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Criminalizing Workers not Immigration Answer
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Howard Blitz
Individual liberty and a free market, where the price mechanism operates without government interference, allows for the proper amount of immigration.
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The Libertarian
REMOVING MERCURY REDUCES AUTISM DIAGNOSES
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Vin Suprynowicz
Doctors who champion the purposeful introduction of toxic mercury into children’s bodies (does anyone else find that a very odd 12-word phrase?), through dental amalgams and especially through the addition of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal
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The Libertarian
TEACHER CERTIFICATION PRETTY MUCH WORTHLESS
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Vin Suprynowicz
The 2001 federal “No Child Left Behind” law sets considerable store by a requirement that more public schools teachers be certified in “core academic subjects” such as math and English.
But a new study by the Brookings Institution -- hardly a ri
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Reflexiones Libertarias
AM I A POLITICIAN?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
In the summer of 1982, I was feeling that I had the whole world on the palm of my hand when, at only 30 years of age, I had been appointed president of one of the most important regional banks in the north of Mexico.
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PROGRESO MALDITO QUE NADA VALE
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Hace unas semanas, ocurrió un evento ignorado pero de serias advertencias para todos los mexicanos. En un programa de TV en la que participaba nuestro Hugo Chávez"made in México"AMLO, Enrique Krauze, bordando el tema económico, le preguntaba: ¿Por qu
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ABREME LA PUERTA QUE ME ANDO CAYENDO
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Ricardo Valenzuela
El economista, Hernando de Soto, ha llegado al umbral de los laureados, por sus investigaciones de la forma en que reaccionan los mercados ante las agresiones de gobiernos miopes. Nos demuestra cómo débiles actores económicos, ante la infinidad de
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¿OTRA RONDA DE ABUNDANCIA?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
¿Recuerdan los nebulosos días de la sustitución de importaciones? ¿Cuándo exportar era divino e importar pecado? ¿Cuando se idolatraba a Raul Prebisch y su CEPAL? ¿Los de da teoría de la dependencia? ¿El control policíaco de la inversión extranjera?
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¿NOS VAMOS O NOS QUEDAMOS?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Ante las amenazantes elecciones presidenciales ya en puerta, el debate nacional una vez mas se centra en la necesidad de México para lograr tasas de crecimiento más agresivas que las alcanzadas los últimos años y, de esa forma, no solo crear los empl
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¿CONSTITUCION LIBERATORIA?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Como cada año sucede, nos preparamos para celebrar algo que emerge como reflejo sin considerar sus implicaciones pasadas, presentes y futuras: La Constitución Mexicana.
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¿ERES DE DERECHA O DE IZQUIERDA?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Desde que tengo uso de razón, he tenido que enfrentar la jeroglífica situación de interpretar
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HUACHINERA S. A.
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Ricardo Valenzuela
En los próximos días estaré arribando a la fecha que marca los seis meses de la pérdida de mi virginidad burocrática y ello, me ha provocado el llevar una profunda reflexión de esta tan inusual y novedosa experiencia.
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VIRGINIDAD BUROCRATICA
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Hacia finales del año 2002, fui invitado a una peculiar reunión con dos hombres a quienes tengo el privilegio de llamar amigos: Eduardo Bours y Guatimoc Yberri. El propósito de dicha convocatoria, era el comunicarnos al Guaty y a mí, algo que en prin
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'REPUBLIC, DEMOCRACY, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?'
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Vin Suprynowicz
It was Woodrow Wilson -- violating a solemn campaign promise -- who first asserted that America must involve herself in overseas wars to “keep the world safe for democracy.”
The construction remains in style. Following the Sept. 11 terror attacks
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I WANTED TO LIKE 'V FOR VENDETTA,' HONEST
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Vin Suprynowicz
I wrote movie reviews for years, actually got paid for it, but was finally able to wean myself of the habit. (I believe what did it was the all-kiddie Saturday preview screening of “Spaced Invaders” -- 1990. An experience like that will make you re-e
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The Winner of Best New Music Video in This Category is... Pink
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Rachel Gluck
Kudos have to be given to Alecia Moore, the lady otherwise known as Pink. Her new video "Stupid Girls" is exactly what art is for: taking the political, which is also often personal, and turning it on its head so that we can all see the t
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COURT DEFENDS FREEDOM FROM WARRANTLESS SEARCH
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Vin Suprynowicz
The fissures in the United States Supreme Court were open for all to see -- complete with personal sniping in concurring and dissenting opinions -- as the justices reached a 5-3 decision last week that partially shores up the right of Americans to be
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GREENS SCRAMBLE TO BUY -- AND LOG -- TIMBER LANDS
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Vin Suprynowicz
A third of the U.S. land mass remains forested today -- the same proportion as in 1907 and fully 71 percent as much land as was forested before settlement by the Europeans.
That’s a lot, though only 57 percent of that land remains in private hand
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The Libertarian
WHO FAVORS UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT GROWTH?
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Vin Suprynowicz
“Nevada and 10 other states are inviting disaster if they approve Colorado-style initiatives that limit government spending to the combined rate of inflation and population growth,” came the breathless report from The Associated Press in Carson City
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THE CHARTER FOR UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT
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Vin Suprynowicz
A fan of ever-expanding government wrote in this month, complaining about an aside in a recent Review-Journal editorial on the 70th anniversary of the Federal Register -- an editorial lamenting the fact that it took “only” 2,620 pages to itemize all
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JUST A LITTLE MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MEDICINE? PLEEEASE?
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Vin Suprynowicz
Moving a full year before the next biennial legislative session in order to demonstrate the state’s minority party has “concrete ideas,” Nevada’s Assembly Democrats last week unveiled a notion for “making medical care more affordable” that’s not real
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WILDLIFE 'EXPERTS' THIN OUT THE PUPFISH
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Vin Suprynowicz
As documented in Vernon Bostic’s “Ecology of the Desert Tortoise in Relation to Cattle Grazing,” the greatest death loss among Southern Nevada desert tortoises during the severe drought of 1981 occurred in the Crescent Valley Allotment, where cattle
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A CHILLING EFFECT ON DISCOURSE
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Vin Suprynowicz
Last week, about 20 students walked out, skipping at least one class period at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, after government teacher Rochelle Behling made remarks which some Hispanic students said they found offensive.
Before a first-period
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CORONER'S INQUEST 'NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC'
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Vin Suprynowicz
Here in Southern Nevada, there was considerable interest in last week’s coroner’s inquest into the death of aspiring “Gangsta Rap” recording artist Amir Crump, 21, (stage name "Trajik,") killed by Las Vegas Metro police in the southwest valley Feb. 1
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Necessary Evil
Port and Airport in-Security
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Dave Gallagher
While it has become popular to attack Dubai Ports World for risking US security, TSA takes the cake. Isn't it time for freedom and common sense?
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IS 'BAND-AID' THE RIGHT FIX FOR BLUE DIAMOND ROAD?
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Vin Suprynowicz
Last week, southwest of Las Vegas on the road to Pahrump, speed limits on the five-mile section of Blue Diamond Road from Interstate 15 to Durango Drive were reduced from a high of 65 mph to a consistent 45.
Since July 1, at least 18 people have
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PAY ARBITRATION SYSTEM IS BROKEN
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Vin Suprynowicz
Even before an arbitrator’s ruling on March 4 granted Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers a 21.85 percent pay hike over the next four years, police wages in Southern Nevada were already among the highest in the country, according to the consulting
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END THE 'PREVAILING WAGE'
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Vin Suprynowicz
In a 6-1 decision, Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the private, non-profit outfit building the new Carson-Tahoe Hospital is not required to pay higher “prevailing wages” to construction workers, despite the fact most of the project is bac
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STEP RIGHT UP, HE'S THE HEAVY HITTER
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Vin Suprynowicz
At the request of the State Bar of Nevada, the Nevada Supreme Court last year empaneled a committee to examine lawyer advertising.
At a public meeting March 1, committee members floated proposals to change the state rules regarding acceptable sol
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DICTATING LESSON PLANS VIA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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Vin Suprynowicz
Steve Brown, a Las Vegas masonry contractor and member of a nondenominational church, has filed an initiative petition proposing a constitutional amendment that would require Nevada teachers to tell their students that questions remain about the theo
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JAILED CANCER SURVIVOR LOSES 25 POUNDS IN THREE WEEKS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Steve Kubby, 59, the 1998 Libertarian candidate for governor of California, was a leading force behind the passage of the 1996 referendum which legalized medical marijuana there. But it was AFTER voters approved Proposition 215 that California police
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