Nolan Knows, and Loves, Big Brother

“Real ID will not do anything to make us more ‘secure’, ‘safe’, or anything else,” wrote Leonard Foster to his state...

Dogs Playing Poker

“Two of Southern Nevada’s ‘big three’ cultural institutions – the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre – are fighting...

Bank on It

Heritage Bank of Nevada, with five branches in northern Nevada, just turned down $8.6 million in strings-attached “bailout” money from President...

Headline Bias, In the News

Legislative Democrats conducted a pair of dog-and-pony “town hall” meetings in Reno and Las Vegas yesterday to discuss the budget. The...

Stop Digging!

The problem with the Nevada Legislature is that legislators keep adding new feel-good program after new feel-good program without regard to...

About That “Vote of the People” Crud

Gov. Gibbons has been going around saying the people of Nevada voted for that room tax hike. No, they didn’t. Only...

This Is “Essential”?

Legislators from both parties are whining and gnashing their teeth about how proposed budget cuts will be “devastating” to “essential” government...

The Con Job

According to Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon yesterday, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said that she, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, Senate...

I Thought There Was an Economic Crisis?

Listen to almost any legislative leader these days, Democrat or Republican, and you’re likely to hear that the governor’s proposed budget...

Support AJR 4: Give School Choice a Chance

The following letter was sent to every state legislator via email today…

Time for Jim Gibbons to Resign

I don’t think John Wayne would have cared much for Gov. Jim Gibbons.

The Grand Delusion

Responding to Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford who called him a coward and Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio who called him...

Fool-Hardy Legislation

As the state and national economies continue to go to hell in a hand basket, Assemblyman Joe Hardy (R-Boulder City) has...

Good Bills, AWOL Republicans

AJR 2 would require a 2/3 super-majority vote of the people to pass tax hike ballot initiatives, the same requirement to...

The Great Prevaricator-in-Chief

I know this is harsh, but Gov. Jim Gibbons either doesn’t understand plain English, is a serial prevaricator (someone who doesn’t...

Last Things First

Last summer, in the middle of a hotly contested Republican primary campaign against a conservative challenger, Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio...

Tax-Hiking Republicans Get Screwed by Guv

While running for governor in 2006, Jim Gibbons promised the citizens of Nevada, in writing, that he would “oppose and veto...