Too much to write about

Whenever I listen to Conversations from the Capitol, the Nevada Republican talk show on Saturdays at 3 p.m. on KKFT 99.1 FM, I am impressed by Jill Dickman, Assembly 31 candidate. When the testosterone gets flowing, and the boys ramble off the freedom reservation, hers is the voice of reason that herds them back in.

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The Benghazi Hearings are an obvious attempt to hit Hillary Clinton hard before she declares for 2016. When you are running an empire, there will always be barbarians at the gates. Sure Hillary and Barack Obama dithered while Rome —er, Carthage—burned, but the real issue is why we were in Libya in the first place, and why our ambassador and the CIA were in Benghazi. Were we using Benghazi as a way station to smuggle arms to the rebels in Syria? Don’t expect the select committee to investigate that!

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Kisstory was made at the end of the NFL draft when the St. Louis Rams picked Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL player. The world’s greatest reality show scored extra points when Sam cried and kissed his boyfriend on camera. Although he is a marginal talent and may not last long in the league, Sam’s pick shows again just how far we have come in so short a time in mainstreaming gay rights.

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Note to Michelle Obama: Your husband has killed and orphaned many more girls with drone strikes than Boko Haram can dream of doing!

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I know Gov. Brian Sandoval is an economic moderate, but maybe this time we need a popular moderate with ties to the Hispanic Community to finally send Harry Reid to pasture in 2016, whether or not the Republicans take the Senate this year.

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Speaking of Hispanics, Sen. Rand Paul has chastised the Republicans for spending so much time on Voter ID histrionics. Voter ID is constitutional, but is it wise to thump on this minor cause of voter fraud when Republicans have gone out of their way to alienate minorities for so long?

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House Republicans are holding up the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill over the technical issue of who gets to certify the border is secure, Congress or the president. The border will never be secure; it is a fool’s errand. Even if it were to be somehow “secure,” at what cost? We have already lost much of our right to travel, and there is a 100 mile from the border Constitution-free zone with checkpoints that harass us and eat our substance.

Still, there are many things wrong with “comprehensive” bills about just about anything. Perhaps incrementalism is the way to go with immigration reform.

Constitutional conservatives might want to explain where the Constitution gives the federales the power to limit immigration. It only empowers them to draw up uniform rules for naturalization. An activist Supreme Court gave that power to the feds. So much for consistent conservative principles.

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Gravel-voiced Senate 16 candidate Gary Schmidt told me: “I would never have run as an insurgent candidate 25 years ago for fear of being buried in a shallow grave in the desert.” I guess that’s progress!

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The Supreme Court has ruled that sectarian prayer to open a government meeting is constitutional. It’s not the prayer that has me concerned, it’s the government meeting!

Christian activists should remember the old axiom to be careful what you wish for. Now that sectarian prayer at government meetings is OK, what will stop the Pastafarians from demanding a prayer to the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

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Why do the BLM and other federal administrative agencies have the power to carry guns?