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Thomas Mitchell is the editor of the Review-Journal and writes about the newspaper's role in the community.
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Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at 7:31 AM
As soon as I saw the story on the wire Thursday, I thought of it. The story out of Geneva begins with the obligatory reference to the riots, fires and deaths that greeted those Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Then...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 at 7:11 AM
For all those rubbing their hands in glee over the imminent demise of us ink-stained dinosaurs still clinging desperately to our bundles of dead trees, comes a new report from the folks at Scarborough Research. Turns out 74 percent of American...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Welcome to Oceania, where the language is Newspeak. And you thought it was the UNR campus and a left-wing press release. Same difference. Yesterday, Bob Fulkerson, director of Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, and Oscar Peralta, of UNR...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 at 6:35 AM
Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to singer Michael Jackson before his death, leaves Family Court on North Pecos Road on Monday after a hearing over unpaid child support payments. A Review-Journal photographer was waiting outside and snapped...
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Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 at 7:45 AM
It is a concept that should be engraved and posted on the wall of every university chancellor and president, every high school and grade school principal: “Our goal is not to make ideas safe for students but to make students safe for...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Like lemmings over a cliff. Have talking points, will regurgitate. They get those talking points from their masters at MoveOn.org and promptly cut and paste them into the suggested form, then out their letters go into the ether to land in the...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM
No need to say more....
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 at 7:47 AM
President Obama promised the most transparent administration in the history of the universe. I read the memos. Since then, he’s not quite lived up to the promise, including balking at the reporter shield law and backtracking on the release of...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at 7:02 AM
On Wednesday we editorialized about the cavalier attitude of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toward that inconvenient and therefore insignificant and unimportant document known as the U.S. Constitution. She and others were asked by CNSNews.com where...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 at 7:40 AM
We were right. They were wrong. That's about all the satisfaction we'll get. In July the Review-Journal filed an Open Meeting Law complaint with the attorney general's office over the method used by the Henderson City Council to select a new...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 at 7:48 AM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, is flanked by Rep. Jim McDermott, right, and Rep. Jay Inslee during a news conference at Swedish Medical Center Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, in Seattle. Pelosi toured Swedish on her first public appearance after the...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 at 7:55 AM
You can't have it both ways. Writing in The Washington Post recently, John Nichols and Robert McChesney bemoan the decline and presumed eventual death of American newspapers. They quote President Obama as saying, "I am concerned that if the...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Sunday, Nov. 08, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Let's put these videos in the archives and open them in five or 10 years. Who do you think will be proven correct?...
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Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus now says she supports the 1,900-page health care reform monstrosity because it "takes important steps to make health insurance more affordable and accessible." Maybe she should read Sally Pipes' op-ed...
Posted by Thomas Mitchell
Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 at 7:28 AM
Sometimes news stories are interesting for what they do not say. All of the major wire news stories today made little more than passing reference to the fact the Fort Hood gunman was a devout Muslim, though today information is beginning to come...
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