The REAL leak behind the Cruz sex scandal

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Obama tells Argentine students
capitalism and socialism are just
theories, choose what works
City of Las Vegas
to name street
“Bob Stupak Avenue”
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Volume 18, Issue 4
Judge Marshall to appear
on Face The Tribune
radio show on April 8th
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March 30-April 5, 2016
Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member
The REAL leak behind the Cruz sex scandal
(HORN NEWS) — The race for
the 2016 Republican presidential
nomination took a turn into the gutter when it was alleged by The National Enquirer that Texas Sen. Ted
had engaged in five extramarital
affairs — a story the Cruz campaign
rejected as “complete and utter garbage” and blamed on GOP
frontrunner Donald Trump in the
lead up to Wisconsin’s primary vote
Tuesday.
“It is a tabloid smear and has
come from Donald Trump and his
henchmen,” Cruz said of the accusations Friday. “This garbage does
not belong in politics.”
Trump denied that his campaign
was behind the rumors... and he
may be right.
According to The Daily Beast,
The Donald is innocent — and that
it’s allies of Sen. Marco Rubio that
may be to blame.
The article alleges that the Cruz
My Point
of View
By Rolando Larraz
The people who know me know
very well that I have no problem
making a correction when I write
something that is not true or turns
out to have been unintentionally
misleading; I always like to make
that correction as soon as possible.
It has always been my contention that it takes a real man to accept and acknowledge his mistakes,
and I consider myself a real man,
acting according to the best of my
ability.
Last week in my article about
candidates that should not be reelected, I apparently gave the impression that the Johnsons courthouse couple (Judge Susan Johnson
and Judge Eric Johnson, AKA
Louis Johnson) are clients of the
courthouse pimp David Thomas,
but that is not the case. The
Johnsons are not clients of David
Thomas.
“Others in the judicial races like
District Court Judge Eric Johnson
AKA Louis Johnson in Department
20, will not be on our ‘friends list,’
and those running against him will
be supported and helped by the
newspaper,” I wrote in a front page
article that appeared in last week’s
edition of this newspaper. Nothing
in that paragraph says that Judge
Johnson is a client of David Thomas and his campaign manager
confirmed that fact.
In another paragraph where the
name of David Thomas and Judge
Johnson were mentioned it read as
follows: “From now on the newspaper will be adding names of candidates that should not be elected
because those individuals running
for office with the endorsement of
the police union and under the spell
of campaign manager David Thomas will be exposed as not even
thinking on their own, but with the
mind of David Thomas.” In my
mind there was no allegation that
Johnson is a client of Thomas.
Being “under the spell of campaign manager David Thomas”
does not necessarily mean that Thomas is the campaign manager of
record; it means that MAYBE and
only maybe, those running under
the spell of campaign manager
David Thomas can be influenced or
perhaps persuaded by Thomas’
wife, District Court Judge Nancy
Alf, who may be friends with the
two Johnsons because of the proximity of their courtrooms, and “innocent advice” or conversation can
be exchanged from one courtroom
to another, or even at lunch between
two cordial co-workers sharing the
same table at a local restaurant.
It is not that I don’t like Judge
Susan Johnson. I have the tendency
(See My Point of View, Page 2)
sex scandal is a story that Rubio’s
campaign had been pushing for
months before he dropped out.
“A half-dozen GOP operatives
and media figures tell The Daily
Beast that Cruz’s opponents have
been pushing charges of adultery
for at least six months now — and
that allies of former GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio were in-
consin, where the race between
Trump, Cruz and Ohio Gov. John
Kasich could mark a turning point
in the unpredictable GOP race.
A solid Cruz win in Wisconsin
would narrow Trump’s path to the
nomination, heap pressure on the
billionaire to sweep the remaining
winner-take-all primaries this
spring, and increase the chances of
a contested party convention in
July.
“The results in Wisconsin will
impact significantly the primaries
to come,” Cruz told The Associated
Press after a rally in Oshkosh Friday. “Wisconsin, I believe, will play
a critical role continuing to unify
Republicans behind our campaign.
The only way to beat Donald Trump
is with unity.”
Cruz is positioning himself to
win Wisconsin, next Tuesday’s only
contest, and the first primary since
he began collecting the backing of
establishment Republicans, such as
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, adamant about eliminating Trump.
Trump has slightly fewer than
half of the Republican delegates
allocated so far, short of the majority needed to clinch the nomination
before the party’s national convention this summer. Cruz has more
than a third of the delegates, but is
focused equally on stopping Trump
and uniting most of the party
against him.
If Cruz wins most of the 42 delegates — which, in Wisconsin, are
allocated on the basis of state and
congressional district winners —
then the remaining winner-take-all
contests, in Delaware, Montana,
Nebraska, New Jersey and North
Dakota could determine the future
of this competition. A solid Cruz
win in Wisconsin would likely require Trump to win those five contests to avoid clawing for the nomination at the party’s national convention in Cleveland.
Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks
during an interview at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Jan.
5, 2016, near Burns, Ore.
dog group says the bill would ensure inspectors general would have
access to all agency records for their
investigations, but when Iowa Sen.
Chuck Grassley asked in December for unanimous consent, which
would have allowed a voice vote,
Reid refused and declined to say
why, merely stating he and other
unnamed senators were “concerned
about it.”
Perhaps it was because the inspector general of the Department
of Homeland Security found that
Harry was inappropriately interfering with the issuance of visas for
Chinese investors in a Las Vegas
casino in which his son was involved?
(See Reid, Page 5)
volved in spreading the smears.”
See Lyin’ Ted, even the
@DailyBeast (no fan of mine) says
this story came from Rubio, not
Trump!
pic.twitter.com/
Okc8XajVnz — Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) March 27,
2016
On Tuesday, the Republican primary heads to hotly-contested Wis-
Harry Reid continues to confound
with his strange stances on issues
By Thomas Mitchell
Harry Reid never fails to fail.
While he is being “awarded” the
Porker of the Month “honor” by a
group called Citizens Against Government Waste for failing to allow
a vote on a bill designed to empower federal agency inspectors
general to fight waste, fraud, abuse
and mismanagement, Reid’s
website heaps praise on an overheated, overblown, paranoid report
by a group called Center for American Progress, which is calling on
Congress to launch a full-blown
investigation into everyone who
ever suggested the federal government controls too much land in the
West.
The government waste watch-
Journalist/Activist Jorge Ramos lies
to Sean Hannity on national television
By Rolando Larraz
Las Vegas Tribune
Jorge Ramos, a Mexican activist in favor of immigration reform
passing for a journalist, was grilled
by Sean Hannity when he agreed
to appear on the Hannity Show last
Wednesday.
Ramos has accused Donald
Trump, the Republican presidential
front-runner candidate, of racism
and Hannity told him that his words
about Trump were “offensive,”
blasting him for being “fundamentally unfair” for taking Trump’s
quotes about undocumented immigrants out of context.
During that interview the issue
of illegals was front and center of
the conversation and that is when
Ramos lied to Hannity, telling him
that he came to this country legally,
and nothing is further from the
truth.
Sean Hannity is an author and
an American radio and television
host who hosts a cable news show,
Hannity, on Fox News Channel and
is a conservative political commentator. Hannity, according to
Wikipedia, has written three New
York Times best-selling books.
The cocky little weasel Jorge
Ramos had the audacity of telling
Hannity that he came to this country legally when in reality he married the daughter of an Cuban journalist, poet and author by the name
of Ernesto Montaner, to become
legal; and, as many illegal Mexicans do, after obtaining his green
card, he divorced her and later on
married one of his own.
Ramos, an anti-Trump Mexican
national whose daughter, with the
Cuban lady who gave him his legal
status, is employed by Hillary
Clinton.
(See Ramos, Page 4)
JORGE RAMOS
Senator Heller pushing for faster
approval of broadband easements
By Thomas Mitchell
Once again Nevada’s Washington representatives are having to
resort to legislation to force the
slothful federal land agencies to
more quickly allow the public access to rights of way across putatively public lands.
Earlier this month Nevada Re-
publican Sen. Dean Heller added
two amendments to the Making
Opportunities for Broadband Investment and Limiting Excessive
and Needless Obstacles to Wireless
Act (S. 2555) — yes, to those acronym-enamored lawmakers and
their staffs it is known as the MOBILE NOW Act.
Heller’s principal effort is to establish what he calls a “shot clock”
that gives federal land agencies 270
days in which to decide on approval or disapproval of applications for easements or rights of way
for fiber optics lines to improve
broadband access in rural areas of
(See Broadband, Page 6)
FROM THE DESK OF GORDON MARTINES
Conspiracy to Silence, or Getting Away with Murder
By Gordon Martines
It has been a while since I last
mentioned the 2007 beheading
murder of LVMPD Officer Kevin
Scott Dailey, in Clark County Nevada, and to the alleged complicity
to cover up this murder by the
LVMPD, Henderson Police Department, Clark County Coroner’s Office, and the Clark County District
Attorney’s Office. About the only
published article about this murder
was an Obit in the RJ on December
5, 2007.
When this information first became exposed and is now on the
record during legal depositions in
June of 2013, pursuant to 2011 Federal Lawsuit (Gordon Martines vs.
Sheriff Douglas Gillespie, et al) and
also against fourteen other high
ranking police executives, it was
apparent that the “conspiracy to silence” of everyone involved, one
way or the other, was now maliciously activated again, like it was
in November to December in 2007.
(See From the Desk, Page 4)
Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / March 30-April 5, 2016
City of Las Vegas to name street “Bob Stupak Avenue”
Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman and Councilman
Bob Coffin to celebrate event April 6 At 5 p.m.
at the Stratosphere Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
Special to the Las Vegas Tribune
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn G.
Goodman, Ward 3 Councilman Bob
Coffin, former mayor Ron Lurie,
the Stupak family, management of
The Stratosphere Las Vegas Hotel
& Casino and community members
will gather at 5 p.m. April 6, the
anniversary of Bob Stupak’s birthday (1942) to honor his memory
and the 20th anniversary of the
opening of The Stratosphere by renaming one block of Baltimore
Avenue “Bob Stupak Avenue.” The
celebration will take place on the
north side of The Stratosphere property near the corner of Baltimore
and Las Vegas Boulevard. The sec-
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tion of Baltimore between Las Vegas Boulevard and Fairfield Avenue
will be renamed and new signs will
be installed, paid for by the Stupak
family trust.
Both the Las Vegas Planning
Commission and the Las Vegas City
Council unanimously approved the
street renaming in February 2016.
Affected property owners on Baltimore Avenue, as well as The Stratosphere hotel management, are sup-
BOB STUPAK
porting the change.
Bob Stupak, renowned Las Vegas casino owner, world champion
poker player, world-ranked motorcycle racer, creator of Glitter Gulch
and Vegas Vicki in downtown Las
Vegas, built his Vegas World casino
into a multi-million dollar business
through constant innovative promotion. He conceived the Stratosphere
Tower, receiving the project’s initial City Council approval in April
1990. He was building The Stratosphere with partner Grand Casinos
at the time of his life-threatening
motorcycle accident in 1995.
Stupak died Sept. 25, 2009.
“The Stupak family, friends and
colleagues deeply appreciate the
honor of keeping Bob Stupak’s
name next to his dream, the Stratosphere Tower, on the Las Vegas
Strip,” said Nevada Stupak, son of
the famed entrepreneur. “We’d like
to thank the city of Las Vegas, a
place my father always considered
home, American Casino & Entertainment Properties, columnist John
L. Smith and Councilman Bob Coffin for their unwavering support
throughout this process, as well as
the collective effort of the thousands of Las Vegans that helped
(See Stupak, Page 3)
record is sealed, but everyone in Las
Vegas is aware of that incident.
I don’t remember the name of
the person involved, but the incident happened almost a decade ago
and I cannot forget that mental
abuse by Judge Susan Johnson. Las
Vegas Tribune wrote a reminder
about that incident regarding Judge
Johnson, and it made the front page
of the Las Vegas Tribune when she
jailed a Las Vegas woman for picketing in front of a store on East Sahara Avenue.
The woman claims she was exercising her First Amendment right
when she picketed the Las Vegas
jewelry store to complain that she
received poor service when she had
a heart-shaped diamond set in an
engagement ring. Not only did District Judge Susan Johnson disagree
with her, but she sent that mother
of minor children to jail for two
days.
Judge Susan Johnson knew that
the woman was not in contempt of
court; she was ordered to stay off
the sidewalk in front of the store and
she then started picketing in the
median that divided east and westbound traffic on Sahara Avenue.
I have never met Judge Eric
Johnson AKA Louis Johnson, I
have seen him during his days as a
federal prosecutor and never exchanged two words with him, but I
believe that while he is good in federal law and that he did a good job
as federal prosecutor, he does not
know anything about State law and
he should not have ever been appointed to the bench; but that is
another mistake of our RINO Governor, Brian Sandoval.
There is at least one good thing
about not being an attorney: attorneys cannot differ with prosecutors
or judges because like an attorney
once told me, “I cannot argue with
the prosecutor because tomorrow I
may have another case with that
prosecutor and my life can be a living hell” — but because I am lucky
to have a career other than that of
an attorney, I can differ with their
rulings and express it in my newspaper — and that is why I founded
this newspaper; I put my money
where my mouth is.
If Judge Johnson were knowledgeable of our laws he would have
ruled differently when another
judge, from North Las Vegas, appeared before him fighting for her
legitimate rights.
My name is Rolando Larraz, and
as always, I approved this column.
Rolando Larraz is Editor in
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My Point of View
(Continued from Page 1)
to want to like her but every time I
want to like her, the image of her
putting a mother in jail for contempt
of court to please a possible campaign donor, and seeing the image
of the woman being led out of the
courtroom by a marshal while she
laughed out loud with all the attorneys in the courtroom left a sour
taste in my mouth. Even if Judge
Johnson thinks that putting someone behind bars is funny, I believe
that while she is on the bench she
should refrain from expressing her
personal feelings.
The woman was not a real criminal; she is a human being that was
ripped-off by a businessman that is
well known for ripping off clients
in his store. He even did time in a
federal penitentiary for possession
of stolen property and was pardoned by President Clinton before
he left office; perhaps by now his
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Obama tells Argentine students capitalism and
socialism are just theories, choose what works
By Thomas Mitchell
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before
equality will get a high degree of
both.” —Milton Friedman
While in Argentina recently
Obama had the audacity to say —
in a country that has experienced
firsthand the ravages of socialism
— to an audience of young students
that their generation should not
worry their fuzzy little minds with
abstract theories such as capitalism
and socialism or communism but
just choose what works.
He grandly expounded:
I guess to make a broader point,
so often in the past there’s been a
sharp division between left and
right, between capitalist and communist or socialist. And especially
in the Americas, that’s been a big
debate, right? Oh, you know, you’re
a capitalist Yankee dog, and oh, you
know, you’re some crazy communist that’s going to take away
everybody’s property. And I mean,
those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and
just choose from what works. You
don’t have to worry about whether
it neatly fits into socialist theory or
capitalist theory — you should just
decide what works.
And I said this to President
Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you’ve
made great progress in educating
young people. Every child in Cuba
gets a basic education — that’s a
Stupak
make Dad’s dream a reality. Happy
20th birthday Stratosphere!”
“I am proud to participate in
honoring the pioneering spirit,
achievements, generosity and perseverance of Bob Stupak,” said
Councilman Coffin. “Former
mayor Jan Laverty Jones officially
titled him “Mr. Las Vegas” and he
was known to others as ‘The Polish Maverick,’ but the people of
Ward 3 have always known him as
someone who cared for them, his
neighbors.”
President Obama talks at a town hall meeting last Wednesday in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, where he dismissed the difference between capitalism
and communism as just an “interesting intellectual argument.”
huge improvement from where it can say — depending on the probwas. Medical care — the life ex- lem you’re trying to solve, dependpectancy of Cubans is equivalent to ing on the social issues that you’re
the United States, despite it being a trying to address what works. And
very poor country, because they I think that what you’ll find is that
have access to health care. That’s a the most successful societies, the
huge achievement. They should be most successful economies are ones
congratulated. But you drive around that are rooted in a market-based
Havana and you say this economy system, but also recognize that a
is not working. It looks like it did market does not work by itself. It
in the 1950s. And so you have to has to have a social and moral and
be practical in asking yourself how ethical and community basis, and
can you achieve the goals of equal- there has to be inclusion. Otherwise
ity and inclusion, but also recognize it’s not stable.
And it’s up to you — whether
that the market system produces a
lot of wealth and goods and ser- you’re in business or in academia
vices. And it also gives individuals or the nonprofit sector, whatever
freedom because they have initia- you’re doing — to create new forms
that are adapted to the new conditive.
And so you don’t have to be rigid tions that we live in today.
It is not a theory. It is history.
in saying it’s either this or that, you
Socialism and communism have
failed time and again while capitalism has lifted millions out of pov“The Stratosphere Las Vegas erty, providing jobs and comfortHotel & Casino is proud to support
the renaming of Baltimore Avenue
after Bob Stupak, one of our
property’s founders,” said Ned
Martin, chief operating officer of
American Casino & Entertainment
Properties LLC — Stratosphere.
“The vision for what has become
The Stratosphere Hotel, Casino &
Tower started with Bob Stupak in
1990. As we celebrate our 20th anniversary on Las Vegas Boulevard,
it only seems right that Bob is included.”
able lifestyles and ample liberty.
In a 1990 article an Argentine
business consultant described how
socialism “worked” for Argentina:
Perón nationalized the railroads,
airlines, buses, communications,
foreign trade, and energy, among
other activities. The immediate effects were a drastic deterioration of
service and huge deficits...
The nationalized railroads lose
$4 million a day. Grossly
overmanned, the equipment is rapidly deteriorating and the service is
disastrous... Aerolineas Argentinas,
the national airline, is just as bad.
It costs the taxpayer $900,000 a day
in subsidized losses, and international passengers are forced to pay
fares that are 40 percent higher than
average... Similar stories can be told
about energy, water, and the postal
service. In each case the government has enacted laws preserving
the monopoly status of the stateowned companies...
“That which government does
not own it controls with regulation.”
An Investor’s Business Daily
editorial points out: “At one time,
Argentina was one of the five richest nations in the world, with a per
capita income rivaling that of the
U.S. But for most of the last 100
years Argentina has suffered under
socialism and then economic collapse. It now operates as virtually a
Third World country. Yes, Argentina, by all means: Choose what
works.”
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Mexico’s secret plot to stop Trump
(HORN NEWS) — The Mexican government is launching an
unprecedented campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections by
recruiting foreign citizens to stop
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump
from becoming president.
And George Soros is helping
fund the multi-million dollar effort.
Officially, Mexico has stated it
has no intention of interfering in the
U.S. presidential election. But according to a report by Bloomberg
News, Mexican consulates across
the United States are holding workshops to sign up as many foreignborn residents as possible for legal
naturalization, then registering
them to vote — presumably against
Trump.
The effort by Mexican officials
to turn their permanent U.S. residents into voters is completely unprecedented, and organizers are
saying they hope to sign up over a
million of the 4.5 million Hispanics who are eligible.
According to reports, after helping the Mexican residents apply for
U.S. naturalization, foreign officials
then turn the floor over to left-wing
community organizers, whose organizations are funded by Soros, to
register them as new voters.
Mexican bureaucrats have made
clear that Trump, who has campaigned on a promise to build a wall
along the Southern border and get
Mexico to pay for it, is public en-
government’s initiative so that illegal immigrants “can have a little
peace of mind” after Trump has
promised to deport millions before
giving them a chance to come
through his wall’s “big beautiful
door” and re-enter the country legally.
Another woman from Peru told
NBC News that she thought Trump
was too simple-minded and patri-
emy number one. Already, thousands of people have participated,
with the hopes of tipping their states
toward his Democratic challenger
this November.
Soros will pay $5 million of the
$15 million behind the voter registration effort, led by Immigrant
Voters Win PAC — a group of 30
community organizer groups dedicated to promoting illegal immigrants. Some of those groups get
U.S. taxpayer dollars, as well.
Soros has called Trump’s call to
erect a wall and temporarily stop all
Muslim immigration to the United
States “deeply offensive” and
“harmful to our democracy and to
our national interests.”
“There should be consequences,” he said.
Depak Bhargava, who heads the
group’s voter outreach efforts, said
new citizens should oppose the
GOP up-and-down the ballot.
“Trump’s nativism has infected
nearly the whole Republican Party,
and we need to exact an electoral
toll,” he told The New York Times.
At the same time, Soros is
spending another $5 million to fight
voter ID laws — the kinds of laws
that require voters to prove they are
U.S. citizens — in swing states like
Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina.
As The Horn News reported on
Mar. 17, this isn’t the first antiTrump action Soros has allegedly
taken. He’s also apparently funding
the series of violent anti-Trump protests nationwide.
One woman from Honduras said
she responded to the Mexican
He makes his living attacking everyone who doesn’t agree with him
or his immigration ideas.
Ramos claims to be a journalist, but in reality he is an activist defending open borders and immigration reform, and also claims that he became a journalist because he “wants to travel” and go places, but it seems
like he did not learn anything in journalist school.
If Ramos were an educated person, he would have learned that this
land that many Mexicans believe is their land, is no longer their land.
Putting it on a sixth-grade level mentality: If a person wants to sell a
pencil for a dollar and the other person offers 25 cents for it, and the
person accepts that quarter, that pencil is no longer the property of the
seller after accepting the offer; it is the property of the buyer.
What Jorge Ramos’ little brain does not allow him to understand is
that even if the transaction were to be nullified today and the land was
given back to the Mexicans, most of them would move to North Carolina
because they don’t want to be in Mexico; they want to be in the United
States of America.
Regardless of where Mexico’s borderline ends and where the United
States begins, the fact is that the poster boy of the immigrants and the
anti-Trump network Univision star reporter lied on national television on
one of the most-watched political television shows, The Hannity Show,
discrediting what is left of the Univision network reputation and proving
himself to be a liar.
For those that are not aware of
this particular horrendous incident,
please allow me to enlighten you,
but remember I am merely the messenger, who happened to be a fully
commissioned police officer when
I first learned of this horribly egregious information.
During legal depositions in June
of 2013, I heard directly from a
sworn witness, former Corrections
Officer Greg Naglish, that his coworker, Corrections Officer Kevin
Scott Dailey, failed to show up for
work at the CCDC, in the first week
of November 2007. Inquires were
made by LVMPD Supervision,
which immediately lead to an order for everyone concerned to remain silent about this failure to
show for work and the disappearance of Officer Kevin Scott Dailey.
Efforts, within the jail, to generate
information from the inmates resulted in an inmate coming forward
to give information that Officer
Dailey was killed, that the Russian
Mafia was involved, and Dailey’s
female relative was intimately involved with a n LVMPD Intelligence detective.
Jail personnel learning of this
information notified LVMPD Intel
detectives, who then came over to
the jail to interview the inmate. Information was overheard by jail
personnel that the Intel detective
who was involved with Dailey’s
female relative, was now also interviewing the inmate that came
forward and was now arguing with
his partner over his intimate and
now conflicting involvement with
this incident.
According to Naglish, anyone
that didn’t remain silent about this
new information would have manufactured Internal Affairs Complaints generated against them or
anyone that knew of this new information and refused to remain
silent.
Naglish did have four Internal
Affairs Complaints manufactured
and levied against him by the
LVMPD Intelligence Detectives. I
personally accompanied Naglish to
the Internal Affairs hearing on these
manufactured Complaints, which,
by the way, never mentioned the
disappearance of LVMPD Officer
Kevin Scott Dailey, most likely because there never was an Official
investigation of his disappearance
in the first place. Naglish was found
guilty of violating several LVMPD
policies and was disciplined.
The third week in November
2007, a citizen passerby saw a
burned out SUV near Lake Mead,
in Henderson, NV jurisdiction.
Henderson P.D. was notified, they
responded, and learned that the vehicle belonged to Kevin Scott
Dailey, and notified the LVMPD.
The vehicle was towed away and
no further investigation occurred
by anyone.
The co-workers in the jail
learned of the burned-out vehicle
and decided to form a voluntary
search party, since the LVMPD and
the Henderson P.D. still did not
have an official report or investigation on Dailey’s disappearance.
This voluntary search was
formed and consisted of police officers, corrections officers, family
and friends. They formed up and
started their search from where the
vehicle was first found. The search
for any evidence was very short,
because LVMPD Officer Kevin
Scott Dailey’s severed head was
found lying on the ground on the
open desert, without the rest of his
body or clothing. Henderson P. D.
was again notified, they responded
with LVMPD Intelligence detectives who immediately told everyone that they were now in charge
of this investigation and crime
scene. These Intelligence detectives
ordered everyone to forever remain
silent about this incident or suffer
the consequences. The voluntary
search party was dismissed and no
word of this 2007 incident was ever
reported, until June of 2013, during legal depositions.
Since learning of this incident, I
began looking into this incident,
while still being a fully commissioned Police Detective assigned to
the Robbery/Homicide Bureau of
the LVMPD. Any further inquires I
made were met with resistance and
hostility. I did, however, learn that
the Dailey autopsy report was removed from the Clark County
Coroner’s Office data banks, six
hours after it was first put in. I generated a letter to everyone I could
think of asking for help, including
U.S. Attorney, State Governor,
State Attorney, District Attorney,
Sheriff of Clark County, FBI, Justice Department, and also prayed to
GOD.
Even though I was still on medical leave for a Heart Condition
when all this occurred, the LVMPD
still made a concerted effort to discredit me and try to force me to remain silent about this incident and
other egregious incidents, and then
eventually forced me to medically
retire, after causing me to have a
medical episode at work, denying
medical claim benefits, planting
child porn in my personal property,
threatening my life numerous times,
vandalizing my car, burglarizing
my home, taping my phone and
computer, tampering with my mail,
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otic. “He’s not international,” she
said. “I’m voting for Hillary!”
Another said, “I felt obligated to
vote against el candidato Trump,
regardless of who is the alternative.”
Raul Hernandez of Catholic Legal Services told CNN, “It’s going
to be a totally different political
situation” thanks to “folks with a
different view of what a citizen is.”
and ordering everyone in the P.D.
not to communicate with me, whatsoever.
Let it be known that the consequences for failing to remain silent
are still a very small price to pay in
order to expose and crush evil.
When evil is present and nobody
says anything about it, it is the same
as giving consent. As long as there
is breath, depth and life still in my
body, I will stay vigilant!
IN GOD WE TRUST
*****
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 department,
and filed a federal lawsuit against
LVMPD in 2011. Martines has appeared on “Face The Tribune” 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.
Gordon Martines can be contacted
via email at coper71@hotnail.com.
Reid
But Reid never misses a chance
to support his left-wing loons who
scream conspiracy and revolution
every time anyone suggests the federal bureaucrats should butt out of
state and local matters.
Reid has a link to a report by the
Center for American Progress that
claims to document “the rise of violent extremism on public lands and
the need for Congress to confront
this growing problem.”
Reid breathlessly states:
“This report shines a muchneeded spotlight on the threat posed
by anti-government extremists.
These dangerous groups openly
flout the law and deny Americans
their ability to use public lands.
Recently, armed groups in Nevada
and Oregon have instigated reckless
confrontations on public lands,
demonstrating a real and growing
problem in our country. Congress
has a duty to provide the resources
needed for public land managers to
do their jobs safely and effectively.
“Our nation’s leaders also have
a responsibility to stand up to extremist groups and protect hardworking law-abiding citizens.
Sadly, too many on the Republican
side are willing to feed the hateful
rhetoric and actions of the most
radical voices in our society, in the
hopes of advancing themselves no
matter the cost to our country’s values or the safety of our citizens.
This is irresponsible and wrong. It
is time for Republicans to come to
their senses and stand up to these
extremists and denounce the horrible values they represent. This
violent extremism must be
stopped.”
So far none of those violent extremists has fired a shot. Yes, they
confront law enforcement and they
are armed, but law enforcement has
killed one of them and wounded
another.
The report to which Reid refers
sweeps the actions of a few protesters in with any and all political discourse suggesting states and local
communities should have greater
control over what is now federal
public land. Oddly enough Reid
failed to use the opportunity to take
a slap at the Koch brothers but the
report does that, bordering on
claiming they are the sponsors of
insurrection.
The report uses the words extremism or extremist 18 times. It
mentions violent or violence 19
times. It mentions anti-government
26 times. Since when is being prolocal government control the same
as anti-government? It uses the
word armed 22 times. Seems like a
case of hoplophobia.
The only actual violence attributed to any of these violent extremists is a mention of Jerad and
Amanda Miller, who were at the
Bundy ranch standoff in 2014 and
later shot and killed two police officers a bystander before killing
themselves. The report fails to mention that the Millers were told to
leave the ranch because they were
crazy talking left-wing weirdoes.
The report so praised by Reid
calls on Congress to act, even
though the report itself points out
that 25 people have been arrested
for occupying the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and 19
charged with various crimes from
the Bundy ranch standoff. Six of
those are charged in both. It claims
there are still 30 people at large,
according to media accounts. That’s
still well less than 100 people deserving of this diatribe and call to
further arm the already well-armed
federal land agents and the fire
more.
The report attacks members of
Congress for saying federal agencies have been heavy handed, including Nevada Rep. Mark
Amodei.
It concludes:
“A congressional investigation
alone will not stop the rise of violent extremism on public lands.
Anti-government activists and militants have shown that they will use
any means available to divest U.S.
taxpayers of national forests, monuments, and other public lands. But
Congress’ intervention would send
a powerful signal of support to the
law enforcement officials and prosecutors working to restore the rule
of law and bring those accountable
to justice. Investigators could also
help shed light on the dark network
of patriot militias, financiers, and
special interest groups that are currently fighting to seize control of
U.S. public lands.”
It sounds as if public lands are
sacrosanct and you’d best shut up
if you dare think otherwise.
The report never mentions the
rampant mismanagement of those
public lands or the wildfires or the
oil and gas and mining explorations
and cattle grazing that are being
blocked in some vague bid to protect various species of birds, bugs,
weeds and minnows.
Center for American Progress?
Center for American status quo.
Trump to sue over
Republican primary
(HORN NEWS) — Republican
presidential frontrunner Donald
Trump captured victory in Louisiana by a narrow 3.6 percentage
points over Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
during the state’s Mar. 5th primary,
41.4 percent to 37.8 percent.
But despite victory in the state,
Trump is set to lose ten delegates to
Cruz — and Trump is preparing a
lawsuit over it.
With the GOP race in chaos, establishment figures have been frantically looking for any way to derail Trump, perhaps at a contested
convention if no candidate can get
enough delegates to lock up the
nomination in advance. Party leaders — including 2012 nominee Mitt
Romney and 2008 nominee Sen.
John McCain — are fearful a
Trump victory would lead to a disastrous November election, with
losses up and down the GOP ticket.
Now, according to the Wall
Street Journal — at least in Louisiana — the GOP seems to have
found a way to beat Trump, even
without victory in the polls.
Despite the support of many establishment officials, Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio came up short in
Lousiana, getting 11.8 percent of
(See Trump, Page 7)
Obama plotting to stall
Hillary Clinton prosecution
(HORN NEWS) — The FBI investigation into former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s email server
scandal appears to be wrapping up,
and a report this week from the Los
Angeles Times claimed Clinton and
her closest aides could soon be
brought in for questioning.
But if President Obama has his
way, the process may not get any
further than that — at least not until after the 2016 election.
That’s according to former
House Minority leader Tom DeLay,
who knows his way well around the
Washington political process.
And in an interview yesterday
with the “Steve Malzberg Show,”
DeLay laid out exactly how the
Obama administration will look to
stall the Department of Justice to
keep Clinton’s presidential campaign from getting derailed.
The plan revolves around delaying Clinton’s case while a special
prosecutor is appointed.
According to DeLay, the appointment of a special prosecutor
and that prosecutor’s subsequent
review of the evidence against
Clinton are a stalling technique
Broadband
Nevada and across the West.
At a meeting of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, &
Transportation, Heller said of his
“shot clock” proposal, “It’s a huge
win for rural America, especially
rural Nevada. It’s going to go a long
way to helping my state — which
as you know is controlled 85 percent by federal lands.
“Let me give you a couple of
examples,” he said. “First example
is the NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information Administration) awarded a grant years ago
to get fiber out to seven of Nevada’s
rural hospitals. You know it has
taken years, years to get that out
there primarily because of how long
it took to get the applications approved by both the BLM and the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. That’s just
one example of why this is so important.”
Another example he cited was
an effort by CenturyLink to provide
broadband service to a community
of 300 just outside Las Vegas called
Mount Charleston.
“It’s a recreational area and it
attracts tourists and it also has a Girl
Scout camp out there,” Heller observed, “but it took more than two
years just to resolve service for the
Girl Scout camp due to federal bureaucracy. Mount Charleston still
isn’t fully connected, years later.”
He concluded his “shot clock”
would make a big difference.
In 2010 the Nevada Hospital
Association (NHA) applied for and
received a $19.6 million grant for
the purpose of improving broadband telecommunications among
rural Nevada hospitals. With private
funding the spending is expected to
reach $25 million.
The effort is part of the NHA’s
Nevada Broadband Telemedicine
Initiative program, intended to improve patient care by eliminating
technology disparities between rural and urban areas by establishing
telemedicine — remote medical
diagnosis — and setting up a Health
Information Exchange to allow remote access to electronic health
records.
In addition to rural hospitals, the
network is available to public safety
“that gets this case all the way
through the election.”
“That’s what I think is going to
happen [for] stalling purposes.
That’s how you get it past the election,” DeLay said.
DeLay isn’t the only politician
speaking out against Clinton and
the progress of the investigation.
This week, Sen. Chuck Grassly (RIA) also weighed in.
“With all the troubles she’s getting on email, and the FBI’s going
to question her, I would imagine
she’d want to change the tone of her
campaign,” Grassley told Politico
in an interview published Monday.
The investigation revolves
around Clinton’s use of a private
“home brew” server while secretary
of state. While Clinton claims she
did not handle any classified information over the private account,
subsequent federal reviews of the
emails found that many were too
sensitive to be released to the public. Some of those emails were then
deemed classified.
Proposed
Broadband
route
disease,” etc., etc., including “by
using equipment that transfers information concerning the medical
condition of the patient electronically, telephonically or by fiber optics.”
The MOBILE NOW Act — to
which Heller added his amendments — is being pushed by South
Dakota Republican Sen. John
Thune and aims primarily at encouraging federal agencies to increase the airwave spectrum for sale
to broadband providers to connect
cell phones and remote internet
connections, also a problem for rural areas.
agencies, educational institutions
and tribal governments.
Though Heller mentioned seven
hospitals, the broadband expansion
is expected to affect health care facilities in Winnemucca, Pahrump,
Elko, Tonopah, Lovelock,
Hawthorne, Yerington, Ely,
Gardnerville and Battle Mountain,
according to press accounts.
Back in 2014 the Reno newspaper already was reporting on the
federal land agency obstacles to
connecting the rural hospitals. The
BLM finally waived its demand for
an expensive reclamation bond to
finance the restoration of the land
to its pristine state following the
laying of the lines.
The Nevada Broadband
Telemedicine Initiative would allow the state to serve patients in
Nevada with 21st century
telemedicine applications, said Bill
Welch, president of NHA. “The
goal of our member health care facilities has always been to provide
patients with the best possible care
using the latest technology available in the healthcare industry,” he
was quoted as saying. “We feel this
network is the next step in living
out that goal.”
Telemedicine allows patients in
rural areas to “see” a doctor via
video over the Internet, saving the
time and expense of driving to Las
Vegas or Reno to see primary care
or specialist doctors.
Nevada law already permits this
by saying the practice of medicine
means to “diagnose, treat, correct,
prevent or prescribe for any human
Face the Tribune Guest
Judge Marshall to appear on Face The
Tribune radio show on Friday, April 8th
The sitting judge in Las Vegas
Justice Court Department 3,
Janiece Marshall, will appear on
the radio show Face The Tribune
on Friday, April 8 at noon.
In a telephone conversation
with Las Vegas Tribune newspaper, Judge Marshall accepted
Radiotribune.com’s invitation to
appear on the popular noon show
hosted by the Las Vegas Tribune
founder, Rolando Larraz, and talk
about her career, her reelection
campaign, and her accomplishments since she took the bench.
Of all the candidates running
in this election for Justice Court
Judge Janiece S. Marshall
Department 3 Judge Marshall is
the most efficient and the most qualified for that position; since she
was elected in 2016 she has proven her dedication and ability to occupy that position.
In the 2010 election the Las Vegas Tribune supported the sitting
judge she was challenging; in 2011, only a few months after being
elected to the bench, the daily newspaper gave her the lowest rating
in its annual Judging the Judges survey without giving her a chance
to prove herself, and only half of the attorneys questioned in the survey recommended that she should be retained.
That happens on many occasions when attorneys are used to a
judge’s style of running a courtroom, and that judge is defeated and
the challenger takes over with different ways of running their courtroom. Every judge has his or her own way of running the everyday
calendar and his or her own courtroom and attorneys don’t always
like the change.
Las Vegas Tribune has followed Judge Marshall’s Courtroom demeanor and is very pleased and impressed with her ability of being
fair and balanced in her rulings in the last few years.
Radio Tribune as well as Las Vegas Tribune is looking forward to
April 8 when Judge Marshall will visit the studio of radio tribune and
meet with the staff of Las Vegas Tribune newspaper. “We are all very
pleased with the upcoming visit of Judge Marshall to our offices,”
said Maramis Choufani, the Las Vegas Tribune Managing Editor, and
Fridays co-host of the Face The Tribune radio show.
Face The Tribune airs daily on radiotribune.com and is hosted by
Las Vegas Tribune founder and publisher, Rolando Larraz. Larraz
founded radiotribune.com under the name YBSRadio in 2010 with
the late Robert Walker and later changed the name to radiotribune.com
after the newspaper’s name.
Hillary cheating scandal erupts in Arizona
(HORN NEWS) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has
been accused of just about every
dirty political trick in the books
throughout her career — and according to outraged supporters of
Democratic presidential rival
Bernie Sanders, her campaign was
back at it again yesterday in Arizona.
The Arizona Democratic Party
has officially announced that it will
be investigating multiple accusations of election fraud across the
state’s Democratic primary vote
Tuesday, where voters who claimed
to have previously registered as
Democrats say their party affiliation
was unknowingly changed to independent– and therefore, they
weren’t allowed to cast ballots in
the closed primary.
One voter posted a picture with
the following explanation, “Fraud
in AZ? I am a long time registered
Dem. I was when I voted in Nov.
and when I checked Feb. 15th. Today, Nada. Given a provisional ballot, and yes, I reported it.”
The larger concern is with previously independent voters who had
registered as Democrats specifically to vote in Arizona’s primary.
These voters are considered a ma-
(HORN NEWS) — It’s been
well documented that President
Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are not
the best of friends. But as Democratic establishment figures, they
seem willing to do just about anything to protect each other from legal harm.
And now the Obama administration is keeping under wraps a number of draft criminal indictments
targeting Clinton.
In fact, the Obama administration seems willing to do everything
in its power to keep the content of
these indictments from ever going
public — including fighting for
Clinton in court.
The Clinton indictments, all
drafts, involve older allegations that
she withheld evidence from federal
investigators to conceal her role in
the Madison Guaranty Savings &
Loan scandal, which involved an
Arkansas financial company whose
collapse lead to multiple criminal
convictions.
Clinton represented Madison
Guaranty as an attorney at the Rose
Law Firm. Critics say she illegally
misused her position to profit while
there, but she ultimately avoided indictment for her involvement.
Draft indictments over the scandal were drawn up, and the political watchdog group Judicial Watch
has filed a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit to expose them publicly.
But they’ve been stonewalled by
the Obama administration at every
turn. The National Archives and
Records Administration is refusing
to release the information.
According to the Obama administration, the indictments are too
personal — and Clinton’s right to
privacy is more important than the
public’s right to know what’s in the
draft indictments.
“While there may be a scintilla
of public interest in these documents since Mrs. Clinton is presently a Democratic presidential candidate, that fact alone is not a cognizable public interest under FOIA,
as disclosure of the draft indict-
ments would not shed light on what
the government is up to,” the National Archives said in a statement.
The Obama administration’s
move has critics furious — especially because the public has a right
to know how close a presidential
candidate came to facing criminal
charges and possibly jail time.
“It is absurd for the Obama administration to argue that Hillary
Clinton’s privacy would keep a
draft indictment from the American
public,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton in the group’s press
release. “One can’t help but conclude that the Obama administration is doing a political favor for
Hillary Clinton at the expense of the
public’s right to know about
whether prosecutors believed she
may have committed federal
crimes.”
Obama hiding secret
Hillary indictments
Trump
the vote, and was only awarded five
pledged delegates. He has since
dropped out of the race.
According to WSJ, the delegates
Rubio won in the Bayou state —
as well as five unassigned delegates
— are going to back Cruz.
And Trump is not happy with
the news.
Just to show you how unfair
Republican primary politics can be,
I won the State of Louisiana and
get less delegates than Cruz-Lawsuit coming — Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) March 27,
2016
So far, Trump has won 739 delegates. It takes 1,237 delegates to
win the Republican nomination for
president, so Trump needs to win
55 percent of the remaining delegates to prevent a brokered convention from happening — a scenario that would seemingly favor
Cruz.
jor threat to Clinton, as they are
believed to overwhelmingly support Sanders.
Some of those voters were
turned away, and others were given
provisional ballots that may not be
counted at all. Those decisions are
made independently by the local
Recorder’s Office.
Sanders supporters went to social media in force to cry foul, many
believing that the Clinton campaign
had a hand in the alleged election
fraud.
Hillary’s #votersuppression is
making many Democrats angry and
will not help her if she makes it to
the general election. #voterfraud —
PRIYANKA (@chepriyanka) March
23, 2016
@BernieSanders#VoterSuppression
& #electionfraud are harder with
caucus. That’s why we won. — Bern
Press (@BernPress) March 23,
2016
@Dorilynn11 @JoeyVaderr Petition to investigate massive AZ
#ElectionFraud benefitting HRC,
over 70k sigs! Need 100k: https://
t.co/SZu6EJ0lXS — EFredric
(@E_Fredric) March 23, 2016
@ErikaAndiola #Bernie2016
needs to talk about the
#VoterSupression in Arizona. This
is an outrage. #ElectionFraud —
Jeanette
Sandernista
(@JeanetteJing) March 23, 2016
According to the local news station 12News, “The party had said
earlier in the day it was investigating why the voters, who said they
were registered Democrats, were
misidentified.”
A visibly upset Arizona voter
created a video of her frustrating
Tuesday experience. In her explanation she says:
“OUTRIGHT VOTER FRAUD!!
Okay Everyone! I posted earlier
about my being denied my legal
right to vote this morning. I went to
the Pima County Recorders office
and video taped the whole thing.
Here’s what they are doing. They
are copying voter registration cards
changing the date and the party
preference. They can’t change the
original because that goes out to the
party. At first she tried to say I sent
in a second voter registration card
(of course I didn’t not) then she
changes her story to its a computer
glitch then states it’s an error.”
Animal protection groups urge Dirk Arthur
to retire big cats from “Wild Magic” show
The Animal Legal Defense Fund and Keepers of the Wild Sanctuary offer assistance in rehoming the big cats
Special to the Las Vegas Tribune
The Animal Legal Defense Fund
(ALDF), the nation’s leading legal
advocacy organization for animals,
and Keepers of the Wild, a big cat
sanctuary located in nearby Valentine, Arizona are formally urging
Dirk Arthur to retire the big cats he
has been using for his Wild Magic
show in Las Vegas. This request
comes in the wake of Westgate
Hotel and Casino’s confirmation
that Wild Magic has been suspended.
Earlier in March, SeaWorld an-
nounced that it will halt its orca
breeding program and phase out the
use of captive orcas completely.
Ringling Bros. Circus also recently
announced its intent to cease forcing elephants to perform in its traveling circus by May 2016 rather
than 2018, as initially scheduled.
Magicians like Las Vegas-based
Rick Thomas and Missouri-based
Kirby Van Burch, have continued
to entertain without the use of big
cats, who have all been rehomed.
“It’s clear the landscape of animals being used for entertainment
By Suzanne Potter
Nevada News Service
LAS VEGAS —The State of
Nevada will pay your salary for two
months if you’re part of the 1.7 percent of Nevadans who are longterm unemployed, meaning out of
work for more than 27 weeks, and
you’re willing to give job training
a try.
The state is pouring almost $2
million of federal grant money into
the Platform to Employment program, which has just opened up
online registration in Clark County.
Mae Worthey, public information officer for the Nevada Department of Employment Training and
Rehabilitation, says the program
started in fall of 2014, and alternates
between the Reno and Las Vegas
areas.
“It’s really touching when you
hear from people who’ve gone
through the program,” she says.
“Just having someone believe in
them, and having them back in action again, it just really builds confidence.”
Getting people ready to work again when they’ve been unemployed for
long time periods is the goal of the Platform to Employment program.
Platform to Employment re“Yes, the program pays a subquires people to go through an in- sidy to the employer for a period of
tensive, five-week job readiness time,” she says. “To allow the emprogram.
ployer benefits of trying you out,
Afterward, the job-seekers are and giving the employee that assisconnected with jobs, and the state tance they need in getting back into
pays up to their first two months’ the workplace.”
wages. Overall, 85,000 Nevadans
The deadline to apply for the
are unemployed.
next session is coming up fast, on
Worthey says the program ben- April 8. People can apply online at
efits employers as well.
platformtoemployment.com.
is changing,” says Animal Legal
Defense Fund Executive Director
Stephen Wells. “As education
spreads, patrons of these types of
shows increasingly recognize that
stages and transport cages are no
place for wild and endangered animals.”
In a letter sent on March 29,
2016, the Animal Legal Defense
Fund and Keepers of the Wild offer their help to rehome the big cats
to a sanctuary where they will be
able to live out the rest of their lives
in a naturalistic habitat. Keepers of
Program launches new jobs, hope
for Nevada’s long-term unemployed
Photo provided by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Refuge occupation: Since when does clean up involve upgrades?
By Thomas Mitchell
Bureaucrats always find a way to spend more of
our money. Take the clean up that followed the 41-day
occupation of a few closed buildings at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge, where a group protested the
five-year prison sentences handed to two ranchers for
letting a backfire get away and burn a couple of acres
of public land.
The feds estimate the cost will be $6 million. Ap-
proximately $2 million of that was spent to move the
refuge’s 17 employees out of town — for safety sake,
they say — and put them up in hotels for weeks, instead of letting them go home.
The rest, a spokesman said, is for repairs and cleaning and “upgrades to make the refuge the bright star in
the national constellation of refuges.” Upgrades?
What upgrades and at what expense? Of course, the
story never says.
the Wild is the sanctuary where
magician Rick Thomas rehomed
the tigers he formerly used in his
show.
“With the Wild Magic show
closed until June 2016, the Animal
Legal Defense Fund and Keepers
of the Wild believe this is the perfect opportunity for Dirk Arthur to
follow Rick Thomas’ lead and retire the big cats to a reputable sanctuary,” says Wells. “Frankly, the use
of wildlife in entertainment shows
is going extinct — and best for Dirk
Arthur and the Wild Magic show to
follow suit.”
The Animal Legal Defense Fund
recently won an Endangered Species Act lawsuit against a roadside
zoo in Iowa, in which four tigers
and three lemurs were ordered by
the court to be rehomed.
Additionally, ALDF has a pending lawsuit seeking the release of a
tiger from a Pennsylvania roadside
zoo so she can be placed at a reputable sanctuary, and recently delivered a letter of intent to sue for the
release of three African lions in
Iowa.
ALDF has also been pursuing
legal and legislative strategies to
free a tiger from a Louisiana gas
station for several years.
Why Ohio political candidates
can now lie while campaigning
A recent appellate court decision overturned Ohio laws prohibiting the use of
lies in campaign ads, citing First Amendment protections of candidates’ speech.
By Ben Thompson
Christian Science Monitor
Candidates for political office in
Ohio can no longer count on the
state to correct lies on the campaign
trail, following a court ruling that
allows lying in political advertising
in the Buckeye State.
Whereas complaints of candidate dishonesty in ads were previously brought before the Ohio Elections Commission for a determination of their falsity, well ahead of
voting, outright lies are now acceptable under Ohio law regardless of
the Commission’s opinion.
“Most of my clients want to tell
the truth,” attorney Donald Brey
told The Columbus Dispatch.
Mr. Brey has previously represented Republican candidates appearing before the state Commission.
He explained that, after the court
decision, “if a client says, ‘I want
to lie through my teeth, and as long
as I don’t defame anybody, can I
get away with it?’ The answer is,
unless you’re running for judge,
yes.”
An initial court ruling on the
matter was released in 2014 in
United States District Court by Justice Timothy Black. Mr. Black’s
decision centered around the concept that, while lies “have no place
in the political arena and serve no
purpose other than to undermine the
integrity of the democratic process,” political groups and figures
“have a right not to have the truth
of [their] political statements be
judged by the Government.”
Judge Black found that Ohio
laws banning lies in politics were
unconstitutional, based on First
Amendment protections of political
A voter casts her ballot in the primary election earlier in March at an American Legion Hall in Marengo,
Ohio. A recent court ruling will permit candidates running for office in the state to lie in campaign
advertisements.
speech. And last month, the US
The Ohio decision matches a legislation, Ohio candidates’ only
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial course of action to fight an
cuit upheld Black’s ruling, effec- Court ruling made against a simi- opponent’s’ falsehood would be
tively legalizing lying in Ohio cam- lar state law last August.
through a defamation lawsuit — an
paigns by letting voters, rather than
Now, without the previous pro- expensive legal process that could
government, judge the truth of can- tections offered by the now-defunct extend past an election, and with a
didates’ speech.
The Sixth Circuit ruling cited a
2012 U.S. Supreme Court precedent that toppled the Stolen Valor
Act, a federal law that banned false
claims about winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.
“Political speech is at the core
of First Amendment protections,”
according to the decision authored
by Chief Judge R. Guy Cole Jr.
“Even false speech receives some
constitutional protection.”
very high burden of proof.
The removal of the law, while
constitutional in the eyes of the
courts, has some worried about the
outcome of allowing lying could
have on this election.
“Not having the administrative
reviews and being able to go to the
elections board to file complaints,
that is a great disservice to our residents because the amount of falsity
that is going to come is only going
to rise,” said Rep. Nicholas
Celebrezze, a Democratic candidate
recruiter, to the Dispatch.
“We’ve seen in the presidential
election — the gloves are off,” he
added.
In its decision, the appeals court
did acknowledge that Ohio has an
“admittedly compelling interest in
conducting fair elections,” but that
its political false-statement laws
were not narrow enough to be constitutional, leaving the door open
for a legislative middle ground to
be reached in the future.
“Hopefully, we can come up
with something,” elections commission executive director Phil
Richter told the Dispatch. “I think
the majority of people across Ohio
would feel it’s something that
would be valuable.”
An Open Letter to Nevadans
“If you turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to corruption, you are just as guilty as the perpetrators committing the injustice.”
By Steve Sanson
Most of you know who I am.
What you may not know is that
Nevada is ranked the fifth most corrupt state in the Union.
I have been exposing corruption
in this State since 1998, starting
with former Clark County Commissioner Erin Kenny. In 2004, I joined
the “Veterans In Politics,” becoming President in 2005 and changing the name to “Veterans In Politics International (‘VIPI’),” after the
creation of Chapters in several
states and Canada. I have been
fighting corruption since 1998, and
in so doing became a target of the
corrupt.
I have been offered financial
“benefits,” received death threats
against myself and my family, faced
fact-absent, baseless gossip and rumors proffered as attempts to discredit me — attempts to undermine
my organization through the establishment of other groups using
nearly identical names and infringing upon the good will and rapport
VIPI has earned exposing high-profile, unethical abuses of campaign/
election laws used as “currency” for
organizational endorsements.
I have faced corruption, and exposed corrupters, because of my
endless love for this Country, State,
and our Community. My civil service is my commitment to protecting our citizenry at Home, much
like I served to protect our citizenry
abroad when I served six years in
the United States Marine Corps, six
years in the United States Army, and
during my deployment in the first
Gulf War. The enemy of the people
is not always a combatant; it is
sometimes our trusted electorate (or
those serving below them). I continue to commit my life to serving
you by offering protection against
deceit, unfairness, and misappropriation of trust and money.
Where I cannot protect with prevention, I seek to protect by exposure.
I have championed for Veterans’
rights tirelessly and endlessly, despite facing attacks upon my integrity by persons aggrieved by exposure for their false promises, unethical behavior, and attempts to mislead their constituents. I have testified and lobbied before our Legislature for the creation of a Veterans
Court to protect Service Connected
Disabilities Benefits, sought placement of a Veteran “designation” on
the Nevada driver’s license in an
effort to de-escalate potential situations during detainments by law
enforcement, and lobbied for a
mandatory Critical Incident Training for police officers.
I served as a two-term, board
member appointed by Governor
Jim Gibbons, for the Southern Nevada Veteran Cemetery Advisory
Board. I am the third person in the
State to receive Governor Brian
Sandoval’s appointment as
Nevada’s Veteran of the Month.
STEVE SANSON
I have lobbied in Washington,
D.C. for the creation of a Veterans
Insurance Plan to afford veterans
the ability to seek treatment from
private healthcare providers due to
the lack of a VA Hospital in Southern Nevada. I lobbied the Clark
County Commission for a USO or
military hospitality lounge at
McCarran airport. I created the first
ever Proclamation to the United
States Marine Corps with the Las
Vegas City Council. I lobbied the
Las Vegas City Council for awareness of, and to end, discrimination
against the Marine Riders, and the
Clark County Board of School
Trustees to change their bylaws and
name a school after a fallen Nevada
Veteran.
My list continues and is too large
to list each and every act I have
done to support Nevada Veterans,
and the community as a whole; this
is because I have dedicated my life
to this service.
I have helped educate voters on
candidates by organizing videotaped interviews (open to the public), and by hosting live radio show
programs. I have hosted the Veterans In Politics talk show for the past
eleven (11) years, motivated by the
opportunity to educate the public on
candidates and encouraging the listeners to be involved in the political landscape.
My involvement with Veterans
In Politics International is my
honor, and I serve without pay. I
take seriously my duties, making
friends and enemies.
I have been the first to admit and
rectify mistakes that have been
made when candidates have won
the support of Veterans In Politics’
endorsement through misrepresenting themselves and their commitment to this Community. After
learning that an individual has used
our organization to misrepresent
himself to the public, we have humbly shared our error with the public
and given the individual(s) an opportunity to explain themselves.
As you may guess, we are not
often taken up on this opportunity
because these individuals hoped
their behavior would have gone undiscovered.
My loyalty is to justice, fairness,
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the expense of our Community.
I have a very lengthy track
record of community involvement.
Some candidates only get involved
in the community when they need
your vote. They make no time outside of this, tending to their personal
lives and ignoring the concerns and
needs of the Community until they
stand to gain from listening. Some
incumbents lose the true meaning
of a “Public Servant,” becoming
self-involved, and corrupt with their
newly found power and money.
They lie to the face of their voters,
going directly against your will,
feeding you with rhetoric aimed to
confuse you.
Can you imagine what is done
behind your back?
I have been consistently involved since 2003, believing I can
bring about change to make a better Community for all. I could not
have done this without the help and
dedication of many Nevadans who
share a similar commitment to restoring honor and faith in those
serving in public offices. I hope you
will join me as I continue this crusade in the Assembly, working together for a better Nevada.
While my candidacy is for Ne-
vada State Assembly District 13, I
will be one of 42 votes that will affect everyone in this Great State.
My commitment to leadership and
transparency will continue and I
pledge to open the minds and ears
of the other 41 voting assembly
members so that your voices can be
heard.
I am asking for your support. We
cannot continue on the same path,
with the same people, making the
same poor decisions and expecting
a different result. I have proven my
ability to bring together a diverse
community, and have earned credibility for my dedication to fairness.
My dissenters may categorize me
as aggressive and harsh when exposing immorality; however, that is
the type of representative you need
to make sure your concerns are being heard. I will fight for you, I already have been — you just may
not have known until now. I welcome an opportunity to meet and
speak with you at any time. I am
confident that I will earn your support.
Thank you.
Steve Sanson
PO Box 28211
Las Vegas, NV 89126
(702) 283-8088
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EDITORIALS
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson
Our Point of View
President Obama
Proved Las Vegas Washington should let
Tribune Right states set their own clocks
Once again the Las Vegas Tribune has been proven right on
articles that appear exclusively on the pages of the Las Vegas
newspaper — and the newspaper staff takes it as a badge of honor
— but nothing can be more rewarding than having the President
of the United States of America be the one that proves the newspaper right.
Sometime back in 2008 the newspaper was in possession of
what it believed was a very compromising picture of then presidential candidate Barack Obama’s headquarters in Houston, Texas,
which showed the picture of the Cuban flag and a picture of mercenary Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the wall.
The newspaper tried to contact someone to explain to us how a
presidential candidate in the United States could have a flag of
another nation, communist or not, and a photograph of an international mercenary known for his ties to Castro and his gang of
communists in Cuba for years, on the wall in his Houston headquarters.
The person at the Houston, Texas campaign headquarters refused to identify herself saying only that she is Hispanic and her
accent was either Puerto Rican or Cuban; but when the newspaper insisted on a name, she hung up.
Las Vegas campaign headquarters on East Flamingo Road denied knowing about the picture and gave the newspaper the runaround and immediately disposed of all copies of the Las Vegas
Tribune newspaper; and the campaign administration was always
“too busy” to discuss the issue any further.
Now, almost a decade later, while the president and the first
family, including the mother-in-law, visited the communist island
of Cuba, the Las Vegas Tribune was left pondering the President’s
intention all along: was he working his plan to allow Cuba to be
part of the international political scene so the Castro brothers could
do whatever they have in mind to poison whatever is left of the
free world?
The Las Vegas Tribune cannot take credit for the Houston, Texas
campaign misfit; the story originated with a local Fox 26 story in
Houston, Texas and the Las Vegas Tribune followed the story as
many other media outlets did.
“The camera follows two Obama volunteers whooping it up as
they enter a new campaign office. The reporter talks about the
importance of the Hispanic vote in Houston. Though it went unmentioned, many viewers had a moment of “Wait, is that a...?”
Yep, a large Cuban flag with the image of Che Guevara on it can
be seen prominently hanging behind the desk of one of the volunteers” and the story spread as dynamite after that, reported Fox
26 back then.
The same Hispanic woman that hung up the phone on the Las
Vegas Tribune is the same Hispanic woman that abruptly ended
the conversation with Fox 26, but this time she admitted being a
Cuban and said her name was Maria Isabel.
And now, the president himself proved Las Vegas Tribune’s
veracity on the article published eight years ago, and the
newspaper’s detractors, like octogenarian former majority leader
Harry Reid and many Democrats’ campaign managers and some
Republicans that do not agree with the transparency policy of the
newspaper and nitpick on some grammatical error of the Cuban
founder and publisher of the Las Vegas Tribune, who after fiftynine years of residing in Las Vegas still speaks with an accent,
despite having one of the best editors in the field.
The daily paper has hundreds of people working on every issue of their publication and still makes mistakes and grammatical
errors, but no one complains about those things, but when the
weekly newspaper with a circulation of 30,000 — before being
forced to go online because of pressure from the corrupted elected
officials, the politically controlling campaign managers and that
local daily — lets a mistake slip through, everyone jumps to criticize us, the only independent newspaper in Nevada.
The antagonistic relationship of Senator Reid with the Las Vegas Tribune publisher, Rolando Larraz, is well known, as well as
that of other elected officials that are in favor of the lifting of the
embargo — such as Republican Senator Dean Heller, who accompanied president Obama on his trip to the communist island.
During his radio show, Face The Tribune, Larraz accused Heller
of betraying not only the Cubans in the United States, but also the
American people that refuse to become part of the Obama plan of
turning the country into another Cuba.
Las Vegas Tribune has been a strong supporter of Donald Trump
from the very beginning because he has spoken what many people
have been quietly thinking about: close the borders, move the
illegals back to their countries of origin, and return the safety and
the respect to the country that once was the leader of freedom and
was respected by everyone.
By Thomas Mitchell
enrolled by the Secretary of State,
Nevadans have once again gone
and since has been greeted in Washthrough the futile and counterproducington by our own delegation with
tive ordeal of resetting all our clocks
the chirps of crickets.
to comply with the dictates of our
Moving the clock forward in sumelected naifs in Washington.
mer might save a few kilowatt-hours
We are now temporarily on Pain electrical lighting. In fact, a report
cific Daylight Saving Time, despite
to Congress, after it moved the start
the fact our Carson City lawmakers
of daylight saving time a month earnearly a year ago passed Assembly
lier to the second Sunday in March,
Joint Resolution No. 4 that proposes
found that nationwide in 2007 there
to make Pacific Daylight Saving
was a savings in electricity of only
Time year-round.
0.03 percent.
“WHEREAS, Congress also
Though it might save a few penTHOMAS MITCHELL
found and declared that ‘the use of
nies in power, this is offset by other
year-round daylight saving time could have other ben- factors. One study found that springing forward causes
eficial effects on the public interest, including the re- enough sleep deprivation to cost the U.S. economy
duction of crime, improved traffic safety, more day- $435 million a year. The New England Journal of Medilight outdoor playtime for children and youth of our cine found an association between that one hour loss
Nation, [and] greater utilization of parks and recre- of sleep from daylight saving time and an increase in
ation areas...’” AJR4 reads in part. It then asks Con- car accidents, as well as a 5 percent increase in heart
gress to allow the states “the option of establishing attacks in the first three weekdays after the transition
daylight saving time as the standard time in their re- to daylight saving time.
spective states throughout the calendar year...”
Ironically, the whole daylight saving time concept
It passed both the Assembly and Senate and was
(See Mitchell, Page 15)
Everyone loves a good
scandal — even if it’s not true
By Perly Viasmensky
I cannot believe that National Enquirer had come
out with alleged sexual indiscretions of Senator Ted
Cruz, and forgot about the indiscretions of other
people of interest.
According to the latest news, Ted Cruz has five
mistresses. Wow, what a superman he must be, pleasing five women and his wife!
Are we forgetting our 42nd President, Bill Clinton,
who was impeached by the House of Representatives
in 1998 for his relationship with Monica Lewinski?
And his supposed relationship with Paula Jones? And
many other women.
Are we, and National Enquirer, forgetting about
John Edwards, a presidential candidate who — while
his wife was dying of cancer — was having an affair
with his aide, Richie Hunter, and fathered her child?
I don’t remember the National Enquirer writing
any articles about Mr. Clinton having sex with other
women under the same roof (or next door) to his wife
and daughter.
I just remembered coming out of Chicago Joe Restaurant here in Las Vegas, some time ago and exchanging words with Governor and U.S. Senator Richard
Bryan and his wife Bonnie. He told me, “Perly, politics is no longer fun, as we used to have it. Years ago
it was totally different.”
Mr. Bryan was one hundred percent right. During
our years nobody attacked the politicians’ wives, or
families, for that matter. Mrs. Bryan was always a perfect lady, respected by everyone.
Donald Trump calls Ted Cruz “Lying Ted” and I
wonder what he means by that. Donald Trump is a
friend of the Clintons; does he want a bigger liar than
Bill Clinton, when he lied to the American people by
saying: “I did not have sex with that woman”? What
was Clinton’s interpretation of sex? Oral sex is still
sex, regardless of his mentality.
Presidential sexual indiscretions are nothing new.
Anybody remember the Kennedys?
I honestly believe that when presidential candidates
argue about the issues or any other matters they should
leave their wives out of their problems; after all, those
ladies are not running for any position.
What I have in mind right now is very scary and I
don’t want to discuss it ahead of time, because it would
be the worse thing to happen to the United States of
America.
Perly Viasmensky is the General Manager of the
Las Vegas Tribune. She writes a weekly column in this
newspaper. To contact Perly Viasmensky, email her at
pviasmensky@lasvegas tribune.com.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE
Lewandowski: It’s difficult to not
touch people in crowds; but...
By Maramis
or possibly even “squashed” in some
The recent video that captured the
way by the surge of a crowd, but we
Trump campaign aide, or campaign
generally would not end up with finmanager, Corey Lewandowski,
ger-grab bruise marks on our arms.
“grabbing” the Breitbart reporter,
That kind of bruise would have reMs. Michelle Fields, who claimed he
quired actual intentional arm-grabnot only grabbed her, but left a
bing. Not that all bruises are always
bruise, does not really reveal any
received exactly as claimed, yet it
noticeable violence or harshness, or
doesn’t seem the thing to do to diseven show any grabbing that I could
count the claims out of hand and say
see, but that does not mean Ms.
disparaging things about the person
Fields was NOT grabbed, However,
involved. Perhaps a “just-in-case”
the words she used to describe the
apology, without stating it was anyMARAMIS CHOUFANI
incident did sound rather exaggerthing more than a reaction in keepated according to matching up her words to what we ing with his position of wanting to keep his candidate
could see was happening.
safe, would have been more “presidential-friendly” and
But we must always remember that what we or less social media crazy.
others think we see is hardly the definitive story; we
Perhaps some of us may have been grabbed by an
have to allow for the perception of the person involved. arm while in a crowd and ended up with a bruise from
I have often been in crowds, as most of us have the grabber’s fingers, but I would imagine the circumlikely been, and we all know that it is very difficult to stances surrounding the grab would be mitigating facnot touch or be touched by others in such a situation. tors in how we would feel about it or what we would
Generally speaking, we might be bumped or pushed
(See Maramis, Page 17)
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Editors note: The views expressed are entirely those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Las Vegas Tribune.
How conservatives can still beat
“Tax Hike Mike” in Nevada’s CD3 race
By Chuck Muth
Now that the deadline for filing
has passed and the field is set, let’s
take a look at the GOP primary for
Nevada’s Third Congressional District — currently represented by
Republican Rep. Joe Heck, who is
running to replace Harry Reid in the
Senate and has his own primary
against Sharron “Choker” Angle.
The odds on favorite in the race
is Senate Majority Leader “Tax
Hike Mike” Roberson (RINOHenderson). Roberson is favored
for a number of reasons...
1.) He’s absolutely shameless
and unconstrained when it comes
to lying about his actual voting
record.
2.) He’s amassed a sizable
warchest.
3.) He’s hired some of the most
unscrupulous high-priced campaign
consultants money can buy (birds
of a feather and all).
CHUCK MUTH
4.) He’s been blessed with a
crowded primary field of three
credible conservative opponents
and three gadfly conservative opponents.
Indeed, conventional wisdom
says the conservative alternatives to
the lying, cheating, tax-hiking
RINO (Republican in Name Only)
will likely split the anti-Roberson
vote and hand Roberson the nomination.
But hope springs eternal, especially on Easter weekend. So let’s
take a deeper look at the possibilities, as well as the challenges.
CD-3 is a Democrat-majority
district.
That’s one of the reasons Heck
has more of a moderate voting
record than he might otherwise
have chalked up if he was representing a Republican-majority district
like, say, Rep. Mark Amodei’s. Or
“Choker” Angle’s old GOP assembly district back in 2002.
But I digress while beating this
dead horse.
Anyway, this electoral reality
means my friends Andy Matthews
and Michele Fiore — who will
surely hate me for saying this —
are probably NOT the best candidates for conservative voters to rally
behind in a concerted effort to stop
Roberson.
Let me explain...
Matthews is the highly-regarded
former president of Nevada’s premiere conservative think tank, Nevada Policy Research Institute. He
knows policy and issues front and
back and every which way but
loose. He is a BRILLIANT policy
analyst.
However, he’s never run for office before and probably should
have run for a state legislative seat
before aspiring to Congress.
And, I mean, it’s not like those
clueless dolts in Carson City (and
by that I’m referring primarily to
what passes for GOP “leadership”
there) couldn’t use his intellectual
candle-power.
In addition, even if Andy was
somehow able to prevail over
Roberson in the primary, every controversial conservative position
NPRI has taken over the years —
and they are legion — would be
wrapped around his neck in the general election where, again, Democrats outnumber Republicans.
We could lose the seat. Andy
simply might not be the most conservative candidate in the race who
can WIN.
The same can be said for Fiore.
I love Michele and her spunk.
And she does have some things
going for her that Matthews does
not — especially her innate ability
to drum up earned media (for better and for worse).
Plus, she has three campaigns
under her belt — including an unsuccessful congressional race six
years ago — and has an actual voting record in the Legislature that is
diametrically opposite of Tax Hike
Mike’s RINO record.
But again, her rock-solid conser(See Muth, Page 16)
MACE YAMPOLSKY
valuable public company. The case
had become increasingly contentious as the company refused to help
authorities, citing privacy issues.
Didn’t DOJ Know They
Could Do This?
“The government has now successfully accessed the data stored
on Farook’ s iPhone and therefore
no longer requires the assistance
from Apple,” the Justice Department said in a court filing on Mon-
day. March 28, 2016. Was there
ever any doubt?
Yet law enforcement’s ability to
unlock an iPhone through an alternative method raises new uncertainties, including questions about the
strength of Apple’s security on its
devices. The development also creates potential for new conflicts between the government and Apple.
Lawyers for Apple have previously
said that the company would want
to know the method used to crack
open the device. The government
may make that method classified.
We Can Do it and We Don’t
Need to Tell You.
“From a legal standpoint, what
happened in the San Bernardino
case doesn’t mean the fight is over,”
said Esha Bhandari, a staff attorney
at the American Civil Liberties
Union. She noted that the government generally goes through a process whereby it decides whether to
disclose information about certain
vulnerabilities so that manufacturers can patch them.
“I would hope they would give
that information to Apple so that it
can patch any weaknesses,” she
said (right — that will happen!),
“but if the government classifies the
tool, that suggests it may not. ”
Melanie Newman, a spokeswoman
for the Justice Department, said in
a statement that authorities had
“successfully retrieved the data
stored on the San Bernardino
terrorist’s iPhone” and that the
F.B.I. is currently reviewing the information.
(See Mace, Page 15)
LARRY KLAYMAN
you...” Alina also smiled and
seemed pleased at the shocking and
unexpected compliment. That was
my Dad; always joking and making people laugh.
The laughter invoked by my Dad
asking Fidel’s daughter to marry
him — Alina had fled Cuba after
the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
Soviet Union — was in stark contrast to the less than funny and in
fact disgraceful and outrageous
conduct of President Obama during
his “appeasement tour” of Cuba this
week. Indeed, even the Cuban
dictator’s own offspring, conceived
out of wedlock to a radical communist mother, could not stand the evil
oppression of the hellhole her father and her uncle Raul Castro had
imposed on their people — replete
with constant Hitleresque torture,
mayhem and murder intended to
further and maintain their communist dictatorship. It is no wonder
that Alina, after fleeing to Spain,
ultimately immigrated to Miami to
later spend her time broadcasting on
Radio Mambi into Cuba with messages to the Cuban people to rise
up and challenge the tyrannical
ways of her father and uncle.
The display our “Socialist-Muslim in Chief” put on in Cuba and
later in Argentina was without precedent in American history. Not
even having been greeted on his
arrival at the airport in Havana and
thus disrespected by Raul Castro
(the Cuban president had greeted
the pope there just a few weeks earlier), Obama then addressed the
equivalent of the Cuban parliament
in a televised speech. Beginning his
speech by equating the common
history of the United States with
Cuba, he emphasized that slaves
had largely built both nations. Then,
not naming even one Caucasian
American, he referenced only African-Americans like Jackie
Robinson, Muhammad Ali and
Martin Luther King to point out that
the United States, like Cuba, is not
“perfect” when it comes to discrimination.
Indeed, the majority of Obama’s
speech essentially was meant to
lower the esteem and prestige of the
United States and to reduce its stature in the eyes of the Cuban people
to curry favor and conform more
closely to the communist nation of
the Castros. And, when Obama on
occasion talked about rights of free
speech and democracy in America
and how these principles should
hopefully, eventually find their way
into Cuban society (“Castro
Cubano Style”), there was hardly
any applause forthcoming from the
Cuban parliamentary members who
were begrudgingly present for his
speech.
But the most troubling aspect of
Obama’s presentation was the short
shrift, at its outset, in even acknowledging the Muslim terrorist attacks
in Brussels, Belgium, that had occurred just hours before. Spending
only 51 seconds on the subject, our
illegitimate president could not wait
to run away from the topic with
haste, as part of his continuing effort to paint a good face on his fellow Muslims worldwide. Later in
the day, in total disrespect for even
the American victims of the ISIS
attack, he went off to a baseball
game, only to be photographed
grinning widely and stuffing his
face likely with empanadas as he
gazed onto the field and occasionally into the eyes of his comrade
Raul Castro — all the time donning
designer sunglasses. How chic but
hardly presidential under the circumstances, which out of respect
for Obama’s own “adopted country” should have required him to
return home immediately to meet
with “his” National Security Council.
Making comedian-actor Chevy
Chase proud, not to be undone by
the spectacle in Havana, Obama
next traveled with his wife, children
and, believe it or not, his motherin-law on their “National Lampoon
Latin American Vacation” to
Buenos Aires, Argentina, to cozy up
to the socialist, Peronist-run government there. Undaunted and unashamed, he made it a point to do
the tango with sexy theatrical “escorts” at a state dinner — effectively dancing on the graves of
those killed in Brussels. Even the
leftist media in the United States
showed disgust, as the SocialistMuslim in Chief had gone so far,
however difficult, as to even embarrass them as a bad example of
their creed.
It is now even more apparent that
Obama, being in his last year of an
arrogant, belligerent, divisive and
highly destructive presidency, believes that he can do whatever he
wants, regardless of appearances.
He is consciously disparaging the
United States as his final payback
for what he views as hundreds of
years of continuing racial discrimination toward African-Americans
and, more recently, his fellow Muslims. Like the low-class staffs of
Bill and Hillary Clinton that vandalized computers and furniture on
their way out the White House door,
to show their disdain for incoming
President George W. Bush after his
victory in the court case challenging the ballot count in Florida,
Obama’s persecution complex and
latent hatred has caused him to trash
our Judeo-Christian national heritage and national security as his final days in the peoples’ house hopefully comes to an end.
This president, put simply, is a
national and international disgrace.
Nothing more needs to be said. We
the People must now go forth to
rebuild our great nation and seek
justice for the severely damaging
and frequently “criminal actions” of
Obama and his comrades.
*****
Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch,
is known for his strong public interest advocacy in furtherance of
ethics in government and individual
freedoms and liberties. During his
tenure at Judicial Watch, he obtained a court ruling that Bill
Clinton committed a crime, the first
lawyer ever to have done so against
an American president. In 2004,
Larry ran for the U.S. Senate as a
Republican in Florida’s primary.
After the race ended, he founded
Freedom Watch. Larry is a frequent
commentator on television and radio, as well as a weekly columnist,
on Friday, for WND.com. He has
been credited as being the inspiration for the Tea Party movement.
No phone will stop us!
By Mace Yampolsky
The DOJ hacked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending
the suit against Apple but raising
new privacy questions. The Justice
Department said Monday March
28, 2016, that it was withdrawing a
legal action that would have forced
Apple to cripple the security system on an iPhone used by a terrorist. DOJ is afraid that it could lose!
We’ll just do it ourselves!
The Justice Department is stepping back from the case — which
involved demanding Apple’s help
to open the iPhone used by Syed
Rizwan Farook, a gunman in a mass
shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.,
last year — because law enforcement has found another way into
the device, officials said in a filing.
The decision to drop the case —
which involved demanding Apple’s
help to open the iPhone used by
Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in
the December shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14
people, ends a standoff between the
government and the world’s most
Obama’s National Lampoon Latin American Vacation
By Larry Klayman
Two weeks ago last Tuesday, my
father, Herman Klayman, died of
lung cancer with all of his children,
grandchildren and former wives
present in the emergency room of
Jefferson Memorial Hospital in
Philadelphia, our family’s native
city. I loved him deeply, and even
his former spouses loved him
deeply. He lived each day with a
great sense of optimism, never letting anything get him down, and he
would never admit defeat. He also
had a great sense of humor. His life
and counsel influenced me greatly.
With the news coming out of
Cuba this week about the visit of
our president to this communist
nation, although still grieving his
death, I remembered with a wry
smile my Dad’s brief encounter
with Fidel Castro’s only daughter,
Alina Fernandez. On a trip I had
taken with her in the late 1990s to
lobby lawmakers in Washington,
D.C., to increase pressure on her
father, then-President Fidel Castro,
to release from prison Cuban dissidents, many of whom I legally represented at Judicial Watch, along
with my group’s Miami CubanAmerican Director Sandra Cobas,
we passed through the City of
Brotherly Love on the way to the
U.S. “capital of corruption.” At the
Prime Rib Restaurant on Locust
Street, one of my Dad’s “prime”
watering holes near his condo on
Rittenhouse Square, he encountered
Alina over drinks at the bar before
dinner. Looking into her eyes with
a devilish smile after a brief introduction, my Dad, whom ironically
was a better-looking version of actor Jack Nicholson with a similar
personality, quipped; “You know,
you’re not bad looking! If you play
your cards right, maybe I will marry
COMMENTARIES
Editors note: The views expressed are entirely those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Las Vegas Tribune.
Sheriff and D.A.: Promises Made, Promises Broken
By Norman Jahn
I’ve written several times about
the training of police officers, specifically the LVMPD police academy experience. In mid-December
of 2010 the Review-Journal ran the
series, The Making of A Las Vegas
Police Officer. Within two weeks,
the R-J headline read, POLICE
UNIONS ADVISE SILENCE. The
two largest police unions in Las
Vegas were telling members not to
cooperate with investigators after
officer-involved shootings or incustody deaths. This was fallout
from the ongoing attempt to fix the
coroner’s inquest process. On the
same day, I wrote a letter to the editor entitled, Trust of the community
key for the police. I never thought
that I could become a police officer
and not have to explain why I used
deadly force (without the risk of
losing my job).
During two weeks at the end of
2010, it was reported that the
LVMPD was training new officers
that they were ‘fighting a war’ and
the police unions were telling officers not to cooperate with detectives investigating deaths which
should have caused concern. About
a year later came the Review-Journal story which was explosive and
received attention at a national
level.
On November 27, 2011, former
R-J reporter Lawrence Mower
(along with Alan Maimon and Brian
Haynes) published an extremely
troubling series Deadly Force:
When Las Vegas Police Shoot, and
Kill. A very disturbing video (http:/
/www.reviewjournal.com/news/
deadly-force/media/deadly-forcewhen-las-vegas-police-shoot-andkill) captured Sheriff Gillespie’s
defiance, condescending attitude,
and indifferent feelings about
deaths of suspects and the mistakes
made by his officers. I was already
on administrative leave for ‘crossing the street’ and I had just been
terminated by Sheriff Gillespie only
ten days prior. Make no mistake,
Metro does not hesitate to ‘pull the
trigger’ on their own!
Press releases on LVMPD’s
website show that in February of
NORMAN JAHN
2012, Sheriff Gillespie claimed he
reached out to the U.S. Department
of Justice Community Oriented
Policing Service (COPS), “to demonstrate the department’s commitment to addressing community concerns and ensuring fair and just behavior.” Gillespie claimed this was,
“a proactive step that our department initiated to properly address
community concerns about police
use of force... and that it was, “a rare
opportunity for us to have independent experts look at the big picture
and give us the critical analysis and
support needed to make this organization even stronger.”
I just revisited a story from June
of 2012 entitled, With inquests
stalled, Metro Police releasing, internal deadly force reports. (http://
m.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/
jun/04/inquests-stalled-metro-police-releasing-internal-d/#)
Sheriff Gillespie was making the
following promises: 1) He would
release deadly force documents to
the public and he said, “I believe
the release of these documents will
place this process and its outcome
in the full light of day without jeopardizing the right to privacy of our
officers involved.” 2) Gillespie said
that within 30 days of findings being released by the district
attorney’s office, Metro will release
its own two internal documents.
Those are the reports from the Force
Investigative Team that details the
incident and the administrative review by Metro’s new Office of In-
We Can Do IT But We Want
You To Do IT For Us!
“It remains a priority for the government to ensure that law enforcement can obtain crucial digital information to protect national security and public safety, either with
cooperation from relevant parties,
or through the court system when
cooperation fails,” she added. “We
will continue to pursue all available
options for this mission, including
seeking the cooperation of manufacturers and relying upon the creativity of both the public and private sectors.” Didn’t the draft end
years ago? It seems as though the
Government wants to force Apple
to do its dirty work, whether they
want to or not.
Apple and the government had
been scheduled to attend a court
hearing in the case last week in Riverside, Calif., before the Justice Department said it had been approached by a Third Party with potential alternative method for opening the iPhone. I wonder if they always had this capability, but they
were just trying to make Apple bend
to their will.
This issue will NOT go away!
*****
For more information regarding
Nevada laws, or if you feel your
rights have been violated, please
call Mace Yampolsky & Associates.
Call or text us at (702) 385-9777.
We are available 24/7 for emergencies. If you need help, CALL NOW
before it is too late. We can help!
Mace
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ternal Oversight. 3) Metro created
the Office of Internal Oversight to
deal with public accountability issues involving police shootings and
Gillespie explained that an ‘administrative review’ would explain
what steps have been taken to hold
ourselves accountable.” 4) Gillespie
said that when District Attorney
Steve Wolfson releases his report
(whether the use of deadly force
was a crime) Metro will release its
own information, “within 30 days,
if not earlier.” (Note: 19 police slaying cases were awaiting public review and, at the time, there had not
been a coroner’s inquest in 19
months). Gillespie got input and
noted that he had, ‘interactions with
the police unions, Metro employees, and with the ACLU and
NAACP.” As a side note Undersheriff Kevin McMahill dropped a lot
of propaganda and promises on the
NAACP during a forum just last
week. He claimed that Metro is its
own biggest critic and that Metro
is aware of many problems before they come to the attention
of others.
The 2012 story concluded with
a reference to Sgt. Kelly McMahill,
a member of the new Office of Internal Oversight. She said her office was putting documents on the
website along with specific recommendations on training or policy
changes that came out of each one
of the deadly force incidents. “It’s
a case-by-case basis,” McMahill
said. “We do a critical review of
each one of these incidents and we
look at everything from did the dispatching go correctly in the beginning all the way down to the application of the actual use of force.”
Sgt. McMahill most recently was a
lieutenant and is soon to be a captain. Her husband, Kevin, has been
Sheriff Lombardo’s ‘Undersheriff’
since January of 2015.
McMahill’s wife has investigated shootings as a member of
CIRT. Assistant Sheriff Fasulo’s
wife has investigated these
shootings as well. If two of the top
three ranking members of the
LVMPD have wives doing highly
sensitive investigations doesn’t
anyone think that this could pose
some problems and a conflict of
interest? It certainly can’t be very
objective.
As of March of 2016, (we are
approaching four years later) the
most recent ‘statistical data’ is dated
in May of 2015. The most recent
item listed under ‘quarterly reports’
is dated from June of 2012. NO
KIDDING! Has the DOJ ignored
Metro for almost four years or is
Metro just not releasing the reports
to the public and media or posting
them on their website. There are at
least nine fatal shootings pending
which have not been reviewed. The
most recent shooting review appears to be from April of 2014. That
is a lot longer than 30 days... we
are talking TWO YEARS here! The
most recently reviewed non-fatal
incident occurred in August of
2014. There are at least nine nonfatal shootings that have NOT been
reviewed but they are adding ‘press
releases’ to the website so they can’t
(See Jahn, Page 17)
appears to have originated with a
satirical essay by Ben Franklin,
while he was serving as ambassador in France. According to his
tongue-in-cheek account, he came
up with the concept when he mistakenly arose one day at 6 a.m. instead of noon and discovered the
sun was shining through his window. “I love economy exceedingly,” he jested, and proceeded to
explain in a letter to a local newspaper how many candles and how
much lamp oil could be saved by
adjusting the city’s lifestyle to the
proclivities of the sun.
Franklin observed: “This event
has given rise in my mind to several serious and important reflections. I considered that, if I had not
been awakened so early in the
morning, I should have slept six
hours longer by the light of the sun,
and in exchange have lived six
hours the following night by
candle-light; and, the latter being a
much more expensive light than the
former, my love of economy induced me to muster up what little
arithmetic I was master of, and to
make some calculations, which I
shall give you...”
Then he did the math, and exclaimed, “An immense sum! that
the city of Paris might save every
year, by the economy of using sunshine instead of candles.”
In 1918 in a effort to be more
economical during the war, Congress borrowed from Europe the
concept of daylight saving time.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor until the
end of the Second World War, the
nation was on year-round daylight
saving time, or war time, as it was
called.
Congress passed the Uniform
Time Act in 1966 and has amended
it several times, though we fail to
find this enumerated power in our
copy of the Constitution. Only Arizona and Hawaii have been allowed
to opt out by sticking with standard
time.
Steve Calandrillo, a professor of
law at the University of Washington, argues that hundreds of lives
would be saved if we went to yearround DST. “Darkness in the
evening hours is much more deadly
than in the morning hours — there
are more drivers on the road and
more children playing outdoors,” he
reasons.
Washington should allow Nevada this one little boon to set its
clocks as Nevadans see fit.
*****
Thomas Mitchell is a former
newspaper editor who now writes
conservative/libertarian columns
for weekly papers in Nevada. You
may
email
Mitchell
at
thomasmnv@yahoo.com. He blogs
at http://4thst8.wordpress.com/.
Mitchell
Can Melania Trump Heidi’s Cruz Control?
By Walter L. Seip II, PhD
and retired Army Colonel
Distasteful and frequently offensive comments about political candidates have been proven to be four
times more effective than passing
pleasantries. But, is there a limit
regarding attack ads focused on the
spouse or offspring of a candidate?
Personally, I think not, but... I’d
suggest a fuzzy line that depends
on the political involvement of the
person being assailed. For instance,
there seems to be no line and no
holds barred when it comes to remarks about spouse Bill Clinton
and daughter Chelsea.
Recently the “line” regarding the
wives of the two leading Republican candidates for President came
into question. Applying my criterion on attacking a family member,
I defer to the pronouncement of
Kelly Riddell of “The Washington
Times,” who noted that Mrs. Cruz
MELANIA TRUMP
was not like most political spouses
while pointing to the large role she
plays in her husband’s campaign.
Riddell labels her an “integral part”
of it. I characterize Heidi S.
(Nelson) Cruz as a still somewhat
connected Bush family politician
that uses political connections for
self-advancement. She has obvious
ties to at least one super PAC and is
an often visible surrogate for her
husband and his campaign.
Heidi Cruz grew up in a Seventh-day Adventist missionary family. She earned a B.A. in 1994 and
an M.B.A. in 2000. She then declined job offers to instead work for
George Bush’s run for President. As
with many campaign staffers, she
was rewarded with a political appointment (albeit with limited experience) to a well-paying position
in “W’s” administration. In 2003
she became a part of Condoleezza
Rice’s team, thus cementing any
remaining political ties to the Bush
family. She also met Rafael Edward
(Ted) Cruz during that year.
In 2004, she moved to Texas to
join her now husband going to work
for JP Morgan Chase and then in
2005 joined another “Wall Street”
vative voting record and statements
would be an 800-pound albatross
around her neck in November. She,
too, is probably not the most conservative candidate in the race who
can WIN.
And for obvious reasons, neither
are the Three Gadflies who selfishly and foolishly tossed their hats
in the ring for the seat: Kerry Bowers, Sami Khal and Annette
Teijeiro. But enough about them.
The remaining candidate is
Danny Tarkanian.
Danny, like Fiore, has considerable campaign experience — although some understandably will
argue that’s a negative, not a positive, since he hasn’t yet won any of
his races. Always a bridesmaid;
never a bride and all that.
Then again, as most of us have
heard, Abraham Lincoln had, like,
seven campaign losses before being elected president of the United
States. As the saying goes, it’s not
how many times you get knocked
down that matters; it’s how many
times you get back up.
But onward...
Danny also has that well-reported (meaning, frankly, it’s “old
news”) bankruptcy. But bankruptcy
doesn’t have the same negative
power it once did — especially in
Las Vegas where so many others
were wiped out by the Great
Obama-Sandoval Recession and
because of the highly publicized
business bankruptcies of Donald
Trump.
Indeed, unless I missed a memo,
Trump is still the leading GOP candidate for the presidential nomination.
On the other hand, Danny’s also
reportedly raised more money than
Matthews, Fiore and the Three
Gadflies put together, which positions him uniquely and strongly to
compete against Roberson’s special
interest pot of campaign gold.
And while an unapologetic conservative, Tark’s softer tone and
name ID — thanks to his legendary father’s reign over UNLV
basketball’s glory days — probably
better suits him for the general election than either Andy, Michele or
the Three Gadflies.
All that said...
The crowded GOP field in this
race isn’t a problem so much as it’s
a reality. So let’s deal with it...
At this point, none of the candidates are worried about the general
election. They’re only worried
about winning the GOP primary.
Which... they should.
And frankly, I don’t care which
of the six emerges victorious in
June as long as the lyin’, cheatin’,
two-faced, fork-tongued, doubledealin’, back-stabbin’ Roberson
goes down in flames!
So how do you beat Roberson
when you would otherwise think
the six conservatives will split the
anti-Roberson vote?
There’s only one way...
The six conservatives are gonna
have to exercise some serious campaign and messaging discipline and
think about more than just themselves.
And no, I’m not talking about
dropping out of the race before the
withdrawal deadline of March 29th
(though I certainly wouldn’t discourage doing so either).
No, the only way to beat Tax
Hike Mike is for all six to confine
and direct their combined campaign
fire solely at Roberson.
Drive his negatives up into the
stratosphere.
Make voting for him so toxic
that he couldn’t be elected Team
Captain of Miss Suzy’s Ballet Club.
Concentrate all of their attacks
on Roberson and withhold fire on
each other.
Shoot at the prime target from
six different angles... and never let
up.
Give him the ol’ 1-2: Roberson
sucks. I’m good. Roberson sucks.
I’m good. Roberson sucks. I’m
good. Roberson sucks. I’m good.
The only way for a conservative
to win this race is if the six conservative candidates accept that a
Roberson defeat is the ultimate goal
and a win for them (and the rest of
us) regardless of which of the six is
the GOP primary winner.
Alas, I’m guessing the six conservatives will be reluctant to embrace such a focused campaign.
They will surely be more inclined
to lash out as much and often
against each other as against
Roberson.
Which is why conservative activists need to hold their feet to the
fire...
Roberson is the enemy. Not the
opponent. The enemy.
This guy is far worse than just a
turd in the punchbowl.
He lied to all of us when he
signed the Taxpayer Protection
Pledge... at a Tea Party rally... on
Tax Day in 2015 in order to get
elected.
He then stabbed us all in the
back by leading the effort last year
to pass the largest tax hike in Nevada history... including a new
gross receipts tax just like the one
80 percent of voters rejected at the
polls in 2014.
He is, as my friend Grover
Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is fond of saying, the proverbial rat-head in a Coke bottle.
If he’s not stopped now,
Roberson will be polluting the conservative movement and the GOP
here for many years to come.
What’s at stake here, folks, is
much bigger and more dire than a
simple Republican congressional
primary.
So if you see or hear Danny,
Michele, Andy or the Three Gadflies slamming anyone
BUT Tax Hike Mike, get on the
phone, get on email, get on
Facebook and get on Twitter and
tell them to knock it off.
If you see or hear something, say
something!
It’s going to be very difficult for
these six to message-discipline
themselves. We’re gonna have to
help them.
You can bet I will — starting
with this column putting them all
on notice. But I’m just one voice.
These people are gonna need to hear
from you all, as well.
Early.
And often.
So let it be written; so let it be
done.
*****
Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a non-profit public
policy grassroots advocacy organization. He may be reached by email
at cmuth@lasvegastribune.com.
Muth
HEIDI CRUZ
investment firm, Goldman Sachs,
as a private wealth manager. She
reportedly often took her Texas
Solicitor General husband with her
to meet prospective clients. To finance his campaign for the senate
in 2012, Cruz took out those (unreported to the FEC—an “oversight”?) loans from Goldman Sachs
(and Citibank) totaling a million
dollars. In 2013, now Senator
Cruz’s spouse became the head of
Goldman’s SW Region’s investment management division. She is
now on leave without pay.
She is the acknowledged Cruz
campaign’s most prolific fundraiser
often making calls to prospective
donors based on lists provided by a
super PAC. She has filed a number
of candidate documents for her husband. Patrick Svitek of “The Texas
Tribune” reported in late 2015 that
Heidi Cruz had emerged from her
behind-the-scenes role and become
more visible. He noted her TV appearances on KTRK and Fox where
she appeared for interviews by herself. This underscores the pronouncement of her playing an integral part in the campaign as posited by Riddell and “fair game” for
the same campaign criticism as her
first term senator husband and other
candidates.
This “hello there folks” is generally the exposure allowed to
wives of presidential candidates
Sanders and Kasich. Above, there
was a given regarding Hillary
Clinton’s Bill and daughter Chelsea
being fair game. Donald J. Trump
is in a category of his own choosing. He has used his very successful three grown children as surrogates and, although “fair game,”
there has been very little negative
press regarding them and against
their father. The two youngest children have been mostly insulated
from the campaign and should remain “off limits” from the press.
That limits attack ads to be aimed
at The Donald and his campaign
staff.
No, I haven’t left out the lovely
Mrs. Trump. Melania has purposely
kept to a profile similar to the Sanders and Kasich wives. As the delegate count for Mr. Trump continues to mount, she is expected to
become more visible on the campaign trail. The not unexpected first
salvo by a super PAC supporting
Senator Cruz was fired last week
when a photo of a nude Melania
was used in an anti-Trump ad. The
rights to the January 2000 GQ
magazine cover was reportedly purchased by the Cruz campaign and
furnished to the Cruz-friendly super PAC.
The third Mrs. Trump began
modeling at age 16 and got a modeling contract in Milan when 18.
She did take time off from modeling to complete a degree in architecture and design in her native
Slovenia. Melania became a permanent resident of the U.S. in 2001 and
a citizen in 2006. She speaks five
languages; English, German,
French, Serbian, and her native
Slovenian.
For sure, there won’t be any
negative ads focused on Melania’s
philanthropy. Her various causes
include the Police Athletic League,
the American Red Cross, the Boys
Club of New York, and Love Our
Children USA. The love, care, and
attention focused on son Barron, 10,
was evident during a recent interview on FOX by Gretta Van
Susteren. Melania and Donald
Trump prefer to be hands-on parents and are proud that they have
no nannies.
When it comes to first term
Senator Cruz’s campaign focusing
negative ads on Mr. Trump, the
spotlight had better be on The
Donald or his older progeny and not
on his wife. It’s almost certain that
the warning about “spilling the
beans” about Cruz’s Bush-connected, super PAC-related, Wall
Street money-manager wife will be
fair game. But don’t expect the fight
to be fair; it hasn’t been so far. I
suspect that the police report of
Mrs. Cruz being found despondent
in an Austin Texas park 10 years
ago will bubble to the surface once
again.
Readers should expect a pause
in Cruz-generated negative ads as
he and his campaign will be occupied with defending the “National
Enquirer” exposure of the senator’s
alleged affairs with five paramours.
These charges were supposedly
advanced by fellow Senator and
former opponent Marco Rubio.
More confirmations than denunciations are forthcoming. Fair game for
sure and I’m positive that Heidi
Cruz will be asked to comment.
Barack Obama disgraces the free world
By Juan Torres
Bear Witness Central
This past week, two deplorable
events occurred: first, the terrorist
attack in Brussels, Belgium; second, Barack Obama’s visit to dictator Raúl Castro in Cuba. Obama
was the first U.S. President to visit
Cuba since 1928.
According to Belgian sources,
terrorists attacked the subway and
airport in Brussels, killing 35 and
wounding more than 250. Authorities reported it was the worst attack
at the Belgian capital since the Second World War. Among the victims
were people from 40 different nationalities, including U.S. citizens.
So far, four Americans have been
confirmed dead.
When news about the attack was
made public, the media reported
Barack Obama would address the
world from Havana, Cuba. In all,
the President’s speech lasted 51 seconds. In his address, Obama offered
his condolences and support to the
Belgium people and condemned the
terrorist act. Later, he watched a
baseball game with Raúl Castro.
Shortly after the attack, the Islamic State took responsibility for
the terrorist act. Up until the time
of writing this article and almost
seven days after the tragic event,
Obama has yet to announce the nature of the violence: another terrorist attack committed by radical Islamic extremists.
JUAN TORRES
While watching and celebrating
the baseball game with Castro,
Obama said: “Watching the baseball game with Castro sends a message to the terrorists.”
Criticism to the President’s reaction was swift. Senator Ted Cruz
asked President Obama to return to
the USA or make a trip to Brussels
rather than “using the time to go to
a baseball game with Castro” in
Cuba. Similarly, Donald Trump
said that Obama looked and
sounded “ridiculous” while he delivered a speech in Cuba “in the
shadow” of what had happened in
Brussels.
Moreover, when Sean Hannity
of Fox News interviewed former
Mayor of New York, Rudolph
Giuliani over Barack Obama’s reaction, Giuliani said: it’s “embarrassing.” Many analysts believe that
do about it.
There are, of course, life-saving
grabs where someone pulls us back
from an actual danger — such as a
possible fall from a train platform
or the curb of a busy street in New
York City. There are other possible
life-saving grabs — although they
might only be considered danger-
saving grabs — where someone felt
you were in danger from standing
where you were (perhaps in the way
of something about to fall, or from
your proximity to another person
that they had reason to believe was
about to hurt you. Or you could also
have been grabbed to keep you
from hurting someone else. Isn’t
that what bodyguards of any kind
say they have no knowledge of how
horribly late (and outdated) their
information is.
Captain Matt McCarthy has
been replaced in OIOCS by Captain Shawn Anderson-according to
the website. McCarthy is an interesting character and I found it entertaining to scrutinize his ‘on
scene’ announcements and then
compare them to the formal press
conferences (or press releases)
given by, ‘the undersheriff or his
designee.’ The standard practice is
to ‘spin’ the facts known at the
scene to be most advantageous to
the police department. The power
to tell citizens what they are supposed to see on video or what they
are supposed to believe (‘trust us’)
is lodged at higher levels with
people like Undersheriff McMahill
or the Assistant Sheriffs. They are
often aggressive and browbeat the
reporters and are indignant that anyone would question the creative
‘storytelling’ that is given to the
public. After all — why worry when
it won’t be for a couple of years
until the full review is done and the
public seems to have a short
memory. The police officers working every day also don’t get the
feedback from honest critiques (after action analysis) of incidents until the ideal time for ‘lessons
learned’ has passed.
In conclusion, who is NOT liv-
ing up to the promises that were
made to the feds and the Las Vegas
community? Nobody seems to be
asking whether it is the sheriff’s
problem or the problem of D.A.
Wolfson. The district attorney is
months (even years) behind the
curve with many shootings ‘on
deck’ and I don’t see dates on the
reports that Metro produces that
will allow a determination to be
made about whether Metro reports
were completed within 30 days of
the D.A. assessment — as promised. I find it quite pathetic to repeatedly read the D.A. reviews
which have contained language
such as, “If the facts are as reported
and no new information is received” then the use of force is justified.” If progress toward transparency has stalled and is so pathetic
as it currently appears then maybe
the feds should do a little followup. Or maybe Lawrence Mower
can return and do an update on the
latest shootings. Everyone in Las
Vegas should be paying attention.
Luck only lasts just so long...
*****
Norm Jahn served with the
LVMPD for over 21 years and
achieved the rank of lieutenant. He
also served as a police chief in Wisconsin for over three years. Jahn
has been a university professor and
also taught in the criminal justice
program at the College of Southern Nevada for over a decade.
Maramis
Jahn
when an ally of the United States
suffers an attack of this magnitude,
the President should have taken up
the baton in defense of the free
world. Inexplicably, Obama took
away a mere 51 seconds of his time
with Castro to refer to the worst terrorist attack committed in Belgium.
The day before the terrorist attack in Brussels, Barack Obama
was welcomed by dictator Raúl
Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana. According to the
website Libertad Digital, after the
ceremony, Obama skipped Protocol
to ask his team to take a photo of
him with the image of Che Guevara.
Photos of President Obama alongside the figure of Communist assassin Che Guevara spread all over the
world.
Che Guevara was a bloodthirsty
killer who tortured and executed
thousands of Cubans in the name
of communism. It is surprising and
unexplainable that some people
admire someone like Guevara.
During Obama’s visit, Raúl
Castro seized the opportunity to
criticize the United States. To
Obama’s face, Castro attacked human rights, income inequality, and
health care in the U.S., saying: “It
is inconceivable that a Government
does not defend and secure the right
to health care, equal pay and the
rights of children.”
It is hypocritical that Castro criticizes the United States for income
inequality and health care. In Cuba,
medical services are outdated and
scarce, except when it comes to the
government elite. If you don’t believe it, ask a Cuban. Do you know
doctors in Cuba earn between 10
and 20 dollars a month?
Castro is the last person in the
world who should talk about human
rights. We must remember the imprisonments, tortures and executions that the Communist regime
has subjected the Cuban people to
since 1959.
Has Castro forgotten that Cuba
was on the list of countries that
sponsor terrorism until Barack
Obama decided to delete it from the
list just last year?
How can someone talk about
human rights when he led a dictatorship for more than 55 years?
If communism is some paradise
why do Cubans flee from there and
throw themselves into the ocean
hoping to reach the shores of
Florida alive?
Castro ignored one fact that
Communists refuse to accept. Due
to economic opportunities and freedoms, the United States is the
dream destination of millions of
immigrants around the world.
Worst of all, while in Cuba,
Obama celebrated the achievements of communism under Castro.
Referring to Castro’s comments, the
President said: In Castro’s view
making sure that everybody is get-
ting a decent education or health
care, has basic security in old age,
that those things are human rights
as well. I personally would not disagree with him.”
Apparently, for Barack Obama,
a system of education completely
controlled and dictated by the Government deserves the title of “decent education.”
Obama allowed a murderous
dictator who seized power in his
country to criticize a democratic
and free nation that has been an
example of prosperity and development to the entire world. Meanwhile, oppression, imprisonment
and lack of free elections continue
to repress Cubans. Nevertheless,
Obama called to put an end to the
embargo and promised to increase
ties and trade with the Communist
regime.
The attitude of the Obama Administration is nothing new. President Obama continues legitimizing
dictatorial regimes and tyrants, just
as he did with Iran.
Obama not only degraded himself before one of the cruelest dictators in world history, but also dishonored the free world and all of
those who love and appreciate democracy and freedom.
Dan Le Batard, a sports reporter
from the Miami Herald said: “The
United States extends its hand to a
dictator whose hands are stained
with the blood of my people.”
do? Better to grab and be mistaken,
than not to grab and be sorry. And
shouldn’t people who put themselves in such situations where
bodyguards abound be prepared —
at least a little bit — for being
stopped in some way if their actions
appear even a little bit suspicious?
As a society, we set up ordinary
“everyday” situations where
crowds will ensue, and the individuals in any of those crowds can hurt
each other; and yet those who
choose to indulge in those situations
know full well that they might get
pushed or shoved or crushed or
squashed, and they jump right in
anyway. Some of those ordinary
situations would include Black Friday shopping extravaganzas or any
special sales days that offer outrageous prices during very restricted
hours, encouraging concentrated
crowds to try to get at the limited
merchandise at those very low
prices (and who isn’t then shocked
when they see or hear about otherwise gentle women grabbing merchandise out of another’s hands to
be the one to get that special item
at that special price, perhaps leaving the losing party with more than
a bruise). Then there are those opening nights, whether it’s for a nightclub, a movie, a show, or the like;
indoor or outdoor rock concerts, or
dancing areas such as mosh pits and
any small, crowded dance floors.
And don’t forget elevators in very
tall buildings where a wait for the
next one could cause you to be late
for work or for an important appointment. (I was getting off one of
those elevators several years ago
and a woman simply turned around
fast and hit me in the eye with her
extended hand. She apologized, but
I was left with a bruise. It made me
think of all those women who have
used the old standby excuse that
they ran into a door because they
were too embarrassed to admit that
they were hit by a man. Most people
wouldn’t believe a woman on an
elevator socked me one!)
So while crowding and crushing
behavior can be part of the “natural” landscape of the above activities, it also happens at any political
event, such as the one where Ms.
Michelle Fields was trying to question The Donald. Mr. Corey
Lewandowski might have simply
been reacting (or unnecessarily
over-reacting) as a security guard.
But because I wasn’t there, and
the video may not have shown what
was going on at her left side — the
side we couldn’t see — and I have
never been involved in politics to
know what goes on at those affairs,
or even what is allowed or accepted
under certain circumstances, it
would be foolish for me to criticize
what she claims she experienced,
or even for me to suggest that there
was nothing to experience. It may
well be that such “grabbing” or
even “would-be grabbing” happens
all the time at such crowded events,
and that many reporters throughout
the years have been so “stopped”
from reaching for a candidate and
were left with a little souvenir
bruise themselves. I do not know,
and maybe none of them ever made
an issue of it, knowing it was a risk
to reach out and touch the candidate, but risked it anyway.
It’s difficult to not touch people
in crowds; but...
Maramis Choufani is the Managing Editor of the Las Vegas Tribune. She writes a weekly column
in this newspaper. To contact
Maramis,
email
her
at
maramis@lasvegastribune.com.
ENTERTAINMENT
Academy Awards Red Carpet Interviews:
Melody Sweets and the Gazillionaire
(“Absinthe”-Caesars Palace)
By Sandy Zimmerman
Las Vegas Tribune
There’s always surprises during the Academy Awards Red Carpet interviews and today I met Voki Kalfayan (VK), known as the
Gazillionaire — the producer, host and comedian of “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace.
VK was charming as he playfully answered my questions with his own interpretations seemingly in a world of his own.
SZ: “Absinthe” is the most original show
in Las Vegas with so many surprises. What
part do you play in the show?”
Melody: “He is the host, the boss.”
VK: “I’m the boss.”
SZ: “Could you tell us about your show,
“Absinthe” is unique, there is no show like it
in Las Vegas.”
VK: “There’s just our show like it in Las
Vegas, it’s a circus show, cabaret, variety,
acrobats.”
SZ: “He kept slowly moving his head
down so I had to lower the microphone more
and more.”
Melody began laughing.
We were both bending down.
VK: “What are we doing? I spend most
of my evenings down here.
“Absinthe” has acrobats and dancers. I
have an assistant Joy but she doesn’t help me
at all during the show. It’s a lot of fun.”
SZ: “I’ve seen “Absinthe,” the show is
fantastic and some of the acts perform dangerous stunts. Melody, you dance, strip and
do a lot of things.”
Melody: “I’m the singer in the show, I get
to take my clothes off, do burlesque and sing
every night, pretty fabulous.”
SZ: “You have a new song, “Santa,
baby”?
Melody: “Santa, Maybe.” a naughty
Christmas song, it was a lot of fun to record.”
SZ: “Where can we find your song?”
Melody: “It is on I-tunes and my website.
It’s a naughty Christmas song.”
SZ: “We are at the Academy Awards, who
do you think should win the Oscars?
Melody: “Leo, Leo, Leo!”
SZ: “Everybody is saying that tonight.”
Melody: “Leo has gotten hot with age, I’m
all for that. I don’t really know if he’s a good
actor or not. Leo’s hot, he should win something.”
Turning to VK, Sandy asked, “Who should
win Oscars?
VK: “Absolutely.”
SZ: “Who do you think will win?”
VK: “Myself in all categories and melody
for all the ladies categories.”
SZ: “Which film?”
VK: “You don’t recognize me, I’m the
bear in the Revenant. Have you seen the
Revenant? I’ll rip you apart, baby, grrr.”
Melody: “We have a new act, a bath boy,
he splashes around, and it is all yummy. I love
my job.
For
more
information
visit:
www.absinthevegas.com, https://youtu.be/
LaDR5VizGL8?t=3.
VARIETY
The Academy Awards events raise money
for Variety, The Children’s Charity of Southern Nevada. Variety The Children’s Charity
of Southern Nevada was founded in 1950
with the mission to build and staff what would
be the first school in Southern Nevada for
children
with
special
needs.
www.varietychildrenscharitysn.org
Sandy Zimmerman is a Syndicated Columnist, Show/Film & Dining Reviewer,
Travel Writer, Photographer, and Talk Show
Host of the Las Vegas Today Show programs
and Discover the Ultimate Vacation travel
specials.Telephone: (702) 731-6491 or
Email: sandyzimm2003@yahoo.com.
Sandy: “Which film should win the Oscar?” The Gazillionaire: “You don’t recognize me, I’m the bear in the Revenant. I’ll rip you
apart, baby, grrr.” Singer/Dancer Melody Sweets (“Absinthe”-Caesars Palace)
As the Gazillionaire kept moving his head down, Sandy kept bending down lowering the microphone (Photos by Rhett Nielson)
Melody Sweets performing during “Absinthe” show. (Photo by “Absinthe”)
Producer/ Host and Comedian Voki Kalfayan, known as the
Gazillionaire, appears in “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace.
(Photo by Sandy Zimmerman during the show.)
STK named one of the 100 hottest restaurants in America
This Week
in Las Vegas
By Mike Kermani
By Mike Kermani
Las Vegas Tribune
STK inside The Cosmopolitan
of Las Vegas announced that it has
been named one of the 100 Hottest
Restaurants in America for 2016 by
OpenTable. The list of winners is
derived from more than five million reviews submitted by
OpenTable diners for more than
20,000 restaurants in all 50 states
and the District of Columbia. STK
Las Vegas is joined on the list by
the flagship steakhouse, STK
Downtown located in New York
City.
“This is a great honor from the
OpenTable diners,” said Jordan
Mendez, general manager of STK.
“Our entire team is dedicated to
providing an excellent dining experience and this recognition
speaks to that, from service to the
cuisine to the atmosphere. We’re
also very proud that our sister restaurant STK Downtown has been
named to the list for the second year
in a row.”
For more information about all
of the restaurants on this list or the
selection process, please visit: http:/
/bit.ly/HottestRestaurants.
STK is open Sunday through
Thursday 6-11 p.m., Friday and
Saturday 5:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. and
Sunday Brunch Club is open Sundays 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Reservations
are recommended by calling
702.698.7990
or
visiting
stkhouse.com. Follow STK on
Twitter
@STKLasVegas,
Instagram at @eatSTK and like on
Facebook at facebook.com/
STKhouse for promotions and upcoming events.
*****
NO LIMITS PRESENTS:
“SHARE THE LAUGHS”
COMEDY AND INSPIRATION
WITH RENOWNED HEARING
IMPAIRED COMIC KATHY
BUCKLEY & FRIENDS
Celebrating its 20th year... No
Limits for deaf children is proud to
present “Share the Laughs” a
fundraising event to help spread
awareness about hearing loss as
well as to celebrate the opening of
the No Limits Educational Center
in Las Vegas. This event will feature the inspiring talent of hearing
impaired comic Kathy Buckley and
will take place on April 3rd, 7:30
p.m. at No Regrets Bar, located at
8349 W Sunset Road, #150, Las
Vegas, NV, 89113. Ticket prices are
$50.00 for general admission and
$100.00 for the exclusive VIP package that includes a special pre-show
meet and greet with Kathy Buckley.
To purchase tickets visit: http://
share-the-laughs-with-no-limitslv.eventbrite.com or call (310) 2800878.
Proceeds from this event will
help benefit the No Limits Educational Center for deaf children
learning to listen and speak in Las
Vegas. No Limits works with lowincome deaf children and their
families through the after-school
educational centers that provide
auditory, speech, and language
therapy for deaf children between
the ages of 3 to 18 years of age. No
Limits also provides literacy and
education classes for parents. In
addition, No Limits is one of the
only national theater programs for
deaf children who are learning to
speak and has been voted “Best Arts
Program” in the country by Parent’s
Magazine.
No Limits is a nationwide organization focused on increasing
speech and language skills and fostering the self-esteem of deaf and
hard of hearing children through the
theatrical arts and after-school enrichment centers in Culver City,
CA, Oxnard, CA and Las Vegas,
NV. The organization was founded
in 1996 by Michelle Christie, Ed.D,
a teacher for the deaf with over
eighteen years of experience in the
entertainment industry, after recognizing the lack of opportunities for
oral deaf children to improve their
ability to speak. Through the No
Limits
Theater
Program,
underserved deaf children have the
opportunity to appreciate and benefit from the theatrical arts, to develop their creativity and public
speaking skills, and to enhance their
self-esteem. The No Limits Educational Centers serve school-age deaf
children and families who are unable to find assistance elsewhere.
The centers offer individual
therapy, literacy classes, academic
tutoring, STEM, arts enrichment,
and a Leadership and Mentoring
Academy for teens.
Alumni from the program have
gone on to graduate college, perform on television hit shows like
Glee, and have followed their
dreams from being a pilot to becoming a teacher of the deaf to helping
other children like themselves.
Visit the website http://
www.nolimitsfordeafchildren.org
*****
YARD HOUSE OFFERS
1,581 NEW TAPS
OF DRAFT BEER
The beverage team and beer experts at Yard House have just completed their annual Beer Review,
and the results are in: The awardwinning restaurant will add a total
of 1,581 new taps of draft beer to
its curated line-up of American craft
and import beers with more than 50percent appearing on Yard House’s
menu for the first time.
“It’s an intense — yet very
thoughtful — process we undergo
each year,” said Gregory Howard,
beverage manager for Yard House.
“Our Beer Review process takes
approximately three months to
complete. During this time we talk
to local distributors, our own server
and bartender teams as well as the
brewers themselves to find out what
is new and what is being called for
in each location.”
“There was a huge call for us to
focus on local brews, and I believe
our team answered that call,” added
Howard. “What you’ll find is a
much more interesting and defined
beer menu with each location having its own distinct list of the best
local, regional and imported brands
available.”
Yard House’s Beer Review begins with feedback from guests and
team members, who are on the
frontline at each location observing
first-hand which beers are in demand and are moving quickly. Every team member, from dishwashers to general managers, are also
surveyed and asked to put together
a “wish list” of what they would
want added to their restaurant’s beer
head. After the information is collected the beverage team meets,
tastes and reviews more than 1,000
beers that span the spectrum — in
terms of style — and include everything from local brewers and
well-known domestic brands to
imports.
While IPAs remain popular, sour
beers are on the rise as evidenced
by the handful Yard House is adding to its menu. These styles are
deeply rooted in European brewing
traditions, and each location will
feature both European sour offerings as well as some amazing
American craft sours.
Yard House’s Beer Review also
plays an instrumental role in what
will be offered during the year as
part of the restaurant’s “Chalkboard
Series,” which is reserved for seasonal and small-batch selections.
These beers rotate frequently and
are displayed on a digital chalkboard above the signature island
bar.
Yard House also offers beer in
9-ounce glasses known as shortys
as well as its signature 32-ounce
half yard. Select locations also offer growlers to-go, allowing guests
to bring home their favorite beer
from Yard House.
Yard House, which boasts on
average 130 taps of beer per location and offers a menu of American favorites from its scratch
kitchen, is open daily for lunch, dinner and late-night dining.
To learn about Yard House and
its annual Beer Review, visit http:/
/www.yardhouse.com/beers/annual-beer-reviewor catch the Beer
Review video at https://
w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v
=8DMfZGRr6bw
*****
PITCHFORK AT
BROOKLYN BOWL
The band recently scored their
first #1 Alternative radio single with
“Mountain At My Gates,” from
their acclaimed fourth album What
Went Down. Here are few things
that people have had to say about
it:
“What Went Down is a welcome
savior.” — Entertainment Weekly
“British band unleashes the
beast within on its best album yet.”
— Rolling Stone
“What Went Down is their most
consistent, steady-handed work
yet.” — Pitchfork
Immediately after touring
around their 2013 breakthrough LP
Holy Fire, the band recorded the
ferocious new album with James
Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence +
The Machine) in the same Provence
village where, 127 years ago,
Vincent Van Gogh was hospitalized
in a psychiatric ward after slicing
off his ear.
The band recently received the
award for “Best Act in the World”
at the 2015 Q Awards as well. Pitchfork appears at the Brooklyn Bowl
on Sunday, April 24th.
Mike Kermani is an entertainment writer for the Las Vegas Tribune newspaper. He writes a weekly
column in this newspaper. To contact Mike Kermani, email
mkermani@ lasvegas tribune.com
Lola Falana: “Breaking Down The Walls”
By Josiah Howard
Fresh from parting with the
Supremes in the 1970s, Diana Ross
emerged as both the music industry and film industry’s premier,
multi-talented, African-American
female superstar. But she wasn’t the
only glittering bright seventies
light. Right alongside her was another African-American female entertainer — and soon-to-be cultural
phenomenon—Ms. Lola Falana.
“I ran away from home
[Camden, N.J.] when I was 17 years
old,” Falana admitted in a 2004 interview. “All I had was $26.00 in
my pocket and a dream to become
something big.”
It was, as it turned out, a dream
vividly fulfilled. With her passion
for music and song and a history of
singing in church and performing
in talent contests in New Jersey,
once in New York City, Falana, the
“colored girl dancer” with the high
kicks and the little-girl speaking
voice, found work in night clubs
and musical reviews and eventually
won a small part in the 1964 Broadway production of Golden Boy.
It was through Golden Boy’s
star, Sammy Davis Jr.—with whom
she developed a personal and professional
relationship—that
Falana’s career moved from live
performance to film. In 1966 Davis
got her a supporting role in (a film
written especially for him) A Man
Called Adam.
The following year she made
two films in Italy: Quando dico che
Tiamo and Lola Colt. By 1970—the
same year she wowed Playboy
readers in a topless spread—she
was ready for her first starring role.
In The Liberation of L.B. Jones,
Falana played the fetching but
scheming “other woman.” In
1974’s The Klansman, she was a big
city gal returning to her small, backwoods hometown. And in ’75, Lola
became a blaxploitation super
mama—a tough-talking gangster’s
moll named Lady Cocoa.
At the same time that Lady Cocoa was flickering across American
movie screens, Falana was cementing her status as a spectacular live
showman. For up to twenty weeks
a year, she strut her stuff in top Las
Vegas casinos like The Sands, The
Riviera, The MGM Grand and The
Aladdin. At the time she was the
highest paid female entertainer on
The Strip. Accordingly, she was
dubbed “The First Lady of Las Vegas.”
Television, too, proved to be a
venue in which Lola excelled. A
regular on talk shows, game shows
and a favorite of Johnny Carson and
The Tonight Show, she also starred
in her very own ABC TV variety
series. The Lola Falana Show, with
its music, comedy, guest stars and
vignettes, made clear that she was
a top-tier star: as popular in Middle
America as she was with the African-American community (she was
a constant cover story in the African-American press).
JOSIAH HOWARD
And then she broke other boundaries. In 1977 Lola Falana became
the very first African-American female entertainer to represent a
beauty product that was not specifically targeted to black consumers.
Her endorsement of Faberge’s Tigress perfume was a media extravaganza that included elaborate commercials, billboards, newspaper and
magazine ads. “It’s all right to tease
‘em, if you know how to please
‘em,” she sang in the commercial
for Tigress. It was sound advice.
In 1978 Lola Falana became the
very first African-American female
entertainer to represent a women’s
undergarment. Hanes Alive Support
Pantyhose featured her image in
newspaper and magazine ads as
well as life-size cardboard in-store
displays. “So beautiful, Lola Falana
wears it,” the promotions informed.
And Lola with her beaming smile
and casual air made it all seem so
natural and so easy.
In 1978 Pro Arts, Inc., the largest supplier of youth posters (the
company responsible for Farrah
Fawcett’s swimsuit poster) approached Falana with an engaging
proposition: would she be willing
to be the next Farrah? She was! Pro
Arts distributed a glossy full-color
poster of Lola posed in front of a
giant studio-lit full moon — and it
became a top seller — sold in mom
and pop stores as well as major retail outlets like K-Mart.
And then Lola had a change of
heart. “There came a time in my life
when I wanted something different.
I didn’t want to be the person I used
to be anymore,” Lola confessed to
Jet in 1982. She had a religious
awakening. A dissolved marriage
from Feliciano “Butch” Tavares (of
the singing group Tavares) preceded two health challenges: a bout
with Peritonitis and a 1987 Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. It was
faith, Lola said, that healed her.
“The doctors told me there was
no hope. They said I would never
recover and there was no cure,” she
told Star magazine a year after her
MS diagnosis. “But I had faith...
[after a year and a half of concentrated prayer] my MS isn’t just in
remission, it’s cured; gone. That’s
a miracle.”
Today, Lola Falana lives quietly
in Las Vegas, Nevada—the town
she kept in coins for more than a
decade. She has no representation
in Hollywood and no desire to perform, appear in movies or on television again. Her last interview was
conducted in 1996.
“God was calling me and I answered the call,” she expressed in
one of her final recorded conversations. And she answered the call. In
1998 a boxed set of The Lola
Falana Show was released but Lola
remained unavailable to participate
or promote it. In 2012 when TV
One expressed interest in profiling
her in their popular Unsung series,
there was no response. And in the
early 2000s—when the rights to her
starring vehicle Lady Cocoa entered the public domain—Lola
couldn’t have cared less.
Looking back, Lola Falana’s
personal evolution seems preordained. In her heyday she included
Gospel, spirituals, and hymns in her
nightclub act. On The Lola Falana
Show she performed a twelveminute medley of Christian music.
And during each and every one of
her interviews and personal appearances she gave thanks to what she
believed was the source of her many
talents: “Jesus Christ, my savior.”
Thank you Lola Falana for having the courage of your convictions.
Thank you for sharing your beauty,
talent and grace with the world. And
thank you for providing a generation with inspiration, opportunity
and a lasting collection of memories.
*****
Josiah Howard writes on popular culture. His credits include articles for The New York Times,
Reader’s Digest and the Village
Voice. His last book, “Cher: Strong
Enough,” (Plexus) is available in
paperback and on Kindle. For additional information visit at
Josiahhoward.com.
Powerhouse performer Lorena Peril returning to “Fantasy”
By Jerry Fink
Las Vegas Tribune
FANTASY, the award-winning
adult revue at Luxor Hotel and Casino, celebrates the return of dynamic vocalist and performer
Lorena Peril to its cast beginning
Monday, April 11.
“Each headliner brings something unique to the show, and in
Lorena, we have a powerhouse vocalist who delivers a lot of wit to
her performance,” said Anita Mann,
owner of Anita Mann Productions
and producer of FANTASY. “She
has tremendous comedic timing.”
Peril replaces current headliner,
Jaime Lynch, due to her robust performance schedule. Lynch will continue to make special appearances
in the show as headliner, along with
Anne Martinez.
Since first joining the cast in
2010, Peril has appeared in the debut season of “The Voice,” and recently performed the lead role of
“Sandy” in a global tour of
“Grease.” The self-taught performer has also starred in “Sin City
Bad Girls” at the Las Vegas Hilton
and performed as Christina
Aguilera in “American Superstars”
at Stratosphere.
Peril also toured as an opening
act for Barry Manilow in 2007 during his multi-city “Music and Passion Arena Tour.”
*****
RITA RUDNER RETURNS TO
COMEDY ROCKS SERIES
AT RED ROCK RESORT
Following two sold-out shows in
2015, comedy legend and longtime
Las Vegas headliner Rita Rudner is
returning to the Comedy Rocks series for two shows at Rocks Lounge
inside Red Rock Resort on Friday,
April 22 and Saturday, April 23 at
8 p.m.
Tickets for both shows start at
$25 and go on sale Friday, Feb. 5 at
10 a.m.
Recently, Rita recorded her first
stand up TV special for over a decade. “Rita Rudner: Live From Las
Vegas” for PBS, as well as a radio
series for the BBC. Her first love,
however, remains stand-up comedy
and she still performs across
America.
Tickets for Rita Rudner are $25
and $35 plus tax and applicable fees
and go on sale Friday, Feb. 5 at 10
a.m.
Doors for all shows open at 7
p.m. and guests must be 21 years
or older, as the shows feature explicit language.
Tickets can be purchased at any
Station Casinos Reward Center and
The Fiestas, by logging onto
www.sclv.com/concerts or through
Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or
www.ticketmaster.com.
*****
NEW SHOW DATES
ANNOUNCED FOR
“BRITNEY: PIECE OF ME”
On the heels of unveiling her
highly-anticipated re-imagined
show last month, Britney Spears
has announced additional performance dates for her wildly popular
Las Vegas resident show, “Britney:
Piece of Me” at The AXIS in Planet
Hollywood Resort & Casino.
Tickets to performances from
June through September are now on
sale.
In addition to recently announcing that “Britney: Piece of Me” has
been extended two more years
through 2017, in mid-February
Britney unveiled a substantial reimagination of her show.
From fresh, seductive costumes
to explosive new choreography,
Britney is better — and sexier —
than ever. With the addition of fanfavorite songs, such as “I Love
Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “Breathe on Me,”
“Touch of My Hand” and “If U
Seek Amy,” the international superstar has once again taken her spectacular show to new heights. Taking to the stage with jaw-dropping
production elements and showcasing visually stunning, cutting-edge
technology, the audience experiences Britney as they’ve never seen
her before.
The additional shows include:
June 2016: Friday, June 17; Saturday, June 18; Wednesday, June
22; Friday, June 24; Saturday, June
25; Wednesday, June 29
July 2016: Friday, July 1; Saturday, July 2; Wednesday, July 6;
Friday, July 8; Saturday, July 9;
Wednesday, July 13
August 2016: Wednesday, August 17; Friday, August 19; Saturday, August 20; Wednesday, August
24; Friday, August 26; Saturday,
August 27; Wednesday, August 31
September 2016: Friday, September 2; Saturday, September 3;
Wednesday, September 7; Friday,
September 9; Saturday, September
10
Tickets for the following previously-announced performances are
also on sale now:
April 2016: Wednesday, April 6;
Friday, April 8; Saturday, April 9;
Wednesday, April 13; Friday, April
15; Saturday, April 16; Wednesday,
April 20; Friday, April 22
Since opening in Dec. 2013,
“Britney: Piece of Me” has received
rave reviews from both critics and
fans alike, with the show being
voted the “Best Overall Show” and
“Best Bachelorette Party” by readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal earlier this year. The record-setting show is sold out on a regular
basis, and has been seen by over
500,000 guests.
General ticket prices range from
$59 to $229, plus service fees, and
may be purchased online at
BritneyPieceofMe.com or in-person The AXIS box office. Prices for
VIP packages vary depending upon
the show date.
All shows begin at 9 p.m.
*****
THE IMPROV AT HARRAH’S:
MARCH 29–APRIL 3
The world-famous Improv at
Harrah’s Las Vegas is the longestrunning comedy club on the Las
Vegas Strip. The Improv’s ability to
showcase young comedians, as well
as bring in big names, has attributed to its longevity and success.
Each week, The Improv showcases some of the funniest and
freshest faces in comedy, creating
a show that is always unique and
definitely funny. The comedians
who will perform March 29–April
3 are:
Anthony Griffith: Emmy
Award Winner, Anthony Griffith,
was destined to make you laugh.
Griffith’s experiences growing up
in an inner city and being raised by
a religious mother helped to lay the
foundation for his hilarious insights
about life, liberty and the pursuit of
sanity. With over twenty-five national comedy television appearances, notable spots include “The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The
Showbiz Show with David Spade”
and “Comics Unleashed.”
Gary Brightwell: A Southern
California native, Gary Brightwell
has 18 years of experience in the
comedy scene. He has numerous
television appearances and hosted
his own weekly show called “Off
The Cuff” on Sirius/XM satellite
radio. He is a veteran of countless
overseas comedy tours entertaining
our troops, in addition to opening
for the likes of Bill Engvall, Jerry
Seinfeld, Jay Leno, and Julio
Iglesias.
Andy Ostroff: Growing up in
Natick, Massachusetts, Andy
Ostroff was pulled between two
choices: follow his father’s footsteps and go to law school or move
to Los Angeles and pursue a career
in entertainment. Since then he has
filled his résumé with leading film
roles, television guest appearances
and theatre work as a sketch comedy participant. Ostroff is best
known for his work in “Roommate,” “Chicks Who Click” and
“Panman.”
Shows are at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday
through Sunday with an additional
show at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Tickets start at $30.50 (plus applicable taxes and fees). VIP tickets include special seating, an
Improv T-shirt and post-show meetand-greet with the comics.
Special two-for-one tickets are
also available for locals for the 10
p.m. show.
Tickets are available at Harrah’s
Box Office (702-369-5223 and
online
at
www.harrahslasvegas.com.
Jerry Fink is an entertainment
columnist for the Las Vegas Tribune
newspaper and writes a weekly column. To contact Fink, email him at
jfink@ lasvegastribune.com.
&
HEALTH LIFESTYLES
One of the Rainforest Cafe’s theme dining rooms at their new location. (Photo by Rainforest Café)
Rainforest Café’s atmosphere was perfect
and the cuisine was wildly delicious
By Sandy Zimmerman
Las Vegas Tribune
The Rainforest Café’s atmosphere was
perfect, their exciting jungle show added to
the evening and of course the cuisine was
wildly delicious!
Since the Rainforest Café does not only
have only one menu, but three menus, I spent
time deciding and chose from the signature
menu because they offered three entreesbeef, pork and chicken combos. This way I
could taste three entrees instead of just one.
The oh-so-tender flat iron steak combo included fried shrimp, Caribbean coconut
shrimp or rotisserie chicken. My decision
was to change the fried shrimp to grilled
shrimp and the Caribbean coconut shrimp to
rotisserie chicken.
Chef Adam Payne, the Kitchen Manager
is happy to substitute the items, he prepares
the food your way and adheres to health or
diet restrictions. Chef Adam explains,
“There’s something for everyone. If you
don’t like veggies, you can have rice, mashed
potatoes, fries or something else. You are not
locked in.
The Aloha Adventure menu is our own
promotion featuring different regions of the
tropics especially rainforests. We have the
Hawaiian theme now, a luau platter which
has traditional short rib, teriyaki glaze and
Kalua pork. Just like a luau in Hawaii, authentic Hawaiian dishes with our little spin
on them offering nine selections.
We are adding the finishing touches to our
next rainforest theme menu featuring the
Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Since
rainforests are located around the world we
can continue featuring new menus with that
theme.”
The entrees look big because the
Rainforest Café really does serve big portions
— 7 oz. chicken, 7 oz. flat iron steak and 4
oz. grilled shrimp! They allow you to have
another plate to share the meals.
Mike preferred the colorful Aloha Adventures menu with photos that make you hungry. He ordered the Paradise combo with
sesame seared Ahi tuna served rare with
wasabi aioli, pineapple-teriyaki grilled
chicken and Caribbean coconut shrimp with
mango BBQ sauce, white rice and broccoli.
This was an indulgent mix of flavors and
sauces.”
I first tasted coconut shrimp in the Caribbean and loved it and asked for his recipe.
Chef Adam answered, “First the shrimp
is lightly dusted in seasoned flour and egg
wash with cream of coconut. Then the shrimp
are dipped in coconut flakes with a little bit
of panko so they will become crispy.
The original Rainforest Café, created by
Steven Schussler opened in the MGM Grand
Hotel and has been successful for many years.
Currently Landry’s bought the rights to the
theme and moved the café adjacent to the
Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile Shopping
Center, 3717 Las Vegas Boulevard South,
Suite #275 & #330, the corner of Harmon
and Las Vegas Boulevard. For information,
call (702) 891-8580 www.rainforestcafe.com.
Award winning Sandy Zimmerman is a
syndicated columnist featuring Show and
Dining reviews, travel, health, luxury and
more. Sandy is talk show host of the Las Vegas Today Show programs and Discover the
Ultimate Vacation travel specials. If you want
to suggest topics for articles or have questions please contact Sandy at 702-731-6491
or email: sandyzimm2003@yahoo.com.
(Photo by Rainforest Café)
Las Vegas Tribune columnist Mike Kermani ordered the Paradise combo with sesame
seared Ahi tuna, pineapple-teriyaki grilled chicken, Caribbean coconut shrimp and mango
BBQ sauce. My dinner (front) included a Flank Steak, grilled shrimp and rotisserie chicken.
(Photo by Sandy Zimmerman)
(Photo by Sandy Zimmerman)
CITY BEAT
Five Las Vegas artists will display their work on
outdoor billboards throughout Southern Nevada
On Monday, March 28, the winners of the ArtPop Street Gallery
competition held earlier this year
went on display on outdoor billboards throughout the Las Vegas
valley. The competition, which is
designed to promote public awareness of the arts and provide opportunities for local artists to display
their work, was provided by a partnership between the Las Vegas
chapter of the American Institute of
Graphic Arts (AIGA), Outfront Media, Clear Channel Media and the
City of Las Vegas. Five local artists were awarded the opportunity
to have their work displayed on
major thoroughfares, guaranteeing
visibility by hundreds of thousands
of residents and tourists. These artists joined ArtPop sponsors to kick
off the display.
*****
Interstate-15 lane
restrictions extended in
Mesquite through April 22
The Nevada Department of
Transportation (NDOT) announces
that the 24-hour-a-day right lane
southbound closure along Interstate-15 in Mesquite will be extended until April 8. Meanwhile,
right lane closure northbound closure will be continued until April
22. The restriction takes place 2,500
feet in each direction from Milepost
117.5.
The closure is needed in order
to extend the interstate shoulder as
part of the City of Mesquite’s new
$14.7 million diamond interchange
at Milepost 118. Meadow Valley
Contractors is the design-build contractor, with Horrocks Engineers as
construction manager.
“The new exit limits heavy truck
traffic on surface streets for
smoother commutes, while creating
a direct link to the 800-acre master-planned Mesquite Technology
and Commerce Center for improved pick-up and drop-off efficiency,” said NDOT spokesman
Tony Illia.
The project is scheduled to finish in June. Motorists should use
caution while travelling through the
work zone, heed construction
signage, and take alternate routes,
if possible. For current road information go to: www.nvroads.com.
*****
RTC’s Yellow Dot program
receives extra mileage
from AAA Nevada
The Regional Transportation
Commission of Southern Nevada
(RTC) is partnering with an orga-
nization that also makes road safety
its utmost priority. AAA Nevada
(AAA) is now the primary sponsor
of the RTC’s Yellow Dot program
and will provide support for the lifesaving program moving forward.
“Yellow Dot provides a vital service for commuters and gives peace
of mind to many individuals should
they ever find themselves in a situation where they can’t communicate their medical conditions,” said
Erica Escobar, Regional Vice President, AAA Northern California,
Nevada and Utah.
“With road safety as one of our
top priorities, AAA saw this partnership opportunity as a natural fit,
and we are excited to be able to underwrite this life-saving initiative in
Southern Nevada.”
A traffic safety initiative enacted
JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD
in 2015 thanks to legislation introAmerican Civil Liberties
duced by Assemblyman Derek
Union of Nevada partners
Armstrong, Yellow Dot is a partnerwith legendary Artist John
ship between the RTC, state and
Van Hamersveld for
local leaders, first responders and
organization’s 50th
community organizations.
Anniversary Gala
A simple Yellow Dot window
American Civil Liberties Union
decal alerts first responders to criti- of Nevada (ACLUNV) has
cal medical information to improve partnered with the world-renowned
emergency care for persons in- and highly influential artist and devolved in vehicle crashes or traffic signer, John Van Hamersveld for the
incidents on the roadway.
ACLUNV’s 50th Anniversary Gala
In addition to the Yellow Dot on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 6 p.m.
decal, the kit enables residents to at the Wynn Las Vegas.
have the following information
Van Hamersveld has designed
readily available to first responders pieces such as the Beatle’s “Magiin the glove compartment of their cal Mystery Tour” album cover, a
cars:
360-foot-long mural and official
—Recent photograph, name and poster for the 1984 Los Angeles
emergency contact information for Olympic Games, the “Endless
each individual in the car,
Summer” movie poster, and his
—Allergies or medical condi- iconic Indian poster. He is the only
tions,
artist with a Viva Vision light show
—Name and contact informa- at Fremont Street Experience,
tion of the participant’s physician which has been running since 2009.
and preferred hospital, if any,
Van Hamersveld has created cus—Information, if any, about the tom artwork for the gala and a limparticipant’s health insurance.
ited edition poster for VIP attendResidents can get Yellow Dot ees. Before the formal gala program
kits at more than 100 locations begins, there will be an exclusive,
throughout Southern Nevada, in- one-hour meet and greet with Van
cluding senior, community, sports Hamersveld, along with additional
and recreation centers, family re- Nevada and national VIPs. The VIP
source centers, first responder lo- meet-and-greet will begin at 6 p.m.
cations, and now at AAA branch followed by the main dinner prolocations in Southern Nevada.
gram, entertainment, silent auction
For more information, visit and honoree recognition and 7 p.m.
rtcsnv.com/yellowdot, or to request
“We hand-selected John Van
a free kit by mail, call 702-676- Hamersveld because of the social
1754 or email YD@rtcsnv.com.
awareness themes captured in his
Yellow Dot supports Southern art over the last five decades. His
Nevada Strong’s goal to build a creativity aligns with our vision and
foundation for long-term commu- we could not be more excited about
nity livelihood. As the administra- the partnership,” said Tod Story,
tor of Southern Nevada Strong, the executive director.
RTC is committed to initiatives that
Tickets are on sale now and are
will create a more connected com- priced at $250 per person with VIP
munity.
tickets priced at $350 each. Tickets
To find out more, visit can be purchased online at https://
SouthernNevadaStrong.org.
aclunv.org/50thAnniversary.
*****
*****
If these walls could talk: Building a legacy worth remembering
By Doug Dickerson
In this bright future you can’t
forget your past. — Bob Marley
Over the years I’ve had the privilege of visiting numerous art galleries and museums around the
world. Included on the list are the
National Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. and venues in other
places like Boston, London, and
Athens. Each have a certain appeal
and allure that awaken the imagination with images and history that
have enriched lives for centuries.
How can one not glance upon the
work of Monet, da Vinci, Raphael,
or Picasso and not be inspired? The
priceless pieces of work that hang
on those hallowed walls is captivating.
Suppose the walls in your place
of business or your organization
could talk; if they could tell your
story to the world, what impression
would people come away with? If
your place of business were to be a
museum 100 years from now, what
would be the main takeaway people
would have about the work you did,
the culture you practiced, and your
contribution to those you served?
Glassdoor recently published its
lists of the Best Places to Work
2016. Companies making the list
include Google, Facebook,
LinkedIn, Zillow, Expedia, Delta,
and topping the list: Airbnb. The
winners, according to Glassdoor are
“determined by the people who
know these companies best—their
employees.” I encourage you to
DOUG DICKERSON
read the list and reviews for yourself. But here is a key take-away people thrive where people are valued.
If the walls of your organization
could talk 100 years from now what
would they say? The message a century from now is being scripted today. What is the message others will
read about? Would you be embarrassed or proud? If your walls could
speak, let these four things be your
message.
It was a place
with a purpose
Fundamentally the most important thing as it relates to your organization is to know your ‘why’. It’s
as you operate in the capacity of this
knowledge that everything else
makes sense. Without it you are
adrift and you will always struggle
to find your way.
Howard Behar, former President
of Starbucks writes, “At Starbucks,
I’ve always said we’re not in the
coffee business serving people,
we’re in the people business serving coffee.” Once you know your
‘why’ your purpose becomes clear.
Let the walls talk about what a
great purpose you had and that you
leveraged every resource to fulfill
it.
They were a
people who cared
Many companies proclaim a
strong company culture but fail to
deliver. As such, trust is lost, morale is low, and productivity falters.
Clearly stated, it’s not what you say
that matters or makes the difference, it’s what you do. If the walls
of your company could speak 100
years from now how would you be
portrayed in terms of how you
treated your people?
An employee review for
MindBody (#14) in the Glassdoor
article writes, “It’s a culture of happiness! I’ve never been in such a
positive environment. Management
encourages you not only professionally, but in personal aspects of
life too. So thankful to work for
such an amazing company!” Evidently, MindBody is a company
that understands this concept and is
putting it into practice. At the end
of the day, people don’t care how
much you know until they know
how much you care.
Let the walls speak with fond
recollection of a company who
knew the importance of caring for
its people.
BEHIND THE MIKE
Kiss My Grits!
By Michael A. Aun
As a younger speaker, I spent
more time on the road and in the
air than I do nowadays. When you
get old and grumpy, you either don’t
get hired as much or you don’t want
to go, unless you’ve never been to
that city or country. There must be
a compelling reason to get on an
airplane.
When we’d board Delta back in
the day, I could always count on a
special meal which I always ordered through my travel agent. I
usually flew First Class, using Frequent Flyer Upgrades to move to
the front of the boat. I could count
on the freshness and taste of the
seafood meals.
Today, you purchase a boxed
meal that was made in some faraway place and you pay a ransom
price to get sick. So much for the
fun and fanfare of flying.
Another of the many challenges
I would face when I headed north
of the Mason Dixon line was not
being able to order grits for breakfast. Yankees either didn’t know or
want to know what grits are. So I
always carried several packets of
instant grits along with me.
I was recently speaking in Ann
Arbor, Michigan and I sat down for
breakfast and ordered grits. The
waitress looked at me like I was
missing some dots on my dice.
“Whatever they are, we don’t offer
them here,” she advised.
I’ve learned that there are at least
38 ways to eat grits. In fact, about
anything you can eat with rice, you
can eat with grits, except sushi of
course.
“Would you be kind enough to
bring me a bowl of hot water?” I
asked. When she placed the bowl
MICHAEL A. AUN
in front of me, I tore open my packet
of instant grits and started to stir
them in.”
To quote the movie My Cousin
Vinnie, “No self-respecting
southerner eats instant grits.” Well,
when they try to serve you cream
of wheat or some other white substance, instant grits make a nice alternative.
My waitress seemed totally fascinated by the process so she took
a seat across from me in the booth
and asked “Are grits tough to
grow?” I politely responded “No
but they’re hell to pick!”
The truth is nobody really knows
what grits are. I enjoy making up
stories about how they’re grown on
bushes or in trees. No, you don’t put
syrup on grits; you don’t eat them
with a knife; you don’t insult the
dish with ketchup; you never eat
grits with toast, only made-fromscratch biscuits with grits.
Some of our enemies around the
world swear that grits are the
military’s way of torturing the enemy. Grits get a bad name from
people who don’t understand how
to make them or eat them.
There are several things you
don’t want to do with grits. Never
sneeze with grits in your mouth;
they may end up coming out of your
nose. But grits have multiple uses.
For instance, if you’re hanging
wallpaper and you run out of paste,
just mix up a batch of grits. Instant
baby food will work as well.
So how do I like my grits? I love
to have stewed tomatoes over grits.
Georgia
hash
made
by
Casselberry’s and grits are a great
way to kick off the day. Last week
I opened a can of salmon and
cracked up an egg and mixed them
together with grits.
Shrimp and grits are a great
menu item in many places like
Charleston, Savannah or New Orleans. The fresher the shrimp the
better the dish. Southerners like
grits with red eye gravy, but frankly
any kind of gravy you might eat
with rice will work with grits.
That’s as good of a formula as
you can conjure. Think of all the
wonderful things we eat with rice
and they work just as well with
grits. My mom used to make cheese
grits and we would crush bacon bits
across the top of them. Yum, yum.
Grits casseroles demean the
dish, disguising it as something
else. Why hide the true meaning
and taste of grits? Only a bigot
would make a grits and collard
greens casserole. No, grits aren’t
hard to grow; they’re hell to pick!
Kiss my grits!
*****
Michael Aun is a syndicated columnist and writes a weekly column
for this newspaper. To contact
Michael Aun, email him at
maun@lasvegastribune.com.
They overcame adversity
Today we remember triumphal
moments in history not because
people like the Wright brothers
failed, or Edison’s lab was destroyed by fire, or that J.K.
Rowling’s script for Harry Potter
was rejected about a dozen times,
or that Disney was fired by a newspaper because he “lacked imagination and had no original ideas,” nowe remember them because they
didn’t quit!
The success of your organization
rests within the will, strength, and
determination of its people, to stare
down adversity, and come through
on the other side. It’s how every
successful organization have done
it and yours will not be an exception.
Let the walls tell the story of
hope and inspiration and that when
adversity came you didn’t back
down but instead rose to the challenges of your day.
They never stopped growing
Personal growth and development is the bread and butter of leaders. Leaders who are intentional
about growing and developing rise
to the top. At the heart of any successful business or organization is
leadership that recognizes its importance at all levels. In order to
remain competitive in this global
economy one must never stop
growing and learning.
A review for Hubspot (#4) reads,
“Leadership places a heavy emphasis on employee growth across all
divisions, from tuition reimbursement to offering opportunities to
take on challenges outside your
core responsibilities.” That sounds
to me like a company that “get’s it”
and their employees applaud it.
Let the walls tell your story of
relentless devotion to learning. Your
commitment will ensure that your
team has every resource and tool to
compete and succeed. And
wouldn’t it be nice if the walls
would say, “They’re not done yet!”?
*****
Doug Dickerson is a syndicated
columnist. He writes a weekly column for this newspaper. To contact
Doug Dickerson, email him at
ddickerson@ lasvegastribune.com.
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SOCIAL SECURITY AWARENESS
Golden oldies? America’s economy a mixed bag for seniors
U.S. seniors are making and spending
more money now than they were a decade
ago, but are they really better off?
By Andrew Soergel
The Federal Open Market Committee laid its cards on the table after its March meeting in Washington, suggesting central bank officials only expect to raise interest
rates twice in 2016.
That news likely won’t sit well
with America’s seniors — a group
generally believed to get the short
end of the stick when it comes to
accommodative monetary policy.
However, a former high-ranking
Fed official contends economic
conditions have actually favored
older Americans over the last several years, and that the demographic
isn’t nearly as embattled as some
economists suggest.
“When the Federal Reserve
holds interest rates low, retirees tend
to get less income from their nest
eggs,” Narayana Kocherlakota, the
former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, wrote
in a recent
Bloomberg op-ed. “Over the
past eight years, though, they’ve
done a lot better than this simple
logic would imply.”
In theory, Americans with savings accounts should expect to receive diminished interest payments
from commercial banks when rates
are low. In fact, a NerdWallet study
published last week reported that
Americans in 2016 earned $7.7 billion less in aggregate annual interest than they did in 2006. That
means American savers in a lowinterest environment are collectively missing out on billions of
dollars in interest payments.
This dynamic has been particularly vexing for older Americans
and retirees — millions of whom
have accumulated substantial savings and rely on interest payments
as a primary form of income —
since the Fed first lowered U.S. interest rates to near-zero levels in
2008.
“For those of us who have managed to save, [rate hikes are] great
news overall,” says Devan
Goldstein, a banking-focused staff
writer and content strategist at
NerdWallet. “Once we get a few in
a row, we’ll start to see real differences in how rates affect savings.”
But Americans haven’t seen a
few hikes in a row. In fact, the country has only seen one rate increase
since 2006 (which came in December) and will likely see only two
more in 2016 — assuming economic conditions don’t deteriorate
further. The Fed’s benchmark rate
is still historically low, and
America’s savers and retirees are
still missing out on higher interest
payments.
And yet Kocherlakota’s op-ed
suggested the low-rate environment
hasn’t completely wiped out older
Americans.
“If low interest rates have posed
a challenge for seniors, why then
have they done relatively well in
terms of consumption and income?” he said.
That’s a good question that continues to puzzle economists years
after the Great Recession con-
cluded. While it’s tough to say
whether seniors have ultimately
witnessed a net gain or loss in terms
of financial standing over the
course of the last decade, it’s clear
there are several complex economic
factors at play.
Here’s a look at some of the
headwinds and tailwinds affecting
America’s older demographic.
Make More, Spend More
Suggesting a handful of extenuating circumstances have actually
bolstered seniors’ position in the
economy, Kocherlakota first
pointed to the most recent Consumer Expenditure Survey. Data
from that report show the average
senior-headed household saw real
consumption rise 5 percent between
(See Soergel, Page 26)
Economic conditions that developed in the aftermath of the Great Recession
have both helped and hurt older American workers.
Soergel
2007 and 2014, while the average
for all households actually declined
5 percent.
Historical survey numbers also
show seniors’ annual aggregate expenditures ballooned more than 30
percent over that same window,
while the number of households in
the demographic grew 24.8 percent.
That’s compared with a household
spending uptick of less than 13.9
percent and total household growth
of just 5.7 percent across the entire
U.S. population.
All of these metrics suggest the
country’s senior population is growing and spending at a faster rate than
younger households, even as
they’ve been beleaguered by low
interest rates that disproportionately
drag on their ability to spend and
save.
There’s also evidence that seniors are making more money now
than they were a decade ago. Citing the Fed’s own
Survey of Consumer Finances
from 2013, Kocherlakota noted that
families headed by someone between the ages of 65 and 74 “saw
an inflation-adjusted gain [in median pre-tax income] of about 5
percent from 2007 to 2013.” Households headed by someone at least
75 years old saw median pre-tax
incomes climb 10 percent. That’s
compared with families headed by
an individual between the ages of
45 and 54, who saw a 17 percent
decline in median incomes.
So seniors appear to be spending more and making more now
than they were toward the latter half
of the last decade. Kocherlakota
noted the demographic has benefited from appreciating stock
prices and home values over that
period, “providing seniors with a
source of spending money that offsets some of the effect of low interest rates.”
What Retirement?
It’s worth noting, however, that
seniors aren’t universally better off
now than they were several years
back. Part of the reason older
Americans are making more and
spending more is simply because
they’ve been forced to stay in the
workforce longer. The Great Recession walloped older Americans’
nest eggs and forced many on the
verge of retirement to work longer
or pick up a part-time job.
A Gallup survey published last
year found that 37 percent of
Americans don’t expect to retire
until after their 65th birthday. That’s
tied for the second-highest percentage Gallup has recorded since 1995,
suggesting fewer Americans expect
to retire young. Up until 2009, more
Americans expected to retire under
the age of 65 than over. But that
hasn’t been the case in more than
five years.
Additionally, the labor force participation rate of individuals at least
65 years old jumped 4.2 percentage
points between 2004 and 2014, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Workers at least 55 years of age saw
their participation climb by 3.8 percentage points.
Meanwhile, participation among
those between the ages of 25 and
54 dropped by 1.9 percentage
points, while 16- to 24-year-olds
saw their rates fall by 6.1 percentage points during that same window. Overall, a greater share of seniors either had a job or was actively looking for one in 2014 than
a decade prior.
Some analysts believe this increased labor participation was also
at least partially spurred by increases in how much it costs to retire comfortably nowadays. Medical expenses, in particular, are a
primary concern for millions of retirees and older Americans. The
Consumer Price Index — which
measures changes in prices of an
assorted basket of goods and services — shows medical costs on the
whole ballooned nearly 38 percent
between 2006 and 2016, with hospital and related services up more
than 71 percent. Overall consumer
prices have increased just 19.2 percent over the same window.
Social Security Shortfalls
America’s Social Security system usually helps make up for increases to the cost of living by doling out more cash when prices
climb. Such a dynamic allows seniors to count on a relatively constant series of payouts each year
with respect to inflation. So as the
cost of goods and services goes up
in the U.S., seniors get more out of
Social Security to compensate.
But low oil prices have prevented seniors from getting that in-
creased payout of late. Seniors last
year missed out on a cost-of-living
adjustment to their Social Security
payments for only the third time in
the last 40 years.
Social Security’s cost-of-living
adjustment is pegged to a consumer
pricing metric that has been heavily
restricted by the fall in oil prices that
began in mid-2014. That metric in
February was up only 0.7 percent
over the year and has barely budged
in recent months. ( (So the dramatic
drop in energy prices has essentially
offset increases to the cost of living throughout other facets of the
economy, which means senior citizens are forced to pay more for
goods and services without any extra help from the Social Security
system. A study published last year
by the Senior Citizens League estimates the purchasing power of Social Security benefits had plummeted 22 percent since the year
2000, thanks in large part to unfavorable inflation dynamics.
And while cheap gas prices are
typically considered to be a boon
to America’s drivers, seniors generally aren’t behind the wheel as
much as younger individuals are.
So they don’t benefit much from
low energy costs and are instead left
to wrestle with rising food and
health care prices without a boost
to their Social Security payments.
“A lot of these people who rely
on Social Security are in their 80s
and 90s. They don’t drive,” Sean
Ferritor, executive director of advocacy group The Seniors Coalition, told U.S. News in an interview
in October. “Milk, eggs — everything that seniors use is going up.
And the main statistic they use to
cite lower inflation is gas prices.”
So although Kocherlakota correctly points out there’s plenty of
evidence that seniors are making
and spending more money now
than they were a decade ago, that
doesn’t necessarily mean America’s
oldest individuals are universally
better off than they were prior to the
Great Recession.
*****
Andrew Soergel is an Economy
Reporter at U.S. News. You can
connect with him on LinkedIn, follow him on Twitter or email him at
asoergel@usnews.com.
Five common mistakes investors make with Social Security
Strategies to claim your monthly benefits are changing, and the rules can be vague.
By Kate Stalter
Social Security has been in the
headlines lately, as Congress put the
kibosh on a claiming strategy called
file and suspend. This option, which
expires on April 30, has been a way
for married couples to maximize the
benefit coming into the household.
Here’s how it works: At full retirement age, the higher-earning
spouse files for his or her Social
Security benefit, but immediately
suspends it. This allows the higherearning spouse’s benefit to continue
growing at a rate of 8 percent per
year until age 70.
Meanwhile, the lower-earning
spouse, at full retirement age, files
an application for a restricted spousal benefit based on the higher
earner’s record. The lower earner’s
benefit also continues to grow. If,
at some future date, up until age 70,
the lower earner’s benefit becomes
greater than half of the higher
earner’s, then the lower earner will
switch to his or her own.
The strategy is only available to
higher earners born on or before
April 30, 1950.
It’s actually more complicated to
explain file and suspend than it is
to put the claiming strategy in motion. But it’s not the only complex
aspect of Social Security that trips
up Americans. Claiming strategies
remain complicated, and the rules
are murky, even with the removal
of the file-and-suspend option.
Here are four other common
Social Security mistakes people
make:
Believing Social Security will
provide the bulk of their
retirement income
According to the Social Security
Administration, the benefit replaces
about 40 percent of preretirement
income for the average worker. That
means people must determine other
income sources if they want to sustain preretirement lifestyles.
“It’s likely that Social Security
will provide a smaller portion of retirement income than you expect,
so it may be unwise to rely too
heavily on it,” says Larry
Rosenthal, president of Rosenthal
Wealth Management Group in
Manassas, Virginia.
Not understanding how
spousal benefits work
Spousal benefits, even after the
demise of file and suspend, are a
good way to increase a household’s
total income. However, many retirees believe that taking a spousal
benefit may actually reduce a
couple’s overall benefit.
“People think that it will reduce
the other person’s benefit. They
don’t understand that it has no effect on the primary earner’s benefits,” says Ken Moraif, senior advisor at Money Matters in Plano,
Texas.
For example, if the lower-earning spouse claims a benefit based
on the higher earner’s record, the
higher earner’s benefit remains the
same.
Misunderstanding your full
Social Security retirement
This is a confusing topic, perhaps because Americans are required to apply for Medicare ben-
efits around their 65th birthday. In
reality, the last time the full retirement age of 65 applied to Social
Security benefits was for people
born in 1937.
Nonetheless, many Americans
continue to believe their full retirement age is 65. Others are slightly
more informed and believe it’s 66,
but even that can be wrong. For
people born between 1943 and
1954, the full retirement age is 66,
and it goes up incrementally after
that, until 1960. For people born in
that year or later, the full retirement
age is 67.
“Sixty-six may not be the actual
number, depending on the year that
you were born,” Moraif says.
For example, a person born in
1955 has a full retirement age of 66
and two months. When making financial planning decisions, that difference could be significant if a
person wants to quit his or her job
at a certain time and is counting on
Social Security income to help
make up the difference.
Believing you will lose your
benefit if you earn income
after retirement
“Money you earn after you retire will only affect your Social Security benefit if you’re under full
retirement age,” Rosenthal says.
For people who begin taking
their benefit before their full retirement age and plan to continue
working, Social Security will withhold $1 in benefits for every $2
that’s earned above $15,720. That
earnings threshold didn’t change in
2016, but it goes up over time.
Confusion about that threshold
stems from the age at which it applies. After full retirement age, a
person can earn as much as he or
she wants and may collect the full
benefit without any earnings test
penalty.
There’s an important note about
the earnings test: After full retirement age, the amount withheld is
gradually paid back. However, retirees should remember that claiming Social Security before full retirement age means their monthly
benefit remains low for the rest of
their lives.
Kate Stalter is founder of assetmanagement firm Better Money Decisions. You can reach her at
www.bettermoneydecisions.com or
on Twitter @katestalter.
What You
Need To
Know
By Dr Nina Radcliff
Weight Loss Strategies
By Nina Radcliff, MD
Third and final part of series
The battle of the bulge is one
many of us are fighting — and this
is the final piece in this 3-part series with respect to Weight Loss
Strategies.
This series is to help you in making smarter choices every day, and
adopting healthy lifestyle changes
while developing new eating habits.
Key agents in supporting our
efforts are understanding: (1.) for
successful, long-term weight loss,
you must make permanent changes
in your lifestyle and health habits;
(2.) making daily healthy choices
is the chief agent to success; and
(3.) remaining mindful that there is
no quick solution or magical potion
as healthy weight loss must consist
of balanced eating and being physically active.
Yes, the key actions are to be
dedicated to the healthy changes
(set realistic goals, healthy eating
and exercising habits); make smart,
good choices (the choices you make
today is the life you will lead tomorrow) and remain mindful of
your commitment every step of the
way (eating and making decisions
with intention and attention).
There are a number of fad diets,
so-called miracle weight loss pills,
and other gimmicks being sold and
marketed to those desperate to
achieve a healthy weight. There is
no quick solution of magical potion.
Healthy weight loss must consist of
balanced eating and being physically active. Here are additional insights in this series if you are in the
active phase of getting leaner —
and living a healthier life.
Get our ZZZ’s
Sleep deprivation can lead to
weight gain by causing our hunger
hormone—ghrelin—to skyrocket.
One provocative study showed that
a single night of poor sleep can lead
us to consume an average 600 extra calories the following day!
The solution: good sleep hygiene. This refers to the calming and
soothing routines such as meditation, yoga, prayer, reading, listening to music, or writing down our
problems on a piece of paper and
putting it in a drawer so that we can
relax and drift off to sleep. For most
of us, we are not like a remote control button with an off switch. We
need to transition from awake to
sleep.
Kitchen Ergonomics
The saying “Out of sight, out of
mind” is one we need to follow
when it comes to our kitchen
countertops. One study looked at
the homes of 200 women and found
that those who had cereal on their
kitchen countertops were, on average, 20 pounds heavier than those
who did not. And women who kept
soft drinks on their counter weighed
24 to 26 pounds more than those
who did not.
One clever trick is to place fruit,
which is low calorie, non-fat, high
fiber, low or no cholesterol, in easy
view. In that same study, the authors
found that women who had a fruit
bowl visible weighed approximately 13 pounds less than those
who did not.
Social Media
According to The Center for
Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), only 48 percent of adults
meet The Physical Activity Guidelines of 150 minutes of moderateintensity aerobic activity a week (21
minutes/day). However, Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that
the average Facebook user spends
40 minutes a day on the social media site. While social media keeps
us entertained and in touch with
family and friends, it can prevent
us from exercising or engaging in
team sports.
Mindfulness
Eating with intention and attention — a concept known as mindfulness — can enhance our enjoyment of food, help us better choose
and consume items that are nutritious, and prevent overeating. And
mindfulness experts state that eating without haste allows us to savor every bite and appreciate flavors and textures. It also helps us
to fully chew food to aid with di-
gestion and to tune into cues that
we are full.
Drink plenty of water
Choosing water over a caloriecontaining beverage — soda, alcohol, or sugary drink — results in
fewer calories consumed. Sounds
simple enough.
However, drinking water has
added benefits. In a study looking
at 84 obese adults, half of the participants were asked to drink 500
ml of water before a meal. After 12
weeks, the group that hydrated before eating lost 2.87 pounds more
than those who did not.
It is likely that filling our tummies up with water provides a full
feeling and makes it less likely that
we will reach for a second helping.
Additionally, when our bodies are
dehydrated, our brain sends S.O.S.
signals that we are hungry. The rationale behind this is that it allows
water to enter into our system
through the food we consume.
Keep a food journal
Keeping track of what we eat is
one of the most effective ways to
lose weight. In a study of 1,700
overweight adults, who participated
in a six-month weight loss program,
those who kept a daily log of what
they consumed lost twice as much
weight as those who did not.
Food journaling creates accountability. It is easy to lose track of the
extra condiments (e.g., salad dressing, croutons, bacon bits), types of
foods we eat, serving sizes, and
snacking that we engage in. Keeping tab makes us more cognizant of
what we consume and, too, allows
us to go back and review areas that
can be improved.
Never go grocery shopping
when you are hungry
An empty stomach can impair
our decision-making. And before
we know it, we have brought home
cupcakes, chips, and other not-sohealthy items that can devastate our
weight loss progress. Before going
to the grocery store, create a list that
you adhere to and try to go after
your meal, or after having a nutritious snack (e.g. fruit, hummus,
egg, cheese).
While the information in the series over the past 3 weeks has been
focused on getting leaner — it is
good for maintaining your best
weight too. Following the steps in
this series offers several benefits for
you: lower risk of several cancers
and diseases; opportunity for a
leaner, stronger frame; and the
chance to live a longer and healthier
life. Stay tuned because when it
comes to living a healthy lifestyle,
consistency is key. In the coming
weeks and months we will continue
to go deeper and focus on medical
truths for greater health understanding; balanced living; as well as wise
preventive health and wellness
measures... for our body, mind and
spirit.
*****
This article is for general information 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 compiling 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.
EarthTalk is written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss
and is a registered trademark of E - The Environmental Magazine (www.emagazine.com). Send questions to:
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Dear EarthTalk: Do scientists
think there is a big environmental
component to the huge rise in peanut allergies in recent years? —
Jay Williams, Fresno, CA
Peanut allergies among children
in the United States has more than
tripled, from 0.4 percent in 1997 to
1.4 percent in 2010, according to a
study by food allergists at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Of the eight foods that cause 90
percent of food allergies (milk, soy,
eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, fish
and shellfish), peanuts are the deadliest. They result in an estimated
15,000 emergency room visits (half
of the 30,000 due to food allergies)
in the U.S.
Heather Fraser, author of The
Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What’s
Causing It and How to Stop It, says
that despite the continuing intense
attention given to the growing epidemic of peanut allergies in children, an answer to its cause(s) has
not been found. Fraser adds that it
is difficult to accept the startling
increase in peanut allergies in just
the last 20 years as a coincidence
or to chalk it up to a genetic fluke.
Robyn O’Brien, author of The
Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food
is Making Us Sick and What We
Can Do About It, states that the sudden surge in American peanut allergies may be attributed to the fact
that peanuts are grown in the same
soil as Roundup Ready, or
glyphosate tolerant, cotton. Unlike
almonds, walnuts and cashews,
peanuts do not grow on trees —
they re actually a legume with a soft
shell that grows in the ground. “Put
anything in that soil and you can
imagine how it gets absorbed into
the peanut,” O’Brien wrote on her
website, adding: “Put genetically
engineered seeds in that soil and
you get soil that is saturated with a
controversial
chemical,
glyphosate,” a chemical that the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has linked to gradually increasing, cellular-damaging
inflammation.
But according to Fraser, the consumption of genetically modified
foods does not correlate with the
epidemiological facts of the peanut
allergy epidemic. Fraser proposes
that the use of refined peanut oil as
a vaccine adjuvant, or enhancer, is
behind the epidemic. According to
Fraser, the use of refined peanut oil
in vaccines resulted in the slow
growth of the allergy primarily in
children until the late 1980s when
its prevalence exploded due to the
extensive and sudden changes to
childhood vaccination. There has
been a 414 percent increase in vaccines given to U.S. children, says
VacTruth.com. In 1950, an American child would have received
seven vaccines by the age of six.
Today, if an American family follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American
Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Family Physicians
endorsed annual childhood vaccine
schedule, their child will receive
Researchers still haven’t zeroed in definitively on what’s behind the recent uptick in peanut allergies.
over 36 vaccines by the time they non-allergic mothers had the high- nancy increased the risk of a child
are six years of age.
est consumption of peanuts or tree developing peanut sensitization,”
With the direct cause(s) of the nuts, or both, during pregnancy had said Dr. Ruchi Gupta, an associate
peanut allergy epidemic still open- the lowest risk of developing a nut professor of pediatrics at Northended, many pregnant women have allergy. The risk was most reduced western University. Dr. Gupta emtaken to avoiding peanuts altogether among the children of mothers who phasized that further research is
to prevent their unborn child from ate nuts five or more times a month. needed to determine “why more and
developing the allergy. But a recent
“Some studies actually showed more children are developing food
study found that children whose that avoiding peanuts during preg- allergy and how we can prevent it.”
PLACES TO GO
Magical Mykonos, a wonderful island to visit
By Sandy Zimmerman
Las Vegas Tribune
Photos by Greek Tourist Bureau
The Aegean Sea seems bluer
than any sea anywhere else in the
world. When our Royal Olympic
Stella Solaris cruise ship moved
toward Mykonos, I was startled by
the beautiful white buildings sitting
along the hillside. Everything is
white, even the trunks of trees have
been painted white. Although the
shutters and doors are painted blue
to give the buildings a touch of
color. Mykonos is only 94 miles
from Athens’ port city Piraeus, yet
the island seems as though it is another world.
The Greek people call Mykonos
“something Old World yet modern,” the most “in” island in the
Mediterranean. The setting is an
artist’s dream! Their narrow cobblestone streets, some only 2-4 feet
wide, wind around the mountain
suddenly leading into doorways and
stairways. What seems to be an alley is really the entrance to one of
the local tavernas or restaurants. It
is like trying to find your way
through a maze. The streets were
designed this way purposely, back
in the 16th Century they wanted to
confuse invaders.
Walking around Mykonos reminds me of Venice’s streets, except Venice had a number of romantic small bridges with gondolas
floating by. In the Western section
of the island, called “Little Venice”
because of their resemblance to the
buildings in Venice, the homes are
constructed right up to the water
with overhanging balconies. These
homes were built in the 16-17th
Century to allow pirates to transport their goods in and out quickly.
I was excited to see the pelican
Petro, Mykonos’ official mascot.
He waddles in and out of stores as
though he was a tourist. Pink pelicans are also seen around the
beaches. You have to walk around
to discover Mykonos’ boutiques,
tavernas, and restaurants. Our
cruise ship arrived at 3 p.m., and
was scheduled to leave at 10 p.m. I
prefer to fly to be able to stay overnight and really explore each of the
islands. There is a lot to do on this
small island.
Stop at one of the tavernas or
sidewalk restaurants for Greek food
the way it should be cookedMoussaka, Pastichio, Spanakopita,
Greek salad, and other Greek specialties. I saw the movie “Zorba the
Greek” and thought the locals always danced in the tavernas. The
Greeks are spontaneous people.
When they feel like dancing, the
man or woman suddenly gets up
and moves to the beat. But they do
not dance all of the time. Eventually throughout my trip to the Greek
Islands and in Athens, I did find a
few tavernas where I could experience this.
Even though Mykonos has a
population of 11,000 people and
covers only 55 square miles, the
island welcomes 50,000 tourists a
year.
Award-winning syndicated columnist Sandy Zimmerman features
Show, Dining, Travel, Health,
Luxury reviews and is talk show
host of the Las Vegas Today Show
programs and Discover the Ultimate Vacation travel specials.
Please suggest topics for articles or
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Sandy at (702) 731-6491 or email:
sandyzimm2003@yahoo.com.
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