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Meet the Water Boy for the Bush Rank and File: Say Hello to Jon Kyl
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Dave Hodges
As we race toward the November elections, Jon Kyl will argue that his political prowess and reputation are a benefit to Arizona. However, a closer examination of Jon Kyl’s character and voting patterns, which span his public service tenure, tells a m
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OH, YEAH. WHOLE LOT O' SHIVERIN' GOIN' ON
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Vin Suprynowicz
Last week, former Clark County Commissioners Dario Herrera, 33, and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, 68, were sentenced to 50 and 30 months in federal prison, respectively, for taking bribes from local strip club owner Michael Galardi.
Or were they?
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MEDICARE: ANOTHER WAY TO 'PUNISH THE RICH'?
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Vin Suprynowicz
Imagine for a moment the federal government owned all the supermarkets.
They wouldn’t have different names, anymore. They’d all be emblazoned with the blue-eagle logo of the NSA -- the Nutritional Security Administration.
But this would be a
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LA COMPETENCIA PAGA
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Desde el arribo de los conquistadores ibéricos al nuevo mundo, se dieron al establecimiento de instituciones monopólicas tan populares en la madre patria: la corona española en la política, la iglesia católica propietaria del mundo espiritual"educaci
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FOR HERRERA, KINCAID-CHAUNCEY, JUSTICE IS DONE
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Vin Suprynowicz
Former Clark County Commissioners Dario Herrera, 33, and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey, 68, were sentenced to federal prison Monday for taking bribes from local strip club owner Michael Galardi in the political corruption case dubbed G-sting.
Herrera, a
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Means as important as ends to promoting Peace
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Howard Blitz
The libertarian notion of volunteerism, raising funds from voluntary payments, and free enterprise that the United States of America was founded upon has become an anachronism. Individual car washes, private solicitations by youth and private found
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'OUR MAYOR IS MORE FUN THAN YOUR GOVERNOR'
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Vin Suprynowicz
This summer, the new governor of New Jersey, who won election by promising not to raise taxes, got darned upset when the Legislature in Trenton refused to enact his whopping new budget, just because it contained a bunch of, you know ... tax hikes.
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DANGEROUS WORM PEDDLER NABBED*
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Vin Suprynowicz
*(Apologies, this one got lost in the shuffle -- from the "better late than never" dept.)
Make no mistake, when it comes time to count the faces that delegates to our state capitals see in hearing after hearing, plain old taxpayers clinging tight
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Freedom - The American Dream
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Howard Blitz
Last week there was a column in The Sun that asked the question, “What happens when the American dream dies?” As noted in the column the American dream of “infinite plenty, a bottomless cup of creature comforts, and fair rewards for hard work” are f
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LA PASION DEL PEJECRISTO
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Si tuviéramos el poder de transportarnos a un lejano futuro, seríamos testigos de la infinita cantidad de análisis que se llevarán a cabo del singular proceso político que hemos transitado las últimas semanas.
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WATCH NICK DEL VECCHIO, BOB BEERS, AND JERRY AIROLA
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Vin Suprynowicz
The Review-Journal offers no formal endorsements in Tuesday’s primary elections, and neither do I. A few observations:
First, not voting is OK. Choosing the new ruler who will decide how much of our money and property to “allow” us to keep from a
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FENCING OFF THE LAST WASTELAND
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Vin Suprynowicz
Flying over the desert West, looking down on an ochre or red-brown surface more than a little reminiscent of Mars, more than one traveler has remarked, “Good gracious. There sure is a whole lot of stinking desert down there. Doesn’t it ever end?”
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The Politicalization of America
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Howard Blitz
All across America today one or more of existing legislative bodies from the national congress to city councils decide by majority vote on whether individuals can work, how much they may be paid, what type of benefits they can receive, how much of th
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DEMOCRATS BLOCK MINIMUM WAGE HIKE
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Vin Suprynowicz
Minimum wage hikes are bad, since they outlaw the jobs of those -- mostly part-time teen-agers -- currently earning $5.15 per hour.
Fans of this form of government meddling are fond of saying a minimum wage hike would “benefit more than 6 million
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JUST THIS ONCE, LET THEM FIGHT TILL SOMEONE LOSES
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Vin Suprynowicz
War is horrible. It kills and maims and orphans the innocent along with the combatants, who themselves are not always there willingly. It is to be avoided whenever possible.
(For instance, Lincoln had no right to invade the South, which in no way
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ATILA FRENTE AL Z"CALO
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Uno de los acontecimientos históricos más analizado, admirado y criticado por infinidad de intelectuales, historiadores y políticos durante los últimos 2000 años, es el nacimiento, desarrollo y destrucción del Imperio Romano.
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OUR MAGINOT LINE IN THE SKY
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Vin Suprynowicz
Imagine finding that -- as you innocently boarded a commercial flight at McCarran Airport last year -- you’d been falsely identified by a U.S. air marshal as a potential terrorist.
Placed on a watch list without being told why, you could face int
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JUDGING JUSTICE BECKER
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Vin Suprynowicz
In July, 2003, the Nevada Supreme Court in “Guinn v. Legislature” had the nerve to dismiss a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds legislative vote to raise taxes. Although that amendment had been ratified by an overwhelming majority of Ne
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The Constitution and the Middle East
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Howard Blitz
When the founders of the United States of America created the Constitution they established some very specific restrictions upon elected officials, the severest being that only congress could decide to declare war. They established a republic so tha
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POLS WILL SOON CLAIM 'PISTOL,' 'TASC' CAUSE STERILITY
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Vin Suprynowicz
One after another, the major gubernatorial candidates of both parties who oppose state Sen. Bob Beers’ modest “Tax and Spending Control” initiative have trouped through the Review-Journal editorial offices this summer, insisting the proposed constitu
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ON WILD HORSES AND 'NO-KNOCK' SEARCHES
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Vin Suprynowicz
Melvin C. Bailey, Jr., master chief petty officer, USN retired, writes in:
“I was impressed by the comprehensive nature of the Review-Journal’s June 19 editorial, ‘Police no longer need to knock.’ Sadly, your hypothetical question about an Americ
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LA RANA Y EL ALACRÁN
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Una de las fábulas tradicionales que me parece plagada de sabiduría, pero también de tristeza ante la naturaleza de ciertos seres, es la vieja historia de la rana y el alacrán.
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THE BEST CLOWN SHOW IN TOWN
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Vin Suprynowicz
Well, give them one thing: Warring candidates Brian Krolicki and Barbara Lee Woollen have managed to “push through the clutter” and elevate the visibility of a summer primary race for a do-little office that Nevadans generally ignore -- that of lieut
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Three Votes in Congress follow Constitution
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Howard Blitz
Congratulations to those elected officials who voted against the proposed gay marriage and flag burning constitutional amendments and the federal funding of stem cell research bill. They all preserved, protected, and defended the United States Const
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MARYLAND'S 'WAL-MART TAX' HITS THE DUMPSTER
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Vin Suprynowicz
These days, states are finding an increasing share of their budgets consumed by Medicaid -- the socialized medical subsidy for the poor.
Not that Medicaid is a one-size-fits-all program. It does require that certain poor people -- such as the dis
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SOMETHING MORE THAN 'MERE TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION'
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Vin Suprynowicz
A few weeks back, we were debating in this space whether the 14th Amendment grants automatic birthright citizenship to children of illegal aliens born in this country. A helpful reader refers us to a Dec. 7, 2005 letter to the Wall Street Journal fro
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MR. KIM JONG LOPEZ BIN LADEN
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Ricardo Valenzuela
The dramatic outcome of the July 2, Mexican elections and its’ political consequences have exceeded all my expectations and predictions. Unfortunately, this outcome could become a drama that would eventually mimic the style of Kim Jong Il of North Ko
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BEMOANING A 'DO-NOTHING' CONGRESS
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Vin Suprynowicz
An astonishing news analysis moved last week on the Bloomberg News wire -- a news service controlled by the billionaire New York City Mayor who wants to outlaw cigarette smoking as well as the Second Amendment wherever his authority extends. (And to
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Deluding One’s Self
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Howard Blitz
All words have very specific meanings. For instance, socialism is the government ownership and/or control of the means of production; land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. Free enterprise, on the other hand, is the individual ownership and/or
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EL PEJE SAHUARIPE'O
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Ricardo Valenzuela
En lo alto de la sierra sonorense, ya bordeando la línea con Chihuahua, se ubica el pueblo de Sahuaripa distinguido siempre por su perfil diferente al resto del estado.
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