good and bad speech.

There’s an old, well-established phrase in the legal community that “hard cases make bad law.” There’s also the old saying about a few bad apples spoiling the barrel. And both come into play as it relates to legislation pending before Congress to water down the CDA protections for online communications platforms.

The “Stop Enabl ing Sex Traffickers Act of 2017” is intended to “do something” to strike a blow against the scourge of sex traffickers who use the Internet to facilitate their illegal activities. But this well-intentioned change to the CDA to combat the hard case of human trafficking by a few bad apples will also affect everyone else to the detriment of our free speech rights.

If Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Yelp and YouTube were suddenly subjected to prosecutions and lawsuits for abuses of its platform by human pieces of sex trafficking garbage, they will be forced to adopt near-impossible screening of their entire communications platform which inevitably will result in censorship of legitimate speech or, worse, the shuttering of the platform completely.

As Gary Shap i ro o f the

Consumer Technology Association notes, “Without the protections of Section 230, internet platforms would be legally liable for all user content and forced to engage in resource-intensive review and self-censorship, while losing protection for their own voluntary initiatives to inspect posted content.”

There are already laws on the books against sex trafficking. The answer is to step up enforcement of existing anti-trafficking laws against individuals engaged in such activity, not chill and retard online communications by grandmothers posting photos of their grandson’s birthday party on Facebook or Twitter.

“Rather than advancing overly broad legislation that would harm legitimate U.S. companies,” Mr. Shapiro concluded, “we urge Congress to take a narrow approach that directly targets bad actors. Specifically, Congress should urge the Department of Justice to aggressively use its powers to identify and prosecute the limited number of rogue websites that are violating the law.”

What he said.* * * * *

Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a non-profit public policy grassroots advocacy organization and publisher of Ne-vadaNewsandViews.com. He may be reached by email at [email protected].

against them for years.Lois Lerner and Holly Paz agreed to testify... but

only if the judge would keep their testimony secret. They claim the Tea Party members have made death threats against them.

So far, the IRS and the Justice Department want to help them keep the secret. Both agencies gave eva-sive answers about whether they would obey Judge Walton’s order.

This is how they do it in D.C. They’re circling the wagons to protect the Deep State from accountability — to a judge, to President Donald Trump, the American people, anyone.

They can break the law, persecute their opponents, hide the evidence, and ride off into the sunset with a government pension and benefits for life.

It’s their country — you just get to pay the taxes for it.

God bless Judge Walton for trying to see that justice is done. But he could use some help.

Trump needs to fire the head of the IRS, Joel Koski-

Homes(Continued from Page 12) nen, who has refused to cooperate with the Congres-

sional investigation into this scandal. Congress wanted to impeach Koskinen, an Obama appointee who somehow still has his job for another three months.

Then, Trump needs to form a special committee to comb through the entire federal government — every employee, top-to-bottom, and find the liberal activists, the left-wing lawbreakers, the union-protected incom-petents who are using the government for their own purposes and fire every single one of them.

We, the American people, elected Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. No one elected Lois Lerner, Joel Koskinen, or the nameless, faceless — probably soulless — bureaucrats who denied Americans their free speech rights.

There’s one phrase they need to hear, Mr. President: “You’re fired.”

You know how to say that better than anybody.Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He

is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”

By Noland RappaportThe Hill opinion contributorAt the end of August, a federal

district court in Texas ruled against that state, halting an immigration enforcement law shortly before it was to go into effect.

The court issued a preliminary (temporary) injunction to halt the implementation of five allegedly unconstitutional provisions in Tex-as’ anti-sanctuary city law, Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), including one that would require law enforcement agencies in Texas to “comply with, honor, and fulfill” any immigration detainer issued by U.S. Immigra-tion and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

This means that the court found a substantial likelihood that the plaintiffs (in this case, the parties opposing the state of Texas) will succeed in establishing that those provisions are unconstitutional when a decision is rendered on the merits of the case.

If the decision on ICE detainers is correct, which seems to be the case, it could cripple ICE’s ability to prevent removable criminal

Federal court’s pro-sanctuary cities decision can cripple enforcement

aliens from absconding when they are released from custody by state and local law enforcement agen-cies.

Detainers ask the state or local law enforcement agency that is detaining a removable alien to (1) notify DHS as early as practicable before the suspected removable immigrant is scheduled to be re-leased from criminal custody; and (2) maintain custody of the subject for up to 48 hours beyond the time he would otherwise have been released so that DHS can assume custody of him.

The decision’s rationaleICE has authority to detain

someone on probable cause to be-lieve that the person is a deportable alien, but state and local police only have authority to detain someone on the basis of probable cause to believe that the person has com-mitted a crime.

If the police want to hold an alien beyond his release date, they have to make a new probable cause determination or the new detention period will violate the alien’s con-stitutional rights under the Fourth

Amendment.The justification for the original

detention no longer applies, and they cannot start a new detention period on the basis of the detainer. It only relates to probable cause that the alien is deportable.

The detainer, DHS Form I-247A, states that a determination has been made that probable cause exists to believe that someone in the custody of a state or local law enforcement agency is a removable alien on the basis of one of the following grounds:

A final order of removal;The pendency of ongoing re-

moval proceedings against the alien;

Biometric confirmation of the alien’s identity and a records match in the federal database which af-firmatively indicates that the alien lacks lawful status or, notwithstand-ing such status, is removable under U.S. immigration law; or

Statements made voluntarily by the alien to an ICE immigration officer or some other reliable ev-idence that the alien either lacks lawful status or, notwithstanding such status, is removable under U.S. immigration law.

Also, probable cause determi-nations have to be based on the facts specific to the subject facing detention, which is not possible under SB 4’s detainer provision. It makes compliance with detainers mandatory, regardless of the cir-cumstances.

ConsequencesIf court’s preliminary finding on

the detainer provision is finalized when a decision is rendered on the merits of the case, it will prevent SB 4 from protecting Texans from the release of dangerous alien crim-inals, which was the primary reason for enacting SB 4.

When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 4 into law, he said that denying detainer requests can have deadly consequences. This is illustrated by the case of Kate Steinle, who was shot dead by a criminal alien while she was

walking with her father on a busy pier in San Francisco.

The alien was a repeat felon who had been deported five times, but the police department that had been holding him released him in disregard of a detainer request be-cause San Francisco is a sanctuary city that does not honor detainer requests.

Preventing the use of detainers could have unintended consequenc-es. If other federal courts agree with the decision’s disposition of the detainer issue; state and local police in every part of the country may have to stop honoring detainer requests, and ICE could use the time that would have been spent following up on detainers to go after noncriminal aliens.

ICE can encourage state and local police departments to partici-pate in the federal 287(g) Program, which allows participants to enter into a partnership with ICE on the basis of a Memorandum of Agree-ment (MOA). They would receive training on immigration enforce-ment and delegated immigration authority, which includes the option of being able to detain aliens on the basis of detainers.

But ICE does not have the re-sources to train and supervise police in all of the state and local law en-forcement agencies in the country.

The only solution is for Con-gress to grant state and local police the authority to detain aliens on the basis of an ICE detainer.

* * * * *Nolan Rappaport was detailed

to the House Judiciary Committee as an executive branch immigra-tion law expert for three years; he subsequently served as an immigra-tion counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims for four years. Prior to working on the Judiciary Com-mittee, he wrote decisions for the Board of Immigration Appeals for 20 years.

By J. Robert McClureThe Hill opinion contributorOver the past four decades,

countless well-intentioned people have done hopeless battle with America’s shape-shifting drug epidemic. Nancy Reagan famously encouraged schoolchildren to “Just Say No” lawmakers got tough on crime by passing mandatory mini-mum sentences for drug trafficking; and more than a few prosecutors made their reputations with lock-‘em-up crusades.

No matter one’s philosophical persuasion or political stripes, surely all would now agree that the war on drugs, as it has been waged so far, has been a costly failure. Its impact on both public safety and the size and scope of government leave little to be proud of. The price of this war can be counted in body bags, decimated families, lost gen-erations of children and staggering costs to taxpayers.

Drug abuse is a formidable enemy, and it’s understandable that our elected officials have long been determined to meet it with guns a-blazing. Many a politician has gained ground with voters by promising to be tough on crime. But the policies that defined tough on crime in the war on drugs have failed to advance our position on the battlefield. It’s past time to rede-fine what “tough on crime” means when it comes to the war on drugs.

In the time our nation has waged this “war,” we have dealt with

To win the war on drugs, we must redefine ‘tough on crime’

rampant epidemics of cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, heroin, and most recently opioids. Pol-icymakers responded with new mandatory minimum prison sen-tences, designed to ensure that even individuals in possession of small amounts of the targeted drug faced steep criminal sanctions. And still the scourge spread.

President Trump said that he would declare opioid abuse a na-tional emergency, and he’s certainly right. The opportunity before us as a nation is to embrace a new battle-field strategy and finally gain some valuable ground. Past experience documents that tougher enforce-ment and widespread incarceration will not get us there.

The problem is this: Our nation has essentially criminalized ad-diction. Regular Americans with predictable human weaknesses de-velop entrenched addictions. When they get busted, possession of even a small number of pills can trigger statutory thresholds that cause these

users to be charged as if they were drug kingpins.

(See McClure, Page 14)

been handed down that they are NOT guilty! How would all those who were found guilty without a trial feel about that? Where is the equality or justice in that?

Surprisingly enough, we seem to have both problems in this country, yet sometimes it’s more about the process than the verdict. No one wants a preordained guilty verdict, while most people would happily accept a preordained not guilty verdict, especially if they know they are guilty.

While such verdicts are sup-posed to be based on law, some-times they are based on who the person involved is. People at large (let’s say, for our purposes in this column for example, Democrats and Republicans) see things so differently that one side can see a crime where there is none, and one can see no crime where there is.

Yet it would seem that when

Maramis(Continued from Page 11) it comes to the differing ways to

interpret law and the breaking of same, there is at least one group that should always be on the same page: the law enforcement officers. The police. Those in charge of keeping the peace, arresting the law-break-ers, and seeing that those who break the law and flout the law are made to take responsibility for their actions. Yet there is much variance even among those whose job it is to know and enforce the law.

Somehow, that which should be black and white — so to speak — can often be a pale gray, depending on who wants to enforce the law or who doesn’t. How can anyone put any stock in law enforcement and the protection of the law if one can’t be sure when the police will choose to enforce the law? Imagine, in a city, that someone decided to go to the city park and deface — or worse — the park’s most prominent statue. And on the way to the park,

this person gathered up many of his friends to go with him so that all together, they could do the most damage possible. Then, as it turned out, a policeman who was standing on the corner overheard their plans and called his precinct station house and asked for several of the officers to meet him at the park in case there was going to be trouble.

So now there are several people intent on destroying the park stat-ue (destroying public property, a crime; creating a public nuisance, a crime; and perhaps one or two other crimes, depending on what they actually end up doing), and for some strange reason, the police just stand off to the side and do nothing, even though they are supposed to be the peace-keepers and the ones who remove the lawbreakers from the scene of the crime. In such a case, it appears that the police are deciding situationally that there is no crime and therefore no need to intervene.

They have situationally decided that in this case, destroying a public statue is not a crime. (Might we view it another way and consider that their lack of intervention — lack of doing their job — could be considered a crime in itself? Is not viewing a crime — a clear case of destroying public property, no mat-ter the reason (which can be dealt with later in a court of law) — and not doing anything about it, whether you are a civilian or a police officer, something that is wrong itself and a chargeable offense? Should not those police officers have been doing their jobs?

I have to imagine that someone in a position to give orders, some-one from higher up, gave the order to stand down and not do anything about it, crime or no crime, and the police officers had to obey. But I can’t help wondering which is more compelling — the law itself,

for identifying the same financial market participant to each regulator in the same way. This legislation was inspired by the revelations arising from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

Lehman was observed to have had no consistency in identifying itself as a counterparty with others; no understanding of what relation-ships it had with others and no mechanism to associate all of its products and businesses into a total view of the exposure it had within itself or with others should it fail.

It wasn’t just Lehman; it was a fundamental flaw in the infrastruc-ture of the global financial industry. The industry could not aggregate risk because they had no universal identification of counterparties or their hierarchies of business own-ership. They also had no universal identification of the products they owned or the collateral they had pledged.

The G20’s new global standards setter, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), has been tasked with cre-ating the framework for a unique, unambiguous and universal identi-fication standard for financial mar-ket participants and their products and transactions. These identifiers are then to be embedded in finan-cial transactions and used by both regulators and industry members

Grody(Continued from Page 12) in automating regulatory reporting

and in straight-through-processing (STP).

STP has long been the unfulfilled vision of the financial services industry, described as the means to completely automate the lifecycle of a financial transaction.

Another global standards setter, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), has advocated their use in aggregating data for the reporting of risk. Some sovereign and regional regulators have incor-porated these ID’s into their own regulations.

The objective for the deploy-ment of this global ID regime, as stated by regulators, is to aggregate financial transactions to observe a single firm’s enterprise risk and multiple firms’ systemic risk across the globe.

In light of the near fatal collapse of the financial system, it seems fundamental to get on with fix-ing the plumbing of the financial system. Every U.S. regulator and the largest of financial institutions should sit around the table, spon-sored by the Trump administration, and get on with this task in an orga-nized, integrated way.

* * * * *Financial InterGroup Advisors

— strategists, consultants and re-searchers in financial services with particular focus on bank regulation

or the order to ignore the breaking of the law. Once that has happened — the acceptance of breaking the law without any interference from the law — it seems that it has set a precedent for others to follow.

When it comes to “we’re all equal under the law,” we know it isn’t true. How do we know that? Well, can we think of anyone who might have committed enough crimes to warrant going to prison, and yet is still loose and free? I do not want to be his or her judge, yet the verdict of “not guilty” apparent-ly has already been handed down, and as we all know, there has not been any trial.

* * * * *Maramis Choufani is the Man-

aging Editor of the Las Vegas Tribune. She writes a weekly col-umn in this newspaper. To contact Maramis, email her at [email protected].


While the lock-‘em-up mindset may be viscerally satisfying to some and make for good campaign trail rhetoric, it also creates terrible consequences for society — con-sequences far worse than anything caused by the individual users themselves.

Research has shown that the child of a prison inmate is seven times more likely to be incarcer-ated in the future than is the child of someone who does not spend time behind bars. By incarcerating small-time users, we have broken up families, greatly increased the likelihood that spouses and children will fall into the social services safety net, and set up a generation of children for failure. Addicts rarely receive effective drug treatment behind bars, and when they are released they have a diminished opportunity to build lives as pro-ductive members of society.

Founded on conservat ive free-market principles, The James Madison Institute embraces and promotes practical policies that produce limited government and economic freedom. While indi-viduals who abuse drugs should and do suffer the consequences of their actions, medical science has proven that addiction is a disease that demands treatment. Driving up the cost of drugs or stiffening the penalties — market forces that work well in other applications —

McClure(Continued from Page 13) don’t serve to decrease demand for

drugs by addicts.Criminalizing addiction has the

effect of dramatically expanding government by building a vast law enforcement, criminal justice and prison infrastructure to implement a “tough on crime” solution to what is effectively a medical problem. It’s time to acknowledge the absurdity of pursuing drug policies that don’t work but impose extraordinary fi-nancial and societal burdens.

We must change the rules of engagement. That means redefining what it means to be tough on crime in a way that helps the victims of opioids and other drugs. Public safety must always be at the fore-front. And at the same time, public safety is better advanced when we successfully target those who flout the law to trap those victims in a lifetime of addiction.

Now that the president has taken the positive step of declaring opioid abuse a national emergen-cy, we urge his administration to implement policies that will make a real difference. Public safety is not served when we ignore policies desperately in need of reform.

We must get rid of intractable mandatory minimum sentences for drug users, the kind that treat non-violent addicts the same as kingpins. By untying the hands of judges and allowing them discre-tion to issue sentences that fit the individual circumstances of each

case, including expansion of drug courts and specialized treatment, we will save tax dollars and pre-serve families.

We also can take significant steps to reduce the harm associated with opioid abuse. Naloxone, a drug that is used by first responders to reverse opioid overdoses, should be made available directly to vulnera-ble populations. Users should also have access to drug testing kits to detect whether heroin has been cut with the dangerous, highly potent opioid fentanyl. And states should pass meaningful good samaritan laws to protect users who choose to call 911 during an overdose.

America’s opioid epidemic is the latest tragic battle in our long war on drugs. Like any effective field general, we must learn from experience and embrace new battle strategies that have a greater chance of success.

Our leaders need to know that they will not suffer political damage if they advocate measures in the war on drugs that are “smart on crime” — saving lives, promoting public safety, preserving families and shrinking government in the process.

* * * * *J. Robert McClure, Ph.D., is

president and CEO of The James Madison Institute, a statewide think tank based in Tallahassee, Florida, devoted to research and education on public policy issues.

By Ned RyunThe Hill opinion contributorOver the past few months, we

have finally entered the fully real-ized historical revisionism prom-ised in George Orwell’s “1984,” in which the motto, “Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the fu-ture,” was central to shaping the book’s dystopian world. In the book, history was continually be-ing rewritten and re-promulgated to meet the political necessities of the moment. There was no history to be remembered, let alone lessons to be learned.

For all the talk of Trumpian bluster or exaggeration, there is only one group that seeks to sys-tematically and violently achieve its goals here in the United States on a broad scale: the so-called “anti-fa-cist” movement, now commonly called “Antifa.” And the goal? It’s not “anti-facist” or “anti-racist” as they attempt to portray themselves. It’s the systematic elimination of free speech, free assembly, and free thought via any means necessary, including violent protest, the media and Orwellian revisionism.

It is the imposition of a per-verse type of intolerance based on Marxist and Chinese communist values that, it turns out, is far more welcome and pervasive within the Democrat Party of Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth War-ren (D-Mass.) than neo-Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists are in the Republican Party. The gunman, James Hodgkinson, who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and four others in Alexandria was a habitual Antifa website visitor and advocate and Sanders volunteer. Even Democrat vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) son has been identified as an Antifa activist.

Yet, the media would have us believe that it is the white suprem-acist movement that is the real threat to our republic. Consider that most media estimates put the Antifa

The real threat to our republic is the Orwellian Antifa

movement, largely built out of the “Occupy” movement of 2008-2010, at more than 200,000 members. The Southern Poverty Law Center, on the other hand, puts the number of Klu Klux Klan members at about 6,000 KKK... in a country of almost 330 million. But actions speak vol-umes compared to mere numbers.

The vandalized statue of Chris-topher Columbus? Antifa. The statue torn down in Charlotte, N.C.? Antifa. The violence in Charlot-tesville? Antifa. The violence in Seattle? Antifa. Not excusing the vile nature of the white supremacist protest, but it was a licensed march that remained comparatively nonvi-olent, albeit troubling, until, as one eyewitness described it, “It started raining balloons filled with urine, feces, paint, burning chemicals & boards with nails driven into them.”

This violence against reprehen-sible, yet innocent citizens, and more importantly, law enforcement,

which the Antifa routinely violently opposes, is not the result of a few bad apples. It’s the fundamental philosophy of the loose confed-eration of Antifa cells, much of it laid out for all to read on “how to” websites.

Ominously, the group that over the past few years has preferred baseball bats, axe handles, even small flag poles — all with nails in-stalled to make them latter day DIY maces — is upgrading their arsenal. Consider what Daryl Jenkins, a national Antifa leader said recently, “If we care about [our country], we’re the ones who need to go out there and do what needs to be done. More and more to the hard left, you start seeing people willing to bear arms. I don’t run with people who don’t care for guns all that much.”

Increasingly, the violence we are seeing on the streets is not the result of the alt-right movement, but of the Antifa movement imposing their

views on our society: tearing down statues, burning the American flag, shutting down town hall meetings, destroying private property and looting. All of it tactical toward achieving the goals of destroying the American culture, society and economy. Never mind that the tactics are themselves the tactics of the fascist.

Yet, the likes of CNN and the New York Times and Washington Post spend much of their time touting the alt-right threat. Why? A couple of reasons. First, most mainstream media types are philo-sophically inclined toward anti-es-tablishment organizations from the start; they see little wrong with crypto-fascist violence if the stated goals are in line with their own values systems.

Second, that the Antifa move-ment hides behind its opposition to the Trump administration gives them the veneer of respectable

protest the mainstream media needs to protect them. Finally, it’s a lot harder to look in a mirror and admit that your own values are being cor-rupted, when you can easily point your finger at others and judge, especially if the mob encourages and rewards you for doing so.

But as the Antifa movement showed during the Obama admin-istration, with riots and violence during global economic meetings in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, their ilk have little loyalty to even their most ardent supporters and enablers. The media like CNN and others on the Left coddling them should be careful; you can only embrace vipers for so long before they turn on you.

* * * * *Ned Ryun is a former presiden-

tial adviser for George W. Bush and the founder and CEO of American Majority. You can find him on Twit-ter @nedryun.

EntErtainmEnt

By Sandy Zimmerman Las Vegas Tribune

Photos by Ethan MillerWith the “Circus 1903” show, you can see

a wonderful circus anytime instead of just when the circus is in town! Seeing a circus is a fun time allowing yourself to enjoy the side show, the animals, food, games and of course the specialty acts. “Circus 1903” of-fers a view of yesteryears circus, excitingly different from today.

“Circus 1903” begins with the Ring Master Willy Whipsnade perfectly cast with David Williamson as he introduces and ex-plains about each segment. David’s experi-ence as a magician brought him to Morocco as well as co-starring in prime-time network specials including CBS’ Magicians’ Favorite Magicians, NBC’s World’s Greatest Magic.

Although there is no story line, you don’t need a story line at the circus with several thrilling acts — The Cycling Cyclone (Flo-rian Blummel from Stuttgart, Germany), Les Incredibles (Anny Laplante and Andrei Kalesnikau from Montreal, Canada), The Great Gaston Juggling Juggernaut (Francois Borie from Paris, France), Lucky Moon (Ele-na Gatilova from Crimea, Ukraine), Fratelli Rossi (Alejandro and Ricardo Rossi from Barcelona, Spain), Los Lopez (Lopez Family from Guadalajara, Mexico), The Sensational Sozonov (Gediminas Pavlovicius from Lith-uania), The Elastic Dislocationist (Senayet Assefa Amara from Ethiopia) and the Flying Finns (Arthur Ivankovich, Ilya Kotenyov and Petter Linsky from Helsinki, Finland).

These acts are the best of the best to be chosen for their skills and originality. Each act performs with such split-second preci-sion, daring to go the limit of their abilities. Sometimes they take chances and you won’t believe what you are seeing.

Each act is different in their own way following the long time traditions of circus performers handing down their talent to their children! From jugglers to cyclists, aerial trapeze fetes, high-wire, even a contortionist and more. There are so many fast, thrilling acts, the audience keeps clapping over and over again!

The elephant’s entrance was amazing, reminiscent of the festivals of Thailand, a beautiful symbolic recreation of the two an-imals. I liked the elephants for their artistry and techniques of the designers, the cast underneath the elephant coverings brought everything together handling, motions, inner controls and even dancing.

The Circus 1903 production show appears in the Paris Theater, at the Paris Las Vegas, two shows-3 and 7 PM, on Sunday, Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For tickets or information, call 702-777-2782. Tickets start from $53.

Book your Dinner & Show Package to-day and enjoy dinner at Le Village Buffet! To take advantage of this special package, go to a specific show date and select the

“Circus 1903” at the Paris Theater


Queenie and Peanuts, the Elephant Puppets, are part of the Circus 1903 show at Paris Las Vegas! “Circus 1903 & Buffet” package available in Front Mezzanine and Side Orchestra seating sections.

* * * * *Award-winning syndicated columnist

Sandy Zimmerman is a Show and Dining reviewer as well as travel, health, luxury living, cars, spas and more. Sandy is talk show host of Sandy Zimmerman’s Las Vegas TV. For information, questions, or to recommend subjects, please call (702) 731-6491 or email [email protected]. SUGGESTIONS: Do you have a fave comedian, singer, musician, hypnotist, ventriloquist, specialty acts, production show or any other entertainer? Send your fave, the reasons for your choice, your name, email and you may win complimentary tickets to a show or other prizes.

Teeterboard act the Flying Finns in Circus 1903 at Paris Las Vegas Strong man performs in Circus 1903 at Paris Las Vegas

The Cycling Cyclone Florian Blummel performs in Circus 1903 at Paris Las Vegas

Icarian Games Act Fratelli Rossi perform in Circus 1903 at Paris Las Vegas

elry, art, cultural and religious items; Church tours and a great children’s fun zone.

* * * * *THE LINQ PROMENADE

ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER EVENTS

The LINQ Promenade- Caesars Entertainment’s open-air shopping, dining, and entertainment district, announces special offers and events for September.

—Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar: Celebrate Mex-ican Independence Day with two days of entertainment and tacos Friday, Sept. 15 and Saturday, Sept. 16. Their popular taco cart will be out on the front patio offering a variety of tacos and beer. On Friday, guests can watch a live broadcast of President Enrique Peña Nieto re-en-acting the “Grito” proclamation at Midnight. Saturday’s festivities will include a live band from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. with a night cap by a DJ from 11 p.m. to closing.

—Flour & Barley — Brick Oven Pizza: Bring the whole fam-ily to the only pizza spot at The LINQ Promenade and indulge in the Family Fun Pack. This special includes a one-topping 18” pie, choice of wings or cheese bread and one pitcher of draft beer for $60. The restaurant’s popular to-go window will also offer an $8 pizza and a single slice combo for guests eating on the run.

—Sprinkles Cupcakes: With the arrival of fall comes the sea-son’s ultimate confection: Pumpkin cupcakes. These spiced delights are laced with fragrant ginger, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon and topped with sweet cinnamon cream cheese frosting. September will also see the addition of Gluten-Free Lemon Blueberry cupcakes, bursting with wild blueberries in every bite.

In celebration of National Red Velvet Cake Day on Sept. 18, Sprinkles will offer guests a spe-cial “whisper” word promotion. Whisper “you’re so classic” for a free cupcake or ice cream scoop of any flavor with the purchase of a Red Velvet cupcake or an ice cream scoop.

Finally, on World Gratitude Day on Sept. 21 by pay it forward. Give a friend a gift card and enjoy a free mini cupcake. Offer valid for gift cards valued at $5 or more.

* * * * *THE FORUM SHOPS AT

CAESARS PALACEWhen The Forum Shops at Cae-

sars Palace first opened its doors, high-fashion, luxury retail and celebrity chefs had not yet made its way to the famous Las Vegas Strip. That all changed when Simon Property Group revealed a first-of-its-kind retail destination complete with distinctive Roman streetscape, painted-sky ceilings, talking statues and an array of celebrated design-ers, shops, and restaurants. Today, 25 years later, the premier shopping destination boasts another first by revealing a new, state-of-the-art digital marquee.

Conceived and designed by Simon Property Group and built

By Mike KermaniLas Vegas Tribune

The premier event for body-building and fitness enthusiasts, Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend, will bring IFBB Pro League fitness and body-building superstars to the Orleans Arena Sept. 14-16.

For the 12th consecutive year, the Mr. Olympia contest — an annual bodybuilding competition sanctioned by the Internation-al Federation of Bodybuilders Professional League (IFBB Pro League) — will return to the stage at the famous Orleans Arena. Bodybuilding legends such as Ar-nold Schwarzenegger, Lee Haney, Ronnie Coleman, and Las Vegas’ own Jay Cutler — bodybuilders who have all earned multiple Mr. Olympia titles during their reign — will be in attendance over the weekend.

Athletes will compete in eight electrifying divisions as the Mr. Olympia finals caps off a historic weekend of elite muscle and fitness competitions. In all divisions, there are newly improved competitors vying for top position; champions gunning to maintain their stand-ings and legends returning from retirement.

Some of the bodybuilders com-peting for the Sandow this year in-clude none other than 6x champion Phil “The Gift” Heath, Mamdouh “Big Ramy” Elssbiay, Shawn “Flexatron” Rhoden, former Mr. Olympia Dexter “The Blade” Jackson, Cedric McMillan, William Bonac, Brandon Curry, and the return of the legendary “Sultan of Symmetry,” Flex Wheeler, who is making his long-awaited comeback to the much-heralded Classic Phy-sique division.

On Thursday, Sept. 14, fans can interact with the champs up close and in person, at the Meet the Olympians event at Orleans Arena, held on the Concourse Level. VIP ticket holders and Platinum Mem-bers will be granted early entry at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public, free of charge at 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. — Fit-ness, Figure and Classic Physique Finals; 212 and Mr. Olympia Judg-ing. Reserved seating - $75 to $275

Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. — Bikini, 212 and Mr. Olympia Fi-nals. Reserved seating - $92 to $330

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Orleans Arena Box Of-fice at 702.284.7777, or by visiting www.orleansarena.com.

* * * * *EAT, DRINK, DANCE,

SHOP AND ENJOY THE GREEK FOOD FESTIVALThree day and nights to have

fun at The 2017 Greek Food Festival marks the 45th Year of Greek dancing, Greek music, Greek food and just plain fun and excitement sponsored by St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church.

Festival features continuous Greek dancing to two live Greek Bands; fabulous Greek cuisine; Greek shops with clothing, jew-

sign enables pedestrians to pass through underneath along the side-walk of the Las Vegas Strip.

Excluding the two footings, the mammoth structure is 41 feet wide and weighs 158,000 pounds — more than half of which is steel.

“In addition to serving as a visu-ally-stunning beacon of awareness, the new marquee dramatically en-hances the main entrance plaza cre-ating an awe inspiring experience for our visitors,” said Chip Harding, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Simon Property Group. “The eye-catching marquee is perfectly positioned at the center of the famed Las Vegas Boulevard creating powerful impressions for brands and retailers in the heart of Las Vegas.”

The spectacular content of the signage is created by Moment Fac-tory, a multimedia entertainment studio specializing in the concep-tion and production of immersive environments combining video, lighting, architecture, animation, sound and is powered by Acquire Digital using a custom built (CMS)


Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend returns to Orleans Arena Sept. 14-16

by YESCO, the double-faced sign stands 85-feet tall and is covered with an abundance of Yaham LED panels. The unique sign simulates a classical Roman building façade complete with Corinthian-inspired columns, but with a surface area boasting more than 6,000 square-feet of LED, the one-of-a-kind sign can be programmed to instantly go from replicating an ancient Roman gateway structure to an haute cou-ture fashion runway animation in the blink of an eye.

In addition to providing seam-less, visual clarity, the freestanding

content management system that provides the ability to effortlessly change and schedule content to cre-ate remarkable visitor experiences.

“Moment Factory was thrilled by the invitation of Simon Proper-ty Group to collaborate and apply our studio’s broad experience in high-emotion entertainment to the challenge of creating eye-catch-ing, engaging content for this next-generation digital landmark. The Marquee’s shape opens a universe of possibilities for our creative content, not only to attract and enthrall visitors but to engage them with The Forum Shops at Caesars identity and information,” said Christian L’Heureux, Producer, Moment Factory.

The Forum Shops pylon sets a new standard in exterior signage on The Strip by creating complex ar-chitectural shapes such as classical Roman columns and pediments that are built not just from the traditional noble materials of stone and steel but from light itself.

Each curve and cornice is com-prised of LEDs, empowering the very architectural frame of the sign to be programmed with content that enhances and complements the various creative and commercial messages that are displayed.

“We were pleased to work on this visually stunning and techni-cally advanced sign,” said Neil Farr, Managing Director, Acquire Digi-tal. “Enabling individual schedul-ing of each element of the pylon and window screens whilst synchro-nizing the players, wrapping the content around the 3D shapes, and making never-ending playout using animated transitions is the first of its type in the world and Acquire is proud to deliver it.”

Marking its milestone 25th anni-versary this year, The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace is home to more than 160 distinctive retailers and restaurants and remains among the top-performing retail destinations worldwide. For more information, visit www.forumshops.com.

* * * * *Mike Kermani is an entertain-

ment writer for the Las Vegas Tribune newspaper. He writes a weekly column in this newspaper. To contact Mike Kermani, email mkermani@ lasvegas tribune.com

com/entertainment/the-sayers-club/.

Originally an Elton John cover band, Yellow Brick Road has been rocking and rolling as a local sensa-tion for more than 20 years.

While their set list over the years has changed, their dedication to great performances has always re-mained the same. Now exclusively playing classic rock hits, the band continues to have crowds singing along at every show.

Guests are encouraged to sign up for SLS Las Vegas’ new casino rewards program, Club 52, for ex-clusive benefits. Recently named “Best Free Parking” by Las Vegas Weekly, SLS Las Vegas always offers complimentary covered parking and valet services. For more information, visit www.slsl-asvegas.com.

* * * * *CANCER SURVIVOR,

NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR JOHN LEE TO JUDGE NEW “MAYOR’S MOST

WANTED” CATEGORY AT PIGS FOR THE KIDS BBQ

COMPETITION, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has thrown his support behind Pigs for the Kids, the barbecue competition for area cancer char-ities, which takes place at Craig Ranch Regional Park on Saturday, Sept. 23, from noon to 9 p.m.

Mayor Lee, a survivor of stage IV cancer himself, will serve as the judge for his very own category — the Mayor’s Most Wanted — in the spirited pork, beans and sauce-ori-ented competition.

Registration for barbecue teams continues through Friday, Sept. 8.

Featuring a spirited barbecue competition, live bands, ice cold beer, wine, and more — the fam-ily-friendly event tastes good and does good by supporting childhood cancer charities.

This year’s Pigs for the Kids Barbecue Cook-Off and Festival will benefit Candlelighters Child-hood Cancer Foundation, Cure 4 The Kids Foundation and the Neva-da Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Charities that support families affected by cancer appeal to Mayor Lee on a personal level.

In 2007, he was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. His determination to live arose from his realization that every one of his accomplish-ments started with his decision to try.

After months of agonizing treat-ment and, with the help of others, Mayor Lee successfully won his battle with cancer. He now faces life with a new perspective, a greater sense of gratitude, and an increased desire to provide meaningful sup-port to others.

“I’m proud Pigs for the Kids has once again brought such a dynamic event to North Las Vegas, and I

The “Tastes of Texas” to benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey

By Jerry FinkLas Vegas Tribune

With previous Culinary Road Trip stops that have paid homage to regions across the U.S., including New Orleans, Wisconsin, New York, Las Vegas, and Philadel-phia, Chef Scott Commings and the Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino are dedicating September’s monthly event to a very special Texas Culinary Road Trip aimed to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

Set to take place on Wednesday, September 27 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the event will be expanded to allow for up to 150 people to take part in this unique dining series.

Tickets to the multi-course din-ner will be $50 per person/$400 per table of eight. 100 percent of all ticket sales will be donated direct-ly to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund set up by Houston Mayor, Sylvester Turner (https://ghcf.org/hurricane-relief/).

Tickets are now available for purchase online. In addition, Free-dom Beat will continue to support the hurricane relief efforts by donating $2 from every lunch and dinner entrée purchased between now and Sept. 30.

Chef Scott’s seventh dinner stop will take guests on a unique excursion Deep in the Heart of Texas with a western cuisine aimed to give event-goers a taste of the Lone Star State while raising money for those effected by the storm, “During all of these previous dinners, I have always put forth the feeling, sense, and message of camaraderie and community to all guests,” notes Commings. “This is a great time to continue that effort and give the people of Las Vegas the opportunity to give back to the people in Texas, Freedom Beat Style.”

* * * * *ROCK TRIBUTE BAND,

YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO START RESIDENCY AT THE SAYERS CLUB INSIDE SLS LAS VEGAS ON THURSDAY,

SEPTEMER 7 SLS Las Vegas will host Yellow

Brick Road, a popular local classic rock tribute band, Thursday nights at The Sayers Club starting Sept. 7.

With a set list that includes the biggest hits from Pink Floyd, Journey, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and more, Yellow Brick Road is known for putting on fun shows that get crowds singing and dancing.

Admission to Yellow Brick Road’s show will be priced at $10 for the public, and $5 for Club 52 members and hotel guests.

Doors will open at 8 p.m. and shows will begin at 9 p.m. Bottle service and VIP tables are available for purchase.

For more information about Yellow Brick Road or to purchase packages, visit https://slslasvegas.

share the group’s commitment to supporting families affected by cancer,” explained Mayor Lee. “Or-ganizations that provide resources to these families make an enormous difference by enabling them to fo-cus their energy on treatment and recovery.”

Like no other barbecue competi-tion in Las Vegas, Pigs for the Kids will offer everyone — from back-yard grill masters to professional chefs and restaurateurs — a chance to show their barbecue brilliance in a variety of categories.

Teams will compete to take home the third-annual Pigs for the Kids Barbecue Cook-Off Grand Champion Trophy; trophies will be offered in six categories: ribs, pork shoulder, sauce, beans, Mayor’s Most Wanted and “Hog Wild” — where anything goes, as long as it includes pork.

Sign-ups for Pigs for the Kids teams are ongoing and, with the community’s support, the event expects upwards of 50 barbecue teams to compete, which will be judged by a panel of both certified as well

as celebrity judges. All styles of barbecue are sure

to be represented and attendees can purchase a V.I.Pig Pass with access to open bar and the V.I.Pig tent.

Inspired by founder Todd Rad-wanski’s daughter, Adilyn , who was diagnosed with a rare eye

cancer at 8 months old, Pigs for the Kids was envisioned as a fun-filled community event to support organi-zations such as those that helped the Radwanski family during Adilyn’s illness.

Now a vivacious, athletic 13-year-old girl, Adilyn served as ambassador for the Candlelighters’ 5K, is academically driven and continues to serve as inspiration for everyone around her.

It was Adilyn who suggested “Pigs for the Kids” as the name for this event and is delighted to be part of something helping other kids affected by cancer.

The registration fee for team competition is $175 for a 10-foot-by-10-foot booth; $350 for a 20-foot-by-20-foot booth; and $600 for a 40-foot-by-40-foot booth. General admission tickets are $10 in advance ($15 at the door) and include one Piggy Buck, which is redeemable for food and drink as well as kids’ activities at the festival; children 12 and younger are free.

V.I.Pig Passes are $150 and include access to the V.I.Pig Tent, exclusive parking, open bar, special chef dishes and 10 Piggy Bucks ($20 value).

Additional Piggy Bucks are available for purchase for $2 each. Sponsorships are also available at a variety of levels. For more infor-mation and to register a team, go to www.PigsForTheKids.org.

* * * * *LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

& ART FESTIVAL AT DOWNTOWN GRAND

Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival headliners and multi-plat-inum, indie electric duo Capital Cities will perform an exclusive concert during the festival’s official daytime pool party taking place at Citrus Grand Pool Deck located atop Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino, Saturday, Sept. 23.


Capital Cities will give fans a preview of their Life is Beautiful performance during the exclusive rooftop concert with hits like “Safe and Sound” and “Swimming Pool Summer.”

With doors opening at 10 a.m., Citrus will offer poolside partygo-ers food and drink specials as well as access to cabana packages.

Festivalgoers interested in at-tending the daytime celebration, available by invitation only through Life is Beautiful, can learn how to win exclusive tickets through the Downtown Grand Hotel here or purchase a room package from the Downtown Grand for guaranteed access.

Minutes from the Life is Beau-tiful entrance, the Downtown Grand Hotel will offer special room packages for guests seeking the full festival experience.

The four-night package features two three-day general admission festival passes, $25 daily dining credit to the property’s 24-hour American eatery, Freedom Beat, and two complimentary tickets to the Capital Cities performance, Sept. 23.

To book the Life is Beautiful room package, visit Downtown-Grand.com.

* * * * *Jerry Fink is an entertainment

columnist for the Las Vegas Tri-bune newspaper and writes a week-ly column. To contact Fink, email him at jfink@ lasvegastribune.com.

&HealtH lifestyles


Photos by Romania TourismEveryone likes ZOMBIES today

but TRANSYLVANIA, ROMA-NIA was where the REAL COUNT DRACULA lived!

If you are a vampire fan but don’t see enough vampires watch-ing movies and television pro-grams, Transylvania is a place to satisfy your appetite for blood.

There is a little known, best preserved European medieval town called Transylvania, located in central Romania, the home of 15th century Walachian Prince Vlad Tepes later known as Count Dracula (“Son of the Dragon”)! He was a real person, not a vampire yet the legends began and to this day the villagers and public still believe they were true.

With time, these stories build the framework for Irish author Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel “Dracula” (1897) when he found information about Dracula while researching at the British Museum.

Transylvania appears unreal actually like a setting for a vampire film while the villagers still engage in traditional lifestyles like tending sheep, as weavers, cheese makers, wine making, blacksmiths and carpenters.

The name Transylvania sounds ominous and mysterious as history accounts that Vlad Tepes tortured his victims impaling their heads and in one instance actually drank a man’s blood. Walking around Transylvania at night, the eerie at-mosphere might bring back images of vampires around every corner depending on how much you be-lieve in the legends.

Moving away from vampires, Transylvania offers ancient legends of mountain spirits, rare species of wildlife along with 4,000 caves, many of which can be explored.

The Scarisoara Glacier is the

“The Dracula Tour”

Romanian National Tourist Office: New York Phone: 212-545-8484, [email protected]

Brasov Tourist Information Cen-tre, E-mail: [email protected] Sibiu Tourist Information Centre, E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.sibiu.ro

Alba Iulia Tourist Information Centre, E-mail: [email protected] Targu Mures Tourist Information Centre, Email: [email protected] Miercurea Ciuc Tourist Information

Centre, Email: [email protected]

Transportation websites: www.romaniatourism.com/ and transpor-tation.html#bytrain

* * * * *Award-winning syndicated col-

umnist Sandy Zimmerman is a Show and Dining reviewer as well as travel, health, luxury living, cars, spas and more. Sandy is talk show host of Sandy Zimmerman’s Las Vegas TV. For information, questions, or to recommend sub-jects, please call (702)-731-6491 or email [email protected]. SUGGESTIONS: Do you have a fave comedian, singer, musician, hypnotist, ventriloquist, specialty act, production show or any other entertainer? Las Vegas offers so much talent you should have someone to mention. Send your fave, the reasons for your choice, your name, email and you may win complimentary tickets to

I always suggest wherever you are traveling in the world, try to visit during one of their festivals to see the culture and enjoy the fun of that country.

Visiting Transylvania is very

second largest underground glacier on the continent. Other things to do include hiking, Biking, Camping, Caving, Climbing, Fishing, Nature walks, Rafting, Skiing, Wildlife and Bird Watching.


different, a once in a lifetime va-cation, a medieval village you will never forget.

Romanian Tourism: websites: http://romaniatourism.com/ and: transylvania.html#fastfacts

Other school clubs, sports and departments will be having fund-raisers as well.

There will be 80 local business-es, crafters, and food trucks partic-ipating to kick off the school year. There will also be a Kidz Korner featuring activities for kiddos of all ages: face-painting, carnival games, crafts and prizes.

The Miss Las Vegas Scholarship Organization, along with several local crown-holders, will also be present.

The first 75 adult shoppers will receive a free swag bag full of samples, coupons, and assorted goodies!

To learn more, visit www.ve-gaseventsandmore.com or email founders Lynn and Tim Dilloo, and Grace Gambone at [email protected]. They are also open to phone calls at 702-907-7801.

* * * * *

Do you want to report a problem?

If you want to report a problem in the city of Las Vegas, go online to www.lasvegasnevada.gov/ward6 and scroll to the bottom of the page to the box marked “Report a Problem.”

Problems you can report range from business licensing; detention services; graffiti; neighborhood problems (i.e., animals running loose, cars parked on yards, high weeds, unpermitted construction); traffic signals malfunctioning; park maintenance; parking enforcement; roadway, storm drain or sewer maintenance; sewer billing; traffic control; street lights; pavement markings; and street signs. Fill out the form. Include your personal information if you want to be con-

CITY BEATSeptember 6-12, 2017 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE /

Back 2 School Bash It’s that time of the year when

all our kiddos are headed back to school. What better way to show your support to a local school? Ve-gas Events and More is presenting Back2School Bash: Local Business and Craft Fair.

September 16th from 9am to 4pm. Join us at Spring Valley High School, located at 3750 S. Buffalo Drive.

Vegas Events and More will be donating a portion of the proceeds to The Spring Valley Theatre Program. They have guaranteed a minimum of a $1000 donation.

First, I, Michele Fiore, would like to invite you to take part in our City of Las Vegas Ward 6 Citizen of the Month Award on Wednesday, September 6th, 9:00am, City Hall, 495 S Main Street, second floor, Council Chambers. Our Citizen of the month award will be presented to Officer Burr. Officer Burr is a resident of Ward 6 and a hero to our neighbors. Thank you Officer Burr for your courage and commitment to keeping our city safe.

Please join me to show Officer Burr and all our officers that we stand with them always and espe-cially in these challenging times. Just as we shake our soldiers hands and thank our military men and women for serving our great nation, fighting for our freedoms and keep-ing us safe daily, let’s extend that handshake to our officers. Many of our officers are also veterans. When you see a police office, thank them.

We will be partnering up with our Metro Police Northwest Area Command to keep our residents informed, safe and sharing all the services Metro has to offer us. I invite you to First Tuesday at Metro Police Northwest Area Command, 9850 W. Cheyenne, 702-828-3426 for a 9/11 Remembrance & Terror-ism Awareness. We will be serving Italian food and soft drinks on us. Be there by 7:00pm sharp this com-ing Tuesday, September 5th.

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Preparedness MonthAre you or your loved ones

prepared for a disaster? As recent events in Houston illustrate, pre-paredness can be key to surviving major events such as floods or earthquakes. September is Na-tional Preparedness Month. The city of Las Vegas Office of Emer-gency Management is working to improve disaster readiness by providing important information to the public throughout the month of September.

The Office of Emergency Man-agement will provide links and preparedness tips through its offi-cial Twitter account, @CLVAlerts, every day during the month of Sep-tember. Information will include the following:

—How to make an emergency plan and emergency kit;

—How to prepare your family and pets for a possible evacuation;

—How to plan financially for the possibility of a disaster;

—How to obtain alerts directly via e-mail, phone or text;

—How to learn valuable life-saving skills in the event you have to help your family, friends and/or neighbors;

—How to access valuable re-sources before, during and after a disaster.

For more information on emer-gency preparedness, visit the city of Las Vegas Emergency Management webpage.

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So much going on in our neighborhood

tacted and updated on resolution of the problem. Make a note of the re-quest number if you want to check back later to see how the city staff followed up on your request. Note that city staff will respond to main-tenance complaints proactively, but if the problem with a neighbor persists repeatedly, you will need to report the problem each time (i.e. animals running loose, parking on yards, high weeds, etc.)

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We are opening our Ward 6 Satellite office Monday, Septem-ber 11th from noon to 6:00 p.m. at the Centennial Hills Community Center/YMCA, 6601 N. Buffalo Drive. Drinks and snacks on us. This will turn into my standard Monday’s with Michele every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. This is our time we can discuss issues important to you, Ward 6 and the city of Las Vegas. No appointment needed. Call 702-229-5463 with any questions.

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November 11th (9am-3pm) at The Henderson Convention Center Event Plaza, located at 200 S. Water Street. FREE ADMISSIONS and free parking,

Large selection of product sam-ples and demonstrations, and deli-cious food! The first 75 Veterans shoppers will receive free swag bag full of samples, coupons, and assorted goodies! Several Veteran Organizations will be collecting items and letters for active mili-tary overseas. LuLaRoeLand 25 independent reps. showcasing their clothing lines. Miss Las Ve-gas Scholarship Organization and crown holders.

Kidz Korner will provide a free, safe, and fun area for children to get their faces painted, play carnival games, with crafts and prizes.

For more information contact Tim & Lynn Dilloo or Grace Gam-bone, at 702-907-7801 or email [email protected]. www.vegaseventsandmore.com

About Vegas Events and More: Lynn & Tim Dilloo and Grace Gambone who are the founders of Vegas Events and More pride themselves on the planning and pre-sentation of local events. Honesty, integrity and trustworthiness. Their goal is to boost community involve-ment and support the businesses in the Las Vegas valley.

“We are big supporters of the Military and look forward to hon-oring them and the pride this great nation has.”

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MICHAEL A. AUN

Start with low fences

DoUg DICkErsoN

By Doug Dickerson“I work on the same principle as

people who train horses. You start with low fences, easily achievable goals, and work up. — Ian Mc-Gregor

Developing your skill sets as a leader is not an overnight process. It’s something that takes time and commitment. It’s a process.

I liken the process to one of my favorite hobbies — photography. Back in the day of first learning my photography skills things were much different from today. It was all manual. Various photography classes back then taught me the fine art of things like shutter speeds, f/stops, dark rooms, lighting, compo-sition and more.

You had to learn the skill in order to be good.

Nowadays with a few hundred dollars, you can purchase a fully automatic camera that takes all the guess work out of it. Ask the owner to switch to manual mode — not to mention the rule of thirds, negative space in composition, etc. and take a picture, most would be at a loss on where to begin.

Here’s the problem. With that

expensive fully automatic camera in your hands, it can make you look better than you are. You can have the fancy equipment, but without the training on how to use it, you are creating a false impression.

One of the dangers in leadership is bypassing the learning process and securing the foundational principles needed for growth and maturity. This is why many an as-piring leader never reach their full potential. They rush the process. But with an open mind coupled with the attitude of a student, your leadership skills can be developed

and you can rise to the next level.It’s when you start with the low

fences that you earn your leadership stripes. Here are a few low fence concepts worth considering as you think about your future and growth as a leader.

The low fence of humility

There’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Aspiring leaders can blur the lines when they think their degree conveys wisdom. Your formal education is your right of passage to your real education. A strong dose of humility is in or-der starting out and is well worth remembering when you are older. There’s always something new to learn.

The low fence of dependability

There are no shortcuts on the path to proven leadership. It takes men and women who are willing to roll up their sleeves and earn their stripes. If you can’t be counted on in the low fence things of your leadership how can people raise their expectations of you for greater things? It’s in the daily grind that you show yourself dependable.

The low fence of flexibility

Sometimes in leadership, you have to throw out the script. Your growth and sanity as a leader will be tested with this low fence skill in more ways than you can imag-ine. If you can learn this low fence skill early it will save you a lot of grief later.

The low fence of loyalty

Loyalty is one of the pillars of leadership. All the creative powers in your arsenal of skills will not amount to much if loyalty is an afterthought. Faithfully striving to represent the values, mission, and vision of your organization should be the focal point of all that you do.

The low fence of service

The heartbeat of leadership is service. It’s about adding value. It’s about lifting others up, not tearing

Emergency Room RN, was off duty and available to take me to his hospital in Orlando, where I got concierge service thanks to all his buddies in the ER.

I share this story for some im-portant reasons. I was feeling alright and thought nothing more about pursuing the matter legally. When I spoke to my attorney, he in-sisted that I go on record about my possible injuries. “Why?” I asked. “If you ever have another accident, your injuries from one might be attributed to the other incident.” That never occurred to me.

Long story short, I am so happy I had representation. Within 30 days I had lost all the feeling in both my hands and had to undergo two sur-geries. I have gone through dozens of physical therapy sessions to try to address the persistent pain in my neck. Finally, it took neck surgery to address that issue.

As my case winds down nearly four years later, I have concluded two things: (1) If I ever have an-other accident, my first call will be to my attorney; and (2) Always purchase as much insurance that is available. Never assume the other party has coverage…the lady who rear ended me did not.

Michael Aun is a syndicated columnist and writes a weekly col-umn for this newspaper. To contact Michael Aun, email him at [email protected].

By Michael A. AunIf you have not had the expe-

rience of being rear-ended, count yourself lucky.

Imagine you are driving on Highway 192 in busy Kissimmee, Florida on January 14, 2014. Set-tling in at a stoplight behind an 18-wheeler, the signal was not visi-ble. You have to depend on the truck to move when the light changed.

The lady in the car behind you could obviously see the light. When it finally changed, she gunned it… BOOM! When something like this happens, it stuns you. It is almost surreal, but it was real to me.

When I collected myself, I looked into the rearview mirror and all I could see was the smashed hood of her car, which actually went under me.

How could she get up enough speed to tear up the entire rear end of my car and total hers? Her engine was actually sitting in her lap along with the cell phone on which she was texting. How she walked away from the accident is still a mystery to me.

The thing that amazed me the most was the fact that immedi-ately behind her I could see a policeman’s flashing blue lights. I commented to the officer later that “This was the fastest response I had ever seen to an auto accident.” His answer: “I saw the whole thing… I was right behind her.”

The officer came to see if I was okay. I am sure I had a look of shock on my face. With the adren-alin flowing, I felt very little at that moment. That would change later in the day.

I noticed that my headrests had deployed, which explained why the lick to the back of my head. The pain in my neck and shoulders was gradually becoming apparent.

Within minutes, the wreckers showed to take our damaged vehi-cles off to their car lots. I was still

in a daze. The Kissimmee police cleaned up the scene quickly to get traffic flowing again. Since I was not in the wrong, my conversation with KPD was brief.

As I saw my car being towed away, it occurred to me that I now had no transportation myself. My wife, Christine, was in South Car-olina taking care of her mother and none of my kids were available.

Finally, KPD was granted per-mission to take me the three miles over to the lot where my car was housed to retrieve my brief case. Now I had to find someone to col-lect me and the files I had in my car. Fortunately, one of my secretaries was available.

The pain was kicking in pretty good later that night. Fortunately, my son Christopher, who is an

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down. It’s servant leadership. The beauty of this skill set is that you never outgrow it. But with your growth and development as a leader comes the opportunity to have a greater impact. Develop this skill early while the fence is low. But never forsake it. The more you give and the more you serve, the greater the influence you can have.

Just as low fences are the start-ing points for training horses, it’s where you begin as a leader. But you are not designed nor destined to stay at that level. You have a higher destiny that you need to walk in. Low fences are where you start, but they are not where you should stay. You must raise the bar.

* * * * *Doug Dickerson is a syndicated

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Q. I keep hearing about a pro-gram called SSI. What is SSI and how does it work?

A. SSI stands for Supplemental Security Income. It’s a program that was created in 1974 and provides benefits to low-income people who are 65 and older, blind or disabled. Over the years, details have changed, but the emphasis has remained on helping those of us who face major financial and physical challenges. In 2015, about 8.3 million people are receiving SSI benefits.

To qualify for SSI, you must have very few resources. As an in-dividual you can have possessions worth only as much as $2,000, but if you’re applying as a couple, the ceiling for jointly held possessions is $3,000.

You must also have a low in-come. There’s a very complex formula concerning what’s counted and what isn’t in adding up your income, which then determines the amount of a benefit. In 2015, the amount for a person living in his own home with no other income is $733 a month. For a couple the payment rises to $1,100 a month. Generally, the benefit is reduced by the amount of any other income that the household has.

SSI payments are not large, but for people with few or no other resources, they can make a lot of difference. Plus, many states sup-plement these federal figures with payments of their own.

Q. When it comes to the things that people own, what does Social Security count?

A. Social Security will count bank accounts, cash, stocks, bonds and real estate that’s not your primary residence. But it won’t count the value of the home and land where you live, your car, life insurance policies with a face value of $1,500 or less, and up to $3,000 in a couple’s burial funds.

Q. How about income?A. Social Security counts earned

income, pensions and other types of income. But it doesn’t count such things as the first $20 of regular monthly income, the value of food stamps and home energy assistance, and income tax refunds.

Q. How does the government pay for the SSI program?

A. SSI is financed by U.S. Trea-sury general revenues. It does not draw on the Social Security taxes that working people pay and that finance general Social Security benefits, such as those that retir-ees, survivors and disabled people receive. SSI and Social Security are separate programs, but many SSI beneficiaries receive regular Social Security payments at the same time, such as for retirement or disability.

Q. Can a person who receives SSI work?

A. Yes, but a higher income will tend to reduce the amount of the benefit. If you’re also getting disability benefits, Social Security encourages you to take advantage of its Ticket to Work program, which provides education, rehabili-tation and vocational training aimed at enabling a person to return to work. You can find out more about

the Social Security Administration (SSA) has ways to ease the pres-sure if such a worker goes over the earnings limit. For instance, if the agency suspends a benefit due to excess earnings, it will suspend it only temporarily, until the worker gets back under the earnings limit. The agency also has other tools, such as the “disability freeze,” that it can use to help blind people who continue to work.

Q. How does that work?A. The freeze is a procedure

aimed at helping a blind person get higher benefits in the future. “If your earnings are lower because of your blindness,” Social Security says, “we can exclude those years when we calculate your Social Security retirement or disability benefit in the future.” This tends to raise a benefit, because Social Security payments are based on average lifetime earnings — which will be higher if low-earnings years are excluded.

Ticket to Work by calling its special phone number, 866-968-7842 (TTY 866-833-2967). There’s also the socialsecurity.gov/work website.

Q. I’ve heard there are special rules if a blind person works. Is that true?

A. Generally speaking, in 2015

a blind worker is allowed to earn up to $1,820 per month without jeopardizing his or her SSI, though this can vary by state. However,

This program provides help for low-income people 65 and older


Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal government benefit program providing cash to meet basic needs to persons who are disabled and have low income.

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The raw numbersIn the 12-month period ending

June 2017, over 2.9 million Amer-icans signed up for Social Security benefits. On average, these retired workers were awarded $1,413.08 in monthly benefits, however, the average benefits payable were quite different for men and women.

In the period, 1.4 million women filed for Social Security bene-fits, and their average award was $1,231.50. Men, however, were awarded $1,583.77, on average.

How big is the average person’s Social Security check?The amount that men and women receive in Social Security benefits per month varies, but on average, it exceeds $1,400 per month.

Wage inequality arguably plays a role in women’s lower average payment, but so, too, does Social Security’s formula, which penalizes individuals who take time off from their career to raise children. Social Security calculates benefits using the 35-highest income earning years, but if someone doesn’t have 35 years of work history, it uses zeros in its calculation for any years without income.

Boosting your benefitsUndeniably, the single best way

to boost your Social Security ben-efits is to ask for a raise at work. If you have fewer than 35 years of work history, more high-in-come-earning years will help offset any zeros in your history. Also, if you have more than 35 years of work history, you should know that high-income-earning years replace low-income years in the calcula-


Q. Does SSI provide benefits for children?

A. The answer is yes, if they are disabled or blind. But it’s not easy for parents to get SSI for their children. One reason is that Social Security has a strict definition of disability, which says that a per-son’s medical condition must be so severe that it is expected to last for 12 months or result in death.

In addition the child’s family must meet the SSI limitations on both income and resources. As a re-sult, only 1.3 million out of 74 mil-lion children in the United States, or about 2 percent, receive SSI.

Meanwhile, the SSA has begun several programs aimed at helping children who receive SSI to move into adulthood. They include:

—The Youth Transition Project, which tests ways to help people ages 14 to 25 with disabilities make the transition from school to work.

—The PROMISE (Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI) Proj-ect. Social Security is working with federal and state agencies to facilitate positive changes in health status, physical and emotional de-velopment, and the completion of education and training.

Q. When people receive SSI benefits, what are their respon-sibilities?

A. Their overall responsibility is to keep the SSA informed of any changes that take place in their per-sonal or family financial situations. If, for instance, a relative moves into your home and contributes to your food expenses, the folks at the SSA will want to know about that. Similarly, they will want to know if there any changes in your job, work or pay. SSI benefits are closely tied to your financial circumstances and living situation.

Q. How do you apply for SSI?A. There’s no online application.

So call 800-772-1213 (TTY 800-325-0778). For more information, go to socialsecurity.gov/pubs and search for “Supplemental Security Income (SSI)” and “What You Need to Know When You Get Sup-plemental Security Income (SSI).”

Stan Hinden, a former columnist for the Washington Post, wrote How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Im-portant Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire. Have a question? Check out the AARP Social Security Question and Answer Tool.

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All of us have heard (or told) the stories about how much things used to cost in “the good old days.” A candy bar and a soda could both be had for a couple of quarters in the ‘70s. A gallon of milk or a gallon of gas were both less than a dollar in the ‘60s. The list can go on and on. While the trip down memory lane can be entertaining, it also offers meaningful perspective on the effects of inflation, particularly in regards to retirement planning.

The good news is that most Americans factor in the cost of inflation as they build their overall nest egg. It is common practice to estimate what the cost of living will be once retirement is reached. However, many fail to take into consideration inflation within re-tirement. The length of the average retirement is approximately 20 years and inflation does not stop once the finish line of the working years is reached. One of the true hidden costs of retirement is how much extra money will be needed due to inflation over the course of the retirement itself.

So while a $500,000 nest egg might seem to be the right amount on day one of retirement, the reality is that given the cost of inflation, much more is actually needed to keep pace with rising costs and the reduction in purchasing power over the course of the next 20 or even 30 years. Funds could easily be tapped out with many years of retirement ahead.

Keep the following tips in mind as part of the retirement planning process to help prepare for inflation in retirement.

How to face the hidden cost of retirement

Understand how inflation could impact

retirement expensesTake a comprehensive look

at potential retirement income expenses and consider the impact of inflation. One key area of focus should be health care costs and medical expenses. It is very likely that there will be greater expenses in these areas the older one gets, particularly once retirement age is reached. In fact, it is estimated that retirees aged 65-plus can ex-pect to spend 12.2 percent of their income on health care expenses (as compared to 4.6 percent for 25- to 34-year-olds). This figure is very likely to continue to grow as health care costs continue to skyrocket and show no signs of leveling out. (Also, become familiar with Medicare options. Medicare does not cover everything and supple-mental insurance may be necessary, which will add to existing monthly expenses.)

Estimate the number of

potential years of retirementWhile retirement may be full of

unknowns, consider current health status when thinking about poten-tial life expectancy. Also, if mar-ried, consider the possibility that one partner may live much longer into retirement. With better health care and longer life expectancies, someone retiring today at age 65 can expect to live another 20 years based on life expectancy tables. Even with a modest inflation rate of 2.5 percent, costs would double over the course of a period of 28 years. With this in mind, those planning an early retirement need to pay even closer attention to how to best address inflation over a greater number of years.

Review retirement income sources and consider if they

can help address inflationDetermine whether cost-of-

living adjustments or potential increases apply to those sources of income. While Social Security might effectively address inflation, some investments or other financial vehicles might not. Also, consider the impact of potential low inter-est rates and rising inflation rates during retirement as total rates of return could be much different than anticipated.

Develop a plan to address inflation now

Ideally, work with a financial professional to see what strategies and products should be considered to help address the risk of inflation during retirement. There are multi-ple variables to take into account, and without proper guidance there are many potentially damaging as-sumptions that can be made.

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tirement, 64 percent of respondents do not have a financial plan that addresses the rising cost of living in retirement. Of those who do, 51 percent claimed their financial “plan” to address it was to “be more frugal with money” when they retire. While this is certainly OK, many additional factors need to be taken into consideration to ensure income is not outlived. For example, take Social Security. While Social Security adjusts to an extent for inflation, it very well might not keep pace with health care expenses. The average annual cost-of-living increase for Social Security over the past 30 years has been 2.6 percent. Meanwhile, the average annual premium increase for Medicare Part B over the same 30-year time period has been 6.2 percent.

History has shown that the cost of living will certainly go up over the course of time. While no one can look in the crystal ball, so to speak, and predict the level of inflation, taking the time to factor inflation into a retirement strategy is a smart move that will help toward planning a more secure retirement for years to come.

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tion, which also increases the amount you receive in benefits.If a raise isn’t in the cards, then another way to boost your benefits is

to plan on retiring later, so that you have fewer zeros in your calculation. Retiring later also provides the benefit of delayed retirement credits, which are awarded to individuals who hold off on claiming Social Security ben-efits until after they’ve reached full retirement age, or the age at which a person can receive 100 percent of their benefit amount.

As a refresher, Social Security can be claimed as early as age 62. How-ever, claiming before full retirement age results in a reduced payment. If you were born in 1960 or later, then your full retirement age is 67. Wait to claim your benefit, and you’ll have more high-income-earning years used in your benefit calculation, and you’ll receive an 8 percent increase in your benefit for every year you delay, up until age 70, because of delayed retirement credits.

If you’re divorced, you may also qualify for benefits based on your former spouse’s work record. Depending on the circumstances, you could earn up to 50 percent of the amount that your spouse qualifies for at full retirement, and it won’t affect your former spouse’s payment, or the amount your spouse gets in lifetime Social Security benefits.

Furthermore, if you have a spouse who didn’t work, or who has a work history that results in a monthly benefit that’s below average, it might pay off for your spouse to collect benefits based on your work record, rather than his or her own. Spouses can receive up to 50 percent of your full benefit at full retirement age, and Social Security will automatically pay the higher of the two benefits, so no need to do the number crunching yourself.

What else should you keep in mind?If you do claim early, don’t fall into the Social Security trap of earning

too much money while collecting Social Security benefits. If you’re re-ceiving benefits and you haven’t reached full retirement age, your monthly Social Security check will be reduced by $1 for every $2 you earn above $16,920. You won’t lose this money, however. It will be added back into your benefit calculation, and it will increase your payment once you reach full retirement age. After reaching full retirement age, you can earn as much as you like without having it reduce your Social Security check.

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By Dr. Nina Radcliff, MDPart two of a three-part seriesI recently read an estimate by

health economists at Johns Hopkins University that puts the annual economic costs linked to chronic pain at $635 billion annually — far greater than for cancer, heart dis-ease, or diabetes. This includes di-rect costs such as health care and in-direct costs resulting from lost work days and daily productivity. What eclipses these staggering numbers are the very lives of the millions upon millions of people suffering with chronic pain today — and those who care for them — which is estimated at well over 100 million Americans. The heart of the issue is that these folks are friends, family members, colleagues, associates or, perhaps, you, experiencing the anguish physically, emotionally and mentally from chronic pain.

This is Part 2 of a 3-Part series on pain management. And wheth-er mild or excruciating, how we approach our physical suffering can change how we approach any discomfort in our lives. The goal of pain management is to minimize suffering from pain while improv-ing the level of function and quality of life. While it may not be possible to completely eliminate pain from diseases such as osteoarthritis, there are steps we can take in order to help gain control.

Some Options for Chronic Pain

Resilience and Courage: Both, are key attributes that are called upon when we manage pain. A recent research study in the jour-nal Traumatology examines “how resilient” pain patients cope with chronic pain and its impact on long-term recovery. Results showed that patient resilience typically focused on some common themes:

—Developing a sense of control over their pain by seeking out infor-mation as well as cross-checking the medical advice they received using other sources (collaborating with their doctors makes them feel less like patients and more like co-therapists)

—Becoming actively engaged in medical or alternative healing techniques which can make a differ-ence in the ability to cope — from controlling their pain through ther-apy, active exercise, or changing their diet to eliminating potentially harmful substances that could be aggravating their pain.

—Establishing social connec-tions to develop support networks to help with coping

As well, underscored are some additional techniques and infor-mation that has been reported to be helpful in managing chronic pain — but of which some may not be aware.

Harness Distractions: Distrac-tions cannot make your pain go away, but they can make your brain change its focus. Doing two things well at the same time is quite a chal-lenge. Have you ever tried to cook dinner while helping the children do their history homework? How about counting backwards from a hundred while writing letters of the alphabet? When it comes to chronic pain, a distraction means shifting or moving your attention away from it. Some techniques that have been identified by experts include: counting, blowing bubbles, listening to music or audio books, reading, drawing, doing puzzles or utilizing apps like Pinterest. These are just some—there are many, many more!!

Deep Breathing: There is a Chinese adage that states: “If you know the art of breathing you have the strength, wisdom, and courage of ten tigers.” Deep breathing has been shown to calm the mind and relax the body. And, fortunately, there are a number of breathing

techniques that have been shown to help divert pain. By focusing on the breath (feeling the air go in and out of our bodies), quieting our mind, and focusing on a word, phrase or positive mental image, we relax. After all, tense muscles feel more pain. Breathing techniques can be as simple as inhaling and exhaling deep breathes, s-l-o-w-l-y, repeat-edly (e.g., three times) — and re-peat again. An added bonus is that it can been done anywhere, anytime.

Keep it Moving: Physical ac-tivity and exercise can be adapted for an individual who is suffering from chronic pain, and is something people can do for themselves—they have control over it. Additionally, it is likely to have minimal adverse effects, and maximal benefits (ex-ercise is beneficial to the heart and blood vessels, and helps us stay at a healthy body weight). For those with chronic pain, the discomfort may tempt you to curl up in bed. However, inactivity can cause your muscles, tendons, and ligaments to deteriorate and worsen your pain condition.

In addition, mounds of research show that staying active, within

realistic limits, can help you re-main flexible and strong; decrease re-injury; and ease your sense of suffering. And, too, exercising re-leases endorphins—our body’s nat-ural painkiller and mood enhancer. Make sure to discuss with your healthcare provider what physical activities are safe and feasible and work towards creating an individu-alized plan that incorporates pacing or gradual progression.

Biofeedback: This technique teaches us how to gain a greater awareness of your body’s stress responses — tensed muscles; in-creased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing — and learn how to control them. A trained professional utilizes different monitoring de-vices and sensors that are attached to our bodies and connected to a computer. This allows someone to literally “see” their bodily functions on a screen. For example, an elec-tromyography (EMG) can measure muscle activity and a blood pres-sure cuff can determine your blood pressure. By becoming aware of what is going on inside our bodies, we can then implement relaxation techniques and get immediate feedback to help us figure out how to control our stress responses. While biofeedback has been most often used in the management of headaches, it is also used to treat a variety of chronic pain disorders.

Physical and Occupational Therapy

The fear of pain or reinjury is not uncommon in those who suf-fer from chronic pain — and this fear can result in decreased bodily movement with resultant physical deconditioning. Physical therapy that is individualized teaches ex-ercises and provides treatments to help increase mobility and build strength. Some activities include stretching exercises; strengthening exercises; graded exercise tech-

niques (activities that start slowly and gradually increase over time); massage; and mobilization and manipulation of joints.

In occupational therapy, trained professionals teach you how to perform activities of daily living, also known as occupations. This can include bathing, cooking, and dressing ourselves. In other words, they help you acquire techniques to work around your pain — to adapt.

Talk Therapy: Cognitive-be-havioral therapy (CBT) is a method used to help cope with a health problem by changing how we think, much like the saying “mind over matter.” CBT involves a structured approach that focuses on relation-ships among thoughts (cognition), emotions, and behaviors. The goal is to adopt an active, problem-solv-ing method to cope with the many challenges associated with chronic pain. This includes cognitive re-structuring (identifying unhelpful thoughts and increasing balanced thinking); behavioral activation (increasing engagement in reward-ing and meaningful activities); and relaxation techniques (to decrease stress and muscle tension).

These are only a few options and understanding what is best for chronic pain can be challenging. And while having underscored this before, it bears repeating that the

first step is to speak to your doctor. After discussing your pain and conducting an examination, they can provide treatment recommen-dations. It is important to follow up in a timely manner if the pain does not subside or symptoms worsen.

Also, you may (or be advised to) seek help from a doctor specializing in pain medicine. As chronic pain has become recognized as a primary problem, rather than always being a symptom of a disease, the medical specialty of pain management has grown. When taking this tact, look for doctors who are board-certified in pain medicine or who did a fellowship in something pain-re-lated. Chronic pain management is dynamic and it is important for sufferers to know they are not alone — and too, to take courage in taking informed actions with positive sup-port, professionally and personally.

This article is for general in-formation only and should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of medical conditions and cannot substitute for the advice from your medical professional. Dr. Nina has used all reasonable care in com-piling the current information but it may not apply to you and your symptoms. Always consult a doctor or other health care professional for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.


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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke considers the delisting de-cision “very good news for many communities and advocates in the Yellowstone region” and “the cul-mination of decades of hard work and dedication on the part of state, tribal, federal and private partners.”

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Recent scientific data showing a decline in the bears’ population over the past two years as a result of “managed kills” due to livestock conflict, car crashes and poaching support CBD’s claims. The group’s senior attorney, Andrea Santarsiere, says that the Trump administra-tion’s real reason for pushing the delisting is more about appeasing trophy hunters “who want to stick grizzly bear heads on their walls” than about concern over the health of iconic American wildlife pop-ulations.

“This outrageously irresponsible decision ignores the best available science,” says Santarsiere. “Grizzly conservation has made significant strides, but the work to restore these beautiful bears has a long way to go.” Overall, grizzlies now occupy less than four percent of their his-toric U.S. range. European settle-ment led to the decimation of some

“This deeply misguided decision just isn’t supported by the science, so the Trump administration may be leaving itself vulnerable to a strong legal challenge.”

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