Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Columns by Brian Greenspun

  • Founding Fathers’ ideals require mothers’ lead
    This is not a Republican versus Democrat thing but, rather, a uniquely American thing. In a land of plenty, in a land of overabundance, we seem to have lost our ability to surmount the most simple challenges. And we have plenty ...
  • Fox News is a sorry lot. Just not sorry.
    As much as most of America expected Rupert Murdoch to apologize to the country for lying and damn lying about the 2020 election, it was never going to happen. Not because he and all the rest of the fake news people at Fox aren’t responsible for deliberately misleading their viewers — because they are — but because telling its viewers that they had been duped was bad for Fox’s business. And we couldn’t have that, could we?
  • Former President Donald Trump appears in court for his arraignment, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump surrendered to authorities ahead of his arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign.
    Illusion of Trump turns to disillusion in America
    The fall of Donald Trump — at least the beginning of a fall that may ultimately be heard in the forests of our federal courts and in the state of Georgia — is no longer an illusion.
  • Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, Saturday, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla.
    Trump indictment is embarrassing but necessary
    Instead of slinking away in shame like any other clouded-up ex-president, Donald Trump seeks the reward of another term in the Oval Office. And his sycophantic army of political chameleons ...
  • Former President Donald Trump speaks at the America First rally to show support for Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo and Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt at Treasure Island Friday, July 8, 2022.
    Will no indictment indict Lady Justice?
    Will he or won’t he — be indicted. That is not the question. I suppose it says a lot about our country and where its head is today that a person can’t go too far down the street without someone asking that question about former President Donald Trump ...
  • Lessons from my father that we can bank on
    Last week, two lessons from my youth merged in a way that made me grateful that Joe Biden is leading the country as its president.
  • President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, March 1, 2022, in Washington. When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, the Republican side of the aisle will look slightly different than in years past. The House Republican majority has Black, Latino and female elected officials in their ranks.
    ‘Kissing planets’ give us hope; petty earthlings give us pause
    Venus and Jupiter kissing? How can that be? Well, it can’t be. That’s the point. But this past week it has looked that way to those of us on planet Earth who dared to look up. So, since this column is about perspective, let’s gain a little when it comes to kissing planets and what I thought about ...
  • Secret trip to Ukraine a display of real leadership
    If ever there were a case to be made for President Joe Biden’s potential decision to run for reelection, I believe his recent secret trip to Ukraine should put the naysaying to rest. In the dark of night, with a measure of secrecy recently unknown in Washington circles, and with a determination to do what was right and necessary for the under-siege and under-gunned people of Ukraine, the president of the United States made a command decision to lead
  • Israel faces a crucial test of its democracy
    For those unaware, Israel’s new government seeks to redefine the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court allowing, among other things, a simple majority of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) to overturn its rulings. For some, this is needed to correct a court that has progressed too far to the left and is out of touch with the needs of the people. For others, it is the beginning of the end of Israel’s democracy, giving too much power to its legislative body. I pray that the truth is somewhere in the middle.
  • President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
    When America wins, all of us should cheer
    There was a time when people on both sides of the political aisle in Congress came together for the good of the country, applauded for what was good for the country and stood up to support what represented all that is good about our country. That is not what I saw this past week when President Biden reported on the state of our union.
  • The logo for OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, appears on a mobile phone, in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. OpenAI is launching a new tool in an effort to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool Tuesday that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.
    Ready or not, AI is spreading. Prepare yourselves.
    I am now going to wade into an area about which I know nothing and understand even less. But the idea of artificial intelligence turning out the next generation’s medical doctors is, at the very least, intriguing. Besides, musing about a future ...
  • A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks, Nov. 29, 2016, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, as international reluctance toward sending tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode. The decision could be announced as soon as Wednesday though it could take months or years for the tanks to be delivered.
    The Yanks are coming, just in time
    Just like all of Europe was celebrating the Yanks coming to their defense 80 years ago, this most recent decision to arm-up Ukraine with the capability to not only defend itself but to repel the invader is a reason to celebrate the fact that our country, the United States of America, still stands for something.
  • Personal responsibility is no accident
    The news last week that Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has been charged in New Mexico with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins on a movie set in 2021, while not unexpected, has taken the airwaves by storm.
  • It’s time for a little pill-ow talk about abortion
    Where can we buy prescription drugs in the United States? From a pharmacy. What are the two largest pharmacies in the United States? CVS and Walgreens, by far. What happens when CVS and Walgreens are closed for business?
  • Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reacts during the 12th round of voting for speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
    GOP debuts the ‘can’t do anything’ Congress
    Nevadans, unlike many voters in sister states far to the east and more to the south of us, turned away the extreme, election-denying MAGA Republicans (well, most of them) in the 2022 elections.
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