The Review-Journal took no days off to be independence.

On Sunday, the paper kept railing against Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama again as usual.

Sherm Frederick decided to re-launch old issues against Reid again on Sunday.  http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/reid-s-words-of-infamy-97758234.html

In fact, between his column Sunday, Jane Ann Morrison's column Monday http://www.lvrj.com/news/nevada-politicos--flood-of-words-often-lack-drop-of-reason-97788189.html and Laura Myers' section front article Monday http://www.lvrj.com/news/parties-playing--gotcha--games-97788209.html , the old Reid statements have been retread three times.

Sherm's off his rocker again just to bash Reid.

Morrison tried to do a "patriotic" column but once again she showed just how out-of-touch she is. She references an old book -- a book so old it contains not one of Reid's infamous statements, nor does it or her column address the two biggest political goofs of the past few years -- former Sen. George Allen's macaca moment and Sue Lowden's bartering for chickens statement that cost her the primary election.

She also informs the reader that it's important for a reporter to use a tape recorder.

I'm not sure if any reporters, beside Morrison, still use the antiquated device. A voice activated MP3 player, maybe.

But typically these days if you say it, it's on video, too. And that's the heart of Myers' story.

It's not horrible. She actually quoted someone who isn't involved with either campaign -- a nationally-known political analyst.

And she gives proper treatment to both Lowden's insane statements and the macaca moment.

Essentially, Myers got to this broad treatment as a way of skirting the accusations against the paper's darling Sharron Angle.

Angle's numerous statements about policy and about politics have certainly been fueling lots of blogosphere hand-wringing. At the very least, Myers is watching the Internets -- which is more than we can say about Old School Morrison.

Also today, Ben Spillman has an interesting look at the silence of the governor's race on the state's most pressing issue -- the massive $3.5 billion deficit.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/gubernatorial-candidates-steer-clear-of-economics-97788224.html

Spillman soft treads it without holding either Brian Sandoval or Rory Reid to task for their unworkable statements on revenue. But he also does the smart thing and quotes the sharpest fiscal analyst in the state -- Jeremy Aguero. Thank goodness he went with Aguero and not the paper's think tank, NPRI.

Mostly the weekend editions were snoozefests, with so little local copy that there was only one correction. This one ran Saturday and is a rare miss from John L. Smith. (The bad punctuation is the RJ's error in the correction."

"Some versions of John L. Smith's Friday column incorrectly described Don Logan's status with the Las Vegas 51s. He was recently given a demotion".

Before we leave, a brief look at how the letters to the editor have been diversifying -- thanks in no small effort to the paper's constant conservative slant that has angered so many on the left.

Today, there's a backhanded vote for Harry Reid by Las Vegan Jim Graham. http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/failed-government-promise--who-could-have-guessed--97788289.html

On Sunday, they printed Laura Cox arguing against the RJ's insane editorial position on the DISCLOSE Act.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/power-hungry-feds-trying-to-force-social-change-with--green--policies-97758289.html

But the winner of the best letter to the editor in a long, long time goes to John Esperian who wrote this on Saturday:

"You've got to wonder at the motives of the Review-Journal editorial board. Is the idea to raise the curtain on a new generation of conservative Republicans in public office or simply to do everything possible to make the president look bad?"

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/does-rory-really-need-just-one-name--97723904.html

Esperian closes: "And finally, the question of questions: Why is it that Mr. Frederick and other conservative voices are never heard criticizing the ongoing perpetual failures, astronomical costs, and deaths of U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan? Is it because American voters believe that the missions there are just, or because they were authored by the darlings of the right, President Bush and his close adviser, Vice President Dick Cheney?"

We could not have said it better ourselves, John.

There's another good letter that ran Saturday, from Eugene Paslov of Carson City. It's in the same link as Esperian's.