Opinion Columns

On Monday, President Barack Obama faced a House of Representatives controlled by hostile Republicans, a Democratically controlled Senate without enough members to break a filibuster threat and a looming crisis over tax cuts, deficit spending and debt.

Recently, the Rev. Billy Graham’s organization bought full-page ads in major newspapers – including the Review-Journal – encouraging people to vote for “biblical principles.”

There’s always plenty of reasons to say no to a tax increase.

Guess which popular Nevada political figure supports Mitt Romney for president? Gov. Brian Sandoval, that’s who!

Do political endorsements really matter?

Nobody was more surprised in court this week than the Nevada State Education Association when Carson City District Judge James E. Wilson struck down the union’s initiative petition to create a 2 percent margins tax on businesses.

Here’s something neither candidate said, but could have, at Monday’s presidential debate over foreign policy when it came to the Middle East: emphasize secular governments over religious ones. Neither President Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could say that, of course, because they don’t want to be seen as being anti-Islam, or even worse in modern America, anti-religion.