* CNN got its highest ratings in a long, long time for its televised town hall featuring Donald Trump on Wednesday; 3.1 million viewers. However, that’s what Tucker Carlson used to pull in nightly before FOX News stupidly cashiered him.
* BTW: Did you hear that Tucker may be teaming up with Elon Musk to resurrect his show on Twitter?
* I’m not buying the argument that Rep. George Santos’ lying to get elected last year is somehow OK because “everybody else does it” – including Biden, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. As mom taught us, two wrongs don’t make a right.
* As long as Santos remains in office, Democrats will always be able to point to him as an excuse for lying through their own teeth. He needs to go.
* A crazed “street performer” was threatening passengers on a NYC subway train. A Marine Corps veteran and others subdued him. He died after being put in a chokehold to keep the guy from hurting other passengers.
* And now the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg – who’s also the guy who brought the BS indictment against Donald Trump a few weeks ago – has decided to bring criminal manslaughter charges against the Marine that could carry jail time of up to 15 years.
* Bragg’s the guy who should be behind bars.
* The PC “Name Police” have successfully pressured the Army to rename Fort Benning; named after a Confederate officer in the Civil War. It will instead be called Fort Moore after Vietnam War Lt. Gen. Harold "Hal" Moore; played by Mel Gibson in the movie “We Were Soldiers.”
* Renaming the fort was stupid. But at least they renamed it for an actual war hero rather than, say, Biden’s tranny Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine.
* The Nevada State Senate has introduced a resolution, SR5, to induct former Sen. Joe Hardy into the Senate Hall of Fame.
* Hardy, a “Republican,” enjoys the distinction of having voted for both of the largest tax hikes in state history; the first in 2003 while he was in the Assembly and the second in 2015 when he was in the Senate.
* Seems to me the Hall of Shame would be more appropriate.
* LVRJ columnist Victor Joecks has been dishing out advice to Gov. Joe Lombardo on how he thinks the new guv should handle dealing with the obstructionist Democrats who control the Legislature in these closing days.
* Victor’s lack of experience in politics and business already casts doubt on the wisdom of his “play hardball now” exhortations. But then a friend reminded me of this quote from one of his columns the week before the Sisolak Shutdown in 2020…
"Gov. Steve Sisolak has yet to announce any restrictions on gatherings, but that could change. That wouldn’t be an easy decision to make, but it’s become a reasonable option."
* “Reasonable option”? It lasted TWO YEARS!
* For some reason, this Tom Cruise quote from A Few Good Men comes to mind: "Should we or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid?"
* It also reminds me of this advice by Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse: “I want you to be nice... until it's time... to not be nice.”
* With three weeks to go, now is the time to play nice in the sandbox. If needed, the time to NOT be nice will arrive by the end of the month.
* How will we know when it’s time to not be nice? We won’t. The governor who we elected will let us know. Be ready.
* I’m not one for giving new businesses tax incentives to move here. However, if we’re going to do it, it should be controlled by the professionals at GOED, not the anti-business Democrat numbskulls in the Legislature.
* And if we’re trying to lure new businesses here, it makes sense to tempt entertainment businesses since Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world.
* So the idea of extending film tax credits – if we’re going to do it at all – to Sony Pictures seems like a better target to woo than other businesses that aren’t in the entertainment field. Stick to our knitting.
* The Nevada State Bar is investigating Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones after a judge recently slammed him for lying about what happened to text messages that were deleted from his phone during a controversy involving a planned residential development out near Red Rock Canyon.
* Interestingly, the LVRJ reports today that the attorney representing Jones is Brian Hardy. And unless there are two Brian Hardys practicing law in Clark County, that would be the same attorney who has represented the Nevada Republican Party in a variety of lawsuits in recent years.
* Strange bedfellows, indeed.
* Clark County has resorted to chaining gates to its foot bridges on walking paths at night to stop vagrants from setting up homeless camps on them.
* The homeless problem won’t be fixed with the standard liberal solution of “mo’ money.” Instead, the Clark County Commission should talk to Dave Marlon; an actual common-sense expert on dealing with substance abuse.
* Go Knights!!!
Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views and blogs at MuthsTruths.com. His views are his own.