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A CLOWN SHOW OF UNPRECEDENTED SCOPE AND GRANDEUR
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Vin Suprynowicz
Is some new mixture of satire,
fact, and ridicule required?
Art Buchwald, Mike Royko -- an older generation found a safe niche in a world
of newspapers put out and read by blue collar Joes more likely to play poker
down at the firehouse th
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The Libertarian
SALARIES FOR LIFE
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Vin Suprynowicz
So long as their jobs are funded out of tax moneys, most would agree that
a firefighter injured while rescuing residents from a burning building, or a cop
or probation officer who blows out a knee while chasing a dangerous suspect,
should have
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The Libertarian
BRIGHT LIGHTS DRAW BUGS
by
Vin Suprynowicz
It would be a bad thing if talented
individuals were blocked from their careers of choice because of sex or race.
But while some subtler prejudice doubtless remains, the days when applicants to
American colleges or medical schools were told “Yo
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The Libertarian
SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM COULD GO TO PRISON FOR RESISTING
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Vin Suprynowicz
Out of Green Bay, Wisc., The
Associated Press reported Tuesday “A woman who was upset over being searched
bodily at an airport was convicted Tuesday of assaulting a security screener by
grabbing the federal officer’s breasts.”
A federal ju
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The Libertarian
SPENDING CAP SHOULD BE FRONT AND CENTER NEXT YEAR
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Vin Suprynowicz
Colorado led the way, a decade ago.
History had shown that “voluntary spending limits” adopted by legislative bodies
are easily (and inevitably) sidestepped, violated and/or ignored by the very
same legislators who enact them.
Whether on t
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The Libertarian
PUNITIVE IRS PROSECUTION OF FORMER AGENT FAILS
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Vin Suprynowicz
“The federal government’s campaign
against income tax protesters suffered a major setback yesterday when a federal
jury in Sacramento acquitted a former Internal Revenue Service investigator on
charges of helping to prepare false tax returns,”
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The Libertarian
VEGAS MONORAIL MUST SUCCEED WITHOUT TAXPAYER SUBSIDIES
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Vin Suprynowicz
There’s a lot of face-saving
going on as the nonprofit Las Vegas Monorail Co. dismisses its current
management company, Transit Systems Management LLC, and moves in to take control
of the troubled East-of-the-Strip Las Vegas tourist train, itse
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The Libertarian
ALLOWING CITIZEN SELF-DEFENSE 'BORDERS ON INSANITY'
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Vin Suprynowicz
I wish I could say it was
amusing, but that would be disingenuous. It’s more like having to deal with a
child who continually wakes up screaming that there are monsters under the bed.
Except that with children you can be reassuring and suppo
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The Libertarian
SPANISH VACILLATION BEARS BITTER FRUIT
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Vin Suprynowicz
Dozens of innocent British civilians
were murdered -- hundreds more injured -- in a series of four terrorist blasts
targeting the London transit system Thursday morning.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible -- such events have be
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The Libertarian
AMA POSTPONES RECOMMENDATION ON CONSUMER DRUG ADS
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Vin Suprynowicz
There's a wide consensus that American
medical care needs reform. The problem is that by "reform," most Americans --
particularly our politicians -- seem to mean "more socialism."
In fact, socialized medicine failed so badly under Russian co
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The Libertarian
THE HISTORY WE CELEBRATE TODAY
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Vin Suprynowicz
This weekend we celebrate that
stirring day in history, July 4, 1812, when the first president of the United
States, Benjamin Franklin, emerged from the old State House in Boston, held up
the new Constitution freshly penned by Thomas Jefferson
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The Libertarian
AFTER 'KELO,' LET THE BULLDOZING BEGIN
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Vin Suprynowicz
I first heard a version of the idea
proposed by New Hampshire state Libertarian Party Chairman John Babiarz at a
June 25 luncheon at J.W. Hill's pub, across Elm Street from last weekend's
Freedom Forum in downtown Manchester, where Marc Victor
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The Libertarian
IF MICHAEL KANE ISN'T NUTS, SOMEONE ELSE IS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Back in 2001, a dangerous loony -- am I
now required to call him a “former dangerous loony”? -- named Michael Kane was
playing a violent video game with some friends at a house near Flamingo Road and
Boulder Highway, in Las Vegas.
Young Ka
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The Libertarian
DOES THE TIMES THINK YOU'RE A 'TERRORIST'?
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Vin Suprynowicz
This column appeared in
the June 10 issue of "Shotgun News"
Our old friends at The New York Times editorialized April 4, in a little
billet doux they called “Guns for Terrorists,” as follows:
“If a background check shows that you
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The Libertarian
U.S. TAXPAYERS TO SUBSIDIZE AFRICAN THEFT AND POVERTY
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Vin Suprynowicz
Meeting in London June 11,
government functionaries of the “Group of Eight” industrialized nations agreed
on an historic deal which will see the taxpayers of Germany, Great Britain and
the United States (primarily) pay off more than $40 billion
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The Libertarian
SPEEDING ENFORCEMENT WRONG PLACE TO FOCUS
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Vin Suprynowicz
We’ve all seen dangerous drivers
putting others at risk, found ourselves asking “Why is there never a cop around
when you need one?”
But the most dangerous behaviors generally involve rapid lane changes and
other forms of reckless driving.
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The Libertarian
GUESS WHOSE GRADES WERE LOWER
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Vin Suprynowicz
During last year’s presidential
campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate generally portrayed by the urban,
left-leaning media as sophisticated, intellectual, nuanced, and complex, while
George W. Bush was dismissed as a barely literate simperi
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The Libertarian
SOMETIMES THE SERVICEMEN SLEEP ON THE FLOOR FOR THREE OR FOUR DAYS
by
Vin Suprynowicz
The young soldier
was standing at the back of the ticket line at McCarran International Airport.
He had on his travel uniform. He was carrying his duffel bag. Those things can
get heavy.
“Everyone was just ignoring him, and the line was so
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The Libertarian
NEVADA LEGISLATURE FAILS TO CURB DISASTROUS BUDGET GROWTH
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Vin Suprynowicz
On June 7, the 2005 session
of the Nevada Legislature ended in failure.
Yes, there’s a budget, if you can call it that: a bloated monstrosity
featuring the kind of ongoing over-20-percent spending growth that will either
bankrupt the state
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The Libertarian
SELF-GOVERNMENT REVOKED, FEDERAL TYRANNY KNOWS NO BOUNDS
by
Vin Suprynowicz
When we hear of various American
freedoms being protected “by the Constitution,” we tend to assume the speaker
refers to the first eight amendments to that document -- the main body of the
Bill of Rights.
Now, mind you, the courts have bee
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The Libertarian
NEW PARENTS GROUP REPORTS SUCCESS IN TREATING AUTISM
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Vin Suprynowicz
On May 24 in San Francisco, more
than 150 parents of autistic children launched a new nonprofit outfit,
Generation Rescue, coordinating their announcement with a full-page ad in that
day’s USA Today, offering the eye-catching message (twice) th
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The Libertarian
JAIL ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO COMMIT A SECOND CRIME
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Defense attorney Andrew Leavitt and
Clark County Public Defender Phil Kohn contend an unmistakable pattern has
developed in Southern Nevada courtrooms -- illegal aliens who are convicted of
crimes that would likely draw probation for U.S. citiz
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The Libertarian
MEMORIAL DAY
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Memorial Day. This first weekend of summer has long been a time of
picnics and barbecues and trips to the beach. To their credit, Americans never
actually forgot the sacrifices of those who gave the final measure to protect
the freedoms we now
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The Libertarian
'SOME PEOPLE LEAVE INAPPROPRIATE THINGS ON THEIR PORCHES'
by
Vin Suprynowicz
The Third Ward City Council race
in North Las Vegas did at least deliver the best exchange in the newspaper’s
current round of endorsement interviews.
Jean Withers, the Winnemucca native in the big hat and the crocheted flower
appliques wh
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The Libertarian
MORE PROGRESS FOR THE 'OFFICER' CLASS
by
Vin Suprynowicz
When was it (and what was it that
kept us too distracted to notice) -- when ours became something other than a
government staffed by common citizens taking time off to pitch in and do the
public’s business, oiling the roads and cleaning the dea
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The Libertarian
OUTLAW CRITICISM OF THE COURTS?
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Bart Ross, a 57-year-old
out-off-work Chicago electrician, blamed a jaw disfigured by cancer on doctors
and the judge who dismissed his medical malpractice suit.
Usually appearing without a lawyer, Ross became a fixture in the state and
fe
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The Libertarian
IT'S TIME FOR 'RENT CONTROL' CONTROL
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Nearly every time the Nevada
Legislature has convened, for decades, some unrepentant fan of the hare-brained
economic ideas of Marx and Engels has exhumed the festering and discredited
corpse of “mobile home rent control.”
To date, it’s al
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The Libertarian
WHY ROBOT TRAFFIC OFFICERS MIGHT BE A BAD IDEA
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Chad Dornsife, Silver State spokesman
for the National Motorists Association (http://www.motorists.org), called me a few
weeks back about Senate Bill 473, which would allow Nevada speeding tickets to
be
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The Libertarian
LICENSED APPRAISERS SUBJECT TO STATE RETALIATION
by
Vin Suprynowicz
The Constitution requires that
when government seizes private property “for public use,” the property owner
must be justly compensated. But who is to say what the land is worth?
Obviously, the government entity is reluctant to pay the land-o
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The Libertarian
GIVE BACK THE SURPLUS -- AND THEN PASS TABOR
by
Vin Suprynowicz
It looks like some Carson City
version of Sadie Hawkins Day, at first glance -- everything turned upside down.
Two of Nevada's legislative leaders say they have examined a proposal to
return $300 million of this biennium’s estimated $600 mil
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