The lies of Sharron Angle get a tiny bit of scrutiny, finally, in the RJ.

Today, Laura Myers looks at the "makeover" of Angle's website. It's a damn good thing the Harry Reid campaign saved the old one online at http://www.therealsharronangle.com to give Myers and the rest of the mainstream media an easier time of comparing the two.

Frankly, we're surprised Myers actually gave her readers the Reid campaign site's url. Then again, since all that site does is showcase Angle, the paper probably felt it was a just link.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-gets-a-makeover-with-website-97652059.html

What's missing from this story is context. Where is the political expert who has examined scrubbed websites or issue make-overs?

Where's the Republican voice who says this helps or hurts her?

Nope. It's just more horserace reporting. Had Myers been following the remodel thread all week, she probably could have gotten away with briefing this story.

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Southern Nevada is on fire and the RJ is throwing its resources that way. Today, two reporters, three photographers and three actual pictures in the paper.

Here's the link to the coverage. http://www.lvrj.com/news/fire-on-mt--charleston-brings-campground-evacuation-97607099.html

We'll see how the paper continues to cover this important story with its holiday-thin staffing.

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The editorial today complains about Elena Kagan as someone who'd be a "hyperliberal" judge.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/the-kagan-hearings-97652254.html

It's amazing really how this argument goes.

Our sister org is struggling with selling Kagan as a progressive given her lack of hyperliberal background.

In fact, to hear some of our members tell it, Kagan is as bad as Scalia.

This is the kind of argument that turns a centrist like Hillary Clinton into a demon. It's the kind of argument that turns the milquetoast Democrat Harry Reid in to the scorn of the conservative nation.

But that's how the editorial page has presented the issues.

Frankly, we wish Kagan were hyperliberal. We wish sometimes Reid was the Democratic demon he's made out to be.

But more than either of those, we wish the Review-Journal could be a real newspaper again.

Nevada really needs it.