High Ground Underground

One sad story from the Las Vegas shooting is a young local (Manhattan Beach) middle school special ed teacher, Sandy Casey, photo below.  She leaves behind a fiancée, family, many colleagues at her school, and a whole class of special ed students.  It would be difficult for even normal students to process, but as the Daily Breeze reported, a former colleague said “Some of them are going to be the least able to process it because of their challenges.”  Multiply that ripple effect by the some 60 dead and over 500 injured – over 40 still in critical condition, so some more may die. Truly an evil act by one depraved individual.  But the many stories emerging of heroic and selfless acts to save others, and the outpouring of love and support by the Las Vegas and broader community shows the greater goodness.  These types of events of course beg the question of what can be done.  Predictably, immediately Hillary Clinton and the Left focus on the guns and b...

My personal Nevada Poll On Oct. 15 I volunteered for Mitt Romney’s campaign, making survey phone calls for 3 hours to GOP voters in the Las Vegas area (N. Las Vegas, Boulder City, Henderson, Pahrump, Alamo, Searchlight (Harry Reid country), Beatty, Tonopah, Overton, Panaca, Pioche & Round Mountain) just days before the CNN debate there. Questions included: what’s the next most important issue besides the economy & jobs, which candidate do you support, whether they planned on participating in the Nevada caucuses, and if they support Romney, whether they’d be willing to help and/or receive emails. I made 93 calls, and got 18 to go thru the survey. Of those 18, 5 ½ for Romney (halves were split w. another candidate), 3 + two halves for Cain, 1 for Newt & ½ for Ron Paul. 7 undecided. A small sample, but seems consistent w. national polls, except Perry. I also left 39 voice messages (expected on a Sat. afternoon), 12 were unavailable (someone else answered), 10 not intere...