Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam’s by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in 90 percent Muslim Egypt remains. Elsewhere, it’s much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In those large swaths of Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State rules, the consequences for Christians are terrible — enslavement, exile, torture, massacre, crucifixion.
Opinion Columns
It has begun.
There are slam dunks and there are close calls, and I’m prepared to admit this is more the latter than the former.
There’s a dearth of Democratic congressional candidates in the 3rd District.
See, Las Vegas? This is why we can’t have nice things. The Department of Motor Vehicles has disabled the remote access feature of the “Dash Pass” system, because too many people were signing up but never showing up.
Back in 2012, U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said something interesting.
If nothing else, you have to give North Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge Catherine Ramsey credit for boldness and audacity.
When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined "The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history," you don‘t expect to revisit the issue. We had hit bottom. Or so I thought. Then on Tuesday, the final terms of the Iranian nuclear deal were published. I was wrong.
There are plenty of numbers in politics, some that are quite meaningful and others that don‘t mean much.
Southern Nevada‘s Democrats seemingly have more candidates in the 4th Congressional District than there are zombies in "The Walking Dead," but nobody to carry the party‘s banner in the 3rd District in 2016.
Danny Tarkanian is a four-time loser when it comes to politics.
Switching to a new computer system comes with its share of headaches; please bear with us as we do that on this blog.
A stroke of the president’s pen on Friday appeared to put some Nevadans in danger of having a stroke.
We need a pick-me-up. Amid the vandalizing of Palmyra, the imminent extinction of the northern white rhino, the disarray threatening Europe’s most ambitious attempt ever at peaceful unification — amid plague and pestilence and, by God, in the middle of Shark Week — where can humanity turn for uplift?
