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The Libertarian
You worked hard for all that money you earned last year. So it’s gratifying to know our representatives in Washington plan to squeeze value out of every nickel we’ll send them next week, right?
Right?
The group Citizens Against Government Was
The Libertarian
I wrote recently on uniformed cops shooting undercover cops (one such incident having occurred at a college football game last fall in Orlando, Fla.) -- and the bizarre proposal that to solve this problem undercover cops must stop carrying guns s
Necessary Evil
When local Philadelphians are talking more about the southern border than Terrell Owens being traded to the Dallas Cowboys, it is a hot issue...this issue is the single greatest perceived negative by many...exploring the LP in their search for a new
Individual liberty and a free market, where the price mechanism operates without government interference, allows for the proper amount of immigration.
Fascist Nation
Immigration. Illegal aliens. Migrants. We talk about closed borders, fences, military patrols, felony convictions, detainments and expulsion. We never seem to discuss what illegal aliens from around the world mean to us?
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
Reflexiones Libertarias
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
Reflexiones Libertarias
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.
Reflexiones Libertarias
Como cada año sucede, nos preparamos para celebrar algo que emerge como reflejo sin considerar sus implicaciones pasadas, presentes y futuras: La Constitución Mexicana.
Reflexiones Libertarias
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
Reflexiones Libertarias
Desde que tengo uso de razón, he tenido que enfrentar la jeroglífica situación de interpretar
Reflexiones Libertarias
¿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?
Reflexiones Libertarias
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.
Reflexiones Libertarias
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
Reflexiones Libertarias
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
Something To Talk About
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
“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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
Necessary Evil
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?
The Libertarian
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
The Libertarian
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
