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Nevada: The Chopped Liver Caucus
Molly Ball of Politico takes a look at Nevada’s 2012 presidential caucus and wonders if GOP candidates will be more likely...
February 8, 2011 -
Words Mean Stuff
As the Nevada Legislature is in full bloom now, conservatives need to make sure the Left doesn’t control the narrative when...
February 8, 2011 -
Common Sense Alternative to Red Light Cameras
Common Sense blogger Paul Jacob reports today that there’s a far less intrusive way to make intersections safer than installing Big...
February 8, 2011 -
Goedhart’s Legislative Game Changer
In the frenetic closing minutes of the 2009 legislative session, our elected representatives slipped in a big tax hike on Nevada...
February 8, 2011 -
Remembering Thomas Paine
February 9th is Thomas Paine’s birthday. In celebration, let’s all recall this little bit of his Revolutionary War wisdom: “Government, even...
February 8, 2011 -
Steve Hill and the Chamber of Secrets
The news was stunning. My jaw hit the floor. In a recent Las Vegas Sun story headlined “Elite group met secretly...
February 7, 2011 -
The Real Reasons No One Objected to Johnny O’s Election Today
Much has been written and tweeted about Assemblyman John Oceguera’s election as Speaker of the Assembly today. Unlike the past two...
February 7, 2011 -
The $%#! Case of the Sad Sack Bartender
The Las Vegas Sun today has a story about a 55-year-old bartender who has been out of work for two years....
February 7, 2011 -
Sen. Brower Reaffirms Support for Governor on Tax Hikes
In a feature story in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, state Sen. Greg Brower, appointed to replace Sen. Bill Raggio, reaffirmed his...
February 7, 2011 -
Vouchers for Mine but not for Thine?
On KNPR’s “State of Nevada” this morning, Las Vegas mayoral candidate Carolyn Goodman said, “We can never have new business come...
February 7, 2011 -
How to Raise Revenue without Raising Taxes
The Nevada News Bureau is reporting today that “Fallon farmers market owner Christopher A. Stephenson even charged tax for items purchased,...
February 7, 2011 -
Horsford has Spoken; the Opposition Responds
In his predictable and thoroughly uninspiring remarks today opening the 2011 Legislature, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford had this to...
February 7, 2011 -
If we have to keep collective bargaining, at least do this
The Las Vegas Sun reported last week that “Gov. Brian Sandoval will not back a bill to eliminate collective bargaining in...
February 7, 2011 -
Following Texas to Better Budgeting
“Texas also has a bicameral legislature like Nevada,” writes Mike Zahara of WatchdogWag.com, “and always starts each session at zero dollars...
February 7, 2011 -
Understatement of the Year Award Goes to…
This has got to be, hands down, the Understatement of the Year, courtesy of Dan Klaich, chancellor of the Nevada System...
February 7, 2011 -
Rhoads Backs Up, Softens Tax Talk
According to a story in the Elko Daily Free Press, your calls and emails to Sen. Dean Rhoads have made a...
February 7, 2011 -
Christina Ugh-uilera
I don’t know that anyone will ever butcher the National Anthem worse than Roseanne Barr did in 1990, but Christina Aguilera...
February 7, 2011
