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The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
On Jan. 24, Whatcom County sheriff’s Deputy Stuart Smith spotted the vehicle of two murder suspects at a rest stop about five miles south of Blaine, Wash. When he tried to arrest the pair, they sped north towards the Canadian border on Interstate 5.
The Libertarian
It’s tough being a politician. The tape recorders always seem to be “on,” catching the kind of gaffes, flubs, and misstatements that the rest of us less-than-perfect orators -- blessedly free of these relentless electronic Boswells -- can far more ea
The Libertarian
An actual letter-writer wrote to the Review-Journal shortly after the Feb. 1 deaths of Metro Police Sgt. Henry Prendes and the chanting gangsta rap “artist” who had reportedly waited in ambush to kill the officer:
“According to a TV news report t
Necessary Evil
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The Libertarian
In California, a group of high school seniors and their parents filed suit last week against the state Department of Education and California school Superintendent Jack O’Connell.
Why?
The state won’t give the kids high school diplomas, becau
The Libertarian
Last time, we were examining George W. Bush’s attempt to rewrite history in his Jan. 31 State of the Union speech -- the president strongly implying it was Iraq that harbored and dispatched the terrorists who attacked this country on Sept. 11, 2001 (
Fascist Nation
Cartoons published labeled the image of the Prophet Muhammad cause a riot in the world. The offending paper got all the publicity it craved. And I get to make fun of them all.
The Libertarian
Liberal redistributionists can’t really dislike George W. Bush because he’s “conservative” -- can they? Mr. Bush hasn’t tried to get the federals out of our local schools or to shut down our massive socialist wealth redistribution schemes, from Socia
Necessary Evil
The congressional establishment ... from 1994 to 1984
The Libertarian
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission last week postponed plans to print and distribute 70,000 copies of a map intended to show Mexicans -- and others, possibly including Islamic terrorists -- the best and safest ways to enter America illegally.
The Libertarian
One Craig Vincent writes in Hi from New Zealand,
"I just read your 'If a black man is armed, is he a criminal?' (Review-Journal, Dec. 4.) I found it interesting and timely. On the news tonight Shell oil had a forecourt service guy describe
The Libertarian
Three rescue efforts have been launched already this month in the federally controlled land adjoining the Heavenly Mountain Resort -- straddling the California-Nevada line south of Lake Tahoe -- after skiers exited the resort through gates in ord
The Libertarian
Zoning is a restriction on property rights which is generally popular.
When planning and zoning maps and codes are simple and firm, promulgated well in advance, and enforced equitably, the popular consensus is that they do a lot of good. Homeowne
The Libertarian
Justice Department officials gathering data as part of an effort to resurrect the 1998 Child Online Protection Act -- already rejected by the Supreme Court in 2004 -- admitted last week that they issued blanket subpoenas in August to four major Inter
The Libertarian
Limited-government Republicans lost the watershed election of 1964 to that veteran New Dealer and master of big-spending politics, Lyndon Johnson.
Invoking the memory of the recently martyred John F. Kennedy, LBJ twisted enough arms to push thro
The Libertarian
Every time I write about the dangers of toxic mercury preservative in the shots we give our kids, I hear from at least one local physician insisting there isn’t any thimerosal in the shots -- hasn’t been for years.
Imagine my surprise, then, whe
The Libertarian
It’s tempting for Nevadans to chortle and encourage New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to “Go ahead, make our day.”
In Trenton, Mr. Corzine said Thursday he needs more time to decide whether to support legislation that would extend New Jersey’s smo
Something To Talk About
Are we really all “children at heart”? Or, instead, are we all Disney progeny, merely comforted by a myriad of illusions about our youth? I challenge you, Reader, to think about this very carefully.
The Libertarian
High fuel prices? Who cares?
Nevada casinos are doing so well that their 2005 take has already surpassed the state’s all-time “win” record -- with only 11 months tallied to date.
The $10.7 billion win (what the casinos retained after paying
The Libertarian
Over the opposition of two moderate Republicans (both consistently vote to increase school spending), an interim Nevada legislative committee last week hired a Denver education consulting firm to carry out a $225,000 study “to determine whether publi
Necessary Evil
You can't take them with a fox; You can't put them in a box; You can't come into my house; Not even with a mouse; My rights are mine Sam-I-Am-Alito
The Libertarian
Last week, we were discussing the December sentencing of Geoffrey Wells of Las Vegas, on charges of child abuse and endangerment, after his 12-year-old son Syber -- possibly distraught over his parents’ divorce -- committed suicide with his father’s
The Libertarian
A little more than two years ago, in a case arising out of North Las Vegas, Nev., a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was OK for police to wait as little as 20 seconds between the time they knocked on a door to announce themselves -- and the time
Necessary Evil
Today patriots are generally thought to be drones, unquestioningly accepting and obeying whatever the president says. In contrast, the patriots of 1776 were people who signed a letter that said "Screw You George we're mad as hell and we'
The Libertarian
An “old police tradition of requiring off-duty officers to carry their weapons -- ‘always armed, always on duty’ -- is being scaled back in police departments nationwide following the shootings of off-duty officers by colleagues who thought they were
Necessary Evil
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
