The Four Year Caucus

GOP mania rolled through Nevada last week. Four days of candidate craziness was topped off by a somewhat confusing and partly disorganized caucus-like event last Saturday. Here are some of my favorite photos from the week, taken during a Ron Paul event at a gun store followed immediately by a Ron Paul rally at a biker bar for Filipino-American World War II veterans, a Newt Gingrich rally at a construction equipment distributor, and lastly, the caucus at Green Valley High School in beautiful Henderson, Nevada. See you again in four years, caucus!

How Goicoechea Lives

There are my favorite photos from a recent trip to the loneliest part of Nevada (and possibly the country) off U.S. Route 50 near Eureka, Nevada. The ranch I visited, which is about 30 miles northeast of Eureka in the Newark Valley, is the home of State Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea, possibly soon to be the most powerful Republican in the state. He farms alfalfa and ranches on about 3,000 acres by day, and does all his legislative and reelection business at night. He also swallows his chewing tobacco instead of spitting it out. That's a hardcore third-generation Nevada rancher for you.