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5 days ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Today is Mother’s Day. It is a perfect time to ask the question, “When does no mean yes?”The answer, of course, should be never. You would think we have learned that much from our mothers, especially when it comes to matters of personal relationships — mostly between men and women. That’s my nice way of saying that in the war between the sexes there is no room for any gray.
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1 week ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
An unfriend, in need. Most Americans would never have thought it possible that a U.S. president could single-handedly piss off Canadians so much that they would do the impossible. And, yet, President Donald Trump has proved, yet again, that he has the ability to scare, to anger, to create fear in the hearts of men and women to such a degree that he could move Canadians to an action they could never contemplate.
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2 weeks ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
I told myself that I wasn’t going to write about President Donald Trump’s daily outrages. People are used to them, they have come to expect them and, basically, except for the rabid left and right of America, they usually just ignore them. It is who he is and he can’t help himself. But ... I can’t help myself, either. There is just too much at stake. So, consider this a promise (at least to myself) not kept.
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3 weeks ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Clearly, Shakespeare had it wrong when it comes to Elaine Wynn. The good that Elaine did during her life will live long after her. Myra and I, like so many others in our state who knew Elaine — and countless others across the country and around the world — were saddened at what seemed like her sudden passing Monday. By modern standards, Elaine was a very young woman. She always was.
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1 month ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Is there an American bull in China’s shop? China and its one and a half billion people was a different country just 15 years ago when my wife, Myra, and I were on a Brookings Institution study trip there.
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1 month ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Note: This article was written by Brian Greenspun, with the assistance of a new friend, Anthropic’s Claude. After extensive research, the Sun carefully has started to adopt artificial intelligence to assist in our operations. While Sun staff will always have direct control, supervision and/or authorship, Claude and other AI apps help us to do what we have always done best: provide the critical coverage our community needs to help us grow better — for everyone. Democracy’s safety net is fraying.
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2 months ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Trading wars with our friends. Our neighbors. Our fellow Americans. Unlike very few Americans (because they have real lives), I spent a good part of Friday worrying about the vote in the U.S. Senate, where senators grappled with a no-win decision: whether to pass a spending bill that the House voted for — and then skipped town — and, basically, left the issue in the laps of a handful of Democrats. This was not an easy vote if you cared about ordinary Americans and their families.
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2 months ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al ingles. Un repaso de las noticias de la semana pasada:• El discurso político más largo, más aburrido y quizás el único de un presidente ante una sesión conjunta del Congreso. • ν El uso excesivo por parte de los demócratas de señas que dijeron algo y tampoco tanto.
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2 months ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español. A recap of last week’s news:• Longest, lamest and maybe only political speech by a president to a joint session of Congress. • Democrats’ overuse of signs that said something and didn’t say much. • Democrats’ underuse of the power to recognize when something good and decent was happening for ordinary Americans in the audience (shouldn’t have been that hard to recognize ordinary and decent at that speech).
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2 months ago | 
lasvegassun.com | Brian Greenspun
There is a time for thoughts and prayers. Unlike the seeming inadequacy of thoughts and prayers following mass murders of children in schools, young adults in nightclubs and churchgoers in church — when action is needed and rarely ever comes — there is a time. This is one of those times. The leader of the Catholic Church, 88-year old Pope Francis, has been ill and in hospital suffering from double pneumonia.
