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The Libertarian
Imagine with me that you opened your newspaper today and found the following story:
“NORCO, Calif. (AP) -- More than 1 million sheets of paper, a cache of unregistered books and a tunnel were found at a man’s home after a fire that forced a ne
The Libertarian
Within living memory, Southern Nevada high schools had rifle ranges and competitive shooting teams. Kids brought their .22s to school; no one thought much about it.
Up until 1989, Nevada had no restrictions on teachers carrying weapons in the sch
Over the years, I have been as outspoken a critic of the mainstream press as anyone. For one thing, the vast majority of mainstream media celebrities seem infatuated with liberal politicians.
For the most part, the people that I know are generally decent, kind and moral people. Most of us “common folk” operate our lives based on the notion of “doing the right thing.”
Laws regulating the grease doughnuts and other foods are fried in, requiring the use of helmets while riding a bike (motor or otherwise), preventing the use of cell phones while driving, dictating what one can listen to while crossing the street, req
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Illegal Mexican aliens take jobs away from Americans in every sector of this society while overloading our schools, hospitals and prisons. Two weeks ago, President Bush signed a bill to allow over 10,000 Mexican 18 wheeler truck drivers free access t
Reflexiones Libertarias
Si no entendemos la agresiva transición que vive el mundo hoy día, es porque realmente no queremos. Hace miles de años, nadie imaginó las consecuencias de la Revolución de la agricultura, pero las últimas 500 generaciones nos heredaron capacidades y
The Libertarian
From my last name, a lot of folks wouldn’t think half my ancestors were English -- Clarks and Bishops and Higginbothams, some active in the emancipation movement as much as three centuries ago.
Digging through the family archives, I find a yellow
In just over three decades, the feminist movement has completely uprooted and rewritten the norm for American family life. No longer are women seen as nurturers and helpmeets.
It is no hyperbole to say that conservatives throughout America are extremely disappointed and disillusioned with the national Republican Party.
When the founders called the federal government into existence through the development of the United States Constitution, they understood the libertarian view of government as monopolized coercive force. This is the reason they assigned very few and
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The Libertarian
Last week, the Nevada Senate’s Transportation and Homeland Security Committee voted 5-2 to approve Senate Bill 61, which would allow “limited” use of robot traffic cameras to write tickets to Nevada red-light runners “on a pilot basis.” That vote for
Reflexiones Libertarias
El año de 1997, James Dale Davison, hasta entonces un desconocido escritor, publicó una perturbadora obra titulada; El Individuo Soberano.
The Libertarian
One Natalie Unzueta wrote in, recently:
“On Sunday Feb. 18 I among 200 others camped out in front of the legislature in Carson City in order to support Bill 126 (which) proposes that 20 million dollars of the budget be set aside for homeless serv
The Libertarian
In his syndicated newspaper column this week, John Stossel of ABC News looks into the claims of the nanny-staters that their endless attempts to regulate every aspect of our personal lives and freedoms do, at least, save lives.
It turns out they
The founders of the United States wrote the Constitution to control the force of government power entrusted to elected and appointed officials in order that the citizenry could explore, develop, and create ideas to make the best life they could for t
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In this column last week, I asked the question, Should President George W. Bush be impeached? The specific precursor for that question was the guilty verdict of former White House insider Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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The Libertarian
As promised in his State of the State address, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons last week unveiled his plan for local school “empowerment,” predicting it would take Nevada “off the top of every bad list and put it at the top of every good list.”
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Reflexiones Libertarias
Hacia finales de los años 50, transitando de la niñez a mi adolescencia y con el arribo de la televisión, en un viaje a California que hice con mis padres quedé profundamente impresionado frente mi primer contacto con esa maravillosa tecnología.
The Libertarian
Last week, we ran a sampling of fan mail on my latest expose of the “Global Warming” hysteria.
Let’s stipulate once more that I do not side with a “No-Global-Warming crowd” — if there really is a sizable group of such folks. For the most part, th
There have been calls for the impeachment of President Bush from certain left-wing groups for years. For the most part, those calls have been correctly ignored.
The Libertarian
If a union offers to serve as bargaining agent for the workers at a given workplace -- in exchange for considerable dues -- but it turns out that in a secret-ballot election the majority of those workers would oppose unionization, then the law should
The Libertarian
Last month, here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District ballyhooed a “longitudinal” study which (officials there argue) demonstrated the effectiveness of government-run all-day kindergarten in improving academic performance.
On the 9th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution President George Washington gave to his cabinet his farewell address. He also had it printed in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser primarily to let everyone know that he
On this date back in 1836, the Alamo fell. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna's seasoned army of over 4,000 troops.
The Libertarian
Four months ago, Nevada voters approved by a 54-46 margin Question 5, which prohibits tobacco smoking in nearly all public places in the state, including restaurants and bars that serve food. (Though brothels and casino floors are exempted -- the lat
